U.S. History Resources
Pre-Columbian America
Pre-Columbian Indians (PPT: Reeves)
Taba Chart: Pre-Columbian Indians (Reeves)
Taba Chart: European Exploration (Reeves)
Vocabulary Format
Vocabulary #1,2
APUSH Period SAQ
Colonial Settlement
Triangular Trade Map
Chesapeake Colonization (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
New England Colonization (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Restoration Colonies (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
The Starving Time (Smith's account of Jamestown)
Colonial Society (PPT: Reeves)
Cotton Mather (Homepage: source of PSR's on religious life)
Map of the 13 British Colonies
Unit 2 Identifications/Essays
African Slave Trade
PBS Timeline of African Slave Trade
Colonial Conflict
Road to Revolution (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Colonial Conflict (Reeves' Taba Chart)
Revolutionary War
French and Indian War (PPT: Reeves)
American Revolution (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
American Revolution (PPT: Greg Clevenger/Teacher's Brunch)
Revolutionary War Battle Map (Use the map on the last page of this document to complete your battle map.)
Federal Era
The Washington Presidency (PPT: Reeves)
John Adams Presidency (PPT: Reeves)
The Constitution (PPT: Reeves)
Study Guide: The Constitution PPT
Jeffersonian Democracy
Jefferson Administration (PPT: Reeves)
Jefferson Administration Study Guide (to accompany Reeves' PPT)
Lewis & Clark meet the Shoshone (analyze using HAPPY)
Lewis & Clark Supply List
Era of Good Feelings
The Madison, Monroe Administrations (PPT: Reeves)
Star Spangled Banner
The Era of Good Feelings (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian Democracy (PPT: Reeves)
Jackson's Indian Policy (includes interactive map of Trail of Tears)
Industrial Revolution
Chart: Inventions/Innovations
Early 19th Century Industrialization (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Antebellum Period
Antebellum Reformers (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Taba Chart: Emerging Sectional Crisis
Civil War
The Civil War (PBS Ken Burns special)
The Civil War I (PPT: Reeves)
The Civil War II (PPT: Reeves)
Civil War Battles (PPT: Reeves)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Reconstruction
Taba Chart: Reconstruction
The West
Transforming the West (PPT: Reeves)
Transforming the West (Reeves' study guide))
The New South
New South study guide (Reeves)
PSR's
- Mississippi Black Codes
- A Sharecrop Contract, 1882
- The State of the South, 1872
- Letter on the KKK Activities, 1870
Politics 1877-1900 (PPT: Reeves)
Politics 1877-1900 (Reeves' study guide)
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age (PBS, The American Experience: Timeline, Bios, Photo Gallery)
The Gilded Age (PPT: Reeves)
The Progressive Era
Progressive Era Web Lesson
Progressive Presidents: Comparative Taba chart
Progressive Era (1900-1917) Taba chart
Progressive Era Legislation (Taba chart)
Progressive Era (Tom Richey video)
Progressive Era: Politics, Women, and Reform (Heimler video)
Gilded Age vs. Progressive Era (Tom Richey video)
Imperialism/America as a World Power
Ameria Becomes a World Power (PPT: Sue Pojer/historyteacher.net)
Spanish-American War (Centennial Website)
World War I
History Channel: World War I (pictures, videos, articles)
BBC: World War I (broken down into different aspects of the war)
PBS: The Great War (timelines, battle maps, interviews...one of my favorite resources)
World War I Battles (map)
Roaring Twenties
Prohibition (PBS Ken Burns special)
Jazz (PSB Ken Burns special)
Roaring Twenties PPT (take notes, complete study guide)
Roaring Twenties Study Guide
Roaring Twenties Video
Great Depression
Great Depression (Reeves, PPT)
FDR's New Deal Programs (Reeves' chart)
Great Depression Study Guide (online classes)
The Dust Bowl (PSB Ken Burns special...video, lesson plans, eyewitness accounts and more...)
Dust Bowl Video (Go to website, watch videos entitled: Dust Bowl Preview, Woody Guthrie Oakies, Eyewitnesses, and The Great Dust Storm; take notes: Film Notes: The Dust Bowl)
WPA Slave Narratives (Audio/document narratives with former slaves by WPA workers)
Huey Long (PBS Ken Burns special about the "dictator" of Louisiana)
World War II
The War (PBS Ken Burns special...video, lesson plans, eyewitness accounts)
Saving Private Ryan (Omaha Beach scene) Warning: graphic language/violence! My hope, of course, was to walk you through this but at least you can watch and ask questions on my Blog/text. When I finally convinced my father, who was a frogman/Navy Seal that day (and only 18), to watch it, he said it was a real as he could imagine a film to be. No notes...just watch and think about what you expect to be doing at 18.
Review Video (Hitler's Rise to Power by Tom Richey) Watch, take notes
Eyewitness Account from the USS Hornet
Burke County World War II Veterans
World War II Essays
World War II Battle Map (European Theater)
World War II Battle Map (Pacific Theater)
Post WWII
Timeline of Postwar Administrations (Eisenhower-Obama)
The Sixties (great PPT created by the STAAR Program)
Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Cold War
Taba Chart: 1945-1980
The Cold War (Reeves PPT)
Korean War (Conflict) Video of Choisin Reservoir
Social History
PBS: Baseball (Ken Burns special...best resource on baseball)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS Ken Burns special)
Primary Sources
Unit 1 (Chapters 1,2)
Checksheet: Unit 1
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant’ Angel (1493)
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528-1536)
Bartolomé de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
Unit 2
The Starving Time
Our Plantation is Very Weak
Mayflower Compact
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
John Winthrop
Passage of Indentured Servants
Unit 7 (Chapters 17,18)
Checksheet: Unit 7
The Fourteenth Amendment
Report on the KKK
A Sharecropper's Contract
Mississippi Black Codes
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Nation: The State of the South
Looking Backward (Bellamy)
The Gospel of Wealth (Carnegie)
The Jungle (excerpt, Sinclair)
Haymarket Anarchist
Tenement Life (Riis)
Unit 1 (Chapters 1,2)
Checksheet: Unit 1
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant’ Angel (1493)
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528-1536)
Bartolomé de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
Unit 2
The Starving Time
Our Plantation is Very Weak
Mayflower Compact
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
John Winthrop
Passage of Indentured Servants
Unit 7 (Chapters 17,18)
Checksheet: Unit 7
The Fourteenth Amendment
Report on the KKK
A Sharecropper's Contract
Mississippi Black Codes
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Nation: The State of the South
Looking Backward (Bellamy)
The Gospel of Wealth (Carnegie)
The Jungle (excerpt, Sinclair)
Haymarket Anarchist
Tenement Life (Riis)