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Digital History: The War Is Finished [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the end of the Vietnam War after the peace agreement in January, 1973. Find out about the violations of the agreement by both the North and South Vietnamese and the eventual fall of the South Vietnamese government.
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Digital History: War With Mexico [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the reasons President James Polk presented to Congress as justification for a declaration of war against Mexico. Find Polk's war message and the rebuttal by Congressman Davis.
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Digital History: Why Do People Fight? The Causes of the Civil War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Throughout the years since the end of the Civil War, historians have been weighing in on the causes of that terrible time in the history of the United States. Interpretations have changed over the generations. Read the questions that...
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Digital History: War in Europe: Who Was Responsible? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great overview of the events that immediately followed the assassination of Austria's Crown Prince Francis Ferdinand in Serbia in the lead-up to the start of World War I.
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Digital History: War in Europe [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the course of the war in Europe, and America's involvement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It examines the military strategies...
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Digital History: Watts: The Ghetto Erupts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit called 'African-Americans in the Land of Equality.' It looks at the causes, events, and aftermath of the Watts Riots in 1965.
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Digital History: Was the 'Whole Thing a Lie' or a 'Noble Crusade' [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read the opposing viewpoints of General Westmoreland, U. S. commander in Vietnam during the troop escalation, and Sgt. Donald Duncan, a Vietnam veteran, who became one of the first critics of the U.S. Vietnam policy. Was the Vietnam War...
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Digital History: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
President Woodrow Wilson had great hopes that a League of Nations would mean that there would be no more world wars. Read about the charter for the League of Nations, especially Article X, which provided the teeth for the organization....
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Digital History: World War Ii and Japanese American Relocation [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th
This lesson plan is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at Japanese aggression in China and Indochina prior to and during World War II, the quandary in the United States of whether or...
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Digital History: Years of Decision [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and the thinking of their leaders. Students are asked to consider five...
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Digital History: Explorations: Children & the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource focuses on family life during the Great Depression.
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Digital History: Explorations: Lynching

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the use of primary source documents, resource explores the lynching of blacks in the South during the Jim Crow era.
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Digital History: Explorations: Why Did the South Secede?

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explores the states that withdrew from the Union at the beginning of the Civil War and why.
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Digital History: Explorations: Children and the Westward Movement

For Students 1st - 9th
Read first-hand accounts to learn about the children who made the journey west to California, Utah, Oregon and other destinations in the mid-1800s.
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Digital History: Explorations: Remembering the Alamo

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the use of primary sources, learn about the battle and people at the Alamo.
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Digital History: Explorations: The Duel: Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a close look at the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 through photos, primary sources, and first-hand accounts,
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Digital History: Anglo American Settlement in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
In the words of Stephen F. Austin from 1823, he advertises for his countrymen to settle in Texas.
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Digital History: Black Gold: The Oil Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief overview of how the gusher at Spindletop in 1901 spurred the giant oil industry in America in the early twentieth century.
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Digital History: Populism

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what populism is and its history within the context of American politics.
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Digital History: An Intro to the Study of History: The Four Questions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How does one study history? Find four basic questions that historians use to examine events in an effort to explain them and put them in historical context. By examining the Battle of Lexington and Concord, students can practice using...
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Digital History: Social Class in Colonial America [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
By examining primary sources such as diaries and tax records, and a chapter from a secondary source, learn about the social classes apparent in colonlial America. Suggested student exercises guide crtitical thinking assessment of the...
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Digital History: Government in England and the Colonies [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
By studying the structure and function of the government in both England and the colonies, students are asked to determine if the colonies were more democratic than England. By using primary sources and information provided in charts,...
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Digital History: British Mercantilism and the Cost of Empire [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the theory of mercantilism and how it affected the economies of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Practice making a bar graph showing the value of exports to and imports from England between 1700 and 1774 with...
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Digital History: The French and Indian War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about George Washington's role in the beginning of the French and Indian War, which started in the wilderness of the English colonies and spread to Europe. Was this war a major cause of the American Revolution? Students are asked to...