Westward Expansion

Students will read two points of view on Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (John O'Sullivan and Albert Gallatin), analyze an image, and answer 18 questions (mix of academic, opinion, and creative) to demonstrate an understanding of the texts. The...

Students read a brief background on the California Gold Rush and a primary source on one man's experience prospecting for gold. They will answer 15 questions, complete a creative task, and analyze 5 images (prompts provided). The answers are provided...

Students will complete 10 maps to review political and physical geography related to 3 time periods of Native American history (pre-Columbus to 1783, 1783 to 1865, and 1865-1890). There are 22 review questions, 175 labels across all the maps, and 3...

  Students will review what they learned about westward expansion prior to the Civil War by creating a one pager. There are 13 requirements and 8 templates ranging from completely blank to having a spot for each piece of information. The topics...

Students will complete true, false, fix to review what they learned through a year of American History/U.S. History (including but not limited to colonization, the Revolutionary War, Washington to Jefferson, the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson, Antebellum...

Students analyze 17 documents, answer 17 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay to review Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (and the accompanying sectionalism vs nationalism, Texas Annexation, Mexican-American...

These are 375+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, review questions, writing prompts, even test or essay questions that you can use for all of U.S. History (American History). They would work as part of...

Students review key people and events related to US History by matching 20 historical images to a caption or dialogue exchange for the following topics: Exploration, Revolutionary War, Washington to Jefferson, Westward Expansion, the Civil War,...

Engage students through media while exploring the history of the cowboy in American media and how those traditions continue today. Students will look at and analyze a variety of media including a short movie clip, a country music video, and...

Your students will have fun with this assignment!Encourage research, writing, and creativity with this Presidential Fakebook template.In my class my students do research and then create a "Fakebook" page for the president we are learning about. They...

I use this Manifest Destiny Puzzle the major themes of Andrew Jackson's presidency. There are 12 pieces to the puzzle. In the background is John Gast's painting "American Progress" which portrayed the idea of Manifest Destiny.I print out the puzzle on...

I use this 13 piece Puzzle to introduce, teach, and review my lessons over the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.Your students will learn and review some of the major information related to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. After completing the puzzle...