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Teachnology: Social Studies Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of history-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
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Redistricting America: Baker v. Carr
Charles Baker, a resident of an urban neighborhood in Tennessee, filed suit in federal court against Joe Carr, then Secretary of State of Tennessee. Baker sought a court injunction to postpone elections until the State had fulfilled its...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Big City Politics, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ash Can School artist John Sloan's painting Election Night captures the exuberance of urban politics in the early-twentieth century, and artist Henry Glitkencamp's illustration Voting Machines suggests its corrupting power. Both pieces...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Gift Economy?
What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town...
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States
Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1844 1877: Reconstruction: The First Kkk
Explains how the Ku Klux Klan came into existence and how they terrorized African Americans as well as those who sympathized with them. The Klan would suppress the black vote so that Democrats had a better chance of winning an election...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Lesson Plan: The Presidential Nominating System
This lesson plan may be used to introduce students to the system of primaries and caucuses by which candidates for U.S. president are nominated by their parties. After completing this lesson plan, students will understand the process by...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Lesson: The Presidential Nominating System
This instructional activity may be used to introduce students to the system of primaries and caucuses by which candidates for U.S. president are nominated by their parties. After completing this instructional activity, students will...
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: The Compromise of 1877
An explanation of the need for a compromise in 1877 and a review of Reconstruction overall.
Digital History
Digital History: Rise of Democratic Politics
Although difficult to comprehend, after the demise of the Federalists, there was essentially just one political party in the United States for about a decade. Read about the rise of the new two-party system and how the attack on...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
Read Works
Read Works: Russia Un United?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Russian protests of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Julie Weise, "2016: The Year Nativism Conquered the South"
This article focuses on South's change of heart toward undocumented immigrants from Mexico especially regarding their votes during the 1916 Presidential election of the anti-immigration Trump.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Electoral College
Discover how the United States elects its president by using an Electoral College. A map shows how the Electoral College's 538 members are distributed throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 17th Amendment
This article provides an explanation and summary of the 17th Amendment that stated that people will directly elect Senators.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tabella
Tabella, a billet or tablet, with which each citizen and judex voted in the comitia and courts of justice. In the comitia, if the business was the passing of a law, each citizen was provided with two tabellae, one inscribed V.R. I vote...
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The History Place: On Women's Right to Vote
At this site from The History Place, you can read online Susan B. Anthony's speech given after her arrest for an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872, she was tried and fined. Read her words and her conviction on the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Almon Wheeler
William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 - June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States. When Congress voted a pay raise in 1873 and made it retroactive for five years, Wheeler not...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Washington (1789)
The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to receive 100% of electoral votes. John Adams was elected vice president. Washington took the oath of office as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Samuel Jones Tilden
(1814-1886) Democratic presidential candidate in the election of 1876 against Rutherford B. Hayes, who one by only one electoral vote.
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Library of Congress: American Memory: Mrs. Belle Sherwin
Mrs. Belle Sherwin, president of the National League of Women Voters, casts her ballot, 1928.