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Push and Pull Factors: Tug O' War

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the factors that led to migration in the 19th century including the forces that drew people to resettle as well as to return a place where they previously lived.
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Slavery

For Students 4th - 8th
In this slavery worksheet, students view pictures of slavery and complete multiple choice questions and fill in the blanks to sentences about it. Students complete 5 activities.
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Lives of Native Americans and Settlers

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Learners assess the effect of contact between the Native Americans and Europeans after 1492. They explore the lives of the early European colonists and the Native Americans living along the East Coast of North America. Lesson contains...
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Whitewashing Southern History

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss the fact and fiction of slavery in the South. After viewing a video on two New Orleans plantations, they determine the accuracy of the facts presented. In the computer lab, they visit various sites and examine which ones...
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Home Ties

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the reasons people choose to migrate including political, economic and familial motivations. They interview family members and compare their ancestors own reasons for migration to those of African American urban migrants.
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Unsung Military Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this lesson, students are introduced to the contributions made by African-American soldiers that have been excluded from traditional textbooks. To gain an appreciation for these unsung heroes, students engage in research to ultimately...
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Human Rights Violations

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore how human rights are different in each part of the world.  In this freedome lesson, students define human rights, research how human rights in one country ultimately affect other countries, and share their findings...
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Forest Joe Lesson Plan: Outlaw or Hero?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners become familiar with an American legend that is unfamiliar to many. Presented with the legend of Forest Joe, a runaway slave who, much like Robin Hood, stole from the rich to give to the poor, students draw comparisons and...
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African American Emigration: Turner and McNeal

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss reasons why African Americans may have wanted to emigrate from the United States followig the Civil War. They complete a Venn diagram noting the differences between proposals by Marcus Garvey and Henry McNeal Turner.
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Little America in Liberia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the history of Liberia prior to and after the influx of immigrants of African Americans. They investigate the cultural differences between the African Americans and newly-arrived Liberians.
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Open Door, Closed Door Lesson Plan: Discrimination in Immigration And Migration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read The Northern Migration and research immigration policies of different nations for the past and the present. They create a bulletin board or spreadsheet using their information.
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Trusting Statistics Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read a section of the Runaway Journey narrative and conduct a survey. They use survey statistics to question their validity and decide why a respondent might not answer truthfully.
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Mixing Races in New Orleans

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss the changes in the legal, social, and political status of African Americans and those of mixed ethnicity after reading the narrative, Haitian Immigration: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
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The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Introductory Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Nine full-color, excellent quality maps depicting the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, each with an interpretation and explanation of the voyages portrayed during the specific time period.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: African Societies and Atlantic Slave Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
The beginning of the Atlantic slave trade uprooted previously established societal norms in West Africa.
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Rothman and Burdumy: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
Time-lapsed heatmap visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Data from Transatlantic Slave Trade Database mapped in a three-part depiction of voyages, ship disembarkment location and ship arrival location in the Americas.
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Slave Images: Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has thousand of photos, drawings, and prints dealing with slavery, most of them dating from the period of Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
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Emory University: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages

For Students 9th - 10th
Take advantage of this thorough database covering all of the voyages which participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia article describing slavery in Colonial Georgia and the role that Savannah played in slave trade from 1755 to as late as 1858.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The African American Migration Story

For Students 9th - 10th
From the transatlantic slave trade to today's New Great Migration, learn about the major African-American migrations and how those movements changed the course of American history.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Slave Trade, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A West African map and three accounts of the development of slave acquisition display the process and the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Atlantic Slave Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief but sobering look at the slave trade and the number of slaves in the New World in the 16th, 17th, and early 17th centuries. Slaves could be found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Forced Crossings

For Students 9th - 10th
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people in history. A view into the world of the slave ships with accompanying photos of artifacts and documents are included in this exhibit.
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The Triangular Slave Trade Project: Teachers' Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Although this is promoted as a teachers' guide, this page offers a little history and a lot of project ideas related to triangular trade that could be very helpful to students as well.