US History

Students will create a booklet as a cumulative review project to show what they learned in a semester of a history class. The booklet is intended to give future students an overview of what they can expect to learn in class and why it will be both...

Students will learn about, or review, any historical person with these two timelines. One involves creating a 15 event timeline and expanding on the events by completing 6 tasks (creative and academic). The other involves creating a timeline, classifying...

This cumulative review history project has students create a museum display for 6 artifacts from each topic/unit/time period studied during the year (each group will be assigned a different topic/unit). There are 9 requirements for each group and 2...

Students will learn about, or review, a variety of Cold War topics with 120+ activities, projects, DBQs, power points, mini lessons, maps, and more! Topics covered include but are not limited to: containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the...

Students will read excerpts from President Polk's speech to Congress requesting a declaration of war against Mexico prior to the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846. They will answer 29 questions and complete an extension task. The answers are...

Students will read and analyze President Jimmy Carter's 1980 speech on the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan by answering 20 questions. They are a mix of academic questions, opinion prompts, and extension tasks. The answers are included where...

Students will review the people, events, challenges, successes, and more of the Articles of Confederation by completing true, false, fix. They will read 45 statements and determine which are true and which are false. They will then complete 3 other tasks...

Students will read and analyze 20+ primary sources from WW2 (WWII) covering a variety of wartime events, perspectives, speeches, and people such as V-E Day, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, concentration camps, battles, FDR's speeches, Dunkirk, the debate over...

Students will learn about, or review, the people, events, laws, developments, and more of the Gilded Age with these 45+ resources including primary source analysis documents, image analysis activities, timelines, interviews, learning packets, DBQs,...

Students will learn about the people, events, laws, court cases, documents, and more from the Civil Rights Movement with these resources. The activities include timelines, analyzing primary source texts and images, a DBQ, a map, webquests, pamphlets, a...

Students will review the wars from US History (U.S. History wars) with this 3 part activity. They will first match 20 presidents to the wars or rebellions that happened during their time in office. Next, they will read 11 quotes and identify which war it...

Students will learn about the Articles of Confederation with this presentation and note guide (can also be used as a gallery walk), a primary source analysis on Shays' Rebellion as well as the Articles themselves (33 questions/tasks and 5 scenario...