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Siteseen: American Historama: Statue of Liberty Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Fun facts and interesting information about The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America, the land of freedom and opportunity.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Molly Maguires

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania who led the 'Long Strike of 1875' which resulted in 20 members being unjustly hanged for murder.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Taft Hartley Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Important information and fun facts about the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, a major revision of the 1935 Wagner Act.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Haymarket Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 1886 Haymarket Riot that was perpetrated by anarchists at a Chicago labor rally.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Spoils System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Spoils System during Andrew Jackson's presidency that was based on the policy of removing political opponents from federal offices and replacing them with party loyalists.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Knights of Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting details about the Knights of Labor, the first major American labor union to be established.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Titanic

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information and fun facts about the sinking of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Elias Howe Sewing Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and fun information on Elias Howe who invented the world's first practical sewing machine in 1846.
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Siteseen: American Historama: First Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting details about the first electrical telegraph developed in the United States by Samuel Morse in 1837. Morse also developed the Morse Code alphabet.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides interesting facts and important information about the idea of Manifest Destiny and details of Westward Expansion in the United States over a fifty-year time span in the 1800s.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Wright Brothers Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn numerous fun facts about the first powered airplane flight by the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Alcatraz

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides facts about the Alcatraz Prison history, its famous prisoners, life in the prison, and the attempted escapes from Alcatraz.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Kent State Shooting

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed and interesting information pertaining to the four students shot dead at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Watts Riots 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1965, the Watts Riots broke out in an African American neighborhood in Los Angeles sparked by allegations of police brutality.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Freedom Riders

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides numerous detailed facts and a summary of the Freedom Riders who boarded their buses in May 1961 to test segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals in the South.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Sclc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and a summary on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed as a Civil Rights non-violent protest group in 1957.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Nasa Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting NASA timeline provides the dates and facts about the important events and people involved in space exploration in the United States.
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Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Civil War Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains detailed facts and information about weapons and technology used during the Civil War. There were military breakthroughs, changing the way the Civil War was fought.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Trail of Tears

For Students 9th - 10th
The article provides facts and information about the tragic journey of the Cherokee tribe and other members of the Five Civilised Tribes called the "Trail of Tears" with key dates and a map.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Whiskey Ring Scandal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the Whiskey Ring Scandal, a conspiracy of distillers to bribe government officials and to defraud the government of the excise taxes on liquor during Grant's administration.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Transcontinental Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Details about the world's First Transcontinental Railroad that was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the Atlantic coast with the Pacific coast.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Roe v Wade

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and interesting information about the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade which ruled that state governments could not regulate abortion during the first three months until the end of the first...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was aimed at ending segregation and racial discrimination.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn detailed facts about the Little Rock Nine crisis, the refusal to admit 9 African American students to the racially segregated Little Rock Central High in Arkansas in 1957.