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This worksheet helps students take notes as they watch the Dr. Toer's documentary on the progress and problems experienced by freed slaves during Reconstruction.

In this activity, students watch the documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl in sections, with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the film's key concepts: workers challenging the effects of industrial capitalism, the…

These words and phases from the Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl documentary may be unfamiliar to students.

This worksheet is designed to help students focus on the information presented during the first two minutes of theHeaven Will Protect the Working Girl documentary.

In this activity, students watch a short clip from the ASHP documentary 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation to learn about the impact of railroad expansion on Americans and the nation as a whole. After watching the clip, students complete the…

This worksheet is designed to help students organize information from the documentary Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War.

These words and phrases from the Up South documentary may be unfamiliar to students.

In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, sharecropping,…

This is a writing prompt for the Active Viewing: Up South activity.

In this activity, students watch short clips of the PBS/A Bill Moyers Special production of Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (2003). The documentary clips and accompanying materials cover the arrival of Chinese in California, their work on…
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