Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Unit

This fantastic bundle on Civil Liberties provides a complete unit plan for Civics or American Government in middle school or high school classrooms.

Topics covered in this unit include:

• The Bill of Rights & American Civil Liberties
• An overview of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Supreme Court's role
• The Amistad court case
• The Alien & Sedition Acts and Sedition Act of 1918
• Abraham Lincoln and the Writ of Habeas Corpus
• Japanese American Internment
• Challenges to Civil Liberties
• The Patriot Act and civil liberties
• The Charlottesville rally and Confederate monuments
• The ACLU and current civil liberties issues
• Complete unit guide packet
• A set of digital notebook activities
• ...and more!

Inside this download is a directions page for the unit plus all of the resources perfectly organized by day throughout the unit. There's multiple activities for each day, including interactive notebook foldables, digital Google Drive pages, readings, a flipped classroom video, PowerPoint with guided notes, and more!

The unit begins with an overview of Civil Liberties in the US before moving on to challenges and then specific lessons on important issues. There is a powerful #CharlottesvilleCurriculum activity, thought-provoking lesson on the Patriot Act and safety v. privacy, and more. For review, there is a full unit outline, Quizlet vocabulary, plus links to fun online games designed specifically for this unit!

A detailed teacher directions file is also included with lesson plan suggestions for each day of the unit along with links to relevant videos and online tools.

Note that this is unit 9 of my complete Civics and American Government curriculum. You can also find more American Government Units here on TpT!

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