| American/U.S. History |
| Section 3: The Constitution - The Foundation of American Society |
| 17th- AND 18th-CENTURY ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT - THE PEOPLES AND PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES (VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY) - THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - STATE CONSTITUTIONS BASED ON REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES - ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION - NORTHWEST ORDINANCE |
| HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Causes and Effects - "European Discovery of the Americas" - Long- and short-term causes and effects chart |
| HANDOUT: DBQ/Examining Primary Sources - "Letter to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery," Christopher Columbus (1493) - Document-based essay questions |
| HANDOUT: DBQ/Examining Primary Sources - "Mayflower Compact" (1620) - Document-based essay questions |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "Age of Exploration" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "The Earliest English Colonies" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "Settlement in the Americas" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "English Colonies Come of Age" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "Road to Revolution" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "The American Revolution" |
| HANDOUT: Decipher the Code - "The War for Independence" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The First Europeans" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Early Settlements" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Jamestown" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Massachusetts" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "New Netherland and Maryland" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Colonial-Indian Relations" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Second Generation of British Colonies" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Settlers, Slaves, and Servants" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "New Peoples" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "New England" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Middle Colonies" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Southern Colonies" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Society, Schools, and Culture" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Emergence of Colonial Government" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The French and Indian War" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "An Exceptional Nation?" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Witches of Salem" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "A New Colonial System" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Stamp Act" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Taxation without Representation" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Townshend Acts" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Samuel Adams" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Boston Tea Party" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Coercive Acts" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Revolution Begins" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Common Sense and Independence" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Defeats and Victories" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Franco-American Alliance" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The British Move South" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Victory and Independence" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Significance of the American Revolution" |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart - "The Age of Exploration" - Chart with 18 prominent European explorers |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart "European Nations and Their Explorers" |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart - "Pivotal Events in the Colonization of the Americas" |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart - "Strengths and Weaknesses: Americans against the British" |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "Americas before Columbus" |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "Native American Cultures at the Time of Columbus" |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "Columbian Exchange" |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "West Africa during the Age of Exploration" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "The Road to Revolution" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "The Spanish in North America" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "English Settlements in North America" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "English Colonies Come of Age" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "Spiritual Awakening and Reform" |
| Click here for a large library of American history-themed printable readings with questions. |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| VIDEO LINK: "ArchaeoVideo Field Communique: The Popham Colony" (Maine) - 11 minutes total - Archaeology Channel |
| VIDEO LINK: "Finding Our Foundations: The Preservation of the Elk Run Anglican Church Site" (Virginia) - 11 minutes - Archaeology Channel |
| VIDEO LINK: "John and Abigail Adams: Love and Liberty" - 43:11 in length - Courtesy of Biography Channel and Hulu |
| VIDEO LINK: "Queen Anne's Revenge Overview" (North Carolina) - 8 minutes - Archaeology Channel |
| VIDEO LINK: "Red Salt and Reynolds" (West Virginia) - 29 minutes - Archaeology Channel |
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WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493) |
| DOCUMENT: Mayflower Compact (1620) |
| DOCUMENT: Patrick Henry’s "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775) |
| DOCUMENT: Declaration of Independence (1776) |
| DOCUMENT: First Virginia Charter (1606) |
| DOCUMENT: Second Virginia Charter (1609) |
| DOCUMENT: Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701) |
| DOCUMENT: Benjamin Franklin’s "Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery" (1790) |
| DOCUMENT: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1777) |
| REPRESENTATION AND PROCESS - CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE: SEEKING EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS - THE DOCUMENT: STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT - RATIFICATION - THE BILL OF RIGHTS |
| CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "State Constitutions" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Articles of Confederation" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Problem of Expansion" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Constitutional Convention" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Debate and Compromise" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Ratification and the Bill of Rights" |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: Constitution of the United States (1787) |
| DOCUMENT: The Bill of Rights and Later Amendments |
| EXECUTIVE - LEGISLATIVE - JUDICIAL |
| BASIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: THREE BRANCHES AND THEIR OPERATION |
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HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "American Presidents" |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| NATIONAL POWER - FEDERALISM - JUDICIARY - CIVIL LIBERTIES - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES - EQUALITY - RIGHTS OF WOMEN - RIGHTS OF ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS - PRESIDENTIAL POWER - SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CAPACITY TO GOVERN - AVENUES OF REPRESENTATION - PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC POLICY - CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND FLEXIBILITY |
| BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES |
| HANDOUTS |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| CREATING DOMESTIC STABILITY - DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT - ESTABLISHING A STABLE POLITICAL SYSTEM - NEUTRALITY AND NATIONAL SECURITY |
| IMPLEMENTING THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES |
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HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Causes and Effects - "The War of 1812" - Short- and long-term causes and effects chart |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "President Washington" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Hamilton vs. Jefferson" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Adams and Jefferson" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Louisiana and Britain" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The War of 1812" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Second Great Awakening" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "The Jeffersonian Era" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "Spiritual Awakening and Reform" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "A New Nation" |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| PICTURE: Portrait of President George Washington by Gilbert Stuart |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
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WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: Farewell Address of President George Washington (1796) |
| DOCUMENT: Francis Scott Key’s "The Star Spangled Banner" (1814) |
| DOCUMENT: Monroe Doctrine (1823) |
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