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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sacagawea

For Students 9th - 10th
Sacagawea is best known for joining Louis and Clark on their expedition westward from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Lesson Plan: Sacagawea

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this instructional activity, students will learn about Sacagawea and her contributions to the Corps of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 3: The Growing Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...
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US Mint

United States Mint: 2005 Westward Journey Nickel Series Designs

For Students 9th - 10th
To commemorate the bicentennials of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition, the U.S. Mint modified the nickel to reflect these national milestones. This page has images of the 2005 obverse design of President Jefferson...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Journeys West

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of lessons utilizing primary texts, including narratives, photographs, and maps, through which students explore the following question: "What motivated thousands of people to journey west during the 1800s?"
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US Mint

U.s. Mint: Our Goal Pole [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this four-part lesson, students will demonstate knowledge of the sequencing of events by studying the westward journey, use terms that indicate the sequence of events and demonstrate an understanding of certain historical figures in...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Library Exhibit: Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual library exhibit which explores how the United States history and Indian peoples along the expedition route, came together over two hundred years ago, and how they remain intertwined today.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: United States History Map: The Nation Expands

For Students 9th - 10th
After examining a map showing the expansion of the United States, click to read about each addition to the country and see where that addition is. Play Expansion Concentration to test your skills.
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University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Thomas Jefferson

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a biography of Thomas Jefferson that includes information on his early career, prelude to the presidency, and his presidency.
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: States and Territories: Indian Territory

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery subject, the Indian...
Primary
US National Archives

Nara: American Originals

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of important documents highlighting events in United States history. These at one point were on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building. Each document is accompanied by a short description of its significance.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Lewis and Clark in Pennsylvania

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the role Lewis and Clark played in history of Pennsylvania in this detailed account. Contained within this site are links to video, maps, and pictorial images of this era.
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Other

Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs: Progress Made Visible

For Students 9th - 10th
Find information on the four major expositions of the last half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the United States. Primary sources tout the progress in America over the century and celebrate the American spirit.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Importance of the West

For Students 5th - 8th
Westward migration, west of the Appalachians, resulted in a rapid population growth. Read about where the population exploded, and why the inland rivers were so important to the growth.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Executive Privilege

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this interactive timeline on excutive privilege in the United States.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Thomas Jefferson, Son of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpted from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, this essay offers details of Thomas Jefferson's life and his long and varied career.
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University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska Lincoln: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about this historic journey to the Pacific Ocean and back through the most extensive collection of journals, images, and audio files. This online collection of full text entries lets you explore the journey through the journals of...
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Other

U.s. Genealogy Map Project: u.s. Border/land Claims 1804 1823

For Students 9th - 10th
A great map and a list of the acquisitions and border changes of the United States from 1804 to 1823. A concise resource showing Western expansion.
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University of Oregon

Mapping History Project: Missouri Compromise: 1820

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive map showing free states and territories and slave states and territories before and after the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Click on the map to choose before or after and the key. Shockwave required.
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Other

Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation

For Students 3rd - 8th
A 10-minute movie showing the expansion of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. Follow the directions to start the movie and listen to the explanations.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cole, the Oxbow

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape paintings which embodied the beauty and grandeur of the American wilderness during the first half of the nineteenth century. When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: The Mississippi Territory (1814)

For Students 9th - 10th
An 1814 American map of the territory of the lower Mississippi valley; part of the larger Louisiana Purchase that President Jefferson purchased from the French in 1803.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Missouri State History for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Missouri including early explorers, Native Americans, Louisiana Purchase, Gateway to the West, and the Civil War on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Montana State History for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students can learn about the history and timeline of the state of Montana including early explorers, Native Americans, Louisiana Purchase, and becoming a state on this website.

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