5th - 8th Grade US History Prior to 1877
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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 St. Louis and Westward Expansion
$8.00“Millions of men are marching at once towards the same horizon: their language; their religion; their manners differ; their object is the same. Fortune has been promised to them somewhere in the West, and to the West they go to find it.”...$8.00 -
Enlightenment Color by Number and Text Marking : Locke and Montesqueiu
$4.00This Enlightenment Philosophers Color by Number and Text Marking activity is the perfect way to bring life to a boring topic! Philosophers covered in this activity are Baron de Montesquieu and John Locke. Topics include Social Contract, the...$4.00 -
Bill of Rights DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM for Google Drive® - Amendments 1-10
$7.99The Bill of Rights Digital Escape Room will take students on a secret mission through two 360° VIEW rooms! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about amendments 1-10 in the Bill of Rights. ***STUDENT GOOGLE...$7.99 -
Jamestown Colony Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking
$4.00Type a description for this product here...$4.00 -
Boston Tea Party Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking
$4.00This Boston Tea Party Color by Number and Text Marking activity is the perfect way to bring life to the topic! Topics in the Boston Tea Party reading passage include: British Parliament, No Taxation without Representation, Sons of...$4.00