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Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Native American Culture of the Southeast

For Students 9th - 10th
The dominant Mississippian culture of the Southeast signaled agricultural success and urban development for a variety of Native American groups.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson

For Students 9th - 10th
Andrew Jackson was the president for the common man. Under his rule, American democracy flourished as never before- but the economy and the Native American population suffered at his hands.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Indian Wars/ Battle of the Little Big Horn

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late nineteenth century, the US Army clashed with Native Americans, and General Custer took his last stand.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Dawes Act

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1887 law intended to assimilate Native Americans led to the loss of millions of acres of land.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Reservation System

For Students 9th - 10th
In the nineteenth century, Native Americans were confined to reservations to open up land for white settlers.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Indian Removal

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In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson pursued a policy of Indian Removal, forcing Native Americans living in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi to trek hundreds of miles to territory in present-day Oklahoma.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The War of 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
The War of 1812 pitted US forces against those of Great Britain in a battle for control over the destiny of the North American continent.
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Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the West

For Students 9th - 10th
Native American peoples throughout the Western region determined their unique lifestyle by their proximity and abundance of natural resources. This article discusses their food practices, social structures, and religious norms.
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Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Northeast

For Students 9th - 10th
Hopewellian culture dominated the Northeast region from 200 BCE to 500 CE, where Native American groups began large-scale three-sister farming. Read more about these tribes and find out why many historians argue that the Iroquois League...
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Like Native Americans, Mexican Americans and Chinese immigrants suffered harsh consequences due to relentless westward expansion by whites in the nineteenth century.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The Presidency of John Quincy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
John Quincy Adams narrowly beat Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1824. Though his 'American System' modernized the American economy, his endorsement of a protective tariff as well as his lenient stance toward Native...
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History.com: Deb Haaland, Us Interior Secretary, on How She's Influenced by History

For Students 9th - 10th
In early 2021, Deb Haaland was sworn in as the secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, making her the first Native American cabinet secretary in the history of the United States. A tribal member of the Laguna Pueblo, she was...
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
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Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived in the southwestern region of the modern United States; they constructed elaborate buildings and began the American farming tradition.
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Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
Indigenous people on the Plains farmed and hunted, living both nomadically and in established villages. Read more about their culture in this article.
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Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony and Rhode Island. The internal and external struggles with these colonies is discussed including the Salem Witch Trials, King Philip's War,...
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History: From Cliff Swellings to Statehood

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource traces the history of Colorado from its earliest inhabitants to its admittance as the thirty-eighth state of the union.
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Khan Academy: Eastern Shoshone: Hide Painting of the Sun Dance

For Students 9th - 10th
Painting on animal hides is a longstanding tradition of the Great Basin and Great Plains people of the United States. Painting, in tandem with oral traditions, functioned to record history.Cotsiogo, a member of the Eastern Shoshone...
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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...