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Looking for an activity to teach United States imperialism? Introduce or summarize the Age of U.S. Imperialism with this stations set. Students explore the meaning of imperialism, arguments for imperialism, arguments against imperialism, and the effects of imperialism. This stations activity includes primary sources and political cartoons to foster critical thinking about U.S. imperialism in Cuba, China, the Philippines, and Hawaii. Activity includes 15 stations on U.S. imperialism. Topics incl

Get students actively reading about imperialism and its effects! Students view 19 stations about imperialism and record their answers to analysis questions on the handout provided. This activity includes an intro reading, stations, student worksheet, and key! Google Folder of Activities includes: Intro reading on imperialism to introduce concepts and major events (PDF & Google Docs)19 stations on imperialism (PDF & Google Slides, not completely editable)Student handout (9 pages; each station has

Teach the U.S. home front during World War I with these engaging stations! Students will view 17 stations covering various topics like the draft, Espionage and Sedition Acts, Women in WWI, the Great Migration, and more! They will analyze the diverse stations using provided questions. This is a great activity to get students actively engaged with life in the U.S. during WWI. GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER INCLUDES: 17 stations on the U.S. home front during WWI (Ready to print PDF + Google Slides)EDITABLE s

Teaching corruption in the Gilded Age? This activity includes 7 political cartoons depicting Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Activity includes: 7 political cartoons to analyze Student handout with chart to analyze political cartoons Summarizing questions on student handout Check out the preview! In this activity, students are instructed to pick 2 political cartoons to analyze and use the chart to deconstruct the images. Lastly, the students answer summarizing questions to express their knowledg

Teaching U.S. history in the late 1880s and 1890s? This activity covers the experiences of Native Americans during the late nineteenth century. Through notes, a worksheet, and stations, this comprehensive resource covers land loss through the Dawes Act and reservation system, violent "Indian Wars," and forced assimilation in boarding schools. ZIP FILE INCLUDES: Notes on the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans in the late 1800s (PDF & Editable Google Slides)Worksheet with reading & q

Need a lesson on the United States during the Cold War? This U.S. Home Front during the Cold War stations activity is for you! Students analyze a series of images and texts as they explore American politics, society, and culture during the Cold War. These stations explore the Space Race, Cuban Missile Crisis, Baby Boom, conformity, suburbia, McCarthyism, and more! As they complete the stations activity, students will answer 3-5 questions for each station--analyzing the U.S. Homefront during the

This activity includes thirteen political cartoons about the Spanish-American War and American imperialism in the late 1800s. Use political cartoons to help students understand the causes and effects of the war, as well as yellow journalism and imperialism. Google Drive Activity includes:1 page background reading (Google Slides, PDF)13 political cartoons with corresponding questions (Google Slides, PDF)Summarizing questions (Google Slides, PDF)Answer key (PDF)Check out the preview!Each politic

Use these 14 stations with primary & secondary sources where students analyze the controversial decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Students will view a diverse set of artifacts, including drawings, oral history interview quotes, survivor accounts, images, statistics, and more. Throughout the stations, students examine the U.S. decision to use atomic weapons in Japan. As they go, students will answer 2-3 questions for each station--analyzing the history of

Need an activity on the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens? Cover the rights, duties, and privileges of U.S. citizenship with stations! As students view the stations, they will answer 1-3 questions for each station--analyzing different aspects of U.S. citizenship. Google Drive folder includes:Set of 9 stations featuring a mixture of texts & images of rights, duties, responsibilities, and privileges of U.S. Citizenship (PDF) (Google Slides with some editable text boxes)Student handout

This Reconstruction Era activity covers essential history topics through stations! Use this stations activity to engage students with post-Civil War topics like the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Plessy v. Ferguson, and disenfranchisement tactics such poll taxes, and literacy tests. This Reconstruction activity includes 13 stations that cover the major successes & failures of Reconstruction through a mixture of images and text. Google Folder includes:13 Reconstruction Era Stations (PDF: Ready

Use this interactive activity to engage students with the history of Japanese American internment during WWII. Students will view a diverse set of artifacts, including paintings, a variety of oral history interview transcripts, image sets, letters from Japanese Americans held in internment camps, and newspaper coverage of internment. As they go, students will answer a few questions for each primary source--analyzing the history of discriminatory treatment toward Japanese Americans in the 1940s.

Engage students with a personality quiz where they determine if they align with the robber barons, captains of industry, or reformers in the Gilded Age! Then, introduce big business in the Gilded Age using these interactive notes. GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER INCLUDES: 20 question personality quiz ("Are You a Robber Baron?" PDF)9 slides of notes (Editable Google Slides + PDF)CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW! The personality quiz has 20 short questions--making it a GREAT introductory activity. Students will read th

Students analyze a series of images and texts as they explore the protests against the Vietnam War. Cover multiple topics with this one engaging activity: draft resistance, African American protests to the war, anti-war music, and more! As they go, students will answer 2-3 questions for each station--analyzing the anti-Vietnam War movement. ZIP FILE INCLUDES:Set of 13 stations featuring a mixture of texts & images on the protests against the Vietnam War (PDF)Student handout with corresponding q

This bundle includes a great primary source worksheet with a speech from Cesar Chavez and 10 stations on the Chicano Movement. Engage students with the Chicano Movement using these 2 resources in any Civil Rights unit!! The Cesar Chavez primary source worksheet includes excerpts of Chavez's 1984 speech "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California" where Chavez: tells the story of Bracero workerssummarizes the challenges of migrant workersdescribes his advocacy for farm workersdescribes expe

Introduce students to the 3 branches of government using a gallery walk of historical images. As students view the image sets, they will answer 1-3 questions for each --reflecting on the duties & powers of the branches, as well as the checks & balances in our federal government. ZIP FILE INCLUDES:Set of 17 image sets featuring a mixture of historical images showing the branches of government (PDF)Student handout with corresponding questions for each image set & summary questions for activit

Teaching the 19th Amendment? This activity includes 10 political cartoons featuring arguments about women's suffrage. Use political cartoons to help students understand the work of suffragists to gain support for the 19th Amendment! ZIP FILE INCLUDES: 12 page PDF with background reading & 10 political cartoons and analysis questions (ready to print/post)Teacher directions + summarizing questions to use as an exit ticket or assessment questionCHECK OUT THE PREVIEW! The political cartoons cover

Celebrate Black History Month by recognizing 30+ Black leaders from history! This editable Google Slides presentation can be used each day (1 leader per day) or run as an entire slideshow. This resource includes: Google Slides presentation (digital + editable) with 34 Black leaders from history A template slide on the presentation for you to add your ownPDF version of the slideshow (ready to print, make into posters, post on Google Classroom, etc.)Check out the preview! Ways to use this resource

Teaching the various reform movements of the early 1800s? Use this selection of activities to get students engaged! Have them start with a puzzle as they learn about 4 movements, introduce the content using these notes, engage them with a set of 8 documents, and have them create reform propaganda. ZIP FILE INCLUDES:Puzzle activity where students work in small groups to introduce reforms (2 PDF pages)8 stations on Antebellum reform movements (PDF: ready to print/post)Student handouts (PDF: quest

What was the Market Revolution? What was the American System? What changes took place in the early 1800s and how did these changes affect nationalism and sectionalism? Students will use guided notes & stations to learn about big changes in America during the Market Revolution and use of Henry Clay's American System. Help students think about how changes like: factory production, immigration, the National Road, the Erie Canal, locomotives, and the cotton gincontributed to growing nationalism o

Looking to teach the Enlightenment's influence on the American Revolution? In this activity, students will read primary sources from the Enlightenment (excerpts from Locke and the English Bill of Rights, etc.), in addition to reading secondary sources summarizing the taxation acts of British Parliament in the 1770s. Students will examine both and predict how an American colonist would respond to the British acts using reasoning from the Enlightenment. This activity has FIVE parts: PART ONE: St