Lesson Plans
& Activities
Civil Rights Movement in the US
For Teachers
Segregation (with 3 student handouts - 1935, 1945, 1955, Donn)
Riding the Bus, Taking a Stand (1 week unit)
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
History Slavery UNITS (yale ed)
The Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson Plans & Presentations
Civil Rights UnitsTransatlantic Slave Trade
Kansas Nebraska Act territories and slavery
The Antebellum South
The Era Between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War
Life on Southern Plantations Lesson Plans
See Also: Black History Month, Index
Special Sections for Kids
Slave Trade & the Middle Passage (powerpoints)
The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights on Slavery
Abolitionist Movement in America
The Liberator - "AND I WILL BE HEARD"
The Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Dred Scott Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
Events Leading Up to the Civil War, Slavery - Cause and Catalyst
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 - freed all slaves in areas NOT under Union control
- 1865: 13th Amendment - ending slavery forever, end of the Civil War
- 1868: 14th Amendment - federal control of basic civil rights, citizenship, repeal of Black Codes
- 1870: 15th Amendment - right to vote for all citizens shall not be denied by color, race, or previous condition of servitude (men only, no women of any color were allowed to vote until the 19th Amendment in 1919.)
Explore American History
For Kids and Teachers
Creating a New Nation
- New World Explorers
- Native Americans in Olden Times
- The 13 Colonies
- Road to Revolution
- The American Revolution
Creating a New Government
Western Expansion
- Jefferson and theNew Republic
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis & Clark
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Manifest Destiny
- The Oregon Trail
- Wagon Trains
- Pioneer Life & Frontier Life
- Trail of Tears
- The Alamo 1836, Texas Revolution
- Mexican - American War 1846-1848
- Gold Rush
Brink of the Storm and the Civil War
- Events Leading up to the American Civil War
- The Industrial Revolution
- American Civil War - 1861-1865
- People of the Civil War - Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Dred Scott and more
- 13th Amendment ending slavery forever
- Reconstruction, Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
- 14th & 15th Amendments
Growth in the West
The Nation Grows
World War I, The Great War
The Roaring 20s
The Great Depression
World War II
Slavery in America
Segregation for Kids - Civil Rights
US Holidays
QUIZZES - Interactive, with Answers for Student Review
For Teachers
Free for Classroom Use - American History Powerpoints and Presentations
American History Lesson Plans, Units, Activities, Projects for Teachers