Introduction
This lesson’s goal is to enhance the understanding of the effects of the Civil War within the U.S. amongst the African and Native communities, which can provide further understanding of events after the war.
Standard
7.4.4.19.3
Regional tensions around economic development, slavery, territorial expansion and governance resulted in a Civil War and a period of Reconstruction that led to the abolition of slavery, a more powerful federal government, a renewed push into indigenous nations’ territory and continuing conflict over racial relations. (Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877)
Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Complete their unit project that incorporates key points of the Civil War
2. Engage in conversations regarding …show more content…
Review will include discussion questions to get students to discuss what they understood from yesterday’s lesson to clarify any confusion before moving forward.
2. African American Communities
a. Explaining the role of African Americans participating on the field for both sides
i. Union – fighting for their freedom and new life ii. Confederate – some fought due to slaveholders’ and some after the south allowed enlisting
1. Southerners had them as aid rather than arming them and fighting besides them iii. Provide them with primary documents of African American soldiers’ biographies to be discussed in groups regarding their person’s perspective of the war iv. Gather back and split the class to see how many of their people fought on alongside the Union and the Confederate. What were some differences for those on the same side? What about opposing sides? After enlisting was permitted in the south?
b. Communities escaping the South and heading north for a new opportunity
3. Check-in Point
a. Play a quick game with their mobile devices that highlights overviews of the review in the beginning of the class and African Americans’ roles
4. Emancipation Proclamation 1863
a. Abraham Lincoln’s Standing on Slavery
i. Inconsistent with his statements prior to the war compared to after the war …show more content…
Background – Recapping previous lessons regarding their removal and relocations
1. Native Americans had been removed for the expansion to the west and for the growing population of incoming European settlers
a. Trail of Tears
b. Westward Expansion ii. Motivation to fight in the war (Union and Confederate side) was to gain government’s recognition of their involvement in the war to provide a chance to keep their lands and remain independence(Mini Slideshow)
a. Provide the understanding that Native Americans were fighting as their sovereign tribes and not as U.S. Americans. They were fighting for their rights, but not to be included in this “new nation”.
2. Read at least one document of a Native Soldier on both sides iii. Results of their alliances
1. Promises that were made to get them into the war were getting broken
b. Dakota 38
i. U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
1. YouTube video that gives the overview of the war
a. Discuss the causes mentioned – food, new settlements, treaties ii. Discuss the two understanding of the start of the conflict
a. Replay the first video and its statement regarding the attack on the white settlers
b. Play section from Dakota 38 film that provides their reasoning for the
This lesson’s goal is to enhance the understanding of the effects of the Civil War within the U.S. amongst the African and Native communities, which can provide further understanding of events after the war.
Standard
7.4.4.19.3
Regional tensions around economic development, slavery, territorial expansion and governance resulted in a Civil War and a period of Reconstruction that led to the abolition of slavery, a more powerful federal government, a renewed push into indigenous nations’ territory and continuing conflict over racial relations. (Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877)
Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Complete their unit project that incorporates key points of the Civil War
2. Engage in conversations regarding …show more content…
Review will include discussion questions to get students to discuss what they understood from yesterday’s lesson to clarify any confusion before moving forward.
2. African American Communities
a. Explaining the role of African Americans participating on the field for both sides
i. Union – fighting for their freedom and new life ii. Confederate – some fought due to slaveholders’ and some after the south allowed enlisting
1. Southerners had them as aid rather than arming them and fighting besides them iii. Provide them with primary documents of African American soldiers’ biographies to be discussed in groups regarding their person’s perspective of the war iv. Gather back and split the class to see how many of their people fought on alongside the Union and the Confederate. What were some differences for those on the same side? What about opposing sides? After enlisting was permitted in the south?
b. Communities escaping the South and heading north for a new opportunity
3. Check-in Point
a. Play a quick game with their mobile devices that highlights overviews of the review in the beginning of the class and African Americans’ roles
4. Emancipation Proclamation 1863
a. Abraham Lincoln’s Standing on Slavery
i. Inconsistent with his statements prior to the war compared to after the war …show more content…
Background – Recapping previous lessons regarding their removal and relocations
1. Native Americans had been removed for the expansion to the west and for the growing population of incoming European settlers
a. Trail of Tears
b. Westward Expansion ii. Motivation to fight in the war (Union and Confederate side) was to gain government’s recognition of their involvement in the war to provide a chance to keep their lands and remain independence(Mini Slideshow)
a. Provide the understanding that Native Americans were fighting as their sovereign tribes and not as U.S. Americans. They were fighting for their rights, but not to be included in this “new nation”.
2. Read at least one document of a Native Soldier on both sides iii. Results of their alliances
1. Promises that were made to get them into the war were getting broken
b. Dakota 38
i. U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
1. YouTube video that gives the overview of the war
a. Discuss the causes mentioned – food, new settlements, treaties ii. Discuss the two understanding of the start of the conflict
a. Replay the first video and its statement regarding the attack on the white settlers
b. Play section from Dakota 38 film that provides their reasoning for the