The Homestead Act made western land freely available to settlers.

This picture shows an adaptation and an invention used to settle after the Civil War.

Fill in the blanks for the story of westward expansion.

Online descriptions of settling the West.

What did it mean to "go west?"

Why People Settled the Great Plains

How railroads linked the East to the West.

SOL Outline Information

Primary Source Accounts

Compare to Native American Perspective

Kicking Bears's Pictograph

Here is a picture and description of a Lakota Sioux winter count.

This gives the history of corn cultivation.

Read about Jane Addams and Hull House.

Choose four of the people in the picture. Write a statement to tell what each one is thinking as they view the statue.

Enter the keyword immigration to search for movies and pictures

How much do you know about the statue? Challenge your parents at home!

Test yourself, using the INS website. Can you qualify to become a citizen?

This young child is working in a garment factory.

SOL Pass Description

Working conditions in the U.S. throughout history are shown.

Read this and you'll know why unions wanted better pay, shorter hours, and better conditions!

Read about the large steel and oil corporations.

Photographs of the Triangle fire are shown on this page.

A shirtwaist was a blouse or top that women wore with skirts.

Read about child labor in the coal mines. Then choose one photograph of a boy working. Analyze it using the handout.

Read and take notes on the FIRST paragraph.

The

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

Read about propaganda during the Spanish American War

Examples of "Yellow" Headlines

A "Yellow" Illustration

Number the questions in your notebook and answer in complete sentences.

Song of the Great Depression

Dust Bowlers Sing!

Answer the questions on your own paper.

This interview is part of the webquest.

Read the pages about the events of the Great Depression. Take two column notes as you read each of the six selections.

This is a record of the worst Dust Bowl event.

People escaped the hard times at the movies.

Short Chapters about GDep

Paintings

Baby Snooks

Bob Hope Show

Battle of the Bands

Harlem Renaissance Poet

This was a very popular early

This is a great example of an early (1929) musical.

Game

It's very hard!

The 20s were just plain crazy!

World War I began in Europe in 1914.

The Zimmerman telegram helped to draw the U.S. into World War I.

Victory Gardens

Victory Gardens

Soldier Going to War

Uncle Sam Recruiting Poster

Liberty Bonds/Anti-German

We will answer selected questions.

World War I in pictures and text

End of World War I

World War I Song

Anti-World War I song

Interactive Map of the Fighting

A soldier's song

New opportunities for people after World War II

Look out, here come the little green men!

Anticommunist scare-type video

This film was shown to grade school children. It was intended to prepare them to survive the BIG, nuclear blast!

Label your handout map with the names of the countries in two colors.

This map shows location of nuclear weapons in today's world,

This Brain Pop movie is followed by a quiz.

About King, Parks, Protest

Marshall and the Brown Case

Little Rock Nine Integrates Central High

Discrimination goes on everywhere. Many groups are working to end the assault on Human Rights.

Ben Franklin tells all about citizenship.

FDR's plan to end the Great Depression

Anne Frank and the Holocaust

General Motors war production video

President Obama's Plans for America