What Else Was Happening During the Civil War Era?
Finding a Sequence
About this Activity
- Created by:National Archives Education Team
- Historical Era:Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Thinking Skill:Chronological Thinking
- Bloom's Taxonomy:Analyzing
- Grade Level:Middle School
The years leading up to, during, and following the Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) are most often remembered for the tension between North and South, the question of slavery, President Lincoln, and social and political changes in the postwar South. In this activity, students will explore changes that occurred in the United States in the greater context of the Civil War era.
Students will learn about the many, seemingly unrelated events that happened simultaneously during this time period, the multifaceted nature of American government during wartime, and that historical eras are not solely focused on one historical topic.
https://www.docsteach.org/activities/student/what-else-was-happening-during-the-civil-war-eraStudents will learn about the many, seemingly unrelated events that happened simultaneously during this time period, the multifaceted nature of American government during wartime, and that historical eras are not solely focused on one historical topic.
Documents in this activity
- Pacific Railroad Act
- Morrill Act
- Homestead Act
- Articles of Agreement in Regard to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
- Draft of Senate Joint Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Fort Laramie Treaty
- Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment
- Joint Resolution Proposing the Fourteenth Amendment
- Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford
- Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
- Petition from Lewis Douglass and Others to the Secretary of War
- The Compromise of 1850
- Telegram from Major Robert Anderson to the Secretary of War
- Treasury Warrant for the Purchase of Alaska
- Yellowstone Park Act