QR Challenge: Sectionalism, The Civil War, & Reconstruction

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. The idea that people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be unjust if their consciences demand it
2. 2. A principle of the United States Constitution that states that the people have the right to create, alter, and abolish their government; territory's right to decide slavery issues on their own
3. 3. Agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
4. 4. An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slaveryand the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act
5. 5. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States (Amendment 13)
6. 6. It meant that Congress did not have the power to oulaw slavery in any territory and made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
7. 7. Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that gave Lincoln national name recognition, especially on the issue of slavery, eventually helping him become President
8. 8. The issues of slavery (for and against), economics (industrial vs. agricultural, protective tariffs that favored the North, & the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
9. 9. Protective tariffs were supported by the North and opposed by the South. Northern business owners especially benefitted. People in the South had to pay more for goods they needed.
10. 10. Slave owners saw slavery as essential to the Southern economy. Without slaves, plantation owners would not be able to make a living.
11. 11. 1861-1865
12. 12. Confederate general who rallied his troops at the Battle of Bull Run
13. 13. More soldiers, more industry, more railroads, better communication, better and more supplies, better navy
14. 14. An 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland; in the day-long battle, more than 23,000 soldiers were killed or wounded; North wins
15. 15. It changed the purpose of the war. Union troops were now fighting to end slavery and save the Union.
16. 16. The right that no personcan be held in prisonwithout first being charged with a specific crime
17. 17. 1865-1877
18. 18. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.
19. 19. All persons born or naturalized in the United States
20. 20. Ku Klux Klan

 

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