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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Native Americans: Osceola ("Black Drink")

For Students 9th - 10th
This website gives a very brief biography of Osceola, the young leader of the Seminoles in the mid-1800s.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Annie Oakley

For Students 9th - 10th
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1994 of Annie Oakley, famous for her acts in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the late 1800s. Includes a short passage on her life and contributions.
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Physics4kids

Physics 4 Kids: Where Traditional Physics Stops

For Students 9th - 10th
We're about to move into the modern age of physics. In the early 1800's, scientists began examining the basis of matter, space, and time. Sometimes it gets very confusing, but the big idea is that Newton's physics describe about 90% of...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: A New National Capital: Washington, d.c.

For Students 5th - 8th
John Adams was the first president to reside in the President's House in the new capital Washington, D.C. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to be inaugurated there. Read about how this swampy area became the location of the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Treasures of Am. History: Western Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
Shown are images and descriptions of artifacts that express the challenges that the migrants, Mexicans, and Indians shared in their quest for westward expansion in the United States during the 1800s.
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University of Washington

Northwest Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis

For Students 9th - 10th
Edward and Asahel Curtis provide wonderful insight into Washington State in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Edward provides us his perceived traditions of North American Indians and Asahel photographed Washington's natural resources...
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Edward P. Allis (1824 1889)

For Students 9th - 10th
Edward P. Allis was a major manufacturer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1800s. His plants employed over 1200 people by 1889 when he died. He had progressive ideas and was known for his fair treatment of his employees.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: John R. Commons

For Students 9th - 10th
John R. Commons was known for his progressive views on social welfare and labor reform in the later 1800s. He is felt to be responsible for the beginning of Social Security in the United States.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to learn about why Laura Ingalls Wilder is a writer hero and learn about her life as pioneer girl in the late 1800s.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Immigration

For Teachers 5th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the analysis of documentary photos, discusses immigration to the USA in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Booker T. Washington and w.e.b. Du Bois

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart compares and contrasts the African American leaders of the late 1800's and early 1900's. It includes Venn Diagrams, quotes, pictures, and poetry.
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Other

The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Pabst Mansion was the home of Captain Frederick Pabst, who, among other things, owned a large beer brewery in Milwaukee in the 1800s. The mansion is now an historical building open to the public. Some of its history is described here.
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University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Walter Reed and James Carroll

For Students 9th - 10th
Walter Reed served in the US Army Medical Corps in the late 1800s. James Carroll pursued his medical degree after enlisting in the US Army. This site details the efforts of these men and others who worked to pin down the way Yellow Fever...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
History of the development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which was part of the canal boom in early 1800s.
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Ancestry

Ok Gen Web Project: The Chisholm Trail and the Overland Cattle Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the establishment and use of the Chisholm Trail for cattle drives in the mid- to late-1800s.
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US National Archives

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library: Pioneering Journeys of the Ingalls Family

For Students 4th - 6th
Growing up in the late 1800's was not an easy life, especially when your family was always on the move searching for a farm. Laura Ingalls Wilder led a challenging childhood of moving often and falling on hard times. Trace her journeys...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Nine Banded Armadillo

For Students 4th - 8th
The tank-like Nine-banded Armadillo's range has greatly expanded northward in the last 100 years. In the mid-1800s it was found only as far north as southern Texas; by the 1970s it lived in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee; now...
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize History: The Industrial Revolution

For Students 5th - 7th
In the 1800's learning became accessible for the poorest of people. In Great Britain, a system of secondary schools was established and the government passed acts making education attendance compulsory.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Belle Case La Follette

For Students 9th - 10th
Belle Case La Follette was married to Bob La Follette, who was elected to Congress for several terms in the late 1800s. But Belle Case La Follette was very accomplished in her own right. Well educated, a lawyer, a teacher, a journalist...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides interesting facts and important information about the idea of Manifest Destiny and details of Westward Expansion in the United States over a fifty-year time span in the 1800s.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Urbanization in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This article contains interesting facts and information about Urbanization in America in the late 1800s which was fueled by the Industrial Revolution and Industrialization.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: The Greek Olympic Games

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how the Olympic games started in ancient Greece. In 394 A.D., Emperor Theodosius I abolished the Olympics and they were not revived until the late 1800s.
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Gold Mining in the Uwharries

For Students 9th - 10th
In the early decades of the 1800s, the southern Piedmont's gold mines attracted prospectors, investors, and miners. Tar Heel gold had first been found in 1799 on John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, several miles west of the Uwharrie...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Rover Boys on the Ocean by Edward Stratemeyer

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys on the Ocean, the second book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...

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