Lesson Plans
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Discovery Era Lesson Plans
Native American culture and life
Other Worlds: The travels of Columbus
Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee
Colonial Era Lesson Plans
American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
Early Multi-National Influences in the United States
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England
Voices of the American Revolution
The American War for Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom
Founding Era Lesson Plans
Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy
Before and Beyond the Constitution
Benjamin Franklin’s Many “Hats”
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met
The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic
The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers
The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
Sue Leeson’s lesson plan on the Constitutional Convention:
Lesson Plan A (419) Lesson Plan B (331) Lesson Plan C (288) Constitutional Convention Presentation (361)
Expansion Era Lesson Plans
On This Day With Lewis and Clark
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail
Civil War and Reconstruction Era Lesson Plans
Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken”
African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom’s First Steps
Life in the North and South 1847-1861: Before Brother Fought Brother
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies
The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword”
The Battle Over Reconstruction
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