HS US History Prior to 1877
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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 -
Paul Revere, William Dawes or Samuel Prescott
$4.00Who actually warned the countryside on April 18, 1775 that “the Regulars were coming?” Generations of school children heard, and in many cases memorized, Wadsworth’s Poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere elevating this Boston...$4.00 -
Could you survive in Puritan Boston? Board Game
$4.00A group of wealthy Puritans, including John Winthrop, set up the Massachusetts Bay Company and asked the English King for permission to found a colony in New England. The King agreed and granted the Company a Charter. He wanted to get rid of the...$4.00 -
Summit: The Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
$5.00This is the third lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo 1848
$5.00This is the second lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Ghent 1814: Recreating a Pivotal Treaty
$5.00This is the first lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
Making a Book about Philadelphia during the Revolution
$8.00This activity combines process and content allowing students to use the included thirty-two well-researched pages to create their own personal book about the colonial city of Philadelphia and its citizens as they struggled through the events of the...$8.00 -
Jamestown Game - Colonial Era - Did I Survive Jamestown
$2.00This PPT and handout is a game that you can play as a class to introduce Jamestown or Colonial Life. Each slide ask the students questions such as what is their desired job, how often they get sick, and others. After each question slide is a point slide...$2.00 -
Primary Sources: The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
$2.50As part of an overall discussion of the influences upon American government, this resource consists of a graphic organizer that divides excerpts from both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights into sections that students can then paraphrase,...$2.50