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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Latin American Revolutionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore leaders of Latin American revolutions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Hudson River School

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Hudson River School.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection uses primary sources to explore the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the American Abolitionist Movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The War of 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources that explore the War of 1812.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the life and political impact of Henry Clay.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Steam Engine: Transportation 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the steam engine and transportation in the nineteenth century.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Jacksonian Democracy?

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Jacksonian democracy.
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Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: The Louisiana Purchase

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the motivations for the Louisiana Purchase, as well as the terms of the purchase and its consequences. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument in response to the question "Do you agree that the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the idea of Manifest Destiny and its influence.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore women in the antebellum reform movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Texas Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Texas Revolution.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Beloved by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Mormon Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Mormon migration.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: 19th Century Schools for the Deaf, Blind

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Whaling Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the American whaling industry.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Panic of 1837

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Panic of 1837.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 2,000-mile trek across a continent-with no idea what awaits you on the other side. Tell your students to put on their traveling shoes and prepare for the journey of their lives! In this lesson, students compare imagined travel...