Using Primary Sources in the Classroom Project Description This project is designed to help teachers more easily integrate the use of primary source materials into their classrooms. It consists of teaching units on Alabama history organized in ten chronological/subject areas: Creek War, 1813-1814 Settlement Slavery Civil War Reconstruction 1901 Constitution World War I Depression/New Deal World War II Civil Rights Movement While these units cover some of t ...

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil War Unit Introduction to the Civil War Unit: When Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860, Alabama seceded from the United States along with other Southern states. The Confederate States of America was organized in Alabama's Senate Chamber in Montgomery. On the capitol portico Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was inaugurated President of the new government. Montgomery was the Confederacy's "cradle" for thre ...

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Creek Indian War, 1813-1814 Unit Introduction to the Creek War, 1813-14 Unit In the early part of the sixteenth century, white explorers who visited the territory now forming the southeastern United States found it occupied by tribes of American Indians who had lived there for centuries. The Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians saw the land they inhabited become an object of desire for the visitors. Inevitably, this intere ...

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil Rights Movement Unit Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement Unit Many of the major events which defined the modern Civil Rights Movement in America took place in Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s. Concerted efforts to guarantee African Americans equal access to public and private transportation, schools, voting booths, economic opportunities, and housing caused tremendous social turmoil all over the South, where legal discrimi ...