Social Studies

Presidents - Westward Expansion - Minorities - Inventions - Wars

American Primary Sources
  1. A More Perfect union - Smithsonian Institute
2. Teaching with Primary Sources - Smithsonian
3. History Matters - Making sense of documents
4. U.S. Constitution Preamble and Articles
5. National Archives - Featured Documents
6. Famous speeches archive
7.Library of Congress - American Memory
Photographs and Documents
8. U.S. Historical Census Data
A primary source containing state, county, and immigration information from the1790 to 1960 census.
9. U.S. Census Bureau
A primary source for current data.
10. Battle Maps - US Military Academy
11. US Mint - Time Machine
12. Can you pass the citizenship test?
13. iCivics -
14. American Rhetoric - Famous Speeches
PRESIDENTS
  1. All US Presidents - Wordle
2. Abraham Lincoln
Picture Gallery and Quiz
3. Mount Vernon - George Washington's home
4. Presidents Home States
5. President's Roles - Smithsonian Institute
Constitution & Elections
 

1. Preamble- School House Rocks- video
2. Constitution - Scholastic
3. Celebrate the Constitiution - Scholastic
4. The Democracy Project - PBS Kids
5. Preamble to the Constitution and a timeline Constitution Center
6. Constitution Basics

8. Ben's Guide to the US Government for Kids
9. How a Bill Becomes a Law - Truman library
10. Our Courts 21st Century Civics
11. Constitution * Legistative Branch * Executive Branch* Judicial Branch -Congress for Kids
12. Congress for Kids Final Quiz
13. Constitution Game - Scholastic
ELECTIONS
1. Ben's Guide to Elections
2. Elections 101 - PBS
3 . Elections - Scholastic
4. Elections

Westward Expansion
  TImeline of American history - Scholastic

1. Westwood Expansion at pppst.com
2. Growth of a Nation - Animated Atlas
3. US Territorial Maps 1775-1920 - xroads.virginia
4. US History Map - Interactives
5. Enlargement Map of the Lousiana Purchase - earlyamerica.com
  Lewis and Clark
1. The All-Star River Explorers - audio
2. The Ultimate Adventure - Lewis and Clark -Retrace the Trail - Time Magazine
3. Go West with Lewis and Clark -Interactive, be a member of his party - National Geographic
4. PBS - Lewis and Clark -Into the unknown
5. Lewis and Clark Expedition- Scholastic
6. Discovering Lewis and Clark - Journal Excerpts
7. America...Pass it Along - video
8. Great Falls Tribune - Lewis ans Clark Heritage Foundation teacher page
9. MrNussbaum.com Quiz


LOUISIANA PURCHASE

"It was the largest and swiftest act of American expansion".
2.The Cabildo - Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon
3. Jefferson's West
4. Louisiana Purchase Exhibit - paintings too
5. Louisiana Purchase - A Heritage Explored
6. Louisiana Purchase Treaty Transcript
7. Map of the Louisiana Purchase
8. Louisiana Purchase Quiz

TRAVELING WEST
1. Westward Expansion - Scholastic
2. Donner Party PBS.org
3. Tales of the Oregon Trail- by Tom Laidlaw
maps, diagrams of wagons, contents, Black pioneers
4. Oregon Trail - Scholastic link
all about trail, historic sites, facts
5. New Perspectives on the West
tour, events, places, people, archives, games
6. Pioneers Thinkquest

INVENTIONS & Technology
  Impact of the Transcontentinal Railroad on expansion
1. Population across the US - Census
2. Chinese contribution to the railroad
3. Inland Waterways - National Geographic

More Inventions:
4. Edison Invents
5. Your Place in Time - Henry Ford Museum
Immigration
  1.* Immigration Stories - Scholastic
2. Ellis Island - history of immigration, official museum site, images
3. Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island - Movie by Thomas Edison 1902
4. Immigration - 3 Stories from Scholastic
5. A test of Citizenship
6. Immigration - the greatest human migration period in the United States history
7. Spanish American War in Motion Pictures 68 motion pictures from 1898 to 1901
Women and Minorities
  Native Americans
1. Questions and Answers about Cherokee Indians
2. Sample journal from a Cherokee Indian
3. Daily Life of an Indian

Women
1. Women's History click on: site 1 > site 2: on line tour > biography > time line
2. Women in Politics
Brief bios on famous women in politics, including:
        Janet Reno (first US woman Attorney General);
        Patricia Harris (first African American Presidential Cabinet member); and
        Frances Perkins (first US woman cabinet member).
Social Conflict
  1836- How did the conflicts at the Alamo expand the United States territory?
1. Famous People of the Alamo - PBS
2. Individual Photos and Biography - State of Texas Library
3. The Alamo for Kids- offical website
4. Battle of the Alamo Reenactment
4. William Barret Travis' Letter from the Alamo
5 . Mission San Antonio de Valero (Alamo) - thinkquest
   
   
1812 to 1860
 

War of 1812
1. War of 1812 - Battles, Maps,Timeline and Meet the people
2. War of 1812 - Social Studies for Kids
3. Another American Victory - Social Studies for Kids
4. War of 1812 -Major Battles - History Central
5 . War of 1812 & battles - Thinkquest
6. Battle of Crysler's Farm - animated
7 . National Archives Military Resources

1820 to 1860
1. Historic Events in the Old Senate Chamber
2. Americ's Civil War - Overview with "What would you do?"
3. Missouri Compromise 1820 PBS
4. Missouri Compromise Map
5. Missouri Compromise - Historycentral
6. Missouri Compromise - Ohio History Central
7. Compromise of 1820 - Georgia's Blue and Grey trailTerritorial Kansas History
8. Kansas - Nebraska Act 1854PBS

LEADING UP TO THE DRED SCOTT CASE
1. The Compromise of 1850 & The Fugitive Slave Act PBS
2. Britannica's Guide to Black History
3. Slavery Code
4. Slaves and the Courts
5. The Dred Scott Case - Washington University
6. Dred Scott Case - paintingPBS
7. Dred Scott Case PBS
8. Slave narratives - PBS
9. Slavery and Freedom - American Passages Video
10. The Fight to End Slavery - Thinkquest
11. Africans in America Parts 1 and 2: from the 16th century to the end of the Civil War.
12. Harpers Ferry - National Historic Park
13.Harpers Ferry Raid - West Va Statesmen - Henry Clay & John Calhoun -Smithsonian

LINCOLN
1. Lincoln's life and Slave narratives by Mrs. Lynch
Gettysburg Address- Nation Museum of American History
2. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - audio
3. Lincoln - Douglas Debates
4. Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech PBS

SLAVERY
1. North vs. South Union / Confederate States - Scholastic
2. The Underground Railroad - Scholastic
3. The Underground Railroad: The Journey- National Geographic
4. Hermitage Plantation, Georgia
5. First Person Narratives of the South 1860 to 1920 by US Archives
6. Who am I? Americans at War - Smithsonian Istitute

 
American Civil War - 1861 to 1865
  1. North VS. South - Scholastic
2. Civil War Primary Sources
Maps, letters, diaries, images and newspapers
3. Civil War for Kids - Simple overview
4. American Civil War Home Page
5. The Great American Civil War
6.  The United States Civil War Center
7. Civil War 1861-1865 - Scholastic
8. WebQuest: Civil War Gazette
9. Gettysburg Military Camp
10. The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of JusticeThe African-American Experience in Ohio
Great Depression - Oct. 1929
 

1. The Orphan Train
2. America's National parks

World War II - 1941-1945
  World War II
    Click on: Category 1- Around The World History
        site 1- Aviation
        site 3- Europe text,timeline and photos
        site 4- Posters...Nat'l Archives Exhibit
The War - PBS
3. Hidden in Plain Site - California
Holocaust
  1. Timeline of the Holocaust
Decades - 1900 to 2000
 

BASIC FACTS
1. THE Decade of the 20th Century Webquest
2. The American 20th Century Timeline
3. Historical Atlas
4. World History by Fact Monster
5. Decades.com
6. The Presidents
7. Great Moments of the 20th Century
8. American Rhetoric - The Top 100 Speeches by decade
9. US Presidents - Birth Place
10. Vietman War Casualities
Economics
  Can You Make "Cents" of Economics
How well our country is doing is linked to our economy, so it is important that the economy is doing well. You will learn just how economics affects your life daily.
Political Cartoons
  1* Walt Handelsman of the Newsday
2* Townhall Cartoons - Cartoon of the day
3* Cagle Political Cartoons by all the top cartoonists