QR Challenge: Civil War Reconstruction
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. Americans struggle to rebuild the South and reunite the country | Reconstruction
|
2. Wanted to punish the South for its part in the war | Radical Republicans
| 3. Amendment that abolished slavery in the US | 13th Amendment
| 4. Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth
| 5. Date Lincoln was assassinated | April 14, 1865
| 6. Abraham Lincoln's vice president | Andrew Johnson
| 7. Johnson's two proclamations of Reconstruction | amnesty and organizing loyal state gov'ts
| 8. Restrictive laws passed in the South against African Americans | black codes
| 9. Senators who fought for African American rights in the South | Sumner and Stevens
| 10. Organization that provided education, housing, and help for Blacks | Freedmen's Bureau
| 11. Amendment that defined American citizenship | Fourteenth Amendment
| 12. The first president in US history to be impeached | Andrew Johnson
| 13. This man won the presidential election of 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant
| 14. Persons who worked the owner's land and received a share of the crops | sharecroppers
| 15. Group that used violence and threats to keep blacks from freedom in the South | Ku Klux Klan
| 16. Amendment that extended the right to vote regardless of race | Fifteenth Amendment
| 17. American hero who seized the Confederate steamer Planter | Robert Smalls
| 18. Southerners joining the Republican governments | scalawags
| 19. Northerners moving to the South after the Civil War | carpetbaggers
| 20. This man won the presidential election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes
| 21. A long speech meant to delay congressional action | filibuster
| 22. Separating people by race | segregation |
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Americans-struggle-to-rebuild-the-South-and-reunite-the-country
Question 1 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Wanted-to-punish-the-South-for-its-part-in-the-war
Question 2 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Amendment-that-abolished-slavery-in-the-US
Question 3 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Man-who-assassinated-Abraham-Lincoln
Question 4 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Date-Lincoln-was-assassinated
Question 5 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Abraham-Lincoln's-vice-president
Question 6 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Johnson's-two-proclamations-of-Reconstruction
Question 7 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Restrictive-laws-passed-in-the-South-against-African-Americans
Question 8 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Senators-who-fought-for-African-American-rights-in-the-South
Question 9 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Organization-that-provided-education,-housing,-and-help-for-Blacks
Question 10 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Amendment-that-defined-American-citizenship
Question 11 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-first-president-in-US-history-to-be-impeached
Question 12 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-man-won-the-presidential-election-of-1868
Question 13 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Persons-who-worked-the-owner's-land-and-received-a-share-of-the-crops
Question 14 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Group-that-used-violence-and-threats-to-keep-blacks-from-freedom-in-the-South
Question 15 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Amendment-that-extended-the-right-to-vote-regardless-of-race
Question 16 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=American-hero-who-seized-the-Confederate-steamer-Planter
Question 17 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Southerners-joining-the-Republican-governments
Question 18 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Northerners-moving-to-the-South-after-the-Civil-War
Question 19 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-man-won-the-presidential-election-of-1876
Question 20 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-long-speech-meant-to-delay-congressional-action
Question 21 (of 22)
Civil War Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Separating-people-by-race
Question 22 (of 22)
