Social Studies

 

 

United States History from 1877


Curriculum Links for U.S. History from 1877:

Description of Course
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
Pacing Chronology for U.S. History
Scope and Sequence for U.S. History
Extended Scope and Sequence (Side by Sides of Multiple Grade Levels)

Instructional Strategies:
Handbook for Grades 4-12
Reading in the Content Areas and Graphic Organizers
Strategies for Struggling Learners Workshop

Annotated Bibliographies for 9-12:
Literature  - Aligned by Social Studies Strand

Other Curriculum Resources:
TEKS Biographies
TEKS Glossaries

Assessment Resources for TAKS:
Grade 8, 10 and 11 TAKS Released Tests, Keys, Analyses and More
Link to First Semester Exam Practice Cards for Grade 11

Downloadable Activities for US History:
TEKS/TAKS Overview Chart for Exit - pdf
US History Word Wall - ppt
US History Flash Cards - doc
US History Looping Cards - doc
US History Word Splash - ppt
Principles of Government Lessons from Alief ISD
Developing Great Test Items - ppt
8th Grade TAKS Review Activities - Obj. 1
8th Grade TAKS Review Activities - Obj. 4
TAKS Review for Exit Social Studies Test
SIOP Lessons for U.S. History from 1877

Significant Era Charts:
European Exploration
Colonial Period
American Revolution
The New Republic
Westward Expansion
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Industrialization and Urbanization
The Progressive Era
World War I
The Twenties
The Great Depression
World War II
The Cold War
The Sixties
The 1970's
The 1980's
The 1990's and the New Millennium

Links:

General Resources
Digital History (University of Houston)

The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
US Historical Documents (University of Oklahoma School of Law
American Memory - Library of Congress
Congress.org
Historical Text Archive
HyperHistory
National Archives and Records Administration
Native Web
Professional Cartoonists Index
The Ellis Island Home Page
The U.S. Civil War Center
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
US Founding Documents
Vote Smart Web

Western Expansion
PBS - New Perspectives
Buffalo Soldiers
The American West
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Little Bighorn
George Custer
Dawes Act
Chisholm Trail
Barbed Wire
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
Morrill Act
The Grange

Populism
The Populist Party
The Populist Party

Rise of Industrialism
History of the Oil Industry
History of the Standard Oil Company
History of U.S. Steel
Bessemer Process
Transcontinental Railroad
George Pullman
Munn v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
Social Darwinism
Horatio Alger Jr.
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act
Child Labor in the United States
Sweatshop History
Triangle Shirt Factory
The Jungle
Samuel Gompers
Eugene V. Debs
Mother Jones

The Progressive Era
Race and the Progressive Movement
Issues of the Progressive Movement
The Progressive Parties
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement
Theodore Roosevelt on Film
Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
American Environmental Photographs
Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
The Life of a City
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America
Last Days of McKinley
Inside an American Factory
NARA Digital Classroom
Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
The American Variety Stage
Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
The Gilbreth network
National Child Labor Committee Collection
Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
Votes for Women

World War I
World War I - Trenches on the Web
PBS - The Great War
World War I - Document Archive
The Great War
Virtual Seminars
World War I Cartoons
Encyclopedia of the First World War
Statistics of the War
The Zimmerman Telegram
National Archives - The Zimmerman Telegram
Wilson's Declaration of War
The Triple Alliance
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Causes of World War I
The Assassination
The Ultimatum to Serbia
The American Experience - Letters of Soldiers
Battlefield Guide
Battle of the Somme
Life in the Trenches
Aviation in World War I
U-Boats in the War
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's 14 Points
The League of Nations
The Battle over the Treaty
The Palestine Mandate

Twenties
1920's.net
The Booming 20's
Wonderful Introduction to the 1920's
National Archives
The American Experience - Note For Ourselves Alone
Library of Congress
Grolier'sWomen in American History
American Woman's History Guide
Women Pioneers in American Memory
History of American Broadcasting
The Roaring 20's Art and Culture
The Jazz Age - Music Clips
Art Deco
Flapper Culture
Jazz Age and Culture Resources 
Communist radicals archives
Cartoons
The Sacco and Vanzetti Case
The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti 
Temperance and Prohibition
American Prohibition
Anti-Saloon League
American Prohibition 
Gangsters, Outlaws and G-Men
George "Bugs" Moran: His War With Al Capone
Al Capone
Bonnie and Clyde and Bonnie and Clyde
St. Valentine's Day Massacre 
The Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925
The Scopes Monkey Trial
William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial

1930's and the Great Depression
American History - 1930-1939
America from Great Depression to WWII
Celebrate the Century
The Dust Bowl and The Dust Bowl
Voices from the Dust Bowl
Surviving the Dustbowl
The Crash of 1929
The Crash of 1929
The Economic Effects On Families Of The Great Depression
The World Depression
Reminiscences of the Great Depression
We Made Do
Sliding into the Great Depression 
African-American Life During the Great Depression
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression
The Great Depression - Documenting America
America's Great Depression
America's Great Depression
Great Depression Gallery
Bungalow Gallery
The Swing Era Homepage
Lindy Hop
Greatest Films of the 1930s
Century of Progress (Chicago World's Fair)
1939 New York World's Fair
The Building of the Empire State Building
National Child Labor Committee Collection

The New Deal
WPA Life Histories--Home Page
USA: Other New Deal Programs
Where Hope Was Found
New Deal/WPA Art History
USA: Roosevelt Battles Depression
The New Deal Network: Online Resources
New Deal Network
The Great Depression & the New Deal
Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page

World War II
The World 1919
Pre-War Chronology
The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
History Learning - UK
Infoplease.com
World War II Posters
Pictures from World War II
Diplomacy of Isolationism
German Secret Rearmament
The Rise of Hitler - Popups on this site
Germany Under Hitler - Popups on this site
Hitler - Speeches and Sounds
World War II - Sounds and Pictures
Time's Man of the Year - Hitler
1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament
Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy
The Rhineland Crisis, 1936
The German-Austrian Anschluss, 1938
The Czech Crisis, 1938
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease program
Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain
The Munich Agreement
"Radio Days - Neville Chamberlain"
The Nazi Occupation of Poland
War and Crisis in Asia and Europe
Mobilization in WWII
Japanese Occupation
The Codetalkers
World War II Memorial - Part 1 - Part 2
Bradley, Omar
Chamberlain, Neville
Churchill, Winston
de Gaulle, Charles
Eichmann, Adolf

World War II - European Theater
About.com
Primary Documents - Germany
Blitzkrieg!
Lend-Lease program
Battle of the Atlantic
War in Scandanavia
The German Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
Battle of Britain
Battles of Britain-1939-45
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
London During the Blitz
The Speeches of Winston Churchill
Western Europe, 1939-1940
Part 2, 1940-1944
Part 3, Normandy to Berlin, 1944-1945
France and the Low Countries
The Maginot Line
Sicily - 1943
Naples 1943-1944
The Breakthrough to Rome
North Apennines
Po Valley 1945
"Operation Overlord" - June 1944
Normandy, June 1944
The Normandy Invasion: The Story in Pictures
Voices of D-Day
The American Experience:Guts and Glory
Battle of the Bulge
The War of Attrition - 1944
Defeat of Germany - 1945
The Bombing of Dresden
Rhineland, Sep. 1944 - May 1945
North Africa
Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
Case Study North Africa
The War in the Western Desert, El Alamein
The North African Campaign Of World War II
The Russian Campaign 1941-1945 A photo diary
The German Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
The Battle of Stalingrad

World War II - Pacific Theater
Pearl Harbor
nationalgeographic.com - Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona
FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" Speech
Pacific Theater
Lost Battalion of Texas in WWII Burma
The Defense of Wake, Dec. 1941
Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
Bataan Death March
Battle of the Coral Sea
Midway - National Geographic
Midway
Guadalcanal
Invasion of Saipan
Iwo Jima, 1945
Okinawa
Japanese Surrender
Japanese War Crimes

The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
Leo Szilard Online
History of the Manhattan Project
Living on the Manhattan Project
Los Alamos National Laboratory: History
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
Trinity Test
General Paul Tibbets
Enola Gay
Eyewitness - the bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroshima
IMAGES: Hiroshima Collection
The Day The World Changed
Hiroshima Archive
Fifty Years from Trinity

Holocaust
Timeline - Popups on this site
Remember - Images
Remember - Other Camps
Gallery
Museum of Tolerance
U.S. Holocaust Museum
U.S. Holocaust Museum for Students
The Nizkor Project
The Survivors of the Shoah
M
ap of the Camps
Chart - The Camps

Conferences of WWII
The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II
German Surrender Documents
The Nuremberg Trials

Post World War II
Timeline of the Cold War
NATO and the Warsaw Pact Map
The Marshall Plan - Primary Documents
The Establishment of Occupation Zones
Postwar Germany
Department of State - Berlin Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Truman Library - Berlin Airlift
The Concrete Curtain - The Berlin Wall
Newseum - The Berlin Wall
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
CNN Interactive - The Iron Curtain
The Cold War and the Iron Curtain
Examining the Korean War
Department of Defense - Korean War
The Truman Library
The DMZ

Civil Rights
Library of Congress-African American Perspectives
Civil Rights. Table of Contents
Welcome to The National Civil Rights Museum
Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida 
African American Inventors
African American Scientists
Understanding Other Cultures - You need FLASH - Click on Understanding Other Cultures
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
MLK Online - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speec... 
Malcolm X - Official Site
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - I was a Negro in th... 
Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws 
Segregation and Jim Crow Laws 
EarthStation1.com - The Civil Rights Audio / ... 
Multimedia 
KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White  
CNN - 'Little Rock Nine' - September 24, 1997 
American History 102 Image Gallery: Ku Klux Klan
Women's History: Ku Klux Klan 

Turbulent Times
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Cuban Missle Crisis
14 Days in October
The Vietnam War in Pictures
American Experience - The Vietnam War

Project VOTE:
Election Curriculum for All Grade Levels

Constitution Day Resources:
Primary documents, lesson plans, and stories for kids

Professional Social Studies Organizations:
Links to Local, State and National Organizations

Professional Listservs:
Get the latest from TEA and Region XIII Social Studies Teams

For more information about the Social Studies curriculum, contact:


Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Department
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