Featured Student Work

This activity aims to help students understand the meaning of American Imperialism through the use of political cartoons as a medium.

Students will create their own political cartoons to illustrate their own ideas of American Imperialism.

Directions: Create a political cartoon that accurately depicts imperialism/expansionism during the late 1800s. Your cartoon must be neat, appropriate, and must have a title and utilize AT LEAST three of the following persuasive techniques:

1. Symbolism

2. Exaggeration

3. Labeling

4. Analogy

5. Irony

This activity aims to help students understand the goals of Lincoln and Johnson's plans for Reconstruction by creating their own plans to properly assess the difficulties in making both the Union and the South happy.

Students will work in groups to create their own Reconstruction Plans following the end of the Civil War.

Directions: Working with your group members and using your knowledge of Reconstruction and U.S. History, decide on what should happen to the following during Reconstruction:

1. Land & Property

2. Freed People

3. Ex-Confederates

4. White Southerners

5. Women & Poor Whites

6. Policies & Rules