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Siteseen: American Historama: Nat Turner's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of the short-lived slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview and detailed facts about the impact of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case on racial segregation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Black Codes

For Students 9th - 10th
Southern states enacted laws known as Black Codes to restrict the freedom of ex-slaves in the South during the Reconstruction Era.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Jim Crow Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Jim Crow Laws, Southern laws that legalized segregation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Panic of 1873

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Panic of 1873, a serious six-year long economic crisis that led to riots, strikes and civil unrest.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Carpetbaggers

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides facts and information about the Carpetbaggers, opportunist Northerners who went to the South during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1866

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was to protect ex-slaves (Freedmen) from legislation in the Southern States such as the Black Codes and the Vagrancy Laws and help African Americans obtain equal status under the law.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Amistad Slave Ship

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 1839 Amistad rebellion involving 53 African slaves who had been abducted from Sierra Leone by Spanish slavers being shipped to Cuba.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Underground Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and fun facts about the Underground Railroad, a secret organization that helped slaves escape from the bondage of slavery in the Southern slave states to freedom in the free states, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Mc Cormick Reaper

For Students 9th - 10th
Read interesting facts about Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical horse-drawn reaper 1n 1831.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Statue of Liberty Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Fun facts and interesting information about The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America, the land of freedom and opportunity.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Molly Maguires

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania who led the 'Long Strike of 1875' which resulted in 20 members being unjustly hanged for murder.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Taft Hartley Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Important information and fun facts about the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, a major revision of the 1935 Wagner Act.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Haymarket Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 1886 Haymarket Riot that was perpetrated by anarchists at a Chicago labor rally.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Spoils System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Spoils System during Andrew Jackson's presidency that was based on the policy of removing political opponents from federal offices and replacing them with party loyalists.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Knights of Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting details about the Knights of Labor, the first major American labor union to be established.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Titanic

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information and fun facts about the sinking of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Elias Howe Sewing Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and fun information on Elias Howe who invented the world's first practical sewing machine in 1846.
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Siteseen: American Historama: First Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting details about the first electrical telegraph developed in the United States by Samuel Morse in 1837. Morse also developed the Morse Code alphabet.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides interesting facts and important information about the idea of Manifest Destiny and details of Westward Expansion in the United States over a fifty-year time span in the 1800s.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Wright Brothers Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn numerous fun facts about the first powered airplane flight by the Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Alcatraz

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides facts about the Alcatraz Prison history, its famous prisoners, life in the prison, and the attempted escapes from Alcatraz.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Kent State Shooting

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed and interesting information pertaining to the four students shot dead at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Watts Riots 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1965, the Watts Riots broke out in an African American neighborhood in Los Angeles sparked by allegations of police brutality.