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Siteseen: American Historama: Shanty Town Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Facts on Shanty Towns (Hoovervilles)that were makeshift camps set up by the homeless during the Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Causes of the Wall Street Crash

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the causes and effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 13th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
The 13th Amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, but not ratified until December 6, 1865. This article provides an explanation and summary of the 13th Amendment or Fugitive Slave Clause that abolished slavery.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Freedmen's Bureau

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting facts about the Freedmen's Bureau established to help and protect emancipated slaves (freedmen)in 1865.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Underground Railroad Map

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed Underground Railway map provides information on the free states and slave states and shows routes to freedom.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 12th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the Twelfth Amendment that is about the election of the President and Vice President.
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Siteseen: American Historama: War in Afghanistan (2001 2014)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion of the Afghanistan War (2001 - 2014) that was triggered by the September 11 attacks.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Nafta

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed on December 8, 1993, by President Bill Clinton.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Clean Air Act of 1963, 1970 and 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the three sets of federal programs to establish air quality goals and to impose pollution control.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Collapse of the Soviet Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Broad discussion of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the end of World War II.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Us Mobilization for Ww2 Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides details facts and an overview of the US Mobilization for WW2.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Pearl Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
Article features a summary and interesting facts about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Buying Freedom From Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting discussion on the methods used by slaves to acquire the money to help them buy their freedom.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Second New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the programs and reforms launched in the period of the Second New Deal that provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people.
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Siteseen: American Historama: New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on FDR's New Deal provides detailed facts and a summary of a series of relief programs during the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Hoover Dam

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides statistics and facts about the Hoover Dam, the powerplant, and Lake Mead.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Great Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about The Great Society that was the vision of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Great Depression Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion of the effects of poverty and poverty levels during the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Long Bull Market

For Students 9th - 10th
The Long Bull Market of the 1920s saw share prices on the stock market soar and its collapse contributed to the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Holocaust Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Important dates and details of events of the Holocaust leading up to the establishment of the death camps and the Final Solution told in a factual timeline sequence.
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Siteseen: American Historama: National Recovery Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Important facts and information about the creation of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in June 1933.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Public Works Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Important facts and information about the Public Works Administration created by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (PWA) for large scale public works projects.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ostend Manifesto

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and information about the 1854 Ostend Manifesto that planned for the annexation of Cuba from Spain.