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May 28, 1788
Launchpad: Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”: Bringing a Great City Alive
Created January 31, 2011
Who Was Cinque?
Created October 7, 2010
Meet the leader of the Amistad revolt through contemporary news reports, court records, and illustrations.
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
Created October 6, 2010
Weigh the choices Washington faced in the nation’s first Constitutional crisis by following events through his private diary.
Lesson 1: NAACP’s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s
Created December 22, 2009
This lesson focuses on the constitutional arguments for and against the enactment of federal anti-lynching legislation in the early 1920s. Students will participate in a simulation game that enacts a fictitious Senate debate of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. As a result of completing this activity, students will gain a better understanding of the federal system, the legislative process, and the difficulties social justice advocates encountered.
Lesson 3: The Monroe Doctrine: A Close Reading
To what events in United States and European foreign affairs does the Monroe Doctrine refer? What was the primary purpose behind the Monroe Doctrine?
Lesson 1: An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis
Created July 18, 2010
Americans affirmed their independence with the ringing declaration that “all men are created equal.” But some of them owned African slaves, and were unwilling to give them up as they formed new federal and state governments. So “to form a more perfect union” in 1787, certain compromises were made in the Constitution regarding slavery. This settled the slavery controversy for the first few decades of the American republic, but this situation changed with the application of Missouri for statehood in 1819.
Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Using primary documents, this lesson explores how religion aided and hindered the American war effort; specifically, it explores how Anglican loyalists and Quaker pacifists responded to the outbreak of hostilities and how the American revolutionaries enlisted religion in support of the fight for independence.
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