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Digital History

Digital History: New Deal Programs [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's an exercise in which students use data provided about possible New Deal programs and lets them decide which are economically feasible and helpful as a way to address the Great Depression. Use the provided chart to keep track of...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Sharecropping

For Students 9th - 10th
Three articles about the effects of sharecropping, a farming system that became prevalent after the Civil War for blacks and whites.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Penny for Your Thoughts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an outline for a week-long lesson usually taught in the month of February around President's Day. It is an interdisciplinary study combining coin identification with a literature-based study of the Presidents represented on the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Marshall County

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create computer models based both on contemporary maps and primary sources to explore the role of the Tennessee Valley Authority's hydroelectric projects in altering more than 75 miles of the natural landscape and in...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 8: Huey P. Long's Political Legacy

For Teachers 8th - 9th
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the political legacy of Huey P. Long.
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Curated OER

Fact Monster: Famous Presidential Speeches

For Students 3rd - 8th
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and others have their famous presidential speeches captured in this database.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Edwin Witte, 1887 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
Edwin Witte was known as the founder of Social Security, having created the plan for it when he worked on the Committee on Economic Security under President Franklin Roosevelt. This is a biography of his life.
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New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Great Depression and the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part of a wonderful website devoted to researching and teaching the Great Depression and the New Deal. These pages are focused specifically on the arts during this time.
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New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Works of Fdr: A Message to the Congress on Social Security

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of FDR's speech to Congress on January 17, 1935, regarding Social Security.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 7: 1890 1945

For Students 11th - 12th
This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History Period 5: 1890-1945.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Fdr's First Inaugural Address

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Features background on FDR and his platform for dealing with the Great Depression. Included are primary source documents of his first inaugural address and photos related to his New Deal programs.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Russell Freedman Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the author Russell Freedman when you visit this site. This resource provides a biography, an interview transcript, a booklist and more.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Fdr Fireside Chats

For Students 9th - 10th
A nine-part learning module with links to videos, websites, and images to use while learning about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Fireside Chats.
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A&E Television

History.com: This Is How Fdr Tried to Pack the Supreme Court

For Students 9th - 10th
When his New Deal legislation kept getting struck down, FDR proposed a law targeting justices over the age of 70.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Table of Contents

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.org provides a page of links (all on the same server) to various speeches and documents given and written by Franklin D. Roosevelt which is related to foreign policy.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: A Prayer for Overlord, a Commentary

For Students 9th - 10th
This commentary summarizes the Normandy Invasion, from its plan to its execution, intertwined with passages of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prayer to the nation on June 6, 1944.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Treasures: Memo From Stalin

For Students 9th - 10th
Stalin's memo to representative W. Averell Harriman following a conference with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill on military planning of WWII against Hitler.
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Lin and Don Donn

American History Lesson Plans: Fdr's Fireside Chats

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A great lesson plan to examine Franklin D. Roosevelt's first fireside chat and apply the format in explaining a current economic problem.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on FDR's New Deal provides detailed facts and a summary of a series of relief programs during the Great Depression.
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270 To Win

270towin: 1940 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1940 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt. This election was the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to a third term as president.
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270 To Win

270towin: 1936 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1936 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s.
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270 To Win

270towin: 1944 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1944 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a record fourth term.
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Indiana University

Wpa Exhibit Project: The Works Projects Administration in Indiana

For Students 9th - 10th
Although this site concerns itself with the WPA in Indiana, the information provides a good overall look at the Works Progress Administration in the rest of country during the New Deal era.
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: United States History: The Second New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how as a result of mounting criticisms and a need for more economic relief and recovery, FDR introduced another series of programs, known as the Second New Deal, aimed at fighting unemployment and poverty and...

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