- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Kansas_Nebraska_Act_1854
- New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Historic_Earthquakes/New_Madrid__Missouri__Earthquakes__1811_1812
- John Brown's Raid (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/John_Brown_s_Raid
- Plessy v Ferguson: 163 U.S. 537 (1896)@
Learn about Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark decision which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations. Sites offer background information, overview, analysis, and text of the verdict that passed the "separate but equal" provision.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Specific_Cases/Plessy_v__Ferguson__1896_
- Louisiana Purchase (9)
Learn about Louisiana Purchase, the controversial land aquisition by the United States from France in 1803. Sites include history, treaty documents, diplomatic letters, images, domestic opposition and Spanish conflicts, news archives, as well as the exploration and development of the territory purchased during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Louisiana_Purchase
- Missouri Compromise (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Missouri_Compromise
- Historic Asylums
State-by-state catalog of state hospitals founded in the latter half of the 19th Century. Includes histories and photographs, original plans, and information on current preservation efforts.
www.historicasylums.com
- Trail of Tears@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Trail_of_Tears
- Donner Party@
Learn about Donner Party, the group of American settlers who, in the 1840s, resorted to cannibalism while emigrating to California. Sites offer background information, chronology, museum archives, pictures, maps of the journey, and film based on the fateful journey across Sierra Nevada.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Donner_Party
- Homestead Strike@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Labor/Homestead_Strike
- Gadsden Purchase (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Gadsden_Purchase
- Denmark Vesey Insurrection (6)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Denmark_Vesey_Insurrection
- Picturing Modern America: 1880 - 1920
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Historical thinking exercises designed to encourage students to actively read, question, and discuss photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.
www.edc.org/CCT/PMA
- Gabriel's Rebellion (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Gabriel_s_Rebellion
- Wilmot Proviso (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Wilmot_Proviso
- Black Ships & Samurai
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Exhibit from MIT examines the first encounter between Americans and Japanese in 1853.
ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_intro.html
- Stand Up And Sing: Music And Our Reform History
Helps students analyze issues related to American industrialization and reform using sheet music.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/sing/intro.html
- 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/1898_Wilmington_Race_Riot
- Whitman Massacre@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Whitman_Massacre
- Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Seneca_Falls_Women_s_Rights_Convention
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