American+History


 * Analyzing Documents at Library of Congress**
 * [|DBQ for the War of 1898]**
 * [|Resources to Support using DBQ's]**
 * [|Middle Ages Resources]**
 * Free Online Course: We The People**

We The People: The Citizen and the Constituion is a civic education program that is open to American History, civics, and government teachers. Classroom books are divided into three levels upper elementary, middle and high school. The Center for Civic Education provides free class sets of books to teachers who take the We the People professional development training. NEIU has an on line professional development module for We the People program. Also, teachers in Pennsylvania are eligible for 15 hours of Act 48 professional development. If you are interested in taking this self paced module/course click here and follow the directions.

Constitution Day Lesson Plans Click here for the lesson [|The Constitution:] Drafting a More Perfect UnionThe Constitution: Click here for the lesson //[|In Congress Assembled:]// Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States Click here for the lesson The [|Constitution:]Counter Revolution or National Salvation?

ORAL HISTORY Here are sites that help you with the Oral History Project. From planning, to interviewing, to analyzing, to writing up the report. [|Southern Oral History Project] [|Baylor University Oral History Project Manual]

Interactive American Timeline http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm

American History Growth of New York-Colonial Period Grade 4 http://www.edteck.com/dbq/eiq/3_ss_dbq1.pdf
 * Discovery and Colonization **


 * Revolution and the Constitution **

DBQ: “A Brilliant Solution”—The Constitution of the U.S.
danielw03.npsteachers.org/blob/download/2200 High School


 * Jacksonianism **

Diaries, Memoirs, and period books about the Oregon Trail
 * Westward Expansion, Annexation, and Native Americans **
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 * Native Americans **
 * [|Teaties and agreements] **

What did the Europeans see when they came to America? Click here for the Documents Based Questions [|Iriquois Grade 5]

Civil War And Reconstruction Click here for a picture of [|Margaret Garner's]killing of her child. The painting, //Modern Day Medea// is done Thomas Satterwhite Hobbs. [|Civil War Grade 11] [|Slavery Grade 5] [|Slavery Grade 8] Freedman's Bureau http://hcps2.hanover.k12.va.us/ldhs/Departments/history/dbq.htm [|Teaching the Civil War with Technology] -- Lots of resources on the blog and wiki for integrating technology into teaching the Civil War Civil War Sallie -- An educational "Follow Me" project traveling around learning about the Civil War and using Web 2.0 tools to share her travels.

[|Click here]for slave narratives.

[|Immigration Late 1800's] --Grade 8
 * Migration **

Rural American Move the cities http://www.peterpappas.com/journals/industry/city3.pdf

The new immigrants-1880 http://www.binghamton.edu/ctah/student/Broz/immigrationprinter.html

Events during the period 1880 and 1920 reinforce the image of the United States as a "melting pot" for races and ethnic groups http://www.historyteacher.net/USProjects/DBQs2000/APUSH2000-DBQ7.htm

The idea of conservation: T. Roosevelt –High School http://www.historyteacher.net/USProjects/DBQs2000/APUSH-DBQ16a.htm
 * Progressivism**

Progress and Poverty in America http://www.peterpappas.com/journals/industry/industry3.pdf

Redefining the role of women industrial America http://www.peterpappas.com/journals/industry/women3.pdf

// Urban blight, economic disadvantage and political corruption during the early 20th Century // http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/AP/DBQdocs/ProgressiveDBQ.htm The 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/teacher/DBQlaw.htm

http://www.projectview.org/WhitneyBoomandBust/Lessons/SampleDBQworksheet.pdf Civil War Grade 5 []
 * ART OF THE DUSTBOWL AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION **

Click here for [|WPA] primary sources

[|Wilson's declaration of war]
 * World War I **
 * Click on the following to get the text of **
 * [|President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality] **

World War II [|America and the homefront] Click on the following to get the text of: [|The Atlantic Charter]

** The social, political, and economic effects on the United States of its foreign policy during the period 1945 to 1965. ** http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/MHS/apus/dbq/2005/group03.htm
 * Korean War **
 * Sixties, Viet Nam **
 * Civil Rights Movement**
 * [|The Long Road To Brown] Interviews and film clips from the Southern Oral History Project SOHP**
 * traces the issues of race from 1860's to Brown**
 * Foreign Policy of the Cold War **