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Through a series of primary and secondary source readings, students learn about French king Louis XIV.

Struggle with teaching the break up of Yugoslavia and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo? Here's your best friend. This reading breaks it all down for students with comprehension questions as well as maps, visuals, political cartoons and regents multiple choice questions

Using dozens of visuals to understand life on the American homefront during WWI, students will discover how society, politics, and the economy were changed during a time of war.

Through an inquiry-based approach, students learn about the effects of WWI in primary and secondary sources. Topics include: facts and figures about casualties, Russian Revolution, 14 Points, League of Nations, etc

This is a great inquiry-based document sourced activity for students to discover some of the domestic changes that affected the United States after WWII and ask the Cold War began. Students will look at Levittowns, the baby boom, the GI Bill, growing consumerism, Interstate Highway Act, and the space race. Documents and events and broken up amongst Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Through numerous primary and secondary sources, students learn about the series of events leading to the Cold War including the Yalta Conference, occupation and division of Germany, iron curtain, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, etc.

Students analyze what each agency or legislation does and label them as relief, recovery, or reform. Great for a classwork or homework.

Through this reading activity and document activity, students find out about the Nuremberg Trials, the occupation and division of Germany, the creation of the United Nations, and the start of the Cold War. Includes regents documents and multiple choice

This is an activity that includes a reading on the Powder Keg of Europe leading to the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Also includes a questions sheet for a re-enactment entitled "The Day that Shook the World" with a youtube link.

Students use an inquiry based approach to learn about the Industrial Revolution. Lots of docs!

Here you'll find 5 readings that correspond with the 5 roles of the presidency: chief executive, chief legislator, chief of state, commander in chief, and chief diplomat through examples from George Washington. I use this as a jigsaw in my class, with each group being responsible for becoming a master of their topic. Then, in their second, mixed groups they must teach the others. Topics include Hamilton's Financial Plan, the Whiskey Rebellion, Jay's and Pinckney's Treaties, the Cabinet, and Fare

Great for a HW or quick assignment in class. All the essentials of the Election of 1824 and the Corrupt Bargain.

Students will examine the course of Eisenhower's foreign policy during the Cold War and how it changed over time, ultimately culminating in his famous military-industrial complex concept in his farewell address.

A collection of sorts. Here you'll find an introduction to growing nativism of the 1920s as it relates to the immigration quotas and the Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Included are primary source documents taken from Regents exams. Also included are a list of questions to match the Sacco & Vanzetti Upfront Magazine article from the New York Times. DOES NOT include the article.

With this resource, you get 14 document-based activities covering the following topics: effect of the War of 1812 on transportation, Erie Canal, movements from rural to urban areas, cotton gin, and territorial expansion and mineral resources out west. I use this in my unit covering Jackson up to the Civil War to describe how the United States was changing in the mid 1800s. Great as a DBQ or inquiry0based learning

From a global/world history perspective, here are the causes of WWI. Students use an inquiry-based approach through primary and secondary sources to develop an understanding of the causes for WWI (MANIA - militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and anarchy/assassination). Included at the end is a cloze activity (fill in the blanks).

In this resource, I've narrowed down the most frequently asked NY State regents exam thematic essay topics and I've written out in full detail what students would need to include in their essay. A great resource for Regents Review

This is a two day lesson. Included is a fantastic youtube clip on the rise of the Nazis with questions. Then, students have a reading with regents documents to understand how Hitler came to power. One day two, students have a fill-in notes sheet as well as documents to understand what Hitler's Germany was like.

This is key, folks. Tons and tons of primary and secondary sources in chronological order to help students use an inquiry-based approach to understanding the origins and causes of the Cold War. Includes sources from the Yalta Conference, Iron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, containment, division of Berlin, Berlin Airlift, NATO, and the arms race.

Through this resource, students are exposed to a basic overview of Jacksonian Democracy and the Spoils System. Then, students use an inquiry-based approach on Jacksonian democracy with documents. Also included is an activity on the County Election painting.