Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson Plans | Primary
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Lesson Plans:
Various US Grant Lesson Plans from the Petersburg National Battlefield - The following lessons explore the state of the country prior to the Civil War including the experiences of southerners and northerners, the causes of the Civil War, the people who participated and fought in the siege of Petersburg, and people's perceptions of this period as reflected in the poetry, music, and literature.
Lee and Grant at Appamattox Court House - While the war may have been bloody, the terms given by General Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were extremely generous. In this activity, students will analyze these terms, as well as the events leading to Lee’s surrender, by investigating Grant’s own memoirs of this time.
Ulysses Grant: A Presidential Unit - Onlines lesson plans, crafts and activities and trivia about US Grant.
Primary Source Documents:
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant - Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War.
Speeches:
Grant's Speech on Seperation of Church & State - On September 30, 1875 President Ulysses S.Grant delivered a speech before the convention of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.
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