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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Government would pardon all Confederates who would swear allegiance to the Union-except high-ranking Confederate officials and those accused of war crimes. After 10% took this oath of allegiance, a Confederate state could form a new state government and gain representation in Congress. | Lincoln's 10% Plan | 2. Wanted to destroy political power of former slaveholders and give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote. | Radical Republicans | 3. Congress, not the president, should be responsible for Reconstruction. For a state government to be formed, it needed the majority- not 10%- to take oath to support the Constitution. This was vetoed by Lincoln. | Wade-Davis Bill | 4. This Presidential plan dictated that for a Southern state to be readmitted into the Union, they must withdraw its secession, swear allegiance to the Union, and ratify the 13th Amendment. | Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction | 5. This amendment freed the slaves | 13th Amendment | 6. A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War | Freedmen's Bureau | 7. Laws that severely restricted African Americans' lives | Black Codes | 8. made all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the law | 14th Amendment | 9. Abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states (except TN), and divided those states into five military districts. In order to reenter the Union, its constitution had to ensure African-American men the vote and state had to ratify the 14th Amendment. | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | 10. President after Andrew Johnson | Ulysses S. Grant | 11. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color, or because they have previously been slaves. | 15th Amendment |
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