Construct a FIVE-ARC chronology of US 1850-1900 placing Sectional Crisis, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow + Indian Wars + Chinese Exclusion, and Industrial-Gilded Age on one timeline — and argue the war's primary cause was slavery using secession-declaration primary-source evidence
Exercise
Difficulty 1
~2 min
hist.g8.f.ex_02
Ordering
Prompt
Order chronologically: (a) Fort Sumter April 12 1861; (b) Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1 1863; (c) 13th Amendment ratified Dec 6 1865; (d) Compromise of 1877.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
ordered sequence
correct
abcd
Hints
- Use MG-3 Deep-Time Strip.
- 13th Amendment ratified after war's end April 1865.
Misconceptions to watch
- Reversing 13th Amendment + Emancipation Proclamation
Used in lessons