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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States, United States History, Geography, History-Social Science1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii recounts the struggle for control of Hawaii between nativeHawaiians and American ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn the Front Lines With the Little Rock 9
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the PBS Kids WayBack feature, provides information about The Little Rock Nine. The page features informati...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0![Thumb image for "To Negro Writers" [1935] - - by Langston Hughes](/cognoti/content/file/resources/weblink/20/208b257c/208b257c40996e25c92763e4bed3cf4bbb337bb6/c77badd3ed246191_thumbnail_medium.jpg)
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"To Negro Writers" [1935] - - by Langston Hughes
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the University of Illinois Modern Poetry Web site, provides an online text of Langston Hughes 1935 essay t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, World History, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..In this lesson from EDSITEment, students research working conditions in the Age of Industrialization and examine worker response...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAfrican Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from EDSITEment, explores the state of race relations in the U.S. before, during, and after World War I. Students c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, World History, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..In this EDSITEment lesson, students research several industrialists and financiers to attempt to establish a distinction between...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment lesson, students analyze period political cartoons as they study the causes of the economic downturn that beg...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPolitical Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, Visual Arts, Branches of Government and 2 additional..Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912 offers teaching activities, four political cartoons, and ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink400 U.S. Marshals Sent to Alabama as Montgomery Bus Riots Hurt 20; President Bids State Keep Order
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Ride...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Won't Intervene
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, World History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, details the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. About 1,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWoman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment - Teaching Activities
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, demonstrates the understanding of changing gender rol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Deal Network - Political Cartoons and the TVA
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Arts, Media, & Entertainment, United States History, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..In this lesson plan, from the New Deal Network, students learn to deconstruct a political cartoon in order to understand its mes...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - What Is an American?
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students read and analyse Jean de Crèvecoeur s definition of an American, written in 1782. They go on to look at...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWitch Hunt or Red Menace? Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the Communist witch hunts led in the 1950s by Senator Josep...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, World History, World War II, History-Social ScienceA Date Which Will Live in Infamy shows the typewritten draft of the December 8, 1941, speech in which Franklin Roosevelt asked C...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTelegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis lesson relates to the interaction between the executive and legislative branches dealing with the security of our nation an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHitler's Sea Wall Is Breached, Invaders Fighting Way Inland; New Allied Landings Are Made
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on June 6, 1944, and reported on the D-Day invasion ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnsel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States, California, World War II, Immigration and Migration, Principles of DemocracyIn 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in Calif...Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnnie Moore -- The First Immigrant to Enter Ellis Island
Grades: K to 12Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis ReadWriteThink resource features information about Annie Moore, a 15-year-old Irish girl who became the first immigrant to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0