US History

Students will learn about the Era of Good Feelings with this power point and note guide (comprehension tasks). There are primary source images and text selections to analyze in the power point, and additional primary sources to analyze in the note guide...

Students will get an overview of the various ways to define genocide, the types of perpetrators and victims, and the 10 stages of a genocide with this mini lesson. There are discussion and reflection questions built into 28 slides. The note guide has 21...

Students will learn about Truman's presidency with this power point (you can also use it as a gallery walk) and note guide with comprehension tasks. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, containment, NSC-68, the Red Scare, the Fair Deal, the...

Students will learn about Carter's presidency with this presentation (you can also use it as a gallery walk) and note guide. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the energy crisis, stagflation, airline deregulation, crisis of confidence, the...

Students will get an overview of America under the Articles of Confederation with this powerpoint and note guide (or it can be printed and used as a gallery walk). The topics and people covered include, but are not limited to, its powers and limitations,...

Students will learn about, or review, the Antebellum Era with this 38 slide power point and 71 question note guide. The note guide has short answer, fill in the blank, true/false, and quote and image analysis tasks. Topics covered include the 2nd Great...

Students will learn about the people, events, and politics of the 1920s (including foreign affairs), the causes of the Great Depression, and the depression itself with this PowerPoint and note guide. There are recap questions throughout the slides to...

This presentation introduces the changes to industry, labor, and business during the Gilded Age. Topics include but are not limited to: inventions, railroad, Interstate Commerce Act, assembly line, Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, monopolies, Gospel of...

This powerpoint is a brief introduction to the social/cultural aspects of the 1920s. Topics covered include but are not limited to: the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, Al Capone, Prohibition, Scopes Monkey Trial, cultural changes, Harlem...

Students will get an overview of the Progressive Era with this PowerPoint covering, but not limited to, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, the goals of Progressives, muckrakers, New Nationalism, New Freedom, conservation, the 16/17/18/19th Amendments, the...

This power point introduces and outlines the War of 1812. Topics include but are not limited to: Madison, impressment, War Hawks, the Battle of New Orleans, Lake Erie and Commodore Perry, the Treaty of Ghent, the Nonintercourse Act, the Hartford...

This presentation introduces Reconstruction in US History and includes images, maps, political cartoons, and analysis questions. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Andrew Johnson's impeachment, Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, Seward's Folly, the...