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Road to Revolution: Patriotism or Treason?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, The American RevolutionStudents 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: 0Documenting 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: 0How Effective were the Efforts of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionIn 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: 0Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Rights of CitizensIn this activity, students will analyze documents pertaining to the woman suffrage movement as it intensified following passage ...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0What Else Was Happening During the Civil War Era?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe 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: 0Lewis & 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: 0Virginia 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: 0Northwest 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: 0Constitution of the United States
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceDrafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on Se...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0President 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: 0Federal 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: 0Bill 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: 0Patent 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: 0Alien 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: 0Jefferson'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: 0Louisiana 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: 0Marbury 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: 0Treaty 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: 0McCulloch v. Maryland
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis Supreme Court Case addressed the issue of Federal power and commerce. "In the landmark Supreme Court case McCulloch v. M...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0Missouri Compromise
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social ScienceThis legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the bala...Contributor: National Archives and Records AdministrationViews: 0Favorites: 0