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

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 555 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

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: 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: 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 resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

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

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: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions about the Civil War's most infamous female spy.

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 activity features a short historical passage followed by seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 376 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This resource requires students to read a short biographical passage and answer seven multiple choice-questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a reading comprehension passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 341 Words; LEXILE: 1210

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: 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 resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This game will test your knowledge of the affiliation of the states and figures of the Civil War, the locations of the major battles, and the advantages the sides had over each other. With each answer you provide you’ll learn a wealth of information!

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

Description: This is an online word search with the Civil War-themed words. Choose with or without a timer.

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: 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: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 565 Words; LEXILE: 1010

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: 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: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 542 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 542 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

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

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

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

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

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This activity requires students to read through four Bull Run-themed paragraph and to identify the text structures as: cause and effect, problem-solution, chronological, and compare and contrast

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 "containers" exercise requires students to drag and drop math the states to different containers depending on their political affiliation during the Civil War. It gives immediate feedback.

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

Description: This page describes the gruesome reality of the Civil War - how hundreds of thousands of people from both sides died in battle, from disease, and in squalid prisons.

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 resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

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 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 resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 632; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 187 Words; LEXILE: 750

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 187 Words; LEXILE: 750

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

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 414 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 414 Words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: This activity requires students to choose from four different Harriet Tubman quotes and to design an inspiration portrait (such as those in office buildings) based on the quote. Great for hanging up in the hallways or classroom bulletin boards.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Harriet Tubman. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Harriet Tubman biography for reference.

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: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

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

Description: This resource requires students to read a short historical passage and answer seven multiple choice-questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This activity features a short historical passage followed by seven multiple choice questions.

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 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 resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 307 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 307 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

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 awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This section provides detailed biographies and numerous activities related to important women of the Civil War such as Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and more!

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Women of the Civil War section.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

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 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 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 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: 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: 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: This printable narrative describes the circumstances in the Mary Surratt execution . It includes four short-answer questions regarding the main ideas of the article content, critical thought about the content, and vocabulary from the passage.

Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history. There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history. Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.

Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.

Description: This fun ID exercise challenges students to identify all eight of the Civil War figures pictured.

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 resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 460 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH = 460 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Fort Sumter passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Battle of Fort Sumter that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 358 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Fort Sumter passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the First Battle of Bull Run that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

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 awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Description: This activity includes all of the printable First Battle of Bull Run activities on the site.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Antietam passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

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: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 270 Words; LEXILE = 1110

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Frederick Douglass that has seven factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Frederick Douglass passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Frederick Douglass passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the eight different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Battle of Antietam that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Battle of Antietam passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.

Description: This is a slideshow that details the John Brown Rebellion

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback .

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 730 words; LEXILE = 1210

Description: This activity requires students to relate to Lee's "Greatest Victory" at Chancellorsville, by describing their greatest moment at sports, music, dance, or even video games.

Description: This is a slideshow that details the Election of 1860.

Description: This is a slideshow that details the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Description: This is a slideshow that details the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 399 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 399 Words; LEXILE: 1010

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

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 711 Words; LEXILE: 1410

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 711 Words; LEXILE: 1410

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 607 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 607 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 343 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 343 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 421 Words; LEXILE: 1010

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: This packet contains all of the printable Robert E. Lee activities on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This packet contains all of the printable Ulysses S. Grant activities on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sequence eight events of his life from earliest to latest.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This packet contains eight reading comprehension passages and question sets based on various causes of the Civil War such as Slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown Rebellion, and others.

Description: This 85-page bundle contains 29 reading comprehension activities based on important figures of the Civil War. It included reading passages and multiple-choice question sets, fact or fiction exercises, virtual history teacher exercises, deep thought questions, and main idea studies. Absolutely perfect for grades six and up! All answers included.

Description: This 60-page bundle contains 16 reading comprehension activities based on important battles of the Civil War. It includes reading passages and multiple-choice question sets, fact or fiction exercises, text structures, and battle breakdowns. Absolutely perfect for grades six and up! All answers included.

Description: This 80 page bundle contains 27 different activities, critical-thought exercises, role-play, and writing prompts based on Civil War themes. Themes include forgiveness, seizing or squandering opportunities, suffering, dreams of better times, irony, heroism, and many more.

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.

Description: This awesome coloring sheet features the front and back of the United States $50 Bill with Ulysses S. Grant

Description: This is a slideshow that details these two epic battles during the heart of the Civil War.

Description: This is a slideshow that details the last days of the dying Confederacy.

Description: This is a slideshow that details these massive battles, which ultimately proved to be the turning point in the Civil War.

Description: This is a slideshow that details the brutal battles which collectively are known as Grant's Overland Campaign.

Description: This beautiful coloring page features a postage stamp commemorating the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive Civil War Battles map to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.