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Cosmo Learning: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845 1877 Online CourseCosmo Learning: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845 1877 Online Course
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Cosmo Learning
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Online Courses
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Lexile Measures
940L
Online Course

Cosmo Learning: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845 1877

Curated by ACT

In this course Professor David Blight explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877 through twenty-seven video lectures. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history.

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Concepts

slavery, civil war, reconstruction

Additional Tags

emancipation, cosmolearning, cosmolearning: the civil war and reconstruction era, 1845-1877, civil war (1861-65)

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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