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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The United States, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States in 1850, showing the frontier line, indicate by the thick black line. The map shows the States added to the Union between 1840 and 1850, including Florida (1845), Texas (1845), Iowa (1846), Wisconsin (1848),...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The United States, 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1900 of the United States showing the territorial expansion from the original Thirteen Colonies to the states and territories of 1900. The map is color-coded to show the original states, states admitted between 1791 and 1860,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: United States and the Slavery Prohibition Issue, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States and territories at the time of the slavery prohibition issue in 1850, after the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The map is color-coded to show the areas where slavery was prohibited by State Law, slavery was...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The United States, 1861

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States in 1861 after the secession of the Southern States. The map is color-coded to show the Free Union States, Union Slaveholding States, Confederate States, and the territories of Washington, Dakota, Nevada, Utah,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Presidential Election, 1860

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States showing the results of the presidential election of 1860. The map is color-coded to show the states carried by Lincoln (Republican), Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), Bell (Constitutional Union), and Douglas...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Presidential Election , 1860

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States showing the results of the presidential election of 1860. The map is color-coded to show the states carried by Lincoln (Republican), Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), Bell (Constitutional Union), and Douglas...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1783

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of North America, Central America, and northern South America at the end of the American Revolutionary War (1783). The map is color-coded to show the territory of the United States at the time, British possessions in Canada,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: United States at the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1861

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States and territories in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War. The map is color-coded to show the Union Free States, the Confederate States seceded before April 15, 1861, the Confederate States seceded after April...
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Etc: The Us at the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1860 1861

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War (1860-1861) showing the States that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. The map also shows the territorial boundaries of the Washington Territory, Dakota...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: United States, 1845

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States in 1845 after the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the annexation of Texas. The map is color-coded to show the States and territory of the United States west to the Pacific with the dates...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Compromise of 1850, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States showing the effects of the Compromise of 1850. The map is keyed to show the free states and slave states, and notes California admitted to the Union as a free state; the Nebraska Territory as free by the...
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Etc: Territorial Development of the United States, 1783 1889

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1889 of North America showing the expansion in the region of the United States from the original Thirteen Colonies at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the time the map was made, around 1889, before the territories...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South America, 1921

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1921 of South America showing the political boundaries of the time, major cities, railroads, terrain, rivers, and coastal features, and includes an insert map of the Galapagos Islands. " South America, the fourth largest grand...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pacific Ring of Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers information on the location of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Map included.
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Uintah Basin Tah Project: Dominguez and Escalante Expedition 1776

For Students 9th - 10th
The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776 was tasked with finding a route overland from Santa Fe, New Mexico to a Spanish mission in northern California. This page provides biographies of the people on this journey as well as the maps...
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Cayuse Canyon

The Us50

For Students 9th - 10th
This clickable map of the United States gives students access to research information from history and tourism to attractions and famous historic figures.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, 1852

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1852 of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. The map shows territorial boundaries at the time, including the Mexican States, capitals and major cities and ports, railroads, rivers, lakes, mountain systems, and terrain...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Mexico, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of Mexico showing major cities and ports, railroads with connections to the railroad network in the United States, shipping routes from New Orleans and San Francisco with distances given in nautical miles, rivers with...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1858

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1858 of North America showing the boundaries at the time for Russian America (Alaska), Greenland, British America or New Britain, Canada East and Canada West, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Mississippi River Route of Hennepin, 1697

For Students 9th - 10th
A facsimile of a portion of the map created in 1697 describing the exploration and discoveries of Father Louis Hennepin in New France and Along the Mississippi. The map shows the region from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico along...
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Etc: Texas Controversy and Territorial Adjustment, 1836 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the western United States between 1836 and 1850 showing the Texas controversy and territorial adjustments at the time. The map is color-coded to show the unorganized territory of the Louisiana Purchase and the boundary line with...
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Inscription Rock, New Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
Two maps and four accounts of the Spanish exploration of North America that reflect the goals of the conquistadors and fascination with the land they examined-and the brutality of their treatment of native peoples.