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Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.






Learning Tools


Interpreting Primary Sources:

Sectional Conflict

Secession and the Civil War


Interpreting Statistics:

Slaveholding, Southern Politics, and Secession

North-South Comparisons

Casualties and Costs of the Civil War


Study Aids:

National Expansion

Legislation


Recommended lesson plan:

Not Just a Man's War: Women in the American Civil War, 1861-65
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/manswar/
Classroom activities, focusing on women's experience during the Civil War, appropriate for students of a variety of ages and ability levels that draw upon resources available on the World Wide Web and upon primary source documents.


Fact Check:

Quiz on the Civil War

Primary source documents with classroom questions:

Implications of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Civil War: The Constitution and the Extension of Slavery

Timelines:

A timeline of the 19th century









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