Expansion and Reform

1801-1861


Moving Across the Appalachians

The American West
http://www.americanwest.com/
Pioneers
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/default.htm
Early American Pioneers
Simulation in Third Grade Classroom
http://www.uhigh.ilstu.edu/labschool/ep/vol5/pioneer.htm
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
http://www.nps.gov/lecl/
http://www.lewisclark.net/index.html
Discovering Lewis and Clark
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
Our Growing Nation
Activities and quizzes
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/nation_grows/our_growing_nation.htm
Women Pioneers in American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/women/women.html

Pioneer and Native American Conflict

Reliving History: The War of 1812
http://library.thinkquest.org/22916/exmain.html
War of 1812
http://www.multied.com/1812/
http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/index.html
Key Events and Causes of the War of 1812
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.1812.html
Oneidas and the War of 1812
http://oneida-nation.net/1812.html
The Battle of New Orleans
http://www.battleofneworleans.com/
The Trail of Tears
http://rosecity.net/tears/

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4132/
 

More Westward Expansion

The Alamo
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/alamo.htm
The Texas Issue
http://www.bchm.org/wrr/war/p3bcw.html
The California Gold Rush
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/

Abolitionists and Suffragists
The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/SlaveLaw.htm
The U.S. Civil War Center - Abolition and Slavery
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/slave.htm
Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Editor
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html
Not Ourselves Alone
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
The History of Women's Suffrage
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html
Web Quests
Adventure into the Unknown: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Designed for grades 3-5
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/lewisclark/
Wagons West
http://www.ridgefield.org/farmingville/Web%20Quests/wagons%20west/wagonswest.htm
Back in Time: A Historical Fiction Web Quest
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/ath/library/webquests/backintime/default.htm



Please send comments, questions, suggestions, or any broken links to
John David Shanks,
Gifted Education Teacher, Greene County Schools