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| Woman's Suffrage | Abolition Movement | Civil War and Reconstruction | Industrial Revolution |
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Founding of a Nation
Early America History Detective
Early America PowerPoint Notes
The Jamestown Online Adventure
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
American Revolution from Brain Pop
Liberty! The Road to Revolution Game
John Adams – Lesson Plans and Activities based on the HBO miniseries on the life of John Adams, his extraordinary relationship with his wife Abigail, and the first 50 years of the United States.
Declaration of Independence Vocabulary Study Chart
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence from Sparknotes.com
War for Independence History Detective
Revolutionary War Scavenger Hunt
Why do we have rules and laws?
Articles of Confederations Questions
Constitutional Convention Notes
The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan
The Preamble to the Constitution
Comparing the Articles and the Constitution
The Constitution from SparkNotes.com
Bill of Rights PowerPoint Notes
Save the Bill of Rights Interactive Game
Could you pass the latest citizenship test? In October 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be taken by all applicants. Could you pass it? The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview. Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.
Could you pass the citizenship test?
Three Branches of Government game
First Amendment Rights in Everyday Life
Court Cases and the Bill of Rights PowerPoint
The Right Stuff: What qualified George Washington to be president
Challenges to the New Government PowerPoint
George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton
James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Second Bank of the United States
President Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States
At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie
Texas Revolution PowerPoint Notes
Westward Expansion PowerPoint Review
The Hopes of Immigrants PowerPoint Notes
The History of Education in America
Early Industry and Inventions PowerPoint Notes
Comparing and Contrasting the North and South
Comparing and Contrasing the North and South PowerPoint Notes
Timeline of Slavery in America
Nullification and States' Rights
A Brief History of the Women's Rights Before the Civil War
The Declaration of Sentiments and Declaration of Independence Compared
Current Statistics Related to Women
The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Abolition Quotes: Frederick Douglass and John Brown
The Crisis Deepens PowerPoint Notes
Civil War Begins PowerPoint Notes
Gettysburg Address Vocabulary PowerPoint
Important People from the Civil War Era
The Civil War's Important People
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Amendments - Excerpts from the Constitution
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Growth in the West
Texan and Tejano Accounts of Comanche Relations
The Industrial Revolution and the Early 1900's
The Great Railroad Race – Here is your chance to help America become united and economically strong. The Civil War has begun but it still takes months of dangerous travel to get across the U.S. from coast to coast. Business leaders, military planners, and travelers want a much faster and cheaper way to move goods and people. They want ships from Asia to be able to land in California and then send goods to buyers overland, rather than sending the ships all the way around the tip of South America to eastern harbors. In order to be strong, the nation must decide where to build a railroad to unite East and West. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signs the Pacific Railway Act.
Work, Lyddie! Work! - Are you thinking that school is boring and that it would be more fun to be out working? This is a chance for you to find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance to go to school. Analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. Then read a historical novel about the time Lyddie by Katherine Paterson and research modern day youth labor issues to see if the things faced by Lyddie are really so different today in places where young people do not have the opportunity to go to school. To share what you learned with others, you will write a poem or labor song.
What's in a Factory? - Step into the role of an early 19th century mill owner. Use the essay "Why A Factory?", an introductory paragraph, and the diagram of a factory floor to answer: "How many machines, how many people, and how much money are needed to run a factory?" While the numbers you are given will not be exact, they will closely represent the circumstances of an early 19th-century factory.
The Gilded Age – You are a member of a film production studio which has recently been hired to produce a documentary about the Gilded Age. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by historians in an effort to illustrate the outwardly showy, but inwardly corrupt nature of American society during the industrialization of the late 1800's. The documentary will need to highlight the many aspects of society that made up the Gilded Age, including: technological innovation, big business, urbanization, immigration, and reactions to the period.
And They Came to the Streets That Were Paved With Gold - Chinese history in America
| Roman Empire | Islam in the Middle Ages | Africa: Ghana and Mali | The Americas |
| China in the Middle Ages | Medieval Japan | Europe in the Middle Ages | Renaissance |
Religious Tolerance and Persecution in the Roman Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic PowerPoint Notes
The Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon
Medieval Muslim Life Revealed in The Rubiayat by Omar Khayyam
Medieval Sourcebook: From The Sunnah
Religious Architecture and Islamic Culture
Religions of the Western World
A Brief History of the Samurai
Warrior Challenge: Knights - There's more to a knight than just armor. As a squire, your job is to know how to handle your knight's weapons. You will act as a knight's squire for six scenarios in the history of knights that will test your knowledge of knightly weapons to the hilt - literally.
Medieval Life: Squires, Maidens and Peasants
The Life of a Child in Elizabethan England
Art of Chivalry - Medieval Knight Game
Destroy the Castle - Siege a castle with a trebuchet
Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Exploration, Enlightenment, and Age of Reason
Renaissance Inventions PowerPoint Notes
Luther Sparks the Protestant Reformation
Reasons for and Outcomes of the European Exploration
Important People from the Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Discovery, and Enlightenment
Ancient Civilizations Cyberhunt
Ancient Greece PowerPoint Notes
Warrior Challenge: Romans - Barbarians are invading the Roman frontier! Command your legion with a strategy using the pilum. Choose carefully -- your plan can could bring triumph or defeat.
Warrior Challenge: Gladiators - It could seat 50,000 spectators and made the gladiator games a world unto themselves. Enter the realm of the gladiator in this interactive tour of the Roman Coliseum.
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