U.S. History VALUE Bundle: Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction | 3 UNITS!!

The U.S. History VALUE Bundle covers three units (Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction) and is PERFECT for those teaching U.S. history to 7th to 9th grade students. ALL of the incredible resources in these units have been used with GREAT success with thousands of students in 7th to 9th grade!!

You'll receive EVERYTHING you need to cover the issues of sectionalism that divided the nation prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the Civil War itself, including the major battles and figures of the war plus the Emancipation Proclamation, and the tumultuous Reconstruction Era that gripped the nation!

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You'll receive ALL of the outstanding resources:

• Unit Outlines and Lesson-by-Lesson Overviews for each unit30+ Presentations featuring built-in discussion-based questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) and Google Slides formats
• 70+ Student Exercise Assignments in -both- PDF printable and Google Apps formats, and ALL come complete with a teacher answer key!
• 35+ links to supplemental and optional YouTube videos
• Unit Review Activities such as fun and interactive games like Jeopardy!
• 3 Unit Assessments including teacher answer key and recommended grading scale and rubric!

Receive EVERYTHING you need to cover these important and historically significant topics with your students:

Sectionalism Unit

Slavery in the U.S.

• Origins of slavery in the U.S.
• Causes and effects of slavery in the U.S.
• Significance of the cotton gin
• Role of slave labor in the Southern economy
• Life as a slave

Missouri Compromise & Compromise of 1850

• Preserving the equal balance of free and slave states
• What the passage of each meant to the expansion of the U.S.
• How each led to further sectionalism in the U.S.
• Contributions of Henry Clay

Abolitionists

• What is an abolitionist?
• Famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others
• Significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Underground Railroad

• What it was and why it's historically significant
• How runaway slaves used the Underground Railroad
• Challenges and dangers of using the Underground Railroad
• Significance of individuals like Harriet Tubman
• Secrets and terms of the Underground Railroad
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Causes and effects of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• What was prohibited and required of citizens after its passage
• How the Fugitive Slave Act contributed to further sectionalism between the North and South

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Causes and effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• How the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the creation of the two territories and eventual states
• Why the Kansas-Nebraska Act was controversial
• "Bleeding Kansas"
• Role of Stephen A. Douglas in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Decision

• Who Dred Scott was and why his court case is historically significant
• Outcome of the Supreme Courts decision in the Dred Scott case
• How the Dred Scott decision further amplified sectionalism in the U.S. between the North and South

Illinois Senate Race of 1858

• How and why the Illinois Senate Race of 1858 is historically significant
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Raid on Harpers Ferry

• What the raid on Harpers Ferry was
• Why the raid on Harpers Ferry is important
• Effects of the raid on Harpers Ferry and how it led to increased sectionalism between the North and South

Presidential Election of 1860

• The four main candidates of the election of 1860
• Split of the Democratic Party
• Effects of election of 1860, including Lincoln's victory in the election and significance of statements he made in his inaugural address
• How the South reacted to the election outcome, including the secession of South Carolina
• Significance of events at Fort Sumter

Civil War Unit

Abraham Lincoln

• How Abraham Lincoln's childhood and early adulthood molded his values and motivations to enter into politics
• The tragic circumstances surrounding President Lincoln's assassination and his historic funeral procession which followed

The Confederacy

• The meaning of secession
• Which states seceded and joined the Confederacy
• Loyalty to Country or State?
• The Confederate capital and Confederate president

Major Battles of the Civil War

• Fort Sumter
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg (including the Gettysburg Address)
• Battle of Vicksburg, and more!

Regiments of the Civil War

• The meaning of regiment
• The 3 regiments during the Civil War: Artillery, Cavalry, & Infantry
• The roles and significance of each of the three regiments in the Civil War

Civil War Draft

• What a draft is and how and why governments use them
• Impact of laws that allowed men to avoid the draft
• Which wars the U.S. has used a draft

Civil War Transportation

• Overview of the four main forms of transportation during the Civil War
• How each played a major role in the Civil War
• Advantages and disadvantages for each of the four forms of transportation

Union Blockade

• How it played an integral role in the Union strategy for winning the Civil War
• "Scott's Great Snake"

Generals of the Civil War

• Ulysses S. Grant
• George McClellan
• Robert E. Lee
• William Tecumseh Sherman, and more!

Emancipation Proclamation

• Causes and effects of the Emancipation Proclamation
• How white Union soldiers viewed the Emancipation Proclamation

Election of 1864

• How the Union's capture of Atlanta and "Sherman's March" played a major role in the outcome of the election
• Campaign platforms of President Lincoln vs. General McClellan
• Examination of the election's results

13th Amendment

• Significance of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
• How the 13th Amendment differed from the Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln Assassination

• Motivations of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
• Lincoln's funeral procession
• Plot to wipe out the Union government

Civil War Stats, Facts, & Maps

• Numerous maps to better convey to students the importance of geography and terrain during the Civil War, as well as, where battles took place
• Statistics and demographics to contextualize who actually fought in the Civil War and to the scale with which the Civil War truly was

Reconstruction Unit

Black Codes

• What Black Codes were, how they were enacted and enforced, and the effects of Black Codes
• Examples of Black Codes such as vagrancy laws, convict lease laws, and property and wage laws

Radical Republicans

• The meaning of a Radical Republican
• Radical Republicans role during Reconstruction
• Prominent Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens

Reconstruction Terms

• Freed People, Carpetbaggers, Segregation, Anti-Enticement, Civil Rights, Impeachment, Martial Law, and many more!

Reconstruction Amendments

• The causes and effects of the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th & 15th Amendments)
• Breakdown of the five sections of the 14th Amendment

Role of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Why the federal government established the Freedmen's Bureau
• The goals of the Freedmen's Bureau
• The impact of the Freedmen's Bureau

Rise and Fall of Andrew Johnson

• How he became President Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the election of 1864
• Andrew Johnson's political background
• How Johnson and Lincoln had vastly different political beliefs
• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Main purpose and goals of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Why President Johnson opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
• How the Civil Rights Act of 1866 led to the creation of the 14th Amendment

Military Reconstruction Act

• Why the Military Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress and why President Johnson opposed it
• How and why ten former Confederate states were placed into five military districts

President Ulysses S. Grant

• How he rose to become the Republican nominee for president in 1868
• The unique and diverse challenges he faced and addressed as President

Secret Groups

• What were secret groups?
• Why secret groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, promoted discrimination and acts of violence, especially against African-Americans

Disenfranchisement Laws

• How the 15th Amendment led to such disenfranchisement laws like the poll tax and education requirements to vote

End of Reconstruction

• Why support for Reconstruction in the North became less popular as time went on

Effects of Reconstruction

• How Reconstruction had a profound and lasting impact on the nation even after it ended, especially in the South
• Exodusters & Sharecroppers
• Rise of Jim Crow Laws in the South

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