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Digital History: Children and the Civil War Unit PlanDigital History: Children and the Civil War Unit Plan
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Unit Plans
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Lexile Measures
1060L
Unit Plan

Digital History: Children and the Civil War

Curated by ACT

Digital History tells the story of children's lives during the Civil War through their own words. The eight sections are titled: Child Soldiers, Conditions in the Contraband Camps, The Southern Homefront, the Northern Homefront, Near the Battlefield, Family Reunions, Lincoln's Assassination, and The War's Legacy. After a brief introduction in each section, quotations from primary documents show how children lived and what they thought about the war and its effect on their lives.

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civil war

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boy soldiers, child soldiers, child soldiers and civil war, contraband camps, northern homefront, southern homefront, carrie berry, civil war homefront, civil war legacy, civil war primary sources, digital history, lincoln assassination, children of the civil war, children during the civil war

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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