US History

Students will learn about, and review, different aspects of Reconstruction with these 6 primary source activities. Topics covered include the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Johnson's Impeachment Trial, Seward's Folly, and many more via a DBQ and by...

Students read 11 quotes about different aspects of Reconstruction, analyze 9 images, and respond to up to 26 questions and creative tasks. Some of the creative tasks include writing quotes from the points of view of Presidents Van Buren and Jackson,...

Students read 7 quotes about different issues and events from the Progressive Era, analyze 4 images, and respond to 18 questions and creative tasks. Sample topics for the quotes include Teddy Roosevelt and conservation, muckraking, women's suffrage, the...

Students will read 8 quotes about American Imperialism from various points of view, analyze 8 images, and respond to 17 questions. This would be great for a sub and the answers are included where appropriate.  Sample questions include:--What...

Students will read 9 quotes from different points of view as to whether or not the colonies should declare independence from Great Britain and answer 20 questions. They will then analyze 3 images according to 4 prompts. The answers are included where...

Students will create a Hollywood style bus tour to review any social studies unit or topic. There are 16 requirements balancing historical accuracy and creativity, including: the person's occupation, why a site should be preserved, eating lunch with a...

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...