Unit: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Unit 1: The United States: Past and Present

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Reading a Historical
  Photograph
• Activity: Learning from Maps
• Internet Resources

Unit 2: Exploring and Settling America

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Mayflower Compact
• Activity: Lacrosse — An Iroquois Game, Then and Now
• Internet Resources

Unit 3: Life in the English Colonies

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Evaluating John Smith's Description of Indians in Virginia
• Activity: Roger Williams — Puritan Dissenter
• Internet Resources

Unit 4: The Struggle for Independence

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Exploring the Bill of Rights
• Activity: Benjamin Franklin — A Man of Many Talents
• Internet Resources

Unit 5: Life in a Growing Nation

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson
• Activity: Life in New England in the Early 19th Century
• Internet Resources

Unit 6: A Nation in Conflict

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Mill Girls of New England
• Activity: Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Statement Against Slavery
• Internet Resources

Unit 7: Toward the Modern Age

• Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Examining the Emancipation Proclamation
• Activity: A Civil War Conference
• Internet Resources

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