Maggie Stewart

Dr. Carnahan
ED 415
2 March 2015
Objectives
Lesson 1: Introduction
Students will be able to find and interpret information on how the United States reunited, grew,
and changed after the Civil War by doing a webquest.
Lesson 2: Reconstruction
Students will be able to paint a piece of art depicting their feelings towards key events and
changes immediately after the War.
Lesson 3: The South after the War
Students will be able to propose and debate ideas to help the South during Reconstruction.
Lesson 4: Settlement of the West
Students will be able to characterize the white homesteaders as well as their conflicts with the
Native Americans.
Lesson 5: Climographs
Students will be able to pretend they are homesteaders and assess climographs to help them
decide where to settle.
Lesson 6: New Industries
Students will be able to report on the benefits and effects of the rise of different industries.
Lesson 7: New Inventions
Students will be able to examine primary sources and design a museum exhibit on Thomas
Edisons inventions.
Lesson 8: A Changing People
Students will be able to identify the new groups of people in the U.S. and evaluate the
challenges they faced.

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b.
c.
d.

Pre-Assessment
1. After the Union won the war, what did they want to do with the Southern states?
Keep the two separate governments they had formed
Imprison all former Confederate officials
Tax them heavily and take away their rights
Welcome them back into the Union as one nation

a.
b.
c.
d.

2. Where was most of the damage from the Civil War?

The North
The South
The West
England

a.
b.
c.
d.

3. How did the nation feel about President Lincolns assassination five days after the Civil War
ended?
Shocked
Sad
Scared
All of the above

a.
b.
c.
d.

4. What did the laws called Black Codes do?

Freed the slaves
Made it difficult for former slaves to enjoy their new rights
Protected African Americans right to vote
Helped former slaves find jobs

a.
b.
c.
d.

5. Which of these is a name for Northerners who worked rebuilding the South?
Carpetbaggers
Sharecroppers
Scalawags
None of these

a.
b.
c.
d.

6. How did the Freedmens Bureau help freed slaves?

Ended segregation
Protected their right to vote
Provided them with food, supplies, and education
Gave them farming land

a.
b.
c.
d.

7. What did homesteaders in the Midwest do?

Gold mining
Farming and ranching
Working on oil rigs
Performing as rodeo clowns

8. In what battle was General Custer defeated?

a. Wounded Knee
b. Crazy Horse

c. Little Bighorn
d. He was never defeated

a.
b.
c.
d.

9. What do climographs measure?

Precipitation and temperature
Plants and animals that live in an area
How far settlers needed to climb
The size of plots of land

a.
b.
c.
d.

10. Why were climographs important?

They were not important
They were needed to measure the size of territories
They helped settlers find where they were going
They helped settlers learn about their new land

a.
b.
c.
d.

11. What is an entrepreneur?

A machine that drills for oil
A person who sets up and runs a business
Someone who works on railroads
An economic system

a.
b.
c.
d.

12. Match the historical figure to the industry he worked in:

Andrew Carnegie
1. Bridges
John D. Rockefeller
2. Trains/ Railroads
John Roebling
3. Steel
Granville T. Woods
4. Oil

a.
b.
c.
d.

13. What is known as Thomas Edisons most original invention?

The phonograph
The light bulb
The electric vote recorder
Power stations

a.
b.
c.
d.

14. What did Thomas Edison receive over 1,000 of during his life?
Awards for his work
Dollars
Patents on new inventions
Nothing

a.
b.
c.
d.

15. The new immigrants to New York in the 1890s came from which countries?
Germany, and Ireland
Japan and China
Mexico and Guatemala
Poland and Russia

a.
b.
c.
d.

16. Who in the U.S. moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West in the Great
Migration?
New immigrants
Native Americans
African Americans
Former Confederate supporters

Answer Key
1. d
2. b
3. d
4. b
5. a

6. c
7. b
8. c
9. a
10. d
11. b
12. a-4, b-3, c-1, 2-d
13. a
14. c
15. d
16. c