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"Troubles in the South-West": Ideology and the U.S.-Mexican War
In this lesson students read a series of documents about the American and Mexican reasons for and against the 1846 U.S.-Mexico War. As they read the documents students identify when the authors employ various foreign policy ideologies such as [...]
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Exploring the Irish in America Through Found Poetry
In this lesson students read poems and letters that describe the work and lives of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants to the United States. As students read the documents, they choose words and phrases to create found poems that reflect their [...]
Tags: Five Points, Group Work, Interdisciplinary, Irish Immigration, Literature in the History Classroom, Making Connections
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Gender, Sex, and Slavery
In this activity students read about slavery's effect on women from the perspectives of an enslaved woman and a plantation mistress. Then students create a dialogue between the two women.
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)