US History

Students will read and analyze excerpts from speeches on the Korean War by President Truman (1950) and General MacArthur (1951) by answering 25 questions. They will then respond to 5 overarching and comparison questions and a creative task. The answers...

  Students can use these 6 templates to record their bell ringers, warm ups, do nows, or exit tickets in most Social Studies classes. The teacher information pages include 8 websites where topical information can be located (text based and short...

Students will read excerpts from Nixon's "Silent Majority" speech and respond to a mix of 26 academic questions and creative tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub!  Sample questions include:--Why did...

Students will place 15 events/laws/people/etc that are causes of the Civil War on a timeline and complete 4 other tasks for those items using provided templates. They will then complete a news headlines activity for 4 other items that can be considered...

Students will complete 5 activities to review President Nixon's presidency: a primary source analysis with creative tasks for his Farewell Address, an analysis of US v. Nixon and the Silent Majority, an interview activity, and a social media style review...

Students will analyze 17 documents (6 are images), answer 17 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay about the Vietnam War. There are 12 prompts for students to choose from (one allows for the class or teacher to...

Students will read and analyze an overview of nativism in the Roaring 20s, the Immigration Act of 1917, the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, and the Immigration Act of 1924 by answering 6 questions. They will then analyze 14 political cartoons according to 5...

These 7 activities are a great review for any historical figure from any historical topic, event, or time period. Students will fill in quote bubbles and an image of a person, create a yearbook page, design a cereal box, a superhero, create trading cards...

Students will read and analyze excerpts from the articles of impeachment against President Clinton as well as excerpts from his response. There are 15 text based questions, 5 reflection or discussion questions, and a creative task for students to...

Students will read and analyze 20 primary sources on different people and events from WWI (WW1) including but not limited to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Battles of the Somme/Gallipoli/Jutland, the Zimmerman Note, Wilson's 14 Points, the Christmas...

Students will learn about Truman's presidency and the start of the Cold War with this PowerPoint (you can also use it as a gallery walk) and note guide with comprehension tasks. The topics covered include containment, NSC-68, the Red Scare, the Fair...

Students learn about the American Revolution through primary sources covering topics such as the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence, the Albany Plan of Union, Common Sense, the Boston Massacre,...