5th - 8th Grade US History Prior to 1877
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US history 1788-1861 complete 3 unit bundle, including text
$75.00This multiple unit bundle covers US history from the ratification of the Constitution up to the start of the Civil War. This is a “warts and all” examination of this period of history; it is both a story of triumph and tragedy as well as one...$75.00 -
Cause & Effect Card Sort: Acts Leading to the American Revolution
$0.00Ready, Set, Fun, While Learning! This product contains a card sort focusing on the causes and effects that led to the American Revolution. The product contains cards that focus on each act, the meaning of the act and the effect of the act on the colonies...$0.00 -
Colonial America Break In to History DBQ Activity
$3.00Colonial America Break In To History. Created by Nathan Gilson - Understanding Who We Were In a Breakout room, people are locked in a room, and need to solve a set of riddles/clues in order to discover the key to leave the room. Since we can't...$3.00 -
Wolf by the Ears - the Fight Over Slavery unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit covers the country’s growing economic, social, and political split over the spread of slavery in the first half of the 19th century, which eventually led to the secession of most of the Southern states, the bombardment of...$30.00 -
Colonial Era Graphic Notes
$0.00Visual Learning is Fun! This product contains three different pages of graphic notes that align to the significant information contained in the student expectations including comparing the three colonial regions, colonial trade, and the foundations of...$0.00 -
Oregon Trail Board Game
$4.00With the discovery of the South Pass by whites (natives, of course, had known the way for generations), the Oregon Territory became open to a flood of settlement by Americans seeking land in the West. To get there, however, these “Pioneers”...$4.00 -
American Revolution People: Gallery Walk
MSRP: $5.00$0.00Ready to Walk! This product allows you to engage your students while teaching all of the people that are apart of the TEKS. The product includes 18 full color placards, significant people chart and two leveled versions of a "Who Am I?" Activity...MSRP: $5.00$0.00 -
Westward Ho! Expansion of the Continental US 1783-1848, supplemental text
$6.00From its inception, the United States slowly expanded its borders in a seemingly inexorable march to the Pacific Ocean. This text covers the country’s geographic expansion from the Ohio Valley to the Pacific Ocean in fulfilling its “Manifest...$6.00 -
Northwest Ordinance mini-unit, including text and game
$5.00Even before the Constitution had been ratified and the new nation created, the question had already been raised: how would new territories be included in the budding nation? It was Thomas Jefferson who provided the answer in the waning days of the...$5.00 -
Louisiana Purchase primary source analysis activity
$3.00The Louisiana Purchase was one of the most defining moments in our nation’s development as a global power. For a relative pittance, the country doubled in size overnight. Yet this landmark purchase wasn’t even a consideration for Jefferson as...$3.00 -
Northwest Ordinance game - includes text
$4.00Even before the Constitution had been ratified and the new nation created, the question had already been raised: how would new territories be included in the budding nation? It was Thomas Jefferson who provided the answer in the waning days of the...$4.00 -
Westward Ho! - Expansion of the Continental U.S. unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 13 day complete unit covers the country’s geographic expansion from the Ohio Valley to the Pacific Ocean in fulfilling its “Manifest Destiny” during the first 60 years of the new American Republic, both the various means by which...$30.00