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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRoad to Revolution: Patriotism or Treason?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: The American Revolution, History-Social ScienceStudents will analyze the causes of the American Revolution and examine them from various points of view. Perspectives include t...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocumenting Key Presidential Decisions
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceIn this activity, students will identify and analyze documents related to key presidential decisions. Through close examination ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Else Was Happening During the Civil War Era?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceThe years leading up to, during, and following the Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) are most often remembered for the te...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Effective were the Efforts of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceIn this activity, students will analyze documents from the War Department’s Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands — ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: Rights of Citizens, History-Social ScienceIn this activity, students will analyze documents pertaining to the woman suffrage movement as it intensified following passage ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis & Clark's Expedition to the Complex West
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Early Explorers, History-Social ScienceThis activity can be used as an introduction or for a closer study of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students will learn that the...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVirginia Plan
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceDrafted by James Madison, and presented by Edmund Randolph to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, the Virginia Plan p...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFederal Judiciary Act
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceOne of the first acts of the new Congress was to establish a Federal court system through the Judiciary Act signed by President ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBill of Rights
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceAlthough 12 amendments were originally proposed, the 10 that were ratified became the Bill of Rights in 1791. They defined citiz...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatent for Cotton Gin
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceDesigned to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney's cotton gin, for which he received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLouisiana Purchase Treaty
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceIn this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTreaty of Ghent
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis treaty, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812, fought between Great Britain and the United States. "For the...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMonroe Doctrine
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThe Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The Euro...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGibbons v. Ogden
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis Supreme Court decision forbade states from enacting any legislation that would interfere with Congress's right to regulate ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPresident George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceAlthough not required by the Constitution, George Washington presented the first Presidential inaugural address on April 30, 178...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlien and Sedition Acts
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social SciencePassed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Ame...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceIn this secret message of January 18, 1803, President Jefferson asked Congress for $2,500 to explore the West—-all the way to th...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarbury v. Madison
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThe decision in this Supreme Court Case established the right of the courts to determine the constitutionality of the actions of...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompromise of 1850
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThe Compromise was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery. The bills provided for slavery...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNorthwest Ordinance
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceOfficially titled An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, the Northw...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0