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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: How Does Government Secure Natural Rights?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to some basic ideas the Framers used in creating the kind of government they thought would best protect the natural rights of each individual and promote the good of all. At the end of the lesson, students...
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Curated OER

History Matters: "I Will Not Promise the Moon"

For Students 9th - 10th
As a candidate for President in 1936, Alf Landon gave a speech opposing the Social Security Act. Read his reasons for not supporting the law and why he didn't think that workers should be forced to save for their retirement.
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Other

Fac: Curfews, Loitering, and Freedom of Association

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article offers a well-documented overview of this constitutional freedom, as well as an FAQ section and additional cases and resources focused specifically on this aspect of the First Amendment. (Published Sept. 16, 2002 /...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: The Fourteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
The background essay provided in this lesson plan on the later ramifications of the 14th Amendment explains the Congressional legislation of all types during Reconstruction. Click on the 'View' button to read the Amendment.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Age of Jefferson and Madison

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] After a brief description of Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's contributions to the early ideology and government of the new United States in their authorship of the Declaration of Independence and...
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Other

Conflict in Northern Ireland: A Background Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
A very helpful essay on the history of the conflict containing an outline of the history of the Irish conflict, brief descriptions of the main contemporary parties and interests in the conflict, and an overview of approaches to managing...
Primary
University of Chicago

The Founders' Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Chicago provides thousands of primary source documents concerning the diverse contents of the Constitution. Documents underlying the proposed Constitution, as well as documents of the time debating the proposed...
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945: Teddy Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 6: 1865 1898: Politics in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The politics in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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Other

Cain: Background on the Northern Ireland Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to essays, personal accounts, photographs and other resource materials that provide detailed background information on the conflict and politics of the Northern Ireland Conflict.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article defines the term republic, discusses the characteristics of a republican government, examines significant republican governments throughout history, and looks at different types of republican governments in the...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Presidential Politics: Lyndon B. Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read about the 1964 election, through which Republicans planned to "unseat President Lyndon Johnson." Learn about the man nominated by the Republicans, Barry Goldwater, about Johnson's own feelings of inadequacy, and about the 1964...
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Other

Are We a Democracy or a Republic?

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay on the present political state in America contending the country is leaning further towards a republican form of government instead of a democracy. Defines and explains the major differences between democracy and republicanism...
Article
Harp Week

Harp Week: Elections: 1872: Grant v. Greeley

For Students 9th - 10th
The re-election campaign of Republican Ulysses S. Grant versus the Liberal Republican, Horace Greeley.
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Other

Us News and World Report: Teddy Roosevelt, on the Bull Moose Party Ticket

For Students 9th - 10th
A great explanation of the divide in the Republican Party in the campaign of 1912, which resulted in Theodore Roosevelt becoming a third-party candidate. Read about the vying between two Progressives, one Democratic and one previously...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Life of George Washington: Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the last chapter of a biography of Washington which was written only eight years after his death by David Ramsay, a man who had known Washington personally, and who had been "an active player in the momentous events of America's...
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Benjamin Harrison: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the subdued campaign and election of 1888 where the Republicans took control of the presidency, House of Represenatives, and Senate. Find out how Benjamin Harrison was selected as the Republican presidential candidate.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: Mc Cain, John Sidney, Iii 1936 2018

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the political career of John McCain, Republican Senator and a Representative from Arizona. He was also the unsuccessful Republican nominee for President of the United States in 2008.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Wall Street Speech, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A "bloody shirt" speech from Robert Ingersoll that emphasizes the virtue of Republican candidates and attacks Democrats as traitors during the Civil War.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1928

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed data for the presidential election of 1928, which was won by Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1876

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides electoral data for the presidential election of 1876 won by Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1888

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed electoral data for the presidential election of 1888 won by Republican candidate, Benjamin Harrison.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed electoral data for the presidential election of 1864 won by Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed data for the presidential election of 1872 won by Republican nominee, Ulysses S. Grant.

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