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)
