U.S. History: Primary Source READINGS & Worksheets BUNDLE (1600s-1980s)

Check out this bundle of American History 30+ worksheets covering a variety of topics from the 1600s-1980s! These worksheets can supplement your regular teaching, serve as an independent work packet, or be used in homeschooling for student engagement with major topics of American history!

THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES:

Primary Source Readings

• Settling Jamestown Reading and Writing Activity
• American Revolution Warm-Ups (Mix of Primary and Secondary Sources including Federalist No. 10, and the Declaration of Independence)
• Enlightenment Influence on the American Revolution
• Patriots’ Primary Sources: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty” speech (with KEY)
• Washington’s Farewell Address (set-up as a group activity, but can be done individually if needed) (with KEY)
• Alien and Sedition Acts Reading Worksheet (with KEY)
• Tecumseh's Speech for Native Resistance (plus War of 1812 notes) (with KEY)
• Antebellum Reform Movements: 8 documents with questions (with KEY)
• Early Women’s Movement Primary Sources (includes excerpts from Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?”, Frederick Douglass on women’s rights, excerpts from Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention and the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”) (with KEY)
• Experiences on the Frontier Primary Sources from the West
• Texas Annexation Debates (with KEY)
• Opposition to the Mexican-American War (from Abraham Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau) with Notes (with KEY)
• “Shut the Door” Anti-Immigration and Nativist Speech Worksheet (with KEY)
• Labor in the Gilded Age: "Workingman’s Commandments" Primary Source (with KEY)
• United States v. Susan B. Anthony Court Case Worksheet + Creative Writing Summary Worksheet (with KEY)
• Progressive Era Reforms: 2 intro readings from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Carrie Nation as a temperance/prohibition reformer
• Zora Neale Hurston’s “How It Feels to be Colored Me” Harlem Renaissance Reading + Creative Writing Activity
• Cold War Primary Sources Worksheet: Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, the Truman Doctrine, and a Soviet Perspective (with KEY)
• Cesar Chavez Primary Source Worksheet: Reflecting on the work of the Chicano Movement and the United Farm Workers Union (with KEY)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" Speech Worksheet: Outlining his opposition to the Vietnam War (with KEY)
• Women’s Movement: Includes a worksheet with Gloria Steinem’s speech supporting the Equal Rights Amendments (plus 12 other documents on the women’s movement + questions) (with KEY)

Secondary Source Readings

• How did Native Americans Transform the World? Reading and Questions
• Guns and Ships Lyrics Analysis from Hamilton: The Musical
• American Revolution Warm-Ups (Mix of Primary and Secondary Sources including readings on the Sons of Liberty, Loyalists, African-Americans in the Revolution, & the failures of the Articles of Confederation)
• Ending Slavery Worksheet: Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, and Juneteenth (+Notes) (with KEY)
• Native American Experiences in the late 1880s: Worksheet on Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn (with KEY)
• Understanding the Causes of World War I Worksheet (with KEY)
• Vietnam War Reading + Analysis Chart (plus, NOTES) (with KEY)
• Warren Court Worksheet: Miranda v. Arizona, Escobedo v. Illinois, Engel v. Vitale, and Tinker v. Des Moines

Political Cartoon Analysis Activities

• Monroe Doctrine Political Cartoon Analysis (also includes Era of Good Feelings notes)
• Gilded Age Cartoons: Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall Cartoon Analysis
• Nativism Political Cartoon Analysis: Nativist Cartoons from the Gilded Age (with KEY)

And More...

• Compromise of 1850 Notes + Perspective Activity
• Progressive Amendment Worksheet
• Creative Writing Activity on Pearl Harbor
• Understanding Judicial Review: What If It Did Not Exist?

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Most of the worksheets are in PDF forms and/or in zip files.

I used these worksheets in my American History classes. If you are seeking a distance learning activity and trying to compile a variety of American history resources, this resource can help you! You can print these for packets and/or post the PDF resources on your Google Classroom page.

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