US History Teachers—Try this!
Civil War: America’s Epic Struggle
This application has so much to offer. It brings photographs, statistics, music, storylines, battles, biographical profiles, timelines, and multimedia presentations, to name a few, right to the children.
Since studying the Constitution in 8th grade Social Studies, my students have been curious about how slavery spread, and how it was allowed by law. After several discussions, I used the app to project information titled “Causes of the Civil War.” Here, I was able to discuss and show all the major direct and indirect causes of the war including the Cotton Gin, Missouri Compromise, California Gold Rush, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
With so much content on this application, I found it to be a great introduction for teaching about the Civil War, and it will be a great addition to the Civil War unit I have planned.
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