American+History

American History **Research Skills for History** //1. Interpret historical data displayed in maps, graphs, tables, charts, and geologic time scales. // //2. Distinguish among dating methods that yield calendar ages (e.g., dendrochronology), numerical ages (e.g., radiocarbon), correlated ages (e.g., volcanic ash), and relative ages (e.g., geologic time). // //3.Formulate questions that can be answered by historical study and research. // //4. Construct graphs, tables, timelines, charts, and narratives to interpret historical data. // //5. Evaluate primary and secondary sources // //6. Apply the skills of historical analysis to current social, political, geographic, and economic issues facing the world. // //7. Compare present events with past events // American Rhetoric Bring the Constitution to Life! Digital Docs in a Box Digital Vaults Document Collections || Footnote [|Historic American Newspapers] (LOC) Historical Scene Investigation History Explorer || More Timelines (Fact Monster) Primary Source Materials and Document Based Questions Primary Source Sets Primary Sources (eHistory) || Teaching American History Teaching With Documents (Archives) Time Machine (U.S. Mint) Timeline Archives (Fact Monster) Timeline of U.S. History Timeline Pre-1914 (PBS) Timelines and Primary Sources (K12 Station) United States Timeline: 1800-1900 || **Early Civilizations** // 1. Describe Prehistoric Cultures of the North American continent // Learn About Native Americans || Native American History Pre-Columbian Era (Wikipedia) Where Indians Lived in America || **Exploration and Colonization**
 * A Chronology of US Historical Documents
 * || Inuit Indian || Lakota Winter Counts

//1. Review the reciprocal impact resulting from early European contact with indigenous peoples //
//2. Describe the reasons for colonization of America (e.g., religious freedom, desire for land, economic opportunity, and a new life). // //3. Compare the characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">4. Describe the impact of key colonial figures (e.g., John Smith, William Penn, Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop). // The 13 American Colonies (Social Studies for Kids) The 13 Colonies of America (Social Studies for Kids) 1942: An Ongoing Voyage Age of Discovery (Wikipedia) All About Explorers || Colonial America Colonial History of the United States (Wikipedia) Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present: Podcasts (History) History and Art from New England Jamestown (LOC) Jamestown: First English Colony in America (Social Studies for Kids) Jamestown Online Adventure (History Globe) || Liberty! (PBS) Salem Witch Trial The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 || The Trial of John Peter Zenger Virtual Jamestown When Worlds Collide (PBS) Worlds in Motion || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Revolution and New Nation** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Assess the economic, political, and social reasons for the American Revolution // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. Analyze the effects of European involvement in the American Revolution on the outcome of the war. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Describe the significance of major events in the Revolutionary War // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 4 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Analyze how the new national government was created // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Examine the significance in the formation of a new nation // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">6. Examine the experiences and perspectives in the new nation // American Revolutionary War (Wikipedia) America's Critical Period (Wikipedia) Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency (PBS) The Aaron Burr Trial The Boston Massacre Files (Boston History) The Boston Massacre Trials The Coming of the American Revolution The Constitutional Convention (Teaching American History) || Declaration of Independence Discover the Read George Washington Ethnic America (Digital History) Famous Moments in Early American History (Early America) From Ellis Island to Orchard Street (Tenement) History of Immigration to the United States (Wikipedia) The Huddled Masses (Digital History) || Immigrant and Ethnic America Immigration Challenges for New Americans (LOC) Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today (Scholastic) Jacksonian Democracy (Wikipedia) Jeffersonian Democracy (Wikipedia) Liberty! (PBS) Mission US The New Americans (PBS) || Revolutionary War Animated The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton Shays' Rebellion-From Revolution to Constitution Thomas Jefferson US Immigration Policy (MSNBC) War of 1812 (History) The War of 1812 (American History) Was the American Revolution Inevitable? (BBC) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Westward Expansion** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Trace the growth of the American nation during the period of western expansion // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Analyze how the following events affected the political transformation of the developing nation // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Identify how economic incentives and geography influenced early American explorations // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">4. Describe the impact of European-American expansion on native peoples. // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 5. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Describe the impact of the following aspects of the Industrial Revolution on the United States // The American West Discovering Lewis and Clark || The Gold Rush (PBS) Growth of a Nation (Animated Atlas) Jefferson Makes the Louisiana Purchase (PBS) Lewis and Clark (National Geographic) Lewis and Clark (PBS) Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark The Lewis and Clark Expedition Reached the Pacific Ocean in1805 (Read Write Think) || Manifest Destiny (Wikipedia) New Perspectives on The West (PBS) The Oregon Trail || The Voyage of Discovery Continues (USGS) We Shall Remain (PBS) Westward Expansion Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads (LOC) Wounded Knee: The Museum || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Civil War** **and Reconstruction** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Explain the economic, social, and political causes of the Civil War // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. Analyze aspects of the Civil War // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 3. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Analyze immediate and long term effects of Reconstruction in post Civil War America // Abolition (Gilder Lehrman) Abraham Lincoln (History) Abraham Lincoln Research Site Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads African American Odyssey (LOC) Age of Reform (Wikipedia) American Civil War (History) American Civil War (Wikipedia) American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center The American Civil War Homepage American Slave Narratives America's Reconstruction (Digital History) Black Confederates in the Civil War Black History at HarpWeek (Black History) The Expansion of Slavery from 1790-1860 || Causes of the Civil War Chinese Soldiers Fought in U.S. Civil War Civil War and Reconstruction (Archives) The Civil War for Kids Civil War 150 (History) Civil War Civil War (Civil War) Civil War (Brain Pop) Civil War (Digital History) Civil War (Civil War Academy) The Civil War (PBS) The Civil War (LOC) Civil War Animated The Civil War in Four Minutes Civil War Lesson Plans/High School Civil War Love Letters Civil War Overview Civil War Photos Civil War Soldiers and Sailor System Civil War Treasurers (LOC) Confederate General "Stonewall" Thomas Jonathon Jackson 1824-1863 (American Civil War) Debating Emancipation Discovering the Civil War (Archives) Documenting the American South Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass (PBS) The Freedman's Bureau Online From Slavery to Civil Rights (LOC) || Gettysburg Address (LOC) I Will Be Heard!: Abolitionism in America The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson Jim Crow in America (LOC) John Brown's Holy War (PBS) Letters Home From an Iowa Soldier in the American Civil War Looking for Lincoln (PBS) Not For Ourselves Alone Overview of the Civil War Outline of the Civil War (Great American History) Rare Map Collection - The American Civil War Reconstruction Era of the United States (Wikipedia) Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS) The Role of Women in the Civil War (Digital History) || The Smithsonian (Civil War) Smithsonian Civil War Studies Teacher Resources (Civil War) Teaching Abraham Lincoln (EDSITEment) Teaching the Civil War with Technology The Trial of John Brown The Underground Railraod (National Geographic) Underground Railroad (National Geographic) U.S. Grant: Warrior (PBS) The Valley of the Shadow Votes for Women: Timeline (LOC) Women's Suffrage (Gilder Lehrman) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Emergence of the Modern United States** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Analyze how the aspects of industrialization transformed the American economy beginning in the late 19th century // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Assess how the social developments influenced American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 3. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Analyze events which caused a transformation of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">4. Analyze the effect of direct democracy (initiative, referendum, recall) on your state's statehood. // A War in Perspective America 1900 (PBS) American Entry into World War 1 (Wikipedia) American Imperialism (Wikipedia) American Leaders Speak (LOC) Assimilation Through Education (LOC) Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance (42 Explore) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Child Labor in America (History Place) Clash of Cultures (eHistory) Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War (PBS) || Digital History: The Jazz Age The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago History) Duke Ellington First World War Gilded Age (Wikipedia) The Great War (PBS) Harlem Renaissance (LOC) The Haymarket Trial of 1886 Historical Thinking Matters: Scopes Trial Historical Thinking Matters: Spanish-American War The Industrial Revolution in the United States (LOC) Influenza 1918 (PBS) Jazz (PBS) Lindbergh (PBS) || Progressive Era (Wikipedia) Red Scare The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (PBS) Roaring Twenties (Wikipedia) The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Scopes Trial Shaping the American Economy (Gilder Lehrman) The Spanish American War Centennial Website || Temperance and Prohibition The Town of Pullman TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (PBS) Trench Warfare (BBC) Theodore Roosevelt (LOC) Theodore Roosevelt The Triangle Factory Fire Triangle Fire (PBS) Virtual New York City Woodrow Wilson (PBS) The World of 1898 (LOC) World War I (Fordham) World War I: Trenching on the Web World War One (BBC) || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Great Depression and World War II** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Describe causes and consequences of the Great Depression // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Describe the impact of American involvement in World War II // America in the 1930's Bread Line (PBS) Children of the Camps (PBS) The Crash of 1929 (PBS) D-Day (PBS) D-Day (Army) Dust Bowl Migrations (LOC) First World War: Vintage Audio and Video FDR Cartoon Collection Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum || Great Depression (Wikipedia) The Great Depression The Great Depression (History) Historical Thinking Matters: Social Security Inside World War II (History) Interactive Periodic Table of the New Deal Japanese American Internment During World War II (LOC) Japanese Propaganda Booklet from World War II || Native Words/Native Warriors New Deal (Wikipedia) New Deal Network The Normandy Campaign The Pacific (HBO) Pacific War Animated Posters from the WPA: Collection Highlights Index (LOC) Powers of Persuasion Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic) Riding the Rails (PBS) Sights and Sounds of D-Day's Untold Stories (National Geographic) Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS) || U.S. Rationing During World War II (Smithsonian Education) World War II (Wikipedia) World War II: Behind Closed Doors (PBS) World War II on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility (Smithsonian Education) World War II: Pilot Training Videos || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Postwar United States** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Analyze aspects of America’s post World War II foreign policy // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 2. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Describe aspects of American post-World War II domestic policy // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 3 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">. Describe aspects of post World War II American society // 1970's (Wikipedia) African-American Civil Rights Movement (Wikipedia) America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 (PBS) Apollo 11 Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS) The Berlin Airlift (PBS) The Berlin Wall (Newseum) Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (PBS) Cold War (Wikipedia) The Cold War Museum (Cold War) Cuban Missile Crisis || The Fall of Saigon (CBS News) Finishing the Dream (NBC Learn) Freedom Riders (PBS) Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch the Civil Rights Movement High Point: Sputnik Launched (Time) Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks Journey to Little Rock Journey to the Moon The Legacy of Brown Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb The Little Rock Nine Foundation || The Murder of Emmett Till (PBS) [|My Lai] (PBS) The Presidency and the Cold War Race for the Superbomb (PBS) Remember Segregation Space Race (Wikipedia) The Story of the Greensboro Four (PBS) The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott || United States in the 1950's (Wikipedia) Vietnam Online (PBS) Vietnam War (Wikipedia) The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975 We Choose The Moon: Pre-Launch || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Contemporary United States** //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 1. ** Describe current events using information from class discussions and various resources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television, Internet, books, maps). // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 2 **. Identify the connection between current and historical events and issues using information from class discussions and various resources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television, Internet, books, maps). // //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** 3 **. Describe how key political, social, environmental, and economic events of the late 20th century and early 21st century (e.g., Watergate, OPEC/oil crisis, Central American wars/Iran-Contra, End of Cold War, first Gulf War, September 11) affected, and continue to affect, the United States. // 911 Attacks (History) The Gulf War (PBS) || The Impeachment Trial (PBS) Inside 911 (National Geographic) Jimmy Carter (PBS) The New York Times || Reagan (PBS) Reagan Era (Wikipedia) Richard Nixon Foundation || The War of Terror After Osama bin Laden (The New York Times) War on Terror (Wikipedia) The Washington Post The Watergate Files The Watergate Story (The Washington Post) || Advanced Placement U.S. History (History Mentor) Advanced Placement United States History Syllabus Advanced Placement United States History Resources and Links (History Addict) AH AP Primary Sources Research Page (History Teacher) American History AP Main Page (History Teacher) American History AP Quizzes || AP Exam Grading Changes (AP Pass) AP History Resources AP U.S. History AP U.S. History AP U.S. History AP U.S. History AP U.S. History Topic Outline || Pre-AP American History Syllabus || U.S. History 1 for AP (Hippo Campus) U.S. History II for AP (Hippo Campus) || Academic American History America in the 20th Century (Media Rich Learning American Experience (PBS) American History (About) American History American History (Mr. Donn) American Memory Home (LOC) American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank America's Story Charting the Future of Teaching the Past Critical Past Digital History Discovery, Exploration, Colonies and Revolution (Teacher Oz) || The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History Hippo Campus/US History The History 2.0 Classroom History Games (Fun Brain) The History Guide-Resources for Historians History History by Everett/Biology by Meade History by Topics (History) History Matters History Mystery (Scholastic) The History Place History and Social Studies (Discovery Education) History Teacher History Tech || Library of Congress (LOC) NARAtions National History Day National Jukebox (LOC) Presentations and Activities (LOC) Resource Guides by Period (Digital History) Social Studies IQ Quizzes Speaking of History || Teaching American History Resources TCI Blog This Day in History (History) US History US History (Discovery) U.S. History U.S. History 1 (Hippo Campus) U.S. History II (Hippo Campus) U.S. History Org U.S. History Study Stacks U.S. History Video Sources US History Teacher Blog ||
 * The 13 American Colonies (Social Studies for Kids)
 * American Revolution
 * American Old West (Wikipedia)
 * A House Divided (Digital History)
 * A History of American Sweatshops 1820 to Present (American History)
 * A More Perfect Union (American History)
 * 1960's (Wikipedia)
 * 1990's (Wikipedia)
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">U.S. History AP **
 * A More Perfect Union
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Additional U.S. History Sites **
 * A More Perfect Blog
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Livebinders **
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