Description: This activity requires students to create the cover of a newspaper (with images) that features the four stipulations of the Compromise of 1850.

Description: This activity requires students to analyze the qualities of poor leaders such as Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan and contrast them with a leader such as Abraham Lincoln.

Description: Pretend you have been chosen to induct Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe into the fictional abolitionist hall-of-fame. Your first job, however, is to design a “flyer” that advertises the inductees and the reasons for their inductions. In the spaces provided continue the narratives that highlight each inductee’s accomplishments. Secondly, design an abolitionist hall-of-fame medal each would receive upon their entry. Medals can include icons, symbols, color, and their names.

Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was the top-selling novel in 19th century America. This activity requires students to try to guess the top ten best-selling children's books of all time. Answer sheet included.

Description: This activity challenges students to dream up meanings for four iconic college mascots - the North Carolina Tarheel, Oklahoma Tarheel, Kansas Jayhawk, and Arkansas Razorbacks.

Description: This activity requires students to build use their knowledge about the forces that created "Bleeding Kansas" to design a "billboard" urging abolitionists to settle in Kansas.

Description: This prompt describes the role Henry Clay played in brokering the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 and then asks students to write about a time that they've played "peacemaker."

Description: This activity requires students to consider and write about the idea of "an eye for an eye."

Description: This paragraph is full of misinformation about the Causes of the Civil War. Students must correct the mistakes. We advise using the Civil War Causes section for this activity. Challenging!

Description: This requires students to consider the mentality of the "spectators" at the First Battle of Bull Run and conduct a mock interview.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to relate to P.G.T. Beauregard’s "complete victory" telegraph at Shiloh by writing about a time they "counted" chickens, or, examples from literature of movies.

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast the two battles of Bull Run in the same manner they’d compare an original book or movie with its sequel. Check out Battles of the Civil War for detailed descriptions about both battles.

Description: This historical prompt challenges students to consider the great opportunities squandered by Union General George McClellan prior to Antietam. Then, to think of and write about a time when they may have squandered a "golden" opportunity.

Description: This historical prompts requires students to imagine the earth-shaking effect the news of the Emancipation Proclamation had on Americans in 1862. In the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation, students must write about the biggest news event of their lives and describe its impact.

Description: The activity describes how Thomas J. Jackson got the nickname "Stonewall" and then challenges students to think of nicknames of people in sports, movies, or literature.

Description: This fun activity requires students to analyze how emphasis can change the meaning of identical sentences, and describe what Bernard Bee may have meant by uttering the famous words "there is Jackson standing like a stone wall." Was he inspired or angry? See how emphasis changes the meaning of his words.

Description: This activity describes Stonewall Jackson's famous last words after being shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville and challenges students to pen their own final words, or, those of a character in movies or literature.

Description: This handout requires users to think about various nicknames attributed to Civil War figures and to draw literal translation (e.g. Jeb Stuart, the Eyes of the Confederacy)

Description: This writing prompt describes the “grudge” the citizens of Vicksburg, Mississippi held against the United States Government after the fall of their city in July of 1863. Independence Day was not celebrated in the Mississippi River town until after World War II. This writing prompt requires students to describe a grudge they have had, or, to describe one in literature, or sports, or if someone has had a grudge against them.

Description: This activity investigates time words such as "score," fortnight, and sesquicentennial and requires students to figure out important dates by performing calculations with those amounts.

Description: This is a fun activity that describes the deficiencies of the five commanders Lincoln appointed as Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. Students are required to craft a "Wanted" posted for an effective Union General and to describe the necessary qualities needed for such an important position.

Description: The printout describes Walt Whitman’s famous Oh Captain! My Captain! elegy to President Lincoln and then asks students to think of their own hero and to write a similar poem.

Description: Following the ill-fated infantry charge known as Pickett's Charge, on the last day of Gettysburg, Confederate Major General George Pickett was said to have harbored a life-long bitterness toward Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge. This writing prompt requires students to think about the concept of forgiveness and describe the process he or she goes through when deciding whether or not to forgive someone.

Description: Students must use the process of elimination, problem solving, and logic to successfully label the important points during the Battle of Gettysburg such as Little Round Top, Cemetery Ridge, Culp’s Hill, and 15 others.

Description: Students must read the “conversations” from eight Civil War legends and determine who is talking.

Description: This printout describes Abraham Lincoln’s famous dream about his own assassination and then requires students to describe and draw a scene from a powerful dream they’ve had.

Description: This printable activity requires students to analyze a famous condolence letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a teenage girl after her father was killed in the Civil War.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to relate to Sherman's "scorched earth" warfare during his march through Georgia by writing about a time that their team crushed an opponent, or, when they were on a team that was crushed by an opponent.

Description: This activity describes the ironic situation of Wilmer McLean, whose claim to fame was the Civil War "started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor." This activity requires students to make a comic about the situation.

Description: This printable activity requires students to analyze the actual conversation between Lee and Grant that led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Description: Histomatics is the study of how mathematics affects history. In this activity, students are presented with a map of the southern states and each state's population of free people and slaves. Students must make calculations to answer questions.

Description: This activity walks students through the process of making a Box and Whisker plot on a step-by-step basis. Then, it requires students to use a chart that describes the number of major Civil War battles in each state, to make a box and whisker plot.

Description: This activity walks students through the process of making a Histogram on a step-by-step basis. Then, it requires students to use a chart that describes the population of each state during the Civil War, to make a histogram.

Description: The printable narrative that describes the role Ms. Laura Keene played after Lincoln's assassination. It includes three short-answer questions regarding the main ideas of the article content, critical thought about the content, and vocabulary from the passage.

Description: The printable narrative that describes the role Dr. Mudd played after Lincoln's assassination. It includes three short-answer questions regarding the main ideas of the article content, critical thought about the content, and vocabulary from the passage.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Description: This 202-page bundle contains 82 Civil War-related printable activities including reading comprehension passages and question sets, critical thought activities, Civil War-themed activities, writing prompts, role-plays, and much, much more! This is a $30 value, free for members of MrN365.com.