You will be creating a final project for this unit on Nation Grows and Divides. Find a picture that shows each chapter we studied:

Independence For Texas

The United States Grows Larger

On To Oregon and California

The Southern States Leave

The Civil War

For each picture, please write in your own words one piece of information you learned about that chapter that you think is interesting or important, and why you think it is interesting or important.

ON YOUR OWN:

Watch this movie on Abraham Lincoln and take the quizzes.

Read this “talking story” about Lincoln.

Go to this “Listen and Read” Lincoln biography.

Go to Lincoln and the Civil War and do the assignment. Use the code Mr. Ferlazzo gives you.

Listen to  Gettysburg address.

Try these activities on Lincoln and the Gettysburg address.

Watch movies about Lincoln here.

Look at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

WITH A PARTNER:

Try-out this Pathway game on Lincoln.

Here's another Lincoln game: It's called It's called Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads.

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ON YOUR OWN:

Read this short summary of the Civil War.

Watch this movie on the Civil War and take the quizzes.

For these next activities, be sure to click on the state of California first in order to access the online interactive.

Watch The Civil War Begins. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can read the words as they are spoken.

Watch The Early Years Of The War. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can read the words as they are spoken.

Watch The States Choose Sides.

Watch Naval Action At Vicksburg.

Watch The Battle at Gettysburg.

Watch The Confederacy Falls.

Watch this video on The Impact Of The Civil War.

Watch all the videos on this page.

You can visit this page and watch the videos there.

Look at these pictures from the Civil War.

Watch this slideshow on the Civil War.

Listen to this song that people sang because they wanted soldiers they loved to come back home from the war.

Learn about People In The Civil War.

Learn about Clara Barton, who began The Red Cross to help injured soldiers during the Civil War.

Watch The Civil War In Four Minutes.

Read about Life As A Soldier and do the assignment on your website.

WITH A PARTNER:

Complete this cloze on the Civil War.

Learn more about the Civil War.

Play "Who Am I?"

Watch these Civil War videos.

You can act out the civil war on your own or with a partner.

Look at these photos:

The Civil War, Part 1: The Places

The Civil War, Part 2: The People

The Civil War, Part 3: The Stereographs

AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL THE "ON YOUR OWN" AND "WITH A PARTNER" ACTIVITIES:

Many African-Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War, though at first they were not allowed to become soldiers.  Once they became soldiers, they could only have White officers.  They fought bravely.  Here are some clips from a movie called "Glory," which was about a group of famous African-American soliders who fought in the war:  Many of the soldiers in this group died in the war.

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