BOOK 2: Document-Based Activities

Units cover the Civil War, World War II, and civil rights. Among the topics: abolitionism, Dorothea Dix, the battle of the ironclads, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, FDR’s declaration of war, women in World War II, Eisenhower and D-Day, the homefront, the Holocaust, victory in Europe, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jim Crow laws, desegregation of the military, Brown v. Board, Rosa Parks, Little Rock, Jackie Robinson, sit-ins, Freedom Riders, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Martin Luther King Day.