HS US History Prior to 1877
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Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement: An Activity
$3.00Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement Early maps of European exploration and settlement reveal much about what explorers and colonists knew about what eventually became the English thirteen colonies. Map-making work...$3.00 -
A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston
$8.00A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston An activity combining process and content “Salem, where we landed, pleased us not,” wrote Thomas Dudley, describing the arrival of John Winthrop’s fleet of seventeen ships in June,...$8.00 -
What Caused the Civil War
$3.00What Caused the Civil War The time was 4:30 in the morning; the day was April 12, 1861. Cannons from the mainland began to spew fire and lob shells into Fort Sumter--at this early hour just faintly visible on the horizon. America’s terrible Civil...$3.00 -
Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War
$8.00Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War An activity that combines process and content In 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of a little over 50,000 inhabitants. Most Congressman and even the President fled the city at...$8.00 -
Native American Removal Tecumseh Trail of Tears Gallery Walk DBQ US History
$1.25This Gallery Walk DBQ combines the evidence and responses from a Document Based Question, or DBQ, with the kinesthetic activity and movement of a Gallery Walk for U.S. History classes. This historic walkthrough features maps, time lines, poetry, and...$1.25 -
Interactive Image: The Massacre of New Orleans
$2.99This resource is a Google Form and Doc linked to an interactive image on the massacre of New Orleans in 1866. In July 1866, riots broke out in New Orleans when freedmen gathered to support extending the right to vote to African Americans. White mobs...$2.99 -
Interactive Gallery: Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction
$2.99This resource is a Google Form and Doc linked to an interactive gallery on President Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction. The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding...$2.99 -
Washington D.C. Peace Convention: February 4, 1861
$4.00Washington D.C. Peace Convention February 4, 1861 Could the Civil War have been prevented? On February 4, 1861 a “peace convention,” called by the Virginia legislature, assembled at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C., the same day that...$4.00 -
Civil War Generals Most Effective or the Least Effective?
$4.00At the start of the American Civil War both the Union and the Confederacy an immediate problem of enlisting men into their respective armies and providing them with competent commanders. Many of the senior officers in both armies had their training...$4.00 -
Civil War Game
$4.00Most Civil War historians would agree that in order to win the war the North needed to carry the fight into the South. But the Southern commanders, especially General Robert E. Lee, believed that taking the fight into the North was the path to victory...$4.00 -
American Revolutionary War 1775-1783: A Lesson in Military History
$4.00It took eight years of bitter fighting for Americans to win their independence from England. Most U.S. history courses concentrate on the causes that led Americans to seek independence, and then move to the end of the conflict and the struggles of the...$4.00 -
RIGHT AND WRONG IN PURITAN BOSTON
$4.00In this activity students play the part of the Puritan General Court deciding on several cases of people in their tight-knit religious community who had allegedly broken the law and deserved to be punished. They must identify the specific crime they...$4.00