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Fort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social Science, United States HistoryFort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War recounts what happened in the Pensacola Bay just before the Civil War. U.S. Army...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social Science, United States HistoryFort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay presents firsthand accounts, maps, and more pertaining to this Civil War conflict (Augu...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis peace treaty between U.S. commissioners and Sioux chiefs and headmen is part of PBS Online s New Perpectives on The West. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, Geography, History-Social Science, United States, United States HistoryFirst Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence looks at the first conflict of the Civil War, the battle of Bull Run. More than ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0First American Cotton Mill
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Fill up the Canvas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Early Explorers, United States, United States HistoryFill up the Canvas features journal entries from 20 points in the journey of Lewis and Clark: mission preparations, winter in S...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, World History, United States HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students study the experience of European Jews during the Holocaust, and then compare their exper...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis Web site, from the National Archives and Records Administration, provides activities, historical documents, and photographs...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Families in Bondage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Humanities, Writing Strategies, United States HistoryThis two-part lesson from EDSITEment draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, United States HistoryThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, focuses on the differences in the economic systems of the North and South...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Facing the Ghosts of Our Past: Writing Narrative Reflections on the Civil War and Slavery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Film & Video, Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a review of the movie "Beloved" as a starting point for ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Exploring Women's History
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: U.S. Constitution, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature and 2 additional..This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to women's history, and presents information about the history of the wome...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: The 19th Amendment
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis Web page, found on the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Web site, provides information about women s fight ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Explore the West with the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Early Explorers, United States, United States HistoryExplore the West with the Lewis and Clark Expedition is a travel itinerary of 41 forts, Indian villages, mounds, mountain passes...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Exchange of Notes Between Great Britain and the United States, 1817
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis page, from Yale University s Avalon Project, provides the text of the 1817 international agreement between Great Britain an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism by using excerpts from the works of Ral...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Examiner's Questions for Admittance to the American (or Know-nothing) Party
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis document is found on the Library of Congress American Memory Project Collection titled Words and Deeds in American Histor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846-48
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, United States, United States HistoryEstablishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846-48 offers geography and history activities showing how two years ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Literature, United States HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, groups of students investigate the historical significance of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Addres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Emancipation Proclamation
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, contains images of the original document of the Ema...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0