QR Challenge: Civil War and 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. Who was the President of the Confederacy?	Jefferson Davis
2. Put these events in order: Sherman's March, Union Naval blockade of Charleston, Confederate soldiers fired on Ft. Sumter, Confederate troops send the H.L.Hunley to sink Union ships.	Confederate soldiers fired on Ft. Sumter, Union Naval blockade of Charleston, troops send the H.L.Hunley to sink Union ships, Sherman's March
3. What was the goal of Sherman's March?	To destroy supplies, factories,and railroads; to split the Confederacy; to force the Confederacy to end the war
4. What class volunteered for the Confederate Army (mostly officers), lost much of their wealth, unable to export goods because of blockade?	Elite
5. What class volunteered or was drafted into the Confederate Army as regular soldiers and lost money and had property damage?	Independent farmers, middle class, and lower class
6. This group of people was left at home to tend businesses and farms or served as nurses.	women
7. This group continued to work on plantations; some fled to join the Union troops.	African-American Slaves
8. What happened to the plantation system after the war?	The plantation collapsed
9. How does sharecropping work?	Landowner provides the land, seed, and equipment; freedmen provided labor in exchange for a share of the crop; most sharecroppers were in a cycle of debt.
10. What was the state of cities and land after the war?	Massive destruction to cities, factories, and railroads
11. What happened to Confederate money after the war?	It became worthless.
12. What was the purpose of Reconstruction?	To rebuild a new government in southern states and to protect the rights of newly freed slaves.
13. This amendment abolished slavery.	13th Amendment
14. This amendment gave African-American men the right to vote.	15th Amendment
15. This amendment made African-American men citizens.	14th Amendment
16. What changes occurred in education during Reconstruction?	Public education was available to everyone; there were separate schools for whites and blacks
17. What problems did many freed slaves face?	Many whites refused to recognize African-Americans as citizens; they were poorly educated and had few skills for new jobs; many states imposed Black Codes that made life much like it had been as slaves
18. What industry emerged as a leading industry and began to grow in SC?	Textiles
19. What was the dominat cash crop in SC following the war and Reconstruction?	Cotton
20. In Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain, My Captain," who is the Captain in this poem? About what event in history was this event written?	Captain refers to Abraham Lincoln and the poem refers to his assassination

 

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