History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Reform Movements: Quiz (1)
This 12-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers facts dealing with the Reform Movement in the ealy 1800s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny: Quiz (1)
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of westward expansion in the 1800s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny: Quiz (5)
Choose the correct word from the drop down menu for each of the twelve questions to evaluate your knowledge of people and events relating to westward expansion in the mid 1800s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: The Antebellum South: Quiz (1)
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your comprehension of slavery in the South during the mid 1800s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: The Antebellum South: Quiz (2)
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your comprehension of slavery in the South during the mid 1800s.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Populism: Quiz (1)
This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers populism in the late 1800s.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Mother Sauvage" by Guy De Maupassant
Text of the short story "Mother Sauvage" by French author Guy de Maupassant. It tells the story of a grief-stricken mother who took revenge on Prussian invaders in the mid-1800s. (Free site registration offers some additional features,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Moving West, Natural Disasters
Assign reasons from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explain pioneers' migration to and return from the American plains in the 1800s. Research, write and produce a newspaper dedicated to a natural disaster such as the 19th-century drought.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Stephen Babcock
Stephen Babcock was an agricultural chemist in the 1800s whose work led to the later discovery of vitamins A and D. He developed the Babcock test which paved the way for standardizing the quality of milk sold and setting fair prices....
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: James Duane Doty
James Duane Doty was a judge, a businessman, governor, and a Congressman in the early half of the 1800s. He led the push for Madison to become the capital city of Wisconsin.
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Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents: Journal of John Work
Provides a diary of two and a half months of travels by John Work as he went from one fur trading post to another in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s.
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Images of the American West: Oklahoma
This is a photo gallery of white homeseekers known as Boomers and other homesteaders settling the Oklahoma Territory in the late 1800's.
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Thumbnail History of the Banjo
Site that focuses on the development of the banjo instrument, but also traces its role in minstrel shows of the 1800s. Offers different viewpoint of this genre.
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Bobjanuary.com: Stephen Collins Foster: Foster's Last Years
This page discusses the last few years of folksong writers Stephen Collins Foster's life. It provides a few photgraphs of the Bowery Theater in the 1800s and 1900s. (This theater was built by Tony Pastor, a proponent of Vaudeville style.)
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Berkeleywebs.com: William Michael Harnett
This site contains a brief biography on the artist William Michael Harnett. Learn about, "the leading American still-life painter of the late 1800's."
Milwaukee College Prep
African American History: North and South, Slave and Free
An overview of the status and experiences of African Americans in the mid-1800s, both free and enslaved. Includes references to Frederick Douglass and his efforts to enlighten people about the discrimination and prejudice faced by...
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