Age Range: 9-18 (Varies from grades 3-12, with most of the activities currently designed for grades 6-8)
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1890)
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Great Depressions and World War II (1929-1945)
- Postwar United States (1945-1970s)
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Click on any one to access an activity. For example, in the section on "The Development of the Industrial United States" you'll find an activity in which students use documents and photographs from the archives to discover how the passage of the Homestead Act during Lincoln's Presidency provided incentives for immigrants to move west and populate the United States.
By clicking on the words "Start Activity" students can:
- Read the Homestead Act
- See pictures of Lincoln and Daniel Freeman (the first person to receive a Homestead Act certificate)
- Explore maps of the Nebraska and Kansas Territories with the location of Native-American tribes
- Read the Pacific Railroad Act and see pictures of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Read the Fort Laramie Treaty and the first report of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
