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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the "Trail of Tears"
Collaborative and consensus building activity on U.S. policy and treatment of Native Americans. Lesson provides an in-depth look at government Indian removal and provides a list from which students choose and defend a Native American...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Colonial America
Learning activity on religion and society in which students explore the ideas and events of the Great Awakening and determine the impact they may have had on the American Revolution. Site provides links to wide variety of resources for...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Nation Building: The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Western Europe
Learning activity on nation-building in which students explore U.S. role in providing financial support following WWII, then in a collaborative effort, consider U.S. foreign aid priorities in a 21st Century war on terror.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy: How Women Won the Right to Vote
Thoughtful and in-depth activity-based lesson on the history of women's suffrage. Students analyze the history and evaluate the strategy used to gain the right to vote, then in small groups, write a petition to President Wilson in which...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy
Activity for high school students in which they apply Constitutional reasoning to explore the topic of equality for women and debate the necessity of an Equal Rights Amendment. Site provides comprehensive background and resource material...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy
Learning activity in which students study the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Lesson includes individual, group and whole class activity in which students write, discuss and debate the role...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: National Security and Freedom
In-depth and comprehensive learning activity in which students analyze the debate surrounding the Patriot Act and apply constitutional reasoning to formulate opinions about the balance between national security and right to privacy....
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: The Destruction of the Armenians During World War I
Activity-based resource on the genocide and mass deportation of Armenians from Turkey during WWI. Students investigate whether the treatment of Armenians by the Turkish governmnet fits the definition included in the UN Genocide Convention.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Three Visions for African Americans
Learning Activity on the divergent views of African American leaders. Students review and compare the competing visions of Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. In addition, students choose a contemporary African...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History
Activity-based resource in which students research, write about, and participate in a panel discussion on Marxism, comparing his vision and historical reality to that of other critical thinkers in world history.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Copying Music and Movies From the Internet: Digital Piracy and Fair Use
Activity-based resource on digital piracy and fair use. Students read the literature on the topic and participate in a role play acting as congressional members arguing about the lawfulness of file sharing copyrighted material over the...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe
Activity based resource on political and economic systems, asks students to explore communism, capitalism, socialism and democracy and formulate informed opinions for discussion and debate. Group and individual work.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Global Warming: What Should We Do About It?
Activity based resource for teachers in which students are involved in reading summaries, literature and scientific reports about Global Warming, formulating a response on how to approach Global Warming, then taking part in a mock Global...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Oil and National Security
Lesson and activity in which students critique U.S. energy policy and its relationship to national security, then evaluate energy alternatives. Lesson includes article with background information, questions for discussion and...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, Statehood, or Independence?
Activity in which students read informational text on the the history of Puerto Rico as a territory of the United States, and then decide on the political status of Puerto Rico. Individual, group and class work. Links to list of resources.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Free Markets and Antitrust Law
Lesson in economics and democracy in which young scholars study and analyze Adam Smith's concept of free market mercantilism and determine how it would apply to government interventions today. Includes text, questions for study,...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Leadership: u.s. History
Lesson and activity looks at leadership in U.S. history focussing on presidents, past and present, to determine what makes a good leader. Questions for discussion and class activity guidelines included.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom
Lesson with activity in which students study and analyze the challenges surrounding constitutional rights and national security by focussing on the Alien and Sedition Act, 1798 and definitions of American freedom. Links to primary...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: The United States and the Barbary Pirates
Lesson and activity in which students analyze foreign policy challenges on paying ransom. Students study U.S. response to the Barbary pirates and apply their knowledge to modern day terrorism and foreign policy examples.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Conflict of Cultures: President Polk and the Taking of the West
Lesson and activity on conflict of cultures in which students study U.S. overtaking lands of Mexico and California and form policy on property rights and citizenship of conquered cultures. Activity guidelines, questions for discussion...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: Executive Branch: A Hero Betrayed: The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson with activity on the Executive Branch, distribution of power, scandal and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Includes questions for discussion and class activity. Links to supplemental material.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: This Great Enterprise: Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
Lesson and activity on American enterprise and intervention with a focus on Theodore Roosevelt and the Pananma Canal. Includes class activity and questions for discussion and writing.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: The u.s. Supreme Court: Fdr Tries to "Pack" the Supreme Court
Lesson and activity in which students learn about the importance of the Supreme Court, balance of power, and judicial reform.
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Excellent site offered from the Constitutional Rights Foundation and dedicated to "educating tomorrow's citizens." Many great links and activities are available.