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The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, offered by the Library of Congress American Memory Web site, presents the papers of Frederick Douglass, the 19th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0America on the Move Exhibition - Section 1: Transportation in America Before 1876
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students explore the ways that the nation'...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Who Can Vote For President?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution, American Democracy, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students use a variety of sources to research the role and historical im...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsTwo American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney features the life stories of two business people who lived the Ame...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on the situation of African Americans living in the peri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionVoices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories features interviews with 23 former slaves (the oldest was 130 ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0The South's Decision to Secede: Quiz
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsThis student interactive, from an EconEdLink lesson, helps teachers measure students understanding of economics concepts.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 1
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students research and report on Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishment...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0United States v. Thomas Cooper : A Violation of the Sedition Law
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to freedom of speech and freedom of the press...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Lesson 2: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Politics of Reconstruction
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, students consider the momentous questions facing the country during the Reconstruction debate by weighing the ma...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War provides a lesson that uses primary documents such as the Emancipati...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0United We Stand
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsUnited We Stand provides primary source documents that students use to examine the working conditions of U.S. laborers at the tu...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Women of the West Museum: This Shall be the Land for Women - Texas
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, Sociology, ElectivesThis Web page is part of a virtual exhibition entitled This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women s Suffr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0American Memory: The Learning Page Features - Immigration
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, Sociology, Electives, EconomicsThis Feature Presentation includes primary source documents, original photographs and historic movies on the theme of immigrat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Interpreting Primary Sources: Federalists and Jeffersonians
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, ElectivesThis page, from the University of Houston s Digital History Web site, provides a range of primary sources illustrating the dev...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Of Human Bondage: Exploring Perspectives on Slavery During the Civil War Using Primary and Secondary Sources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how experiences and observations about a specific eve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Timeline of Events Related to the Development of the U.S. Party System
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution, American Democracy, United States History, World HistoryThis student reproducible, from an EDSITEment lesson, provides a timeline of events related to the development of the political ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Interpreting Primary Sources: Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Digital History, features an activity for students dealing with President Andrew Jac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Louisiana Purchase Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World HistoryThis page, from Yale Law School s Avalon Project, provides links to nearly twenty primary documents related to the 1803 Louisian...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States, Geography, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 presents elements of the battle and its aftermath, including objects used by the soldie...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
