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… Glass These examples of glass occur before the Industrial Revolution and the widespread use of rolled plate glass. St. … part of civic, cultural, and commercial architecture. American Management Corporation (1879; c. 1925), Sanders and …
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… students challenged the existing segregation laws in the American South with an assertive yet non-violent strategy. … United States Music Civil Rights (1945-1970) Civil Rights Revolution and Resistance …
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… Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day yes Photo caption The American flag flies prominently during the World Patriot … state flags of the U.S. and several flags used during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. (Note: Many of the books …
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… the nineteenth-century poet and activist Emma Lazarus, most Americans will probably recognize these lines from her …
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… University of North Carolina and Series Editor, “North American Slave Narratives,” for Documenting the American … A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Revolutionary Era (1765-1790) Early Republic (1790-1820) …
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… the emancipation, or freeing, of the enslaved African Americans living in the states of the Confederacy which were … Professor Allen Guelzo, "the single most far-reaching, even revolutionary, act of any American president." Lincoln rated …
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… and Purpose | Assessing the Man | Thinking with the Story | American Acquisitiveness and Enterprise | Science, … business opportunity: Jack London’s man is clearly an American. So are the story’s larger themes. But before …
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… activities below help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an export of American culture and a means of resistance to the Nazis. …
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… look at maps that record the early exploration of the American West, noting how mapmakers kept alive hopes of … different eras, then tracing the process of mapping the American West. View the above PBS News clip on how …
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… of the world. They then reflect on masking behavior in American society, such as at Halloween and in the circus. … is allowed to communicate with the people, as in many American Indian and African societies. Of course, masks can …
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… African-Americans & CCC yes Photo caption Civilian Conservation … Corps. Library of Congress Activity One: FDR and African-Americans in the CCC Read Introduction to African Americans …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … of Albigence Waldo, Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777 on From Revolution to Reconstruction , a link from the …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … and Washington's Response , on the PBS website Liberty! The American Revolution . Read with students Washington's Letter to Lewis …
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… would or could do for themselves." —Andrew Carnegie, North American Review (1889) Though a century has passed since the … Mills, and Factories Lesson Plan Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War Lesson …
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… Mills, and Factories Lesson Plan Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New Consumers … pond." Library of Congress Gilded Age (1877-1900) African American Content How did millionaires …
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… to Wheat Field Lesson Plan A Raisin in the Sun: Whose "American Dream"? Lesson Plan Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth … for Black people and communities. Lesson Plans After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North (Grades 6-8) …
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… Basics yes Photo caption Woodrow Wilson. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … of the League of Nations can read this brief essay on From Revolution to Reconstruction , a link from the …
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… Lesson 2: The House Un-American Activities Committee yes Photo caption Alger Hiss, … created a general sense of uneasiness. In 1946 the House Un-American Activities Committee, which had been created as a …
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… "I cannot insist too strongly how I was surprised by the American Army. It is truly incredible that troops almost … American President . For background on the nature of the Revolutionary War, read the essay The Wars of the American …
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… British army stationed in America after 1763 by requiring Americans to buy stamps for newspapers, legal documents, … Parliament and protested by many Americans. The American Revolution brewed in a context of Americans' concern over …
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… global violence." —from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets “ The Modernist Revolution: Make It New ” Understanding the context of …
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… a transitional period in English history. The industrial revolution had "taken off" in the late eighteenth century, … Thomas Paine, who had returned to England after the American Revolution, published The Rights of Man (1791). …
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… acts. This concept, embraced by the leaders of the American Revolution, is embedded in the supremacy clause of …
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… States and this little understood group of antebellum Americans is brought into focus by a study of Thomas Day's … Virginia black families who had been free since before the American Revolution. Most free blacks before the Revolution were the …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … students require background on the events leading to the American Revolution and Washington's commission as Commander-in-Chief …
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This Teacher's Guide includes place-based history resources and activity ideas to help students recognize the value of studying historic and cultural sites across the United States…
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This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with…
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… global violence." —from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets “ The Modernist Revolution: Make It New ” Modernist poetry often is …
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… poem two despairing views of a particular time and place in American history—the tail end of the main industrial … For some information about the beginning of the industrial revolution in the United States, see the EDSITEment lesson …