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… ever written. The book is influential both for its study of American society in the Jacksonian period and for its … Perfect Union History & Social Studies Civics U.S. History Revolutionary Era (1765-1790) Early Republic (1790-1820) …
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… for citizens described here? What problems did African Americans face? How did fighting World War II relate to the … for citizens described here? What problems did African Americans face? How did fighting World War II relate to the …
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… drawing of the pre-Civil War South. Wikimedia Commons More Americans lost their lives in the Civil War than in any …
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… by Elizabeth Alexander no Photo caption Elizabeth Alexander American Academy of Poets. Photo credit: Rachel Eliza … “sing’ is his way of expressing the different types of work Americans do.) Have your students get into groups of no more …
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… of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the African Americans who had been freed from slavery proved highly …
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… army to General George Washington, effectively ending the Revolutionary War. Days later, the Continental Congress … all available on the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory , and encourage students to arrive at their …
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… – a period intertwined with the Great Migration, when Black Americans fled Jim Crow oppression in the South for better …
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… in March, 1965 Closer Reading What Does It Mean to Be American? Featured Image Photo caption Abernathy Children on … to the disabling conditions of Jim Crow laws for Black Americans in the South. Selma is best-known as the starting …
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… considered to be one of the greatest contributions to American literature and one of Faulkner's most heartfelt … and yet obscure—that both ranks it as great among American literary classics and renders it so very complex …
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… 4: Life Before the Civil War yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … only eight hours. The continuing proliferation of trains is revolutionizing commerce and travel. Richmond is regarded as …
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… the relatively egalitarian society of America. He warns Americans of the most dangerous tendency of democracy: the …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed …
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… a four-year conflict that would leave nearly a million Americans dead or wounded, four million slaves free, and a …
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… can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times. …
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… A City upon a Hill What values that we now consider 'American' were contributed by the Puritans? In the 1920s, …
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… Horseman has become a Halloween classic, although few Americans celebrated that holiday when the story was new. In …
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… Metaphors Through Poetry yes Photo caption Celebrated American poet Maya Angelou makes extensive use of metaphors … are available on the EDSITEment-reviewed website Academy of American Poets . Langston Hughes, Dreams Margaret Atwood, …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed …
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… 68 women and 32 men had signed a document calling for American women to be extended the same civil and political … the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments resides in its revolutionary attack on the institutions that restricted …
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… Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip yes Photo caption American poet ee cummings made vivid use of similes in his … available on the EDSITEment-reviewed web site Academy of American Poets . William Wordsworth, The Daffodils Toi …
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… following: Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights . Click "Listen to this … President Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, Jun 11, 1963 Debating …
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… is available through the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . Your students may want to know a little bit … Lift Every Voice website via the EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia . Dickinson …
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… Plantation in the North and South yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … 1862, shows perhaps the largest group of enslaved African Americans ever to be photographed at one time. O'Sullivan …
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… House of Burgesses, May 1765. Throughout 1787-88, as Americans continued to debate the proposed Constitution, one …
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… estranged from his times by an overriding attachment to the American past? Lesson Extensions To complete this study of … these narrators? Selected EDSITEment Websites Academy of American Poets Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Africans in …
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… relations with Germany. February 3, 1917. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed Views American foreign policy continues to resonate with the …
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… use in class. Links to graphics on the EDSITEment resource American Memory , which are used throughout this lesson, … embraced the contradictory goals of fair treatment of American Indians and the acquisition by the U.S. of land …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … property requirement, though New York kept it for African Americans. Massachusetts, like many states, retained a tax …
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… is a comprehensive NEH-funded resource on the African American experience during the early 19th century. The … crafter" in the early 19th century? How did African Americans aid in the achievement of freedom for other …
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… Slave and the Slave Narrative Tradition Lesson Plan African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War … cultural sites associated with Los Angeles’s early African American history. This …