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It’s a question school kids invariably ask when they study the 13 colonies: what happened to the Indians? While hard numbers are impossible come by, historians estimate there were well over a million...

Harassed into leaving England and unhappy with their new home in Holland, the Pilgrims took a literal leap of faith in coming to the New World to begin a new colony where they could practice their...

The Civil War and Reconstruction period saw the United States government, for the first time, take an active role in trying to reverse the stain of slavery and racism and provide civil equality for...

The American Revolutionary War was an epic and complex eight year struggle for independence. For the Americans it was, in many ways, a “two steps forward, one step back” slog of trying to hold on...

Let’s face it – review and study prep for a Revolutionary War unit test is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by making a...

This two unit bundle covers US history from the end of the French & Indian War through the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. This is a “warts and all” examination of this period of...