Freedom seekers
Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond
04: Market Revolution
A Data-driven Investigation of Euphemistic Language: Comparing the...
While teachers are working on their classroom reference to "enslaved people" to assert the humanity of the enslaved, there is a deep academic current underneath and across time, where the words used to describe people is evolved over time.
Contionuity and Change over Time – Introduction OER Project
Students use a one-page chart to capture contin continuity and change (positive/negative) using four pictures of farms with short text descriptions of each to compare farms from 1600s, 1700s, 1800,s and 2000s.
The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard - YouTube
5 minute video that provides a general description of slavery, providing students with contextual foundation for later lessons about slavery in detail. This provides and strong foundation for later lessons
The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard | TED-Ed
Visit the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters » Telfair Museums
What makes this museum different - give the students five minutes to let you know
The Papers of Andrew Jackson - The Papers of Andrew Jackson
From Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 11 June 1807
Jefferson's anti-newspaper screed has complaints that sound just as true today as they did more than 200 years ago
Erie Canal DBQ (8th grade)
This document based question is from the NY Regents test for 8th graders, though 4th grade students, with support could gain from analyzing the documents one at a time. The questions and answers supplied with these documents, charts, maps and paintings are within many 4th grader's ability
Erie Canal
Domestic Manners of the Americans - Wikipedia
[Book Review] Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
BA quick, valuable read, for teachers convinced that slavery comprises the entire foundation of the economic growth of the United States. This critical book review illustrates the impact of language in describing the role of slavery in the US economy when compared against the numbers themselves. This does not dismiss the conclusion that slavery is central to the growth of the United States, it does show how that truth is complex
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840 - 2008
Lots of maps showing election results
Two Party System in America Politics 1824 to 184
87 page workbook from the national archives
Cotton, Mortgages, and the Lehman Brothers | Inside Adams
This shows the connection between cotton brokers who ran southern blockades to sell cotton for army uniforms was the origin of the brokerage of the late 20th century
Impact of Native American Removal | Teacher Resource
Fantastic Lesson from National Museum of the American Indian
Cherokee Phoenix Index - Cherokee Newspapers
The Cherokee Phoenix was the official newspaper of the Cherokee nation. This site offers copies of newspapers published between 1928 and 1931
The Cherokee Removal Lesson Lincoln Net
In four groups, students read statements from Jackon's removal message, congressmen supporting, congressmen opposing and some Cherokees themselves. They then debate Cherokee Removal from these perspectives. The resources make this lesson adaptable in the classroom or in an online discussion. "Trail of Tears" lesson almost always ignore acknowledging the fact that the federal government agreed to relocate Native Americans out of Georgia as part of the agreement by which Georgia gave up western land claims to the federal government
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph by Tom Standage
Children | Family | Jackson Family | The Hermitage
This page from web site for Jackson's home, describes his family, which included a Creek boy he adopted after the battle of Talledega in 1813
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828 (and Beyond) | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students analyze changes in voter participation and regional power, and review archival campaign documents reflecting the dawn of politics as we know it during the critical years from 1824 to 1832.
The Campaign of 1840: The Candidates | EDSITEment
The contest between Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison marked the first truly modern presidential campaign, with methods today's students are sure to recognize.
Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers | EDSITEment
What research tools can help students judge the nature of change during the First Industrial Revolution? Can answers be found in census data? This lesson provides students with the opportunity to form, revise, and research questions for an investigation of the First Industrial Revolution, using resources available on EDSITEment-reviewed websites and links.
Indian Removal | HTI
This lesson looks at the process whereby a policy of assimilation gave way to one of overt removal under President Jackson.
Lowell and the Factory System | HTI
is lesson plan examines the efforts of early American manufacturers to implement the factory system on a large-scale in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. It can be used when teaching about the economic revolution of the post-War of 1812-period or the development of industry in the Antebellum North.
The Price of European Commodities in 1803
This lesson requires students to use period pricing lists to purchase Europeans goods, accounting for tariff duties and taxes. Can be embellished with more economic variables and their social implications
Indian Removal Act Journalists
Students act as journalists reporting on the Indian Removal Act. They visit designated web sites and write factual articles about the developments. From Digital History
Pre-Civil War American Culture: Digital History
Before the Civil War, American literature began to employ native scenes and characters; the Transcendentalists popularized a philosophy that emphasized each person’s potentialities and glorified nature as a creative force; and a popular commercial culture emerged, including the penny press, the minstrel show, and the western adventure novel.
Pre-Civil War Reform: Digital History
This chapter examines the social, intellectual, and religious roots of early 19th century reform movements, and the efforts of reformers in the areas of education, criminal justice, the treatment of the mentally ill; and the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.
The Roots of American Economic Growth: Digital History
After the War of 1812, the economy grew at rapid pace, as the nation overcame obstacles that stood in the way of sustained economic growth. Improved transportation and communication, technological innovation, the rise of the factory system, and mass immigration transformed the United States into an industrial leader.