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What did John Brown hope to accomplish at Harper’s Ferry?
In October 1859, John Brown led an unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The raid shocked the nation and heightened sectional tensions in the build up to the Civil War. What did John Brown hope to accomplish? In this lesson, students examine a textbook account, an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, an account from John Brown’s son, and a speech and letter by Brown to answer.
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Civil War Lesson Plans
In this website, it has an abundant of lesson plans that are inquiries that reach to middle school to high school.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/educators/civil-war-inquiry-curriculum |
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Does It Matter Who
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How accurate is the textbook’s description of sharecropping?
After the end of the Civil War, the limited economic opportunity for freedmen led many to become sharecroppers working for former enslavers. Although sharecroppers were technically contracted employees, their contracts were frequently unfair and exploitative. In this lesson, students critically evaluate their classroom textbook’s account of sharecropping by comparing it to a sharecropping contract from 1882.
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What does it take to secure equality?
This inquiry leads students to examine the ways that African Americans were leading voices in an ongoing effort to guarantee equal rights and freedoms for all people in the United States. Contrary to the oft repeated narrative that the US Government benevolently granted freedoms to African Americans, the questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry ask students to look at ways African Americans were active leaders in working for those rights and freedoms. The tasks completed under each supporting question help the student to investigate the scope and depth of the African American voices working towards equal rights before the Civil War through the Reconstruction and after. Students will learn of federal government actions taken to support the voices working for rights and freedoms as well as actions taken against those efforts. An analysis of sources help students to investigate the economic, political and social gains African Americans made during and after Reconstruction. Students will also look at the efforts that former Confederate states took to limit African American rights that had been guaranteed them by the US Constitution. By completing this inquiry, students will gain a deeper understanding that hard-won rights and freedoms can still be denied if the power to enforce them is held by someone else.
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