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3 years agoStudents will analyze the causes of the American Revolution and examine them from various points of view. Perspectives include t...
3 years agoIn this activity, students will identify and analyze documents related to key presidential decisions. Through close examination ...
3 years agoIn this activity, students will analyze documents from the War Department’s Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands — ...
3 years agoThe years leading up to, during, and following the Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) are most often remembered for the te...
3 years agoThis activity can be used as an introduction or for a closer study of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students will learn that the...
3 years agoDrafted by James Madison, and presented by Edmund Randolph to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, the Virginia Plan p...
3 years agoOfficially titled An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, the Northw...
3 years agoDrafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on Se...
3 years agoAlthough not required by the Constitution, George Washington presented the first Presidential inaugural address on April 30, 178...
3 years agoOne of the first acts of the new Congress was to establish a Federal court system through the Judiciary Act signed by President ...
3 years agoAlthough 12 amendments were originally proposed, the 10 that were ratified became the Bill of Rights in 1791. They defined citiz...
3 years agoDesigned to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney's cotton gin, for which he received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced ...
3 years agoPassed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Ame...
3 years agoIn this secret message of January 18, 1803, President Jefferson asked Congress for $2,500 to explore the West—-all the way to th...
3 years agoIn this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the ...
3 years agoThe decision in this Supreme Court Case established the right of the courts to determine the constitutionality of the actions of...
3 years agoThis treaty, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812, fought between Great Britain and the United States. "For the...
3 years agoThis Supreme Court Case addressed the issue of Federal power and commerce. "In the landmark Supreme Court case McCulloch v. M...
3 years agoThis legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the bala...
3 years agoThe Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The Euro...
3 years agoThis Supreme Court decision forbade states from enacting any legislation that would interfere with Congress's right to regulate ...
3 years agoOn December 6, 1830, in a message to Congress, President Andrew Jackson called for the relocation of eastern Native American tri...
3 years agoThis treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 perce...
3 years agoThe Compromise was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery. The bills provided for slavery...
3 years agoOn June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, introduced this resolution in the Second Continental Congress proposing independ...
3 years agoThe Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2,...
3 years agoAfter considerable debate and alteration, the Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15,...
3 years agoThe American Colonies and France signed this military treaty on February 6, 1778. Believing that they would benefit militaril...
3 years agoJust a few hours after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the first commit...
3 years agoThis treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and for...
3 years agoDrafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on Se...