Supporting+Resources+(Events+Leading+to+the+Civil+War)

Mission US //Mission US// is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. This free online resource can be used in a variety of ways (in the classroom, media lab, or as homework).

Register for Mission US Your teacher and students will need to set up a username and password to save their games and to move along the different levels of the game.

Play Mission 2: Flight to Freedom

Mission 2 Educator Guide Mission 2, Flight to Freedom, focuses on resistance to slavery. Players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year old slave in Kentucky who is trying to escape to to a life of freedom in Ohio. As students make decisions as Lucy, they discover that life in the "free" North is dangerous and difficult. Other missions are planned for release in 2013 and 2014.

National Geographic Interactive Underground Railroad []

Comparing Two Worlds: North and South (Scholastic) []

Brain Pop Underground Railroad  []

Brain Pop Civil War Causes []

Brain Pop Civil War [] Supporting activities (List three ways the Civil War and American Revolution were similar, and three ways they differed, 5Ws + H Chart)

United Streaming Civil War (15 minutes) []

Frazier Museum My Brother My Enemy Exhibit []

Civil War Battles and Civil War Casualties Interactive Map []

American Civil War – History.Com interactive [|http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/interactives#/home]

The Civil War: A War of Resources (Econ EdLink) []

Teaching American History Interactives [] Maps include: railroads, slavery, free blacks, immigration, agriculture, cotton production, industry

Civil War Interactive Poster [] You can request these posters for your teachers

Smithsonian Price of Freedom Exhibit (Americans at War) []

Teaching With Documents: The Civil War as Photographed by Matthew Brady []

Teaching With Documents –The Fight for Equal Rights: Blacks in the Civil War []

Teaching With Documents: Letters, Telegrams, and Photogrphs Illustarting factors that affected the Civil War

Lessons and primary sources []

[|Civil War video from Discovery Ed] (see Emancipation Proclamation clip)