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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Who Am I? (Portrait Puzzler)

For Students 9th - 10th
Match the portraits of eight famous Americans who played major roles in the American Revolution with their famous deeds. A short exercise that can be used by individual learners to test their understanding of basic U.S. history content...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Making Rules

For Students 5th - 8th
Follow the incremental process that the colonial leaders took over a ten-year period of time making new rules that would finally result in independence from Great Britain. See how many of them really didn't plan on independence, but that...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 1 2

For Students 11th - 12th
Week 1: Why study immigration? What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people? Week 2: Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America:...
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The History Place

The History Place: The Past Into the Future: Main Exhibits

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Informative website focussing on American history from the Colonial period to present-day. Many on-line exhibits include timelines, photographs and famous quotes.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Great Awakening

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Great Awakening and how the Protestant Revivalism effected England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Colonial Society and Culture the Enlightenment

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of how the Age of Enlightenment influenced the American colonies in thought, Benjamin Franklin, and the colony of Georgia.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the American colonists response to the Intolerable Acts and how it began to unify the colonists.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Taxation Without Representation Uproar Over the Stamp Act

For Students 9th - 11th
An overview of the American colonist reaction to the Stamp Act.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Townshend Acts and Committees of Correspondence during American colonial times.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transatlantic Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Transatlantic Trade whereby Europe, Africa, and the America's engaged in a network of people, raw materials, finished goods, merchants, and sailors bringing wealth to colonial empires. The consequences of the...