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American History Lessons

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Since we live in the United States we of course are going to spend a fair amount of time learning about the country we live in, and we also are spending a fair amount of time studying the different states.

{I am adding to this page as I sort through blog posts, so be patient if the topic you’re looking for isn’t here yet}

Table of Contents

  • Colonial American History Lessons
  • American Revolution History Lesson
  • Early Republic history (founding to 1812)
  • War of 1812 History Lessons
  • Westward Expansion American History Lessons (1820s-1880s)
  • Civil War History Lessons
  • Gilded Age early 1900s American History Lessons
  • World War 1 American History Lessons
  • 1920s and Great Depression History Lessons
  • World War 2 American History Lessons
  • 1950s-1970s American History Lessons

Colonial American History Lessons

Colonial America lesson plans

I had so many ideas for Colonial America, I turned this into a landing page to keep this from being forever and a day long, so I give you Colonial America lessons, the best way to start off our American history lessons.

American Revolution History Lesson

American Revolution unit study for elementary
Yes, I like this painting from the American Revolution, it’s called Spirit of ’76

Towards the end of the Colonial period of American history, they started getting a bit anxious and that’s how we got the American Revolution. Again, it’s a fun period to study, so we’ve got quite a few American Revolution history lessons.

Early Republic history (founding to 1812)

The Big Cheese, Jefferson’s presidency

Monticello

Lewis and Clark

 

War of 1812 History Lessons

Causes of the War of 1812

Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson

 Sisters of Scituate Light

Star Spangled Banner

 

Westward Expansion American History Lessons (1820s-1880s)

Trail of Tears

Davy Crockett

Daniel Boone

Sam Houston

Battle of the Alamo

 P.T. Barnum

John Deere

Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and the Underground Railroad

Night Boat to Freedom

Log Cabin Quilt, homesteading in Michigan

Underground Railroad simulation

Wagon Trains

Gun Fighters of the Old West (learn your local legends)

Tomstone, AZ

Cattle Drives and the Old West

Transcontinental railroad

 

Civil War History Lessons

Young Abe Lincoln

Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers (election of 1860)

Battle of Fort Sumter

First Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Gettysburg

Showing Civil War battles visually

 HL Hunley, Civil War sub

Civil War nursing

Comparing texts on the Civil War

Promise Quilt (how Civil War affected families)

 

Gilded Age early 1900s American History Lessons

 Gilded Age Presidents

Spanish American War

10th Avenue Cowboy (early 1900s New York City)

Alice Roosevelt

 

World War 1 American History Lessons

World War 1 writing assignments all bound up together

World War 1, the war to end all wars, is a much-misunderstood war, primarily because no one is quite sure why everyone is fighting. It also set the stage for much of the last 100 years of history, so take some time in your World War 1 Unit.

 

1920s and Great Depression History Lessons

Aunt Minnie and the Twister (fiction picture book, art lesson)

Traveling by train in the 1920s and 30s

Movies to learn about the Great Depression

Depression Era: living as hobos

Depression simulation for kids

 

World War 2 American History Lessons

We all know about World War 2, Hitler, Nazis, The Bomb, Concentration Camps….. Turn this hard time into a collection of hands on lessons to drive home the tragedy with this World War 2 unit.

1950s-1970s American History Lessons

Korean War lesson plan, should we have gotten into the war?

America in the 1950s notebooking ideas

Presidential report: Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower

Martin Luther King jr.

Last Mule of Gee Bend (Civil Rights)

Ron’s Big Mission

Helen Keller

Cesar Chavez

Neil Armstrong

Under New York (fiction book about New York subways)

 

 

 

 

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