Students examine early developments of Reconstruction including the 13th Amendment and the Freedman's Bureau. Students will consider the successes of the Freedman's Bureau as well as the ongoing struggles with labor relations, violence, and Black Codes.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Social Studies. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Social Studies.

In this lesson, students research the time period around the Revolutionary War to gain an understanding of the how's and why's behind the Revolution.

In this lesson, students use debate as a tool for discussing the Revolutionary War.

Students learn about the Freedman's Bureau, a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and other citizens in the South. Students will use primary documents to better understand the conditions immediately after the war, then role play how the Bureau identified problems and assessed what was needed. They will also design a Freedman's village.

Students compare and contrast plantations with sharecropping by analyzing and drawing maps. Students will also define sharecropping and explain the relationship between landowners and sharecroppers, then read a sharecropping contract and discuss the terms of agreement and fairness of the contract.

Students will play a game loosely based on Civil War signaling and naval strategy.

Students will play the role of newspaper reporters in order to research, write, and publish an article about the history of the Star-Spangled Banner. This is connected with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.

In this lesson, students will learn the reasons for the Stamp Act, the colonists' reactions to the Stamp Act, and the impact of the Stamp Act on the pocketbooks of American colonists. Students will organize their thoughts into a three-paragraph essay in which they address the reasons for, opposition to, and impact of the Stamp Act. These essays should include direct references and quotations from the primary sources as support for their arguments.

In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to decipher selected parts of the Stamp Act. Then students will examine political cartoons and create their own. Students will also simulate the Committees of Correspondence.

Students explore the political, economic, and social factors that influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the importance of this document. They look at the events of the American Revolution, and look forward to elements that should be included in the new government in order to assure that the grievances in the Declaration of Independence are addressed.

Explore 14,000 years of history from the NC Museum of History' exhibit, The Story of North Carolina in 360°—one gallery at a time. Designed with the student experience in mind, each tour features artifacts, photos, & videos.

In this lesson, students will learn about the Boston Tea Party, how taxes impact people's lives and where tax money goes. They will also understand the roles of the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence. As assessment, students will write a persuasive essay to either the colonists or the King explaining their point of view.

In this lesson, students will identify the colonists' grievances and concerns for unfair treatment by the British King and Parliament and examine the purpose of the Declaration of Independence as identified in the document. Students will interpret grievances and concerns stated in the Declaration of Independence and then design a poster that will describe each part of the Declaration of Independence.

students will learn about the debate about if the state of North Carolina should remain in the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln.

In the 1700s England fought several wars with France over control of Europe. Conflicts over land ownership caused the hostilities between these two dominant countries to spread to North America. In 1754 the French and Indian War began. It got its name from the people that the British colonists and their American Indian allies were fighting – the French and their American Indian allies. The French and Indian war lasted from 1754 to 1763. It was also called the Seven Years War.

Throughout this chapter, you will learn why the colonists felt that they had no choice but to fight the British! The Intolerable Acts from Parliament & King George were “the last straw!” As you read you will learn how the Patriots gained confidence by standing up to the largest army in the world.

This interactive resource reviews for students the significant events between 1756 and 1776 that led to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Students read and answer questions throughout the module.