U.S. History ACTIVITIES Bundle: 1600s to the 1980s (100+ Activities!)
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Planning your U.S. history course from pre-colonization through the 1980s? Check out this bundle of 100+ activities to save yourself prep time! Get students active and engaged with these student-centered activities!
This bundle includes:
25+ Worksheets/Reading Activities
- Native Americans and America Before Columbus Readings & Group Activity
- Enlightenment Influence on the American Revolution Worksheet
- American Revolution Warm-Up Readings (7)
- Patriots’ Primary Sources: Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine
- Washington’s Farewell Address (Group Jigsaw)
- Alien and Sedition Acts Worksheet
- Understanding Judicial Review: What if it didn’t exist?
- Frontier Experiences on the American West Readings
- Texas Annexation Debates Worksheet
- Opposition to the Mexican-American War Readings
- Compromise of 1850: Notes + Worksheet/Role-Taking Perspective Activity
- Reading on Battle of Little Bighorn and Massacre at Wounded Knee
- Labor in the Gilded Age: Primary Source analysis for Workers’ Unions & Big Business
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Students Tweet as Eyewitnesses
- Nativist Primary Sources: Speeches about the Immigration Act of 1924
- United States v. Susan B. Anthony Court Case Worksheet + Creative Postcard Summary
- Progressive Amendment Worksheet: 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th Amendments
- Introductory Worksheet to the Progressive Era on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Carrie Nation’s work in Prohibition/Temperance
- Understanding World War I Reading (Covers the causes of WWI like alliances, militarism, imperialism, etc.)
- W.E.B. Du Bois's "Close Ranks" & Writings about African Americans in WWI
- Helen Keller's "Strike Against the War" Anti-WWI Speech
- Treatment of American Veterans Reading and Research Activity (Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam War)
- Cold War Primary Source Worksheet & Key (Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, and Soviet Perspective)
- Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" Speech
- Cesar Chavez Speech Reading
- Warren Court: Learn the Miranda v. Arizona, Escobedo v. Illinois, Engel v. Vitale, and Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court Cases
15+ Stations/Gallery Walks/Document Packets
- Race, Slavery, and Violence in the American Colonies
- Remembering the American Revolution Stations
- Lewis and Clark and Corps of Discovery Gallery Walk
- Market Revolution and American System Gallery Walk
- Civil War Politics Stations: Draft Riots, Greenbacks, Emancipation Proclamation, etc.
- Reconstruction Stations, Handout, and Key: Amendments, Jim Crow, etc.
- Native Americans: Dawes Act, Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn: Notes, Worksheets, and Stations
- Chinese Immigration & Anti-Chinese Xenophobia in the American West
- Analyzing Imperialism: Stations on the Spanish-American War, U.S. Involvement in China, Philippines, Cuba, and more
- Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy Stations
- The American Homefront During WWI Stations
- Great Depression Photo Analysis Gallery Walk
- Japanese American Internment Camps Stations
- Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Stations
- Cold War on the U.S. Home Front: Red Scare, Space Race, etc.
- 1960s Protest Gallery: Comparing the Anti-Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movements
- Protests Against the Vietnam War
- Latinx Civil Rights Movement Gallery Walk and Guided Notes
- Women’s Movement: Notes, Worksheet & Key, and Stations Activity on the ERA, Roe v. Wade, etc.
20+ Projects/Creative Activities
- French and Indian War Movie Poster Activity
- American Colonies Real Estate Agent Infomercials with Slides & Guided Notes
- American Patriots Business Cards Activity
- African Americans, Native Americans, Women, & Spies in the American Revolution Project
- Grade the Articles of Confederation Project (Assessing the Early U.S. Government)
- Constitutional Issues Presentations: Comparing the Convention to Today’s Issues
- Critical Period Editorial or Political Cartoon Activity
- Election of 1824: John Quincy Adams v Jackson Presidential Stump Speech Activity
- Sectionalism Rap Battle in the Antebellum: North vs. South vs. West in the 1800s
- Antebellum Presidents Campaign Activity: Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, etc.
- Abolitionist Propaganda Group Activity: Douglass, Garrison, Walker, Jacobs w/ NOTES
- Gold Rush Newspaper
- Antebellum Project: Essay, Newscast, Magazine, Timeline of the 1820s-1850s
- Ranking the Presidents: Research + Creative Activity for Presidential Legacies
- Robber Barons Social Media Influencers Project
- Life Under Jim Crow: Museum Exhibit About Segregation Project
- Progressive Era Project: Report Card for Reformers
- Progressive Era: Intro Worksheet, Notes, and Progressive Reformers Dialogue Project
- Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the New Deal Tic Tac Toe Project
- Korean War Photo Captions Activity (plus Notes & Primary Source Worksheet)
- 1980s Video Project: Reaganomics, Berlin Wall, Iran-Contra Affair, Chernobyl, & more!
4 Writing Assignments
- “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston: Harlem Renaissance Creative Writing Activity
- Writing About Pearl Harbor Creative Writing Activity
- Cold War Research Paper: Compare and Contrast Conflict in Cuba, Berlin, Vietnam, and/or Korea
- History of the Vietnam War Reading + Analysis + Creative Writing Activity
5 Simulations/Collaborative Learning
- Make Your Own Mayflower Compact Reading + Activity
- Joint Stock Company Simulation
- Investigating the Burr v. Hamilton Duel
- Are You a Robber Baron? Personality Quiz (+ notes!)
- Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War Protest Groups: Era of Social Change Woodstock Reformers Simulation
9 Political Cartoon Analysis Activities
- Monroe Doctrine Political Cartoon Analysis & Era of Good Feelings NOTES
- Andrew Jackson: 8 Political Cartoons Analysis-Stations/Gallery Walk, Jigsaw
- Emancipation Proclamation Political Cartoon Analysis
- Reconstruction Era Political Cartoon Analysis
- Spanish-American War Political Cartoon Analysis
- Gilded Age Political Machines Cartoon Analysis (Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall)
- Nativism Political Cartoon Analysis: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the Gilded Age
- Women's Suffrage Movement Cartoon Analysis
- Vietnam War Political Cartoon Analysis
These activities are perfect for classes with a short, teacher-centered introduction of content before letting students dive into the material themselves. Use these student-centered activities in your American History classroom and save yourself lots of time!
Note: The majority of these resources are PDFs/Zip files unless otherwise noted with "Google Drive Folder" description.
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