DOCUMENT-BASED ACTIVITIES FOR U.S. HISTORY:
Using Primary Sources and the Internet

Ordering Information

Titles in this Series:

Writing the Constitution

The New Nation

The Jackson Era

Sectionalism

Slavery

The Civil War

Reconstruction

Westard Expansion

Immigration

Progressivism & the Age of Reform

1920s

Women's Suffrage

The Depression and the New Deal

World War II: The Homefront

The 1950s

The Cold War

The Civil Rights Movement

The Vietnam War

Related Titles:

Document-Based Activities for World History Series

Writing the Constitution  

Lesson 1:

The Articles of Confederation
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@articles_confederation

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Major Documents Collection
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/major.htm

Lesson 2:

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: The Madison Debates
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/debcont.htm

Madison's notes from the session of May 29, 1787
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/529.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@madison_notesmay29

Madison's notes from the June 13, 1787 session
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/613.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@madison_notesjune13

Madison's notes from the session of August 6, 1787
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/806.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@madison_notesaugust6

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School:
Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

National Archives and Records: A More Perfect Union:
The Creation of the U.S. Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_history.html

Lesson 3:

Federalist No. 9
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@hamilton_federalist9

Against the Federal Constitution: Patrick Henry
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@henry_againstfederalconst

The Federalist Papers
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

Constitutional Topic: Federalists and Anti-Federalists
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_faf.html

U.S. Constitution.Net
http://www.usconstitution.net

Lesson 4:

James Madison's speech proposing the Bill of Rights to the House of Representatives
http://web.archive.org/web/20090115094414/http://www.jmu.edu/madison/gpos225-madison2/madprobll.htm
(Link is to an archive)
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@madison_billofrights

James Madison: Impact and Legacy
http://millercenter.org/president/madison/essays/biography/9

The Bill of Rights as Ratified
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@billofrights

Charters of Freedom—Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html

Lesson 5:

New York's ratification
http://www.usconstitution.net/rat_ny.html
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@ny_ratification

Virginia's ratification
http://www.usconstitution.net/rat_va.html
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@va_ratification

U.S. Constitution.Net
http://www.usconstitution.net

Culminating Activities:

Sample Debate Rubric (or see rubric in Appendix of book)
http://712educators.about.com/cs/rubrics/l/blrubricdebate.htm

Debate Central
http://debate.uvm.edu/

The National Archives and Records Administration: The Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html

The Bill of Rights Institute
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0950.htm

"Bill of Rights" Articles I - X of Amendment
http://www.barefootsworld.net/consti11.html

FindLaw: Constitutions of the World
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/06constitutional/03forconst/index.html

International Constitutional Law: Constitutional Documents and Country Information
http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/

National Constitutions
http://www.constitution.org/cons/natlcons.htm

Related Web Sites:

The Constitution of the United States: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html

United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries,
Historical Texts and Judicial
Decisions
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/federal/usconst.php

The Constitution Society
http://www.constitution.org/

The National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/

ConstitutionFacts.com
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/

Historic Materials—The Constitution of the United States: CongressLink
http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_constitution_contents.htm

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The New Nation  

Lesson 1:

Washington's Sixth Annual Address to Congress on November 19, 1794
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@washington_6thaddress

Washington's Farewell Address of 1796
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@washington_farewell

Excerpts from Washington's Speeches
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@gwspeeches

Biographical Information on George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington/
http://www.mountvernon.org/

Lesson 2:

Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jefferson_usbank

Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the
Bank of the United States, 1791
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@hamilton_usbank

Excerpts from Jefferson and Hamilton's Views on the Constitutionality of a National Bank
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@nationalbank

Background on Hamilton and Jefferson
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch4_p8.htm

Lesson 3:

The Alien and Sedition Acts: Comparison
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@alien_sedition

Excerpts from the Alien and Sedition Acts
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@alien

Background on the Alien and Sedition Acts and the XYZ Affair
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/page_5.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts.asp"
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-AlienandSeditionActs.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/XYZ_Affair.aspx

Lesson 4:

Map of the Louisiana Territory
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/exploring/1maps/map22.jpg

The Lousiana Purchase Treaty
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=18

Text of the Louisiana Purchase
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@louisiana_purchase

Jefferson's Third Annual Address to Congress
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jefferson_3rdaddress

Excerpt from Jefferson's Address
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@tjaddress

Modern map of the Louisiana Territory
http://www.earlyamerica.com/image/maps/louisianapurchase/colormap.jpg

Lesson 5:

Plain calculations [of the cost/benefit of war]
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@plaincalculations

Brillant naval victory: Yankee Perry, better than old English cider
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@brilliantnavalvictory

Background on the War of 1812
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/nation_grows/lesson_6.htm

Related Web Sites:

The Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/

The Papers of George Washington: The Whiskey Insurrection
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/whiskey/

The Federalist Papers
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson
http://www.monticello.org

Discovering Lewis and Clark
http://www.lewis-clark.org/

The Jackson Era  

Lesson 1:

An Eyewitness Account of Jackson's Inauguration:
Margaret Bayard Smith, 1829
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@smith_jacksoninauguration

Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in Washington, D.C., 1829
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@webster_jacksonarrival

"We the People," ...EXTRA.—Washington, October, 28, 1828.
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@benton_EXTRA1828

Reminiscences of New York by an Octogenarian
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@paulding_octogenarian

Lesson 2:

Jackson Announces his Policy of Rotation in Office, 1829
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jackson_officerotation

Letter from Mrs. Barney to Gen. Jackson. Baltimore, June 13th, 1829
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@barney_jacksonletter

Lesson 3:

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@mcculloch

President Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States; July 10, 1832
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jackson_vetobank

King Andrew the First
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/Images/page_9/30a.html

Lesson 4:

Daniel Webster's Reply to South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne, 1830
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@webster_2ndhayne

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24, 1832
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@southcarolina_null1832

President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@jackson_nullification

How a Protective Tariff Works
http://www.mrvanduyne.com/jackson/html/tariff.htm

Lesson 5:

President Jackson Reports on Indian Removal, 1830
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jackson_indianremoval

Memorial of the Cherokee Nation, 1830
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@cherokeenation_1830

Cherokee letter protesting the Treaty of New Etocha
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@ross_newetocha

The Removal Act of 1830
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@removal_act1830

"What Is an Indian?": Elias Boudinot, 1826
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@boudinot_whatisanindian

The Trail of Tears
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

Archives of the West: Worcester v. Georgia
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/worcestr.htm

Culminating Activities

The First Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jackson_1inaugural

Related Web Sites

Andrew Jackson: "Champion of the Kingly Commons"
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/jackson/jackson.html

The Papers of Andrew Jackson
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jackpap.htm

Rachel & Andrew Jackson: A Love Story
http://web.archive.org/web/20080109201611/http://www.wnpt.net/rachel/
(Link is to an archive)

Nullification
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=639

The Trail of Tears
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

The West: Trail of Tears
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/two/hearteverything.htm

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Sectionalism: 1820-1860  

Lesson 1:

Transcript of the Missouri Compromise, 1820
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@missouri_compromise1820

Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jefferson_holmes

Map of Missouri Compromise, 1820
http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/340/maps/map3.html

Thomas Jefferson: On Slavery
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@jefferson_onslavery

Lesson 2:

The Seventh of March Speech, 1850
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@webster_7thmarch

Transcript of Compromise of 1850
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@compromise_1850

The Clay Compromise Measures by John C. Calhoun, March 4, 1850
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@calhoun_claycompromise

Lesson 3:

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@kansas_nebraska1854
Excerpt: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@kansas-nebraska

Abraham Lincoln's speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@lincoln_kansasnebraska
Excerpt: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@lincoln1854

Lesson 4:

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@dredscott_full
Excerpt: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@dredscott

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@plessy_ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=347&invol=483

Lesson 5:

John Brown's Final Address to the Court, 1859
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@brown_trial

"Execution of John Brown," Raleigh, North Carolina, Register, 1859
http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py?sequence=jbmenu&location=%20John%20Brown%27
s%20Raid%20on%20Harper%27s%20Ferry&ecode=ncrrjb591203a

John Brown Articles in the Staunton Spectator
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/spectator.html

Alabama Law Review transcript of John Brown's trial
http://web.archive.org/web/20040818205305/law.ua.edu/lawreview/lubet522.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Related Web Sites

Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/1850s/polixx.htm

Sectionalism
http://web.archive.org/web/20080105075553/http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/sect.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Shotgun's American Civil War Homepage's "Sectionalism: Wedges of Separation In The Civil War"
http://www.civilwarhome.com/sectionalism.htm

States Must Decide. Sectionalism Produced Disunion.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/secessionjustificationpart4.htm

University of Virginia Sectionalism link page
http://web.archive.org/web/20080119073839/http://www.iath.virginia.edu/seminar/unit4/unit4.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/

Teachers Discovering History As Historians: Sectionalism 1848-1861
http://www.tdhah.com/site_files/Teacher_Resources/topics/sectionalism_1848-1861/index.php

Mr. Lincoln and Freedom
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/

African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html

Anti-railroad Propaganda Poster—The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/anti-rail/

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Slavery  

Lesson 1:

"A Multitude of Black People...Chained Together" by Olaudah Equiano
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@equiano_multitudeblackppl

Line drawing of "spoon" position in hold of French slave ship (1784).
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@frenchslaveship

Background on the Triangular Trade:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/tp/TransAtlantic001.htm
http://slaverio.free.fr/TriangleFrameRight.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/slavtrad.htm

Lesson 2:

"What became of the slave on a Georgia Plantation?"
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@slave_gaplantation

Background on life on the plantations:
http://www.stratfordhall.org/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20000914092615/www.crt.state.la.us/crt/ocd/hp/STUDYUNIT/hpilu3-4.gif
  (Link is to an archive)

Photograph of a slave cabin in Eufala, Barbour County, Alabama
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/images/cabin.jpg

Lesson 3:

Photograph of the Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention
http://www.socialstudies.com/itemimages/article/primarysources/decl_antislavery.jpg

Text version of the Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@decl_antislavery

Excerpt from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall,
Robert Criswell, 1852
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@proslavery

Background on the abolitionist movement
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0856464.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantislavery.htm

Lesson 4:

"Follow the Drinking Gourd" song
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@drinking_gourd

Educator's Guide to "Follow the Drinking Gourd"
http://web.archive.org/web/20060925212304/http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/planetarium/ftdg1.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

"Follow the Drinking Gourd": Explanation of the lyrics
http://www.okbu.edu/academics/cas/natsci/index.html

Slave narrative (on the Underground Railroad)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@brent_slavenarrative

Background on the Underground Railroad
http://afgen.com/underground_railroad.html
http://www.freedomcenter.org/
http://www.waynet.org/levicoffin/default.htm
http://www.buxtonmuseum.com/

National Geographic's simulated journey along the Underground Railroad:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

Lesson 5:

The Confession of Nat Turner (1800-1831): "Appearance of the Spirit"
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@turner_appearanceofspirit

A Letter by Norborne E. Sutton to the governor of Virginia
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@sutton_lettertogovVA

Background on slave rebellions in the United States
http://www.historyguy.com/slave_rebellions_usa.htm

Related Web Sites:

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

Documenting the American South (DAS)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Slavery: Spartacus SchoolNet
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm

The African American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/

The Underground Railroad: Simulation
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

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The Civil War 

Lesson 1:

Beauregard Reports The Fall Of Fort Sumter
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@beauregard_ftsumter

Reports of Maj. Robert Anderson, First U. S. Artillery, of the Bombardment and
Evacution of Fort Sumter
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@anderson_ftsumter

Ft. Sumter
http://web.archive.org/web/20080423011954/http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/sumter.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 2:

Life of a Union Soldier: Excerpts from the Civil War Memoirs of Daniel Crotty
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@crotty_unionsoldier

Life of a Confederate Soldier: Excerpts from the Civil War Memoirs of Sam Watkins
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@watkins_confederatesoldier

Life Stories of Civil War Heroes
http://web.archive.org/web/20080804101736/http://www.geocities.com/1stdragoon/index.html
(Link is to an archive)


Lesson 3:

Transcript of the Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@emancipation_proclamation

Lincoln's handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation
Page 1: http://www.socialstudies.com/itemimages/article/primarysources/emancipation_proclamation1a.jpg
Page 2: http://www.socialstudies.com/itemimages/article/primarysources/emancipation_proclamation1b.jpg

Lincoln Papers: The Emancipation Proclamation section
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almintr.html

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Lesson 4:

The Gettysburg Address Drafts
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@lincoln_gettysburgdraft
Click here to go straight to the transcript of the "Nicolay Draft"
Click here to go straight to the transcript of the "Hay Draft"

The Gettyburg Address Library of Congress Exhibition
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/gettysburgaddress/Pages/default.aspx

Transcript of The Gettysburg Address
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@lincoln_gettysburg

Lincoln Invited to Gettysburg to Consecrate a Civil War Cemetery,
November 19, 1863
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov19.html

Lesson 5:

The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz: Dr. John C. Bates' testimony for the prosecution
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@bates_wirztrialtestimony

The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, Commandant Andersonville Prison, 1865
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wirz/wirz.htm

Lesson 6:

Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@surrender_appomattox

EyewitnesstoHistory.com: Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm

The Battle of Appomattox Court House Official Records page
http://www.civilwarhome.com/appomatt.htm

U.S. Civil War Appomattox page
http://web.archive.org/web/20080521105118/http://www.us-civilwar.com/appomattox.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Culminating Activities:

Sample Debate Rubric (or see rubric in Appendix of book)
http://712educators.about.com/cs/rubrics/l/blrubricdebate.htm

Debate Central
http://debate.uvm.edu/

The U.S. Civil War Center
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Cyndi's U.S. Civil War List
http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm

The American Civil War
http://www.us-civilwar.com/

Civil War Battlefields Online
http://www.cwbattlefields.com/

Related Web Sites:

The American Civil War
http://www.us-civilwar.com

Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

The American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/

Cyndi's Civil War List
http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm

The Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection (Civil War)
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/civil.html

The Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

Civil War Cartoons
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/SCARTOONS/cartoons.html

Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html

American Originals from Civil War and Reconstruction
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/civilwar.html

Women Soldiers in the Civil War
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html

"We'll Sing To Abe Our Song"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/stern.html

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Reconstruction  

Lesson 1:

Library of Congress: Constitution Amendments 11-27
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

The Lawfulness of the Reconstruction Amendments
http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/issues/archive/v68/spring/amendments.html

A Failed Reconstruction? Civil Rights
http://web.archive.org/web/20060925175223/http://www.eiu.edu/~history/undergrad/constitution/failed_reconstruction.htm
(Link is to an archive)

The Thirteenth Amendment and Slavery in a Global Economy
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/06hrights/GeoRegions/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates01.htm

Amending the U.S. Constitution Chart
http://go.hrw.com/ndNSAPI.nd/gohrw_rls1/pKeywordResults?ST9%20Amending

Lesson 2:

Various opinions and views on the Reconstruction
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASreconstruction.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@reconstruction_opinions

Thomas Nast Cartoons: Reconstruction and How it Works
http://www.thomasnast.com/TheCartoons/NastAndAndrewJohnson/ReconAndHowItWorksMai
n.htm

Reconstruction and How it Works
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7Illustrations/Reconstruction/ReconstructionAndHowItWorks.htm

The World of Thomas Nast
http://www.thomasnast.com/

Daryl Cagle's "Professional Cartoonists Index"
http://cagle.msnbc.com/

Politicalhumor.com Editorial Cartoonists
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/cartoonists/Political_Cartoonists.htm

Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millenium: "I am Not a Crook"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/crook.html

Lesson 3:

The Freedmen's Bureau Act, March 3, 1865
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/fbact.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@freedmensbureau_act

Freedmen and Southern Society Project
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/

http://web.archive.org/web/20070710224915/http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS403/freedmen/local/9-19-65.html
(Link is to an archive)

The Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Lesson 4:

Harper's Weekly, The Lines Drawn
http://education.harpweek.com/KKKHearings/Article06.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@harpers_linesdrawn

Harper's Weekly, Democratic Majority
http://education.harpweek.com/KKKHearings/Illustration12.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@harpers_democraticmajority

Education at Harper's Weekly
http://education.harpweek.com/

Lesson 5:

Harper's Weekly
http://www.harpweek.com/

Haye's vs. Tilden: The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877
http://elections.harpweek.com/controversy.htm

"Go South, Young Man"
http://www.socialstudies.com/itemimages/article/primarysources/harpers_gosouthyoungman.jpg

"Compromise-Indeed!"
http://www.socialstudies.com/itemimages/article/primarysources/harpers_compromiseindeed.jpg

Culminating Activities

Finding Precedent: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/

The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/impeachmt.htm

The Impeachment Trial of President Andrew Johnson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcg-imp.html

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/

History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/andrew_johnson/johnson.htm

The Role of President Lincoln in Reconstruction 1863-65: A Simulation Activity
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_lincoln.html

Abraham Lincoln: Life Portrait Video Clip List
http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/lincoln_clip.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20061005043458/http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/lincoln_clip.asp
  (Link is to an archive)

Related Web Sites

The United States Civil War Center: Web Links
http://web.archive.org/web/20070208094018/http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/links11.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html

Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History: Reconstruction and the Lost Cause
http://www.teacheroz.com/reconstruction.htm

George Mason University—A Timeline of Reconstruction: 1865-1877
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/chron.html

Shotgun's Home of the Civil War: Reconstruction!!
http://www.civilwarhome.com/reconstruction.htm

An Outline of the Reconstruction Era
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/reconframe.html

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Westward Expansion  

Lesson 1:

Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@northwest_ordinance

"A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and North Carolina,"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/armapquery.html
Type in the keywords "new map western Virginia," and click "Search."
Select search result 2 ("United States-Ohio River Valley").

Background information on the Northwest Ordinance
http://web.archive.org/web/19990427034648/statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/nword.html
  (Link is to an archive)
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/popup_northwest.html

Lesson 2:

"Soulard Map of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi, 1802"
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@clark_soulardmap

Excerpts from the Lewis and Clark journals
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/idx_jou.html

Background on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (what they would have expected on their journey)
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_cir.html
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/mapping_of_the_west.html

"Into the Unknown" Simulation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html

Lesson 3:

John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@osullivan_manifestdestiny

To the West!
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@tothewest
Parody of To the West!: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@tothewest_parody

Background on the Manifest Destiny
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manif1.htm
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_introduction.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060904073637/http://history.grand-forks.k12.nd.us/NDhistory/LessonPrintedVersion.aspx?LessonID=220
(Classroom simulation)
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 4:

Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman (March 30, 1837)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@whitman_letter

Julia Louisa Lovejoy, Selected Letters from Kansas, 1855-1863
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@lovejoy_letter

Frontier and Wilderness Life: Francis Trollope
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@trollope_frontierlife

PBS.Org: New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

Lesson 5:

"California As I Saw It": Journal entries of Daniel B. Woods
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

• Select "Titles."
• Click on "Los Angeles in the sunny seventies."
• Scroll down until you see "Sixteen months at the gold diggings," and click on this title.
• Click on the word "here" at the top of the page to get to the table of contents page for
  Daniel B. Woods' journal.

"California As I Saw It": Letter from S. Shufelt
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@shufelt_letter

"California As I Saw It": Journal entry of Enos Christman
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@christman_journal

Background information on the Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/three/
http://museumca.org/goldrush/

Related Web Sites:

PBS The West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

PBS Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

PBS Death of a Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/

Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/

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Immigration  

Lesson 1:

"Famine and Starvation in the County of Cork," The Illustrated London News, January 16, 1847
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@famine_corkcounty

Mary Antin: Life for Jews in Russian Under the Czar
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAantin.htm

German Immigration
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAEgermany.htm

Background on the Irish Famine
http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/irish2.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041127030720/people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
  (Link is to an archive)

"Thirteen Reasons Our Ancestors Migrated"
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=1436

The Tide of Emigration to the United States and to the British Colonies (1850)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@emigration_usuk1850

Lesson 2:

Photograph of immigrants aboard a ship destined for Ellis Island
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@immigrants_enroute

Questioning Immigrants at Ellis Island
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Past.html

Medical Examination at Ellis Island
http://web.archive.org/web/20040407160005/ellisisland.com/inspection.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Background on the voyage and arrival of immigrants into the United States
http://web.archive.org/web/20070111110958/http://wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/timelinf/ellis.htm
  (Link is to an archive)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040605190924/http://www.ellisisland.com/indexHistory.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway
http://web.archive.org/web/20060708105343/old.internationalchannel.com/education/ellis/
  (Link is to an archive)

Photograph of the Statue of Liberty
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@statueofliberty

Lesson 3:

The first chapter of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/01.html

Background on urban immigrant life
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1029.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080519034237/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/city/city.html
  (Link is to an archive)
http://web.archive.org/web/20080525112907/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/immgnts/immgrnts.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 4:

Know-Nothing Anti-Immigrant Cartoon
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@knownothing

The Chinese Question Cartoon
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@harpers_chinesequestion

Background on nativism, the Know-Nothing Party,
and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/Imm_KKK/anti-immigrationKKK-page1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-Nothing_movement
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/ps-nativist.html

Lesson 5:

"Trans-National America," by Randolph S. Bourne, Atlantic Monthly, July, 1916
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Bourne.html

Related Web Sites:

Port of Entry: Immigration Activity
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/port/

Learning About Immigration Through Oral History
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/oh1/ammem.html

Making of America
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

America: The Great Melting Pot
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/index.html

Immigration Web Sites
http://web.archive.org/web/20070207014405/http://www.mohonasen.org/dmslib/immigration.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

The Peopling of America
http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_5_3.asp

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Progressivism & the Age of Reform 

Lesson 1:

XV. The Problem of the Children
http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@riis_problemchildren

How the Other Half Lives
http://tenant.net/Community/Riis/contents.html

Jacob Riis: Photography
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/R/riis/riis.html

Excerpt from: Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962)
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/doc-OtherAmerica.htm

Lesson 2:

The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@addams_subjectivenecessity

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html

Lesson 3:

Populist Party Platform, 1892
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@populistplatform_1892

Encyclopedia of Presidential Elections
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election

Lesson 4:

The Jungle: excerpt from Chapter 9
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@sinclair_thejungle1

The Jungle: excerpt from Chapter 14
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@sinclair_thejungle2

The Jungle
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/

Spark Notes for The Jungle
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jungle/

Lesson 5:

"One Sees His Finish Unless Good Government Retakes the Ship"
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@govtretakesship


Theodore Roosevelt on Trusts, 1901
http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116963
Excerpt: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@roosevelt1901

United States v. Microsoft
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm

The AT&T Antitrust Consent Decree: Should Congress Change the Rules?
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol5/Sullivan/html/text.html

Related Web Sites

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/USCartoons/content/GAPECartoons.cfm

Labor-Management Conflict In American History
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/LaborConflict/default.cfm

Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources
http://www2.tntech.edu/history/gilprog.html

Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/progress.html

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/

On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.wnet.org/tenement/

Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress: 1759-1919
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trhtml/trhome.html

TeachingAmericanHistory.org Document Library for the Progressive Era
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?category=3

About.com: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/gildedage/The_Gilded_Age.htm

Digital History (Guided Readings) Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=31

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The 1920s 

Lesson 1:

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Click here to go straight to "Wallace Silver" Advertisement
Click here to go straight to "Log Cabin" Advertisement

Background on consumerism in the 1920s
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres01.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres04.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres05.html

Lesson 2:

"Heritage" by Countee Cullen
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/show/41763-Countee-Cullen-Heritage

Background on the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060227234446/http://www.beaufort.k12.sc.us/learning/bms/lmc/NEH_Civil+Rights.pdf
  Link is to an archived pdf file. Scroll down to page 112

Background on Countee Cullen
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/55

Lesson 3:

"Alabamians Plan a Ku Klux Klan"
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=9117

"Ku Klux Klan Paraded on Eve of Election in South"
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=9949

Background on the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ku_Klux_Klan.aspx

Ordering Information for the video The Birth of a Nation
http://www.socialstudies.com/product.html?record@TF20930

Lesson 4:

Photograph: Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/43/5/43-0420a.gif

Photograph: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
http://web.archive.org/web/20010629123804/www.7900films.com/trs/st_valen.jpg
  (Link is to an archive)

Background on the Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/19/28/19-2762a.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/capone.html

Lesson 5:

Cartoon: "Day of Wrath" by James N. Rosenberg
http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/shared/primary/source/iraedoc.htm

Background on the Stock Market Crash
http://web.archive.org/web/20010222094813/ebooks.whsmithonline.co.uk/encyclopedia/40/F0000140.htm
  (Link is to an archive)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020219125530/http://nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/floyd.html
  (ink is to an archive)

NASDAQ 2000 vs. DJIA 1929
http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_00/hamilton082900pv.html

Related Web Sites:

The Roaring Twenties
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm

The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html/a>


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Women's Suffrage 

Lesson 1:

The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@senecafalls_declaration

Lesson 2:

"Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@truth_aintiawoman

Lesson 3:

"Election Day!", a political cartoon created and published in 1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Click here to go straight to the cartoon

Lesson 4:

"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Click here to go straight to "Suffragists Marching, probably in New York City in 1913."
Click here to go straight to "The first picket line - College day in the picket line."

Photograph of suffragist with "Kaiser Wilson" poster
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/kaiser-wilson.html

Lesson 5:

"Two More Bright Spots on the Map" Cartoon
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsuffrage3.jpg

The 19th Amendment
http://www.digitalvaults.org/record/1072.html

Related Web Sites:

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/

One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html

Votes for Women
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

Women's Rights National Historic Park
http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm

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The Depression and the New Deal 

Lesson 1:

Roosevelt's Fireside Chats: Outlining the New Deal Program
http://newdeal.feri.org/chat/chat02.htm

Lesson 2:

Painting depicting the activities of the National Youth Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/images/work_pays_america/images/national_youth_admininistration.jpg

New Deal: Work Pays America
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/work_pays_america.html

A New Deal for the Arts Exhibition
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/index.html

Lesson 3:

"An Emergency is On"
http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp33280.htm

Lesson 4:

Voices from the Dust Bowl (Search for "Sunny Cal")
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/toddbibquery.html

Lesson 5:

FDR Cartoon Archive
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/

"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" Cartoon
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/1937/37_scgifs/large/37020608.gif

"But Captain!" Cartoon
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/1937/37_scgifs/large/37012302.gif

FDR Cartoon Index - Supreme Court, 1937
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/1937/index.html

Related Web Sites:

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

New Deal and the Arts: National Archive Exhibit
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/index.html

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Museum and Library
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html

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World War II: The Homefront 

Lesson 1:

A Farm Girl Plays Professional Baseball
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/FarmGirlBaseball.html

"What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?"
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League
http://www.aagpbl.org/

Britannica.com: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/15840/
All-American-Girls-Professional-Baseball-League
If the page does not load, try this page
  (Link is to an archive)

"Rosie the Riveter" illustration and song lyrics
http://www.pophistorydig.com/?p=877

Rosie the Riveter Trust
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

The United States Army Ordinance Corps "Rosie The Riveter" page
http://web.archive.org/web/20010916061225/http://www.goordnance.apg.army.mil/rosie.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 2:

President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/execorder9066.html

"That Damned Fence," an anonymous poem
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/thatdamnedfence.html

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/

Map showing relocation camps
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/images/map-560.jpg

Toyosabuo Korematsu v. United States (1944)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=323&invol=214

Lesson 3:

Navajo Code Talkers page
http://www.lapahie.com/NavajoCodeTalker.cfm

Philip Johnson Letter to USMC to use Navajos as Radiomen
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/new_roles/articles_new_roles/codetalkers_letter.html

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary
http://www.lapahie.com/Final_Dictionary.cfm

Lesson 4:

Audio Clip of "Der Fuehrer's Face"
http://csumc.wisc.edu/mki/Resources/Online_Papers/MusicConfPapers/DutchmanSongs/FuehrersFace.mp3

Song Lyrics to "Der Fuehrer's Face"
http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1943/derfuehrersface.html
Scroll to the bottom of the page.

"Four Freedoms" posters
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.html

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

Lesson 5:

"Plant a Victory Garden" poster
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/17/10/17-0934a.gif

Culminating Activities

Sample Debate Rubric (or see rubric in Appendix of book)
http://712educators.about.com/cs/rubrics/l/blrubricdebate.htm

Debate Central
http://debate.uvm.edu/

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

Propaganda Leaflets from World War II
http://web.archive.org/web/20070930153820/http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/index.html
(Link is to an archive)

"Savages, Swines, and Buffoons: Hollywood's Selected Stereotypical
Characterizations of the Japanese, Germans, and Italians during World War II", Images, May 1999
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue08/features/wwii/default-yes.htm

World War II Propaganda Posters
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii-posters/

A People at War: A World War II Exhibit
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html

Related Web Sites:

The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Pop Culture
http://www.authentichistory.com/1939-1945/index.html

American History 102: World War II, The Home Front
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html

World War II: The Homefront
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://rs6.loc.gov/fsowhome.html

Powers of Persuasion, Poster Art from World War II:
"It's A Women's War, Too!"
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/its_a_womans_
war_too/its_a_womans_war_too.html

World War II Poster Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II
http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/
?vgnextoid=2f2b1c769fcfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD

Camp Harmony Exhibit
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/index.html

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The 1950s 

Lesson 1:

The Living Room Candidate
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

Lesson 2:

Joseph McCarthy's speech on communists in the State Department (excerpt)
http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/mccarthy.html

"Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444/

Lesson 3:

Propaganda Critic: Video gallery
http://www.propagandacritic.com/gallery/

Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum
http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/

Lesson 4:

"A Date With Your Family"
http://www.archive.org/details/DateWith1950

Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger/

Lesson 5:

Elvis.com: The Official Site
http://www.elvis.com/

Quotes By Elvis
http://www.elvis.com/elvisology/quotes/byelvis.asp

Quotes About Elvis
http://www.elvis.com/elvisology/quotes/aboutelvis.asp

Photo of Elvis in concert, 1950s
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/censored/images/large/ELVIS2.jpg

The History of Rock 'n' Roll
http://www.history-of-rock.com/

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/

Related Web Sites

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Fifties Web
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm

"Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s"
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index2.htm

Government in the 1950s
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/govt1950.htm

Literary Kicks
http://www.litkicks.com/

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/

The "Official James Dean" Site
http://www.jamesdean.com/

The McDonald's History
http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/mcd_history.html

The Costume Gallery: The 1950s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1950.htm

The '50s Boulevard Web site
http://paperpast-archives.com/

The Time Archive
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1946375,00.html

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The Cold War 

Lesson 1:

Modern History Sourcebook: The Truman Doctrine, 1947
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/article.html?article@truman_doctrine

The Truman Doctrine Study Collection
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/index.php

Spartacus Schoolnet: The Truman Doctrine
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumanD.htm

Our Documents: The Truman Doctrine
http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=81

Lesson 2:

CNN Cold War Site
http://web.archive.org/web/20040326130509/http://cgi.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_start.html
(Link is to an archive)

Map showing Korea's division after World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Korean_dmz_map.png

1973 War Powers Act
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/warpower.htm

Lesson 3:

Attorney General Robert Kennedy's "Memorandum to the Secretary of State" (October 27, 1962)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/621030%20Memorandum%20for%20Sec.%20
of%20State.pdf
This link is to a Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Download the Reader for free here.

Dobrynin Cable to the USSR Foreign Ministry, 27 October 1962
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/621027%20Dobrynin%20Cable%20to%20USS
R.pdf
This link is to a Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Download the Reader for free here.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

The National Security Council and the Cuban Missle Crisis document archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20080802080102/http://www.nsa.gov/cuba/cuba00007.cfm
  (Link is to an archive)

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm

Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba: President John F. Kennedy
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03CubaCrisis10221962.htm

Lesson 4:

Interview of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/former-u-s-secy-of-state-henry-kissinger/

CNN—"Cold War"
http://web.archive.org/web/20080114080117/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
(Link is to an archive)

Lesson 5:

A Personal Account of The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The 11th and 12th of November, 1989
http://www.andreas.com/berlin.html

BiW: The Berlin Wall
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html

The German History Museum, Berlin: The Berlin Wall
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128083610/http://www.wall-berlin.org/index.html
  (Link is to an archive)

The Berlin Wall (extract from BBC and CNN Series Cold War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSwmBacyIP4

Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz by President John F. Kennedy
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03BerlinWall06261963.htm

Tear Down the Wall: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate by Ronald Reagan
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/sp_11.html

Related Web Sites

The Cold War Museum
http://www.coldwar.org/

Documents Related to the Cold War
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

The National Archives (UK) "Learning Curve" Page on the Cold War
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/

The Yale University Law School Avalon Project Cold War Page
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar.htm

The Harvard University Project on Cold War Studies
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/links.htm

The Central Intelligence Agency's "On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961"
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/on-the-front-lines-of-the-cold-war-documents-on-the-intelligence-war-in-berlin-1946-to-1961/index.html
http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/

The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

The Spartacus-Schoolnet (UK) Page on the Cold War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm

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The Civil Rights Movement 

Lesson 1:

Brown v. Board of Education decision
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=347&invol=483
http://web.archive.org/web/20020222045458/http://nytimes.com/
learning/general/specials/littlerock/051854ds-text.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Photo gallery of Little Rock Central High school desegregation
http://web.archive.org/web/20060428001929/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/photo-gallery.html
 (Link is to an archive)

Photos in lesson:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock.17.jpg.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock.13.jpg.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock.2.jpg.html

Background on the Little Rock Nine
http://web.archive.org/web/20060610081606/http://louisianahistory.ourfamily.com/arkansas/littlerock9.html
  (Link is to an archive)

"Separate but Equal", photographs
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0803001r.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20070301141142/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/images/c31-1az.jpg
  (Link is to an archive)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011118211847/www.umsl.edu/~poldrobe/011/jim_crow.jpg
  (Link is to an archive)

James Meredith's attempt to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmeredith.htm

Governor George Wallace of Alabama
http://www.who2.com/georgewallace.html

Lesson 2:

Montgomery City Code
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/lesson1/doc1.html

Alabama Archives—Montgomery Advertiser article, 12/06/55
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/lesson1/doc2.html

Interview with Rosa Parks
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1

Civil Rights Exhibit photographs
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr057.html
Click here to go straight to "Drinking Fountains in the Dougherty County Courthouse"
Click here to go straight to "Tottle House...Occupied During a Sit-in by Some of America's Most
Effective Organizers...."

Lesson 3:

Dr. Martin Luther King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm

Malcolm X's "The Chickens Come Home to Roost" speech
http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_120463.htm

Lesson 4:

Interactive site on the Freedom Riders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides

Letter to President Kennedy about the Freedom Rides
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Dt0GtQ5k8kyp3fVHo9Y-tg.aspx

Telegram about the Freedom Riders' plight (in four segments)

• http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/x6Nf7QL6FEavCAYE0y9Byw.aspx
• http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/yGUELIR8zk21sfFVprkpgg.aspx
• http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/6hyLMF0xa0-U6PE0KXoRtA.aspx
• http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Ylann9FIF0mCK3wFol-toQ.aspx

List of Freedom Riders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/roster

Lesson 5:

Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act/

President Johnson's radio and television remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Bill on July 2, 1964
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640702.asp

Photograph of Johnson signing the Act
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/Images/page_24/75a.html

Related Web Sites:

Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/

The Civil Rights Project
http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/

Alabama Moments in American History Supplemental Materials
http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.crmvet.org/

Biographies of African American Pioneers
http://afgen.com/pioneer.html

Little Rock Central High
http://www.centralhigh57.org/

National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Papers at Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Martin Luther King, Jr. from The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/

Voices of the Civil Rights Era
http://web.archive.org/web/20020204194449/http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/voices.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
http://www.sitins.com/

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The Vietnam War 

Lesson 1:

The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/declar.html

Background on French colonial rule in Vietnam
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/indagree.html
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/anthem.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117100759/coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/VietPages/WWWVL-Vietnam_10.html
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 2:

President Johnson's message to Congress
http://www.hbci.com/~tgort/johnson.htm
Or: http://www.socialstudies.com/article.html?article@johnson_address1964

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
http://www.hbci.com/~tgort/tonkin.htm

Background on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Johnson Administration:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm
http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwton.htm
  Page no longer available
http://web.archive.org/web/20010329174252/www.militaryhistory.com/Vietnam/articles/1997/08972_text.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Lesson 3:

Robert Haeberle's photographs of the My Lai Massacre
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/history/modules/mod35/frame_gallery_intro.htm
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/RM1.MYLAI.HTM

"The Massacre at Mylai" magazine article
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Vietnam/mylait01.htm

Background on the My Lai Massacre and the nature of guerilla warfare
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/Myl_intro.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/mylai.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20011124180417/http://www.pathfinder.com/photo/essay/mylai/mylaicon.htm
  (Link is to an archive)

Photographs of troops in action:
http://semperfiheart1.homestead.com/Whispers.html

Lesson 4:

Country Joe McDonald's "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag"
http://www.countryjoe.com/rag.htm
Click here for the song lyrics

Background on the antiwar protests:
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/indexf.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/intro.htm
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Stories/Narratives/017story.html

Examples of different perspectives on the antiwar protests
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/modern.htm

Lesson 5:

Nixon's November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnamization
http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/clientuploads/directory/archive/1969_pdf_files/1969_0425.pdf
This link is to a Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Download the Reader for free here.

Nixon's 1973 "Peace with Honor" speech
http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/clientuploads/directory/archive/1973_pdf_files/1973_0012.pdf
This link is to a Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Download the Reader for free here.
Click here for audio clip of this speech

Background on the Paris Peace Accords:
http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/Notes_Paris_Peace.html
http://www.nationalvnwarmuseum.org/aftermath.htm

Related Web Sites:

The Vietnam War Internet Project
http://www.vwip.org/

The Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

The American Experience: Vietnam
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/index.html

Vietnam: Echoes from the Wall
http://www.teachvietnam.org/

Vietnam Veterans Home Page
http://www.vietvet.org/

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Last Updated August 12, 2011.