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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTrails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Immigration and Migration, Geography, United States History, United States, History-Social ScienceTrails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 features 49 diaries of pioneers who traveled westward across Amer...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, U.S. ConstitutionIn this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students consider the limitations that have been placed on the First Amendment gua...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThe issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCivil War Treasures from American Memory at the Library of Congress: Confederate States of America Army
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, Visual ArtsThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features a collection of links to images related to the Confeder...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStriking a Deal: Learning the History of American Labor Strikes
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the economic repercussions of a potential Major L...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collisions of Cultures
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, Native Peoples, History-Social ScienceThe Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collisions of Cultures looks at the decisive battle of the Creek War (1813-1814), where Andrew Jac...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDonner Party
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, United States History, California, United States, History-Social ScienceDonner Party provides a transcript, map, and essays for a TV program that tells the harrowing tale of what tragically became one...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFugitive from Labor Cases: Henry Garnett (1850) and Moses Honner (1860)
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Oral Presentations, United States History, History-Social Science and 4 additional..A comparison of the Henry Garnett and Moses Honner cases demonstrates the increasingly volatile political crisis in the 1850s ar...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHenry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 2)
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EconEdLink, students identify Henry Ford as an innovator who helped revolutionize ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLesson 1: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis lesson covers two essential aspects of Reconstruction: the condition of the southern states at the close of the war and Lin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReligion and the Fight for American Independence
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students use primary documents to understand how religion aided and hi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, United States History, United States, History-Social ScienceThe Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio tells how the construction of this canal transformed one of the...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Samuel Gompers Papers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis EDSITEment-reviewed Web site, from the University of Maryland, provides an annotated collection of primary sources on Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLesson 3: The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of Reconstruction
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this lesson, students examine the development of new constitutions in the reconstructed South. They also consider the politic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe South's Decision to Secede: A Violation of Self Interest?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this EconEdLink lesson, students consider the following question: In deciding to secede from the Union in 1861, did the South...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn the Oregon Trail
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUlysses S. Grant's Commission as Lieutenant General Signed by Abraham Lincoln
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis document is found on the Library of Congress American Memory Project Collection titled Words and Deeds in American Histor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeorge Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis resource, from Yale Law School s Avalon Project, is a transcript of George Washington s 1796 presidential farewell address....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmancipation 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWomen's Lives Before the Civil War
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students learn about the lives of women before the Civil War. They pay...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0