Soc. Studies Gr. 8

Request by African Americans in a small Georgian town for federal troops to help protect them from violent white neighbors

Primary Source from African American female recounting her experiences related to education in the South for former slaves.

Primary Source -- African American experience during Reconstruction in the South

poem about John Brown, alluding to war, 2 years before Civil War, and just after Brown's hanging.

But in two small-scale but heavily laden exhibitions - one at the New-York Historical Society, drawing on the extraordinary Gilder Lehrman Collection, the other at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond (the first show devoted to Brown in a city that was the capital of the Confederacy) - it becomes clear that Brown's legacy is nearly as riven now as it was on the eve of the Civil War. His actions still raise unresolved issues about the limits of dissent, the nature of terrorism and the effects of revolutionary violence.

Great irish immigrant stereotype activity here....

A side by side comparison of the language of the Dec. of Ind w/the Dec. of Sentiments. Differences are highlighted...super easy to see the similar styles.

A project from Dickinson college--lots of stuff to ignore, but lots of stuff to use as well.

an oregon trail map of topography

A more detailed Oregon trail map

A basic, but clear map of the Oregon Trail