"Meanings of Freedom": Voices of Freedpeople worksheet
This worksheet contains quotations from freedpeople talking about different aspects of their lives, including land ownership, education, family, the law, and klan violence. Students are asked to interpret the statements and rephrase them in their [...]
Liberty For All Voices worksheets
These worksheets help students complete the activity "Liberty for All: Voices from the Revolution." The worksheets feature shorter edits of the documents listed in the materials for the activity, pictures for each document, and space for students to [...]
Focus Question Worksheet: Running for Freedom
This worksheet helps students analyze two documents to understand the role of runaway slaves in the intensifying conflicts over slavery in the 1850s. This worksheet contains vocabulary and other reading supports. It is part of the activity [...]
Analysis Worksheet: "An Apprentice's Indenture Contract"
Use this worksheet as a scaffold to help students analyze a colonial-era "An Apprentice's Indenture Contract."
Analysis Worksheet: "Showing the Light to the Filipinos"
This worksheet helps students analyze the political cartoon "Showing the Light to the Filipinos."
Analysis Worksheet: The Preamble
This worksheet helps students analyze the Preamble to the United States Constitution. It includes vocabulary and other supports for low-level readers. It is used in the activity "The Evolution of the Preamble."
Analysis Worksheets: "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage"
These worksheets are designed to help students analyze nine primary sources in the activity "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage." Also included here are the answer keys for the worksheets.
Analysis Worksheet: "Drawing of an African Burial Ground Grave In Situ"
This worksheet helps students analyze an archaeologist's sketch of a burial site in the African Burial Ground.
Analysis Worksheet: Runaway Slave Advertisement from Antebellum Virginia
This worksheet helps students analyze an antebellum runaway slave advertisement.
Black Workers Call for a March on Washington Worksheet
This worksheet helps students undertake a close reading and analysis of a pamphlet calling for a March on Washington in 1941.