HS US History Prior to 1877
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U.S./World History Writing Prompts
$4.00This bundle of writing prompts includes 8 colorful (or non-colorful, depending on your photocopying preferences) that cover 8 different topics or time periods in World or U.S. History. The writing...$4.00 -
Students Act out Skits With Famous American Leaders of the 19th Century
$1.25Updated in 2020 with more historic names, more than 40 leaders available, with forms to pre-fill, research, and guide group skits to re-enact moments and perspectives of American History. Students...$1.25 -
Constitutional Convention Choice Board Learning Menus (set of 3)
$3.75Differentiate your Constitutional Convention lesson with this set of three engaging choice board menus. Students research to learn about the purpose and location of the convention, roles of the...$3.75 -
Delegates at the Constitutional Convention: Superlatives Awards Fair
$4.25Which delegate at the Constitutional Convention is worthy of winning the "most likely to win an argument" award? How about the "most theatrical," "most likely to rule the world," "biggest...$4.25 -
Civil War Bundle - Save 50%
$15.00Bundle of 6 lessons, individually $30. Save 50% with the Bundle. 1. Making a Book about Washington D.C. during the Civil War 2.$15.00 -
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...$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...$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...$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$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.$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...$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...$2.99