MR. ZIEBARTH'S US HISTORY Links
History Class Information
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Class Activities, Assignments & LinksThe Americans - the website from our textbook's publisher with supplementary materials and tools. Wartown Make up Assignment Wartown Web Link and Questions - if you missed class because of Focus on Careers or other reasons, make up the assignment by clicking on the link above and following the directions. View the Wartown video clip here. Time Line - 20th Century Timeline from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel What's a dollar worth? Federal Reserve Bank calculator that shows what a dollar today would be worth back in the day. Slaves & Presidents Activity
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| Unit 1: Revolutionary Times | Unit 2: A New Nation |
| Unit 3: Era of Growth and Disunion | Unit 4: Migration and Industrialization |
| Unit 5: Modern America Emerges: Spanish American War through World War I | Unit 6: The Twenties and the Great Depression |
| Unit 7: World War II and Its Aftermath | Unit 8: Living with Great Turmoil |
| Unit 9: Nearing the Century Mark | Decades Project |
Jamestown Settlement - visitor center website
History of Jamestown - APVA site
Virtual Jamestown - Interactive Maps of John Smith's Jamestown Voyages
Famous Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials
University of Virginia Salem Witchcraft Trials - images of actual documents related to the trials
National Geographic Salem Witchcraft Trials Interactive
The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on Mar. 5, 1770. Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770. NARA document analysis worksheet for photographs.
PBS's Chronicle of the Revolution is an excellent source of information on landmarks leading to and during the Revolutionary War.
The Revolutionary War: A Journey Toward Freedom is a site developed by high school students that includes interactive games and pretty sound information.
The British offered Black American slaves freedom for deserting and fighting for Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People gives us a look at their story.
Political Compass Assignment & Activity
Our Mock Constitutional Convention Activity
Delegates to the Constitutions Convention
Constitutional Convention web site
Take a tour of landmarks in Philadelphia at the time of the Constitutional Convention with an interactive map - answer the questions on the tour guide
A good summary of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention including the key players
Library of Congress link to To Form a More Perfect Union, a special presentation about the work of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
National Archives & Records Administration Constitution Page including good biographies and positions of delegates to the Constitutional Convention
James Madison's notes on the debate during the Constitutional Convention at Yale Law School's Avalon Project site
Colonial Hall has biographies of 103 Founding Fathers
National Geographic: Lewis & Clark - an interactive web site that will help you understand their journey better
Lewis & Clark at PBS
Jacksonian Democracy
19th Century Invention Links
Pictorial Essays
Abolition and the Compromise of 1850
Digital History links to Slave Power Conspiracy, Crisis of 1850, Compromise of 1850, and the Fugitive Slave Law
Civil War Links
History in Film: Gettysburg - This web site will give you all you need to complete the assignments that go along with our study of the movie Gettysburg.
The Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Associations researches and reenacts the activities of the Second Wisconsin, one of the regiments in the General Gibbon's famous Iron Brigade.
Library of Congress's Selected Civil War Photographs site has over 1,100 photos and describes what is was like to take photographs in Civil War times.
LSU's US Civil War Center sponsored this cool virtual exhibit, "Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency"
This list of materials for Professor Charles F. O'Brien's interdisciplinary course on the Civil War at Clarkson University includes a fascinating account of Major General Joshua Chamberlain's heroic service originating in the 20th Maine, Civil War poem by Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, and answers to questionnaires sent by the Tennessee state historian to surviving veterans in 1915 and 1922.
Document Analysis Activity of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railroad Act
For the Chinese Boycott Case assignment, you will be studying primary source documents related to a law case about a union boycott of Chinese businesses in the 1890's, and analyzing them using the standards developed by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Step 1) Link to the Chinese Boycott Case main page. Step 2) Study the Background information to familiarize yourself with the case. Jot down a few notes about Chinese immigration in the second half of the 19th century and the facts of the case in Butte, Montana. Step 3) Choose one of the 3 union flyers and analyze it using the NARA worksheet format. Complete the analysis on a piece of loose-leaf or notebook paper - don't print the analysis worksheet out! Step 4) Complete an analysis for the 4th document, the Affidavit of Huie Pock and Quon Loy. Use the same format as for the flyer. Have both documents analyses ready to turn in tomorrow and your notes on the case ready for class discussion.
Immigration Assignment
Immigration in the Industrial Age
Immigration: PBS's New Americans
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
Hawaii Annexation Information from NARA
Hawaii's Last Queen - The American Experience
Spanish American War- Cuban War and Iraq War
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=190
http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/Hist122/Part2/TellerAmndmnt.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june03/rebuild_4-16.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/transition_01-16.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/council_07-15-03.html
http://www.dawn.com/2003/12/22/int6.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-03/ps-pwa030503.php
For the Populists & Progressives Party Platform Activity, I put some links here that might help. First, I have a webpage version of the assignment I handed out to each group in class. Here is an excerpt from The Bitter Cry of the Children by John Spargo. It's called No Rest for the Weary. Another good link is to Sparticus, and is on Child Labor issues. Here's a connection between the work of Spargo and the creation of the school lunch program in the United States. See if you can find the connection. And finally, another excerpt from Spargo from DePaul U. I also found several links to other Progressive Era reformers including, Spargo, Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, and Jacob Riis. Here's one with several excerpts. This webpage at the University of Illinois-Chicago is a good source for Jane Addams. Another Progressive Era reformer is Mother Jones. History Matters has an excerpt from George Washington Plunkitt's response to Jeffers in which he refers to honest graft. I've added a link to a nice summary of the 1892 Populist Party Platform as well as the actual platform and a copy of the Progressive Party platform from 1912.
La Follette and the Progressive Era: Speeches - Class activity designed by the Wisconsin State Historical Society
Political Cartoons - 1912 Election - a web-based activity that uses political cartoons to understand Progressivism and the unique election of 1912 between Taft (Republican), Wilson (Democrat), and T. Roosevelt (Progressive).
The Spanish American War - detailed with lots of pictures and easy-to-read text - good discussion of yellow journalism
Time Line - 20th Century Timeline from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt
Text of Roosevelt Muckraker Speech April 15, 1906
1912: Competing Visions for America (The Ohio State University)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (WNET ) - includes cool virtual tour of tenement apartments
PBS: The Great War Interactive Timeline
The Great War: Eighty Years On - BBC News web site
Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation
Biography of Alvin York by Dr. Michael Birdwell
Tennessean Special: Alvin York
Selective Service System Conscientious Objector and Alternative Service - Information on applying for Conscientious Objector status
Conscientious Objector Information - from the Seattle Draft and Military Counseling Center
Treaty of Versailles - an excellent website from the BBC educational division; good information for preparing for the debate especially for the German and Italian delegates
Essay Entitled "The Faults of the World War I Peace Settlement" by Jeremy Fazli, a Princeton student (Class of 2005) who wrote this essay in 1998 when he was at Park-Tudor High School.
Full Text of Treaty of Versailles - from the Avalon Project at Yale University
Treaty of Versailles - University of San Diego History department page includes detailed maps and cartoons that will help you with your research as well as the entire treaty
Overview of the Treaty - good outline of the Treaty from North Park University in Chicago
Overview 2 of the Treaty - another dandy summary from the History Learning Site (UK)
Ethno-linguistic Map of Post-World War I Europe - shows the countries created in the Treaty of Versailles and the ethnic make up of each
Countries at the Table at the Treaty of Versailles - from the Guardian
A German View of the Treaty - from the City University of New York
The Truth About the Treaty - Chapter 3 of a book published in 1921 by Andre Tardieu, from the University of Kansas
Treaty of Versailles Simulation - basic information about the countries, who they sent, and what they wanted
Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems - Chapter 8: "International Problems of Peace and Sketches of Warring Peoples"; excerpt from a 1919 book written by Arthur L. Frothingham
The Economic Consequences of the Peace - excerpt from John Maynard Keynes's book published in 1920
Library of Congress Port of Entry Activity
Prohibition Current Events - US News: One Man's Case for a Lower Drinking Age
American Experience: Riding the Rails
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
The Decision to Drop the Bomb Web Activity - Truman Presidential Museum & Library
Einstein's four letters to FDR regarding the development of the atomic bomb
Elements of a Video Script - a step-by-step guide to writing video scripts
Sample Video Script for TV drama
Sample Video Script for TV news story assignment (has video file references rather than descriptions)
Using the Atomic Bomb against Japan Debate Activity
Cold War Interactive - CNN's excellent site on the Cold War
CSPAN: The Army/McCarthy Hearings
McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency"
McCarthy & Welch Spar During the Army-McCarthy Hearings
Watergate - 25th Anniversary - ALLPOLITICS.com
Colonial Life Assignment - Follow the link to Liberty! page on colonial life and complete the paragraphs on the worksheet.
Procedures for writing a term (research) paper
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century - Kingwood College Library
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