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7-8 Research Task-American History Resources

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Links to Selected Video Resources from Discovery Streaming:*

http://students.discoveryeducation.com/genericStudentIndex.cfm?cdPasscode=TFB8E-D7A4

 

Electronic Resources by Topic

The London Company/Founding of Jamestown 1607

Jamestown: Hypertext History

Virtual Jamestown

Jamestown: An Overview

Jamestown Anniversary Site

Jamestown Interactive from National Geographic

Virginia History: Tobacco and Slavery

Evolution of the Virginia Colony 1611-1624

Facts on File has great articles. Search on:

Virginia company or colonial  Virginia*

 

The Boston Tea Party

Ebook Article: On the Brink of War 1770-1774

The Boston Tea Party

The History Place: Prelude to a Revolution

Liberty! Boston 1774

Outlines: American History-Chapter 3: Boston Tea Party

Revolutionary America

 

The Declaration of Independence

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

Charters of Freedom

Declaration of Independence Web Guide from the Library of Congress

Principles of Freedom from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

 

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and the American Experiment

Alexander Hamilton's Financial Program

Ebook: The New Government 1789-93*

The History Place: A New Nation

You Decide: Jefferson or Hamilton

American Experience: Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson: Library of Congress

 

 

American Nationalism 1800-1824

The Era of Good Feelings

Ebook Article: Nationalism*

 

Andrew Jackson, Slavery and States' Rights

Jacksonian Era

PBS: Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & the Presidency

 

Manifest Destiny

Online History Textbook: Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

Ebook Article: Manifest Destiny and Expansionism

PBS: Manifest Destiny and the Prelude to War

PBS: Manifest Destiny Video Clips from the U.S. Mexican War series

The Multicultural West

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the Women's Suffrage Movement

Ebook Chapter: Women's Suffrage*

PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone

 

The Emancipation Proclamation

National Archives: Emancipation Proclamation

The Civil War and Emancipation

Ebook Article: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation*

Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

CNN Report: 150 Years Later: Myths Persist about the Emancipation Proclamation

 

Lincoln and Richmond:  His Legacy

Civil War History: Richmond

Lincoln's Legacy

 

Video Clips:

Ken Burns: The Gettysburg Address

Say What? Lincoln Didn't Free All of the Slaves?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDgEST14O8&feature=share&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhS65KqV5Y5oXhRUy_TKbIrB

 

 

 

General History Sites:

Hypertext History Textbook

 

Citation Tools/Copyright

 

Web Evaluation 7-8 Research.doc

 

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