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Analysis Worksheet for Colonial New York Slave Codes: Pedro's Walk

This worksheet accompanies Jill Lepore's description of a walk taken by a group of enslaved men in eighteenth-century New York City. It asks students to match the laws that governed slaves' behavior to different parts of Lepore's account.

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The American Frankenstein

Supported by government funds, railroad building boomed after the Civil War. There were only 2,000 miles of track in 1850; by 1877 there were nearly 80,000 miles in use. Railroad owners controlled tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of [...]

An African-American Socialist Lends His Support to Railroad Strikers

A nationwide rebellion brought the United States to a standstill in the summer of 1877. Eighty thousand railroad workers walked off the job, joined by hundreds of thousands of Americans outraged by the excesses of the railroad companies and the [...]

Technological Turning Points and their Impact Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help students evaluate the impact of a particular kind of technology and decide if and how it was a "technological turning point."

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Technological Turning Points and their Impact

In this activity, students will look at images of various types of technology (eg. TV, video games, subway) and determine which ones are “technological turning points.” To help evaluate whether or not something is a “technological turning [...]

1877: The Grand Army of Starvation Script
(for chapters on "The Centennial Exposition" and "The Railroad")

This is a partial script, for chapters on "The Centennial Exposition" and "The Railroad" in the documentary 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation produced by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. In bold are vocabulary [...]

1877: The Grand Army of Starvation Vocabulary (for chapters on "The Centennial Exposition" and "The Railroad")

This is a vocabulary list for chapters on "The Centennial Exposition" and "The Railroad" in the 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation documentary.

A Country Within A Country Presentation Talking Points worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help students organize the ideas they explored completing the Country Within A Country: Understanding San Francisco's Chinatown teaching activity.

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Vocabulary for The Journal of Sean Sullivan

This is a basic vocabulary list to use with this book. There are other words and terms that your students may want to add in the space provided at the end.

Themes in The Journal of Sean Sullivan

This is a list of the book’s themes along with the related journal entries.

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