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January 10, 1941

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 4: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act
This lesson shows students how broadly the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941 empowered the federal government—particularly the President—and asks students to investigate how FDR promoted the program in speeches and then in photographs.

Student Resource / History & Social Studies
American War for Independence: Interactive Map
Interactive map of the campaigns of the American Revolution in the northern colonies. Accompanies curriculum unit: The American War for Independence
Student Resource / History & Social Studies
Launchpad: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act
This launchpad focuses on the expansion of executive power involved in the Lend-Lease program.

January 10 1912

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
About a century has passed since the events at the center of this lesson-the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead Strike, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In this lesson, students use primary historical sources to explore some of the questions raised by these events, questions that continue to be relevant in debates about American society: Where do we draw the line between acceptable business practices and unacceptable working conditions? Can an industrial-and indeed a post-industrial-economy succeed without taking advantage of those who do the work?

January 10, 1776

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
This lesson looks at Thomas Paine and at some of the ideas presented in his pamphlet Common Sense, such as national unity, natural rights, the illegitimacy of the monarchy and of hereditary aristocracy, and the necessity for independence and the revolutionary struggle.

Jan 10 1920

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 1: The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations: League of Nations Basics
American foreign policy resonates with the same issues as the debate over U.S. entry into the League of Nations-collective security versus national sovereignty, idealism versus pragmatism, the responsibilities of powerful nations, the use of force to accomplish idealistic goals, the idea of America. Understanding the debate over the League and the consequences of its ultimate failure provides insight into international affairs in the years since the end of the Great War and beyond. In this lesson, students read the words and listen to the voices of some central participants in the debate over the League of Nations.