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Digital History: War in Europe [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the course of the war in Europe, and America's involvement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It examines the military strategies...
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Digital History: Watts: The Ghetto Erupts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit called 'African-Americans in the Land of Equality.' It looks at the causes, events, and aftermath of the Watts Riots in 1965.
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Digital History: Was the 'Whole Thing a Lie' or a 'Noble Crusade' [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read the opposing viewpoints of General Westmoreland, U. S. commander in Vietnam during the troop escalation, and Sgt. Donald Duncan, a Vietnam veteran, who became one of the first critics of the U.S. Vietnam policy. Was the Vietnam War...
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Digital History: Writing a Constitution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit called 'Writing the US Constitution.' It looks at the documents that preceded the Constitution, and the major issues that were debated while the Constitution was being created.
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Digital History: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
President Woodrow Wilson had great hopes that a League of Nations would mean that there would be no more world wars. Read about the charter for the League of Nations, especially Article X, which provided the teeth for the organization....
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Digital History: World War Ii and Japanese American Relocation [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th
This lesson plan is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at Japanese aggression in China and Indochina prior to and during World War II, the quandary in the United States of whether or...
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Digital History: Years of Decision [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and the thinking of their leaders. Students are asked to consider five...
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Digital History: An Intro to the Study of History: The Four Questions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How does one study history? Find four basic questions that historians use to examine events in an effort to explain them and put them in historical context. By examining the Battle of Lexington and Concord, students can practice using...
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Digital History: Social Class in Colonial America [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
By examining primary sources such as diaries and tax records, and a chapter from a secondary source, learn about the social classes apparent in colonlial America. Suggested student exercises guide crtitical thinking assessment of the...
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Digital History: Government in England and the Colonies [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
By studying the structure and function of the government in both England and the colonies, students are asked to determine if the colonies were more democratic than England. By using primary sources and information provided in charts,...
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Digital History: British Mercantilism and the Cost of Empire [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the theory of mercantilism and how it affected the economies of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Practice making a bar graph showing the value of exports to and imports from England between 1700 and 1774 with...
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Digital History: The French and Indian War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about George Washington's role in the beginning of the French and Indian War, which started in the wilderness of the English colonies and spread to Europe. Was this war a major cause of the American Revolution? Students are asked to...
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Digital History: The Boston Massacre [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent recounting of the days that led up the Boston Massacre and the massacre itself fills in a lot of information that is lacking in textbooks because of space contraints. Read about the British soldiers' and the colonists'...
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Digital History:the Tea Party and Intolerable Acts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the problems Great Britain was having with its restive American colonists who objected to taxation on their beloved tea. See how the Tea Act resulted in the Boston Tea Party and how British attemps to punish the colonists for...
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Digital History: The Battle of Lexington [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary sources make for good reading. Here find accounts by the colonial militia commander, the British commander, and accounts by soldiers themselves that tell of their impressions of what happened at the Battle of Lexington. [PDF]
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Digital History: By What Right [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two opposing philosophies concerning the relationship between government and its citizens were expressed by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in the 17th century. Compare these two philosophies and see how they were related to the colonists'...
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Digital History: Declaring Independence [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the steps that Americans took before declaring their independence from Britain. The Declaration of Independence set out the ideals and reasons behind this stunning move. Use the student exercises to understand the different levels...
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Digital History: Historians on the Causes of the American Revolution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how the understanding of the causes of American Revolution has been portrayed over years by reading excerpts from writings of 19th and 20th century historians. The suggested student exercises are excellent and ask students to use...
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Digital History: The Men of Philadelphia [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find short biographies of twenty-three of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention and their ideas about government. These men were certainly not representative of the common man in the new United States, but they were...
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Digital History: The Age of Constitution Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
See how colonial and state constitutions differed and how the idea of a social contract between a government and its citizens is reflected in the state constitutions. The second half of this site gives an abbreviated text of the Articles...
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Digital History: The Age of Social Change [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the text of James Madison's tenth Federalist paper in which he expresses the idea of how government can provide the need for stability that citizens require. [pdf]
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Digital History: The Road to Philadelphia [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The new United States government had many problems under the Articles of Confederation. Find out what these problems were, but also discover some of the successes accomplished under that constitution. [pdf]
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Digital History: Representation: By State or by Population? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the opinions of some of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in regard to the very thorny issue of how states would be represented in the national legislature. [pdf]
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Digital History: Local Control vs. National Authority [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the debates at the Constitutional Convention centered on whether states or a national government would have greater authority. Read a reconstruction of speeches given by delegates to the convention concerning this important issue....