Unit Essential Question:

How Have Events Played A Significant Part In Making The United States What It Is Today?

1 Concept: Immigration Changes America LEQ 1: What is immigration and how are we all connected? Immigration Crossword Immigration Quiz LEQ 2: How did an immigrant’s life change as a result of moving to America? Good-Bye Poland ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Concept: New Ways of Life Change America LEQ 3: What was life like in the early 1900’s? Schools in the early 1900’s Pioneer Life LEQ 4: What was life like in the mid 1900’s? West Pasco -Then and Now ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Concept: The Fight For Human Rights Changes America LEQ 5: What was the Civil Rights Movement and how did it impact America? Eye Witness Stories Martin Luther King, Jr. Ruby Bridges ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Vocabulary: immigrant, immigration, migration, country, 20th Century, fashion, technology, civil rights, diversity, race, discrimination, nonviolence http://www.mhschool.com/mmh_games/content/mac_ss/g3/u3/l1/index.htmlhttp://activities.macmillanmh.com/quiz/?id=85http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/seymour/chapter1.htmhttp://library.thinkquest.org/J002606/early1900s.htmlhttp://library.thinkquest.org/J001587/http://westpascohistoricalsociety.org/tan.htmlhttp://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/CivilRights.html#Tophttp://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/gr2mlk.htmhttp://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/gr2rbridges.htmshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7shapeimage_4_link_8
4 Concept: Exploration and Colonization LEQ 1: What are the reasons for the establishment of early English settlements? History of Jamestown Link Removed Link Removed Kids Info Roanoke Resources Jamestown Quiz LEQ 2: How did the geography of the thirteen colonies affect how the colonists lived? Link Removed Three regions of the 13 Colonies Geography of the 50 States The Middle Colonies The Southern Colonies New England You be the Historian ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Concept: 1750 Young America LEQ 3: What events (1756-1776) caused the colonies to want their independence from England? WikiAnswers: American Colonies Reasons for breaking with England LEQ 4: Why were the American colonists able to defeat England? Liberty News American Colonies Quiz LEQ 5: How did change in early America help the nation grow? Link Removed The Lewis Clark Expedition Go West with Lewis and Clark ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Concept: Civil War / Reconstruction LEQ 6: What were the causes, key events, and effects of the Civil War? Timeline of the Civil War Outline of the Civil War Civil War Quiz LEQ 7: What effects did Reconstruction have on the South after the Civil War? The South After the Civil War ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Vocabulary: charter, invest, stock, cash crop, indentured servant, growing season, tidewater, fall line, back country, rebellion, ally, tax, protest, boycott, repeal, massacre, Quartering Act, independent, Minutemen, militia, Patriot, Loyalist, expedition, corps, interpreter, source, frontier, plantation,m tariff taxes,secession, Confederation, surrender, Freedmen’s Bureau, Black Codes, Scalawag, carpetbaggers, sharecroppers, Jim Crow Laws, segregationhttp://www.apva.org/history/index.htmlhttp://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Roanoke.htmlhttp://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Colonization_Roanoke.htmlhttp://www.softschools.com/quizzes/social_studies/pilgrims/quiz249.htmlhttp://www.brtprojects.org/cyberschool/history/ch04/regions.htmlhttp://www.brtprojects.org/cyberschool/history/ch04/regions.htmlhttp://www.netstate.com/state_geography.htmhttp://www.netstate.com/state_geography.htmhttp://www.let.rug.nl/usa/H/1994/ch2_p3.htmhttp://www.let.rug.nl/usa/H/1994/ch2_p4.htmhttp://www.let.rug.nl/usa/H/1994/ch2_p2.htmhttp://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_American_colonies'_reasons_for_breaking_with_Englandhttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_American_colonies'_reasons_for_breaking_with_Englandhttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_American_colonies'_reasons_for_breaking_with_Englandhttp://libertyskids.com/index.htmlhttp://www.softschools.com/quizzes/history/american_colonies/quiz274.htmlhttp://www.42explore2.com/lewisclark.htmhttp://www.42explore2.com/lewisclark.htmhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/outlines.htmhttp://www.softschools.com/quizzes/history/civil_war/quiz195.htmlSouth_After_Civil_War.htmlSouth_After_Civil_War.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5shapeimage_5_link_6shapeimage_5_link_7shapeimage_5_link_8shapeimage_5_link_9shapeimage_5_link_10shapeimage_5_link_11shapeimage_5_link_12shapeimage_5_link_13shapeimage_5_link_14shapeimage_5_link_15shapeimage_5_link_16shapeimage_5_link_17shapeimage_5_link_18shapeimage_5_link_19shapeimage_5_link_20shapeimage_5_link_21shapeimage_5_link_22shapeimage_5_link_23shapeimage_5_link_24shapeimage_5_link_25

Scholastic News Articles and Activities for U.S. History

  1. 10.Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today Home

  2. 11.Social Studies WebQuest: Immigrants in New York 1870-1915

  3. 12.Culture & Change: Black History in America

  4. 13.Westward Expansion

  5. 14.Turn of the Century

  6. 15.The Great Depression

  7. 16.World War II

  8. 17.World War II Remembered Home

  9. 18.Women's Suffrage Home

  10. 19.Scholastic Explorers: Native American Cultures

  11. 20.Women Who Changed History

  12. 21.Asian Pacific American Heritage

  13. 22.Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! Home



Vocabulary: reform, corporation, rapid transit, tenements, slums, suffrage, profits, monopoly, labor union, strike, immigrants, assembly line, division of labor, credit, unemployment, Ellis Island, alliance, civil rights, tolerance, diversity, riot, trenches, democracy, dictatorship, equity, Holocaust, New Deal, Depression, stock market, Black Tuesday, Wall Street

Unit Essential Question:

How Did We Become the United States of America?

U.S. History

What happened  Today in American History?

Primary Concepts, LEQs, & Vocabulary are in blue

Intermediate Concepts, LEQs, & Vocabulary are in red

2 Concept: Immigration Then-and-Now in American History LEQ 1: Why did people immigrate to the US and what were their experiences? (link removed) (link removed) Family Tree Chart (T) (link removed 1/27/11) U.S. History: Early Years Timeline of Suffrage ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Concept: Conflicts, Culture, and Turning Points in American History LEQ 2: How has conflict and culture changed or developed peoples’ attitudes towards other ethnic groups living in America? Scholastic Dear America Coming to America Immigration Data Chart (T)http://genealogy.about.com/library/free_charts/bl_family_tree.htmU.S._History_files/Family_tree.pdfhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/ca/books/bke1/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.htmlhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/index_flash.htmhttp://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.htmlhttp://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tja/batv3.htmlU.S._History_files/ImmigrationDataWS.pdfshapeimage_14_link_0shapeimage_14_link_1shapeimage_14_link_2shapeimage_14_link_3shapeimage_14_link_4shapeimage_14_link_5shapeimage_14_link_6shapeimage_14_link_7

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Concept: People


LEQ 1: Who were the first groups of people who assisted in the development of the U.S.?

  1. 1.Pocahontas


LEQ 2: Who were the first Americans and where did they live?

  1. 2.Learn About Native Americans (T)


LEQ 3:  What is an explorer and why did they travel to other lands?

  1. 3. Columbus (T use w/links 3-5)

  2. 4. Ponce de Leon

  3. 5. North American Explorers

  4. 6. Zoom Explorers (T)

  5. 7. River Explorers

  6. 8. Christopher Columbus Quiz


LEQ 4: Who were the first settlers and why did they leave their homes to move to America?

  1. 9. School and Family


LEQ 5: What was life like in the colonies?

  1. 10. Colonial America WebQuest

  2. 11. Colonial Williamsburg

  3. 12. The First Thanksgiving


LEQ 6: How did Early America become a free country?


LEQ 7: Who were the leaders who helped America become an independent country?

  1. 13. Presidents’ Biographies

  2. 14. President Lincoln Quiz


LEQ 8: Why did people leave the colonies to move out west?

  1. 15. All about the Oregon Trail

  2. 16. Time Machine

  3. 17. Louisiana Purchase Maps


LEQ 9: Why did the United States have a Civil War?

  1. 18. Civil War Map of the U.S.

  2. 19. Abraham Lincoln

  3. 20. Famous People



Concept: National Holidays and Symbols


LEQ 10: What are the national holidays and why are they important?

  1. 21. National Holidays

  2. 22. Holiday Matching

  3. 23. Holiday Quiz


LEQ 11: What are national symbols and why are they important?

  1. 24. Ben’s Guide - Symbols

  2. 25. Symbols of U.S. A.

  3. 26. American Symbol Game



Vocabulary: history, Native Americans, explorers, colonists, pioneers, American Indians, tribe, natural resources, explorer, exploration, continent route, settler, Pilgrim, settlement, colony, freedom, Patriot, country, independence, Revolutionary War, liberty, Declaration of Independence, democracy, Constitution, Westward Expansion, secede, Union, Confederate, national, holiday, celebrate, symbols, represent

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