8th Grade World History Lessons Day 1 Complete the worksheet entitled “The English Colonies: Lesson 2”. Submit to your teacher when you return to school. Day 2 Complete the worksheet entitled “The English Colonies: Lesson 3”. Submit to your teacher when you return to school. Day 3 Complete the worksheet entitled “The American Revolution: Lesson 2”. Submit to your teacher when you return to school. Day 4 Complete the worksheet entitled “Westward Expansion: Lesson 1”. Submit to your teacher when you return to school. Day 5 Complete the worksheet entitled “Reconstruction: Lesson 1”. Submit to your teacher when you return to school. Enrichment Activities The following activities are recommended for those who have access to the internet. 1. Geography Review: Students can use the 13 colonies map in this packet or Google ​ ​ Tour Builder to identify the following locations on a map: Jamestown, Plymouth, and all ​ 13 British colonies. While completing the map, students should write in notable people/groups and the story behind the settlements. Have students identify how the following people/groups contributed to the development of the colony: Squanto, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, William Penn, Quakers, Pilgrims, Puritans. 2. Geography Review: Students can use the blank North America map or Google Tour ​ ​ Builder in this packet to locate which areas of North America were settled by the Dutch, ​ British, Spanish, and French. As students shade in these areas, they can write the motivations behind and the economic activity of each country’s settlements in North America. 3. The American Revolution review: Have students create flashcards on the following ​ vocabulary terms and practice memorizing them: Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable/Coercive Acts. DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=NL-A Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date _____________ Reconstruction Lesson 1 MAIN IDEAS 1. President Lincoln and Congress differed in their views as Reconstruction began. 2. The end of the Civil War meant freedom for African Americans in the South. 3. President Johnson’s plan began the process of Reconstruction. Key Terms and People Reconstruction the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union following the end of the Civil War Ten Percent Plan Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the United States before that state could rejoin the Union Thirteenth Amendment the amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States Freedmen’s Bureau an organization established by Congress to provide relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South Andrew Johnson vice president who became president upon Lincoln’s death Lesson Summary RECONSTRUCTION BEGINS As soon as the Civil War ended, Reconstruction What was the purpose of began. Reconstruction was a period of reuniting Reconstruction? the nation and rebuilding the southern states. The __________________________ former Confederate states were readmitted to the __________________________ union during this time. President Lincoln proposed that southerners be offered amnesty, or an official pardon. Southerners had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and accept the ban on slavery. When 10 percent of the voters in any state took the oath, that state could be accepted back into the Union. This was called the Ten Percent Plan. Some supported the Wade-Davis Bill instead. The Wade-Davis Bill required southerners to ban slavery. However, under this bill, most of the people of a state would have to take the pledge before the state could rejoin the Union. Also, © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 237 Guided Reading Workbook Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date _____________ Lesson 1, continued only southerners who swore they had never supported the Confederacy could run for office. Lincoln refused to sign the bill. FREEDOM FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS In 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment to the What part of the Constitution officially outlawed slavery in the Constitution granted nation. Former slaves reacted to freedom in many freedom to all slaves? ways. They legalized their marriages, searched for __________________________ relatives who had been sold, took new last names, and moved to new places. To help the South’s poor and freedpeople, Why would southerners Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865. oppose the education of One of its roles was to build more schools. Some African Americans? freedpeople also established their own schools. __________________________ Although some southerners violently resisted the __________________________ idea of educating African Americans, __________________________ freedpeople of all ages attended classes. PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S RECONSTRUCTION PLAN On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot while attending the theater. He died the next morning. Vice-President Andrew Johnson became Why did Congress refuse the next president. Johnson’s Reconstruction plan to accept the southern included a way to restructure southern state states back into the Union? governments. States that followed the steps were __________________________ to be readmitted to the Union. __________________________ Most of the southern states followed Johnson’s __________________________ plan, but Congress refused to accept them back into the Union. Many of the elected representatives of the “new” states had been Confederate leaders. Clearly there were still problems to be solved. CHALLENGE ACTIVITY Critical Thinking: Explain You are a citizen from a southern state. Write a letter to Congress explaining why it is your right to choose your state’s representatives. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 238 Guided Reading Workbook Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date _____________ Lesson 1, continued Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Thirteenth Amendment Freedmen’s Bureau Ten Percent Plan DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and choose the correct term from the word bank to replace the underlined phrase. Write the term in the space provided and then define the term in your own words. 1. The time of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery was called Ten Percent Plan. ___________________________________ Your definition: ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 2. The Thirteenth Amendment was established to provide relief for poor people, black and white, in the South. ________________________________________ Your definition: ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 3. The Freedmen’s Bureau was the vice-president sworn into office after President Lincoln was shot while attending the theater and later died. __________________________________________________________________ Your definition: ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 4. Lincoln offered southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebel- lion under the Thirteenth Amendment. ________________________________ Your definition: ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 5. Slavery was made illegal throughout the United States under the Ten Percent Plan. _____________________________________________________________ Your definition: ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 239 Guided Reading Workbook DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=NL-A Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date _____________ Westward Expansion Lesson 1 MAIN IDEAS 1. As American settlers moved west, control of the Mississippi River became more important to the United States. 2. Expeditions led by Lewis, Clark, and Frémont increased Americans’ understanding of the West. 3. During the early 1800s, Americans moved west of the Rocky Mountains to settle and trade. 4. Families moved into the far west and established thriving communities. Key Terms and People Daniel Boone guide who was first to lead settlers beyond the Appalachians; cut a road west Louisiana Purchase the purchase of Louisiana from France for $15 million, which roughly doubled the size of the United States Meriwether Lewis a former army captain chosen by President Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the West William Clark co-leader of the western expedition Lewis and Clark expedition a long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase Sacagawea a Shoshone who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition by naming plants and gathering edible fruits and vegetables for the group Zebulon Pike an explorer of the West who reached the summit of the mountain now known as Pike’s Peak John C. Frémont led an expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and wrote a report of his journey that became a guide for future travelers to the West mountain men fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s John Jacob Astor owner of the American Fur Company who founded the first important settlement in Oregon Country in 1811 Oregon