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Siteseen: American Historama: Vj Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and important information about VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) and the end of WW2.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Causes of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides detailed facts that explain the causes of the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource provides 39 detailed facts about the Great Depression and what happened to the American people during this devastating time.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Iraq War

For Students 9th - 10th
Features interesting facts and detailed information on the Iraq War Iraq War (2003 - 2011) and Saddam Hussein the dictator and president of Iraq.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Hundred Days Fdr

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and a summary of FDR's first hundred days (March 9 to June 16, 1933) when 15 major acts were passed in an attempt to relieve the devastating effects of the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Dust Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the causes, effects, the Black Blizzards, and the response to the Dust Bowl.
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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: 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: Embargo Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and interesting information about the Embargo Act of 1807.
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Siteseen: American Historama: 1828 Tariff of Abominations

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tariff of Abominations was the name given by its southern opponents to the Tariff of 1828 and was designed to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Erie Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides details about the Erie Canal that stretched for 363 miles linking the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Panic of 1819

For Students 9th - 10th
Read detailed facts about the many causes of the financial panic of 1819.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Adams Onis Treaty

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and information about the Adams Onis Treaty that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary with New Spain (Mexico).
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Siteseen: American Historama: Rush Bagot Treaty

For Students 9th - 10th
Details about the Rush-Bagot Treaty that demilitarized the Great Lakes region.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The American System

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource provides detailed facts about Henry Clay and the economic plan called the 'American System'.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Tariff of 1816

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tariff of 1816 was the first protective tariff implemented by the government and was an attempt to persuade Americans to buy home-produced goods.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Hartford Convention 1814

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource provides details of the secret meeting of Federalists in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Barbary Wars and Pirates

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information about the Barbary Wars and pirates that was fought along the coast of North Africa by African Pirates of the Barbary States.
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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.