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Dozens of templates, quiz generators and learning tools for use in the classroom

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Educator Resources - Bill of Rights Institute

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On October 25, 1764, Abigail Smith married a young lawyer from Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, by the name of John Adams, who would become, some thirty years later, the second president of the United States. Their union launched a vital and long-lived partnership of fifty-four years, which carried the couple from colonial Boston to Philadelphia and the politics of revolution; to Paris and London and the world of international diplomacy; and finally to New York , Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., where in November, 1800 they became the first presidential couple to occupy the newly built White House in the nation's new capital. Among their five children, John Quincy Adams would also become a U.S. president. For almost two centuries, Abigail Adams remained the only American who was both the wife and the mother of a president, a distinction she now shares with Barbara Bush.

Abigail Adams is perhaps best remembered for her letters, written especially to her husband JohnExternal during long periods of separation, but also to her larger network of family members and friends, such as Mercy Otis Warren and Thomas Jefferson. The daughter of a Congregational minister born in 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the young Abigail received a sophisticated though largely informal education, fueled by the presence of many books and frequent visitors in her home. John Adams was one such visitor, and their earliest letters document a witty and affectionate courtship spanning several years. In married life, Abigail Adams proved a talented chronicler of significant events, combining a broad knowledge of history and politics with perceptive commentary and a keen eye for detail. Her letters comprise an important account of key events in the United States' early history as a nation.

Adams and her husband corresponded regularly during the course of his many absences from home, first as a circuit judge in Massachusetts and then, most famously, while he attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It was in one of these letters that Abigail Adams' spirited admonition to "remember the Ladies" appears:

I long to hear that you have declared an independency-and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If p[a]rticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebel[l]ion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 External , Adams Family Papers External , Massachusetts Historical Society

Equal Franchise Society Legislative Series; Extract from a Letter from Abigail Adams to her Husband John Adams. New York City, New York. Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller. Scrapbook 9(1910-1911). In the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

The Adams's frequent separations continued into the 1780s, as John Adams accepted several commissions from the U.S. government to Europe, both during the revolution and after it formally ended. Throughout this time, Abigail Adams managed the family farm and finances, and raised the couple's children largely on her own. The Adams sons, as they grew older, traveled with their father to Europe. In 1784 Abigail joined her husband in Paris, bringing along their oldest daughter, Abigail 2d (Nabby). From there the family moved to London where John Adams served in the challenging role of the United States' first minister to the recently defeated Great Britain. On their return to Boston in 1788, the Adams moved into a new, larger home in Quincy, but only a few months later in March 1789, John Adams was selected the first vice president, serving with President George Washington for the next eight years.

Adams Mansion, Photograph 1: West Side, Quincy, Massachusetts. Charles E. Peterson, photographer, 1954. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey. Prints & Photographs Division

During her husband's vice presidency, Abigail Adams drew on her experience abroad to assist First Lady Martha Washington in official entertaining; together they created the new role of primary hostess for the country. Adams also advised her husband in politics, and kept charge of the family's Massachusetts property, traveling home from the temporary capital at Philadelphia during periods of poor health. In Washington, D.C., she continued her entertaining in the unfinished and drafty White House in a barely habitable city. When, in 1800, John Adams lost his bid for re-election in what proved the nation's first contentious presidential election, she happily retired from public life to spend more time with her husband.

Learn More

The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection contains a series of photographs of the Adams' house in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts. To find them, search the collection on Adams. The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey contains architectural surveys of the Abigail (Smith) Adams House, the John Adams Birthplace, and the John Quincy Adams Birthplace, as well as the Adams Mansion.

Starting with the 1841 collection prepared by her grandson Charles Francis Adams, a great number of books containing the correspondence of Abigail Adams have been published. To locate additional titles go to the Library of Congress Online Catalog and search on Abigal Adams letters.

In 1800, President John Adams approved an act of Congress providing for the establishment of the Library of Congress. The Adams Building, initially known as the Library Annex, was completed in 1939 and renamed in honor of the second president in 1980. Search the Horydczak Collection and Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive on Adams Building to find images of the building and its construction.

The primary collections of papers for presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and their family members including Abigail Adams, are housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Visit their online collection of Adams Papers External , including the correspondence between Abigail Adams and her husband John External and a timeline of the Adams family External over several generations.

On October 25, [1741] we had very clear weather and sunshine, but even so it hailed at various times in the afternoon. We were surprised in the morning to discover a large tall island at 51° to the north of us.
Georg Wilhelm Steller, Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742, trans. by M. Engle and O. W. Frost (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988): 119.

Thus wrote the naturalist-physician, Georg Wilhelm Steller, about his first encounter with Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands chain of present-day Alaska. Steller's journal was kept according to the Old Style (Julian) calendar, which was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in 1752, so his October 25 is November 5 by twenty-first-century reckoning. His entries provide a detailed firsthand account of the final voyage of the navigator and explorer Captain-Commander Vitus Jonassen Bering.

Bering was born in 1681 in Horsens, Denmark, but served with the Russian fleet for thirty-eight years. Under Tsar Peter the Great, Bering led an expedition from 1725-30 to explore northeastern Siberia and purportedly to determine if Russia and North America were connected by a land bridge. Having learned that North America and Russia were not connected, Bering undertook a second exploration, lasting from 1733-43. The Great Northern Expedition sought to secure a Russian foothold on the North American continent. In June 1741, Bering set sail on the St. Peter, with fellow navigator Aleksei Chirikov commanding the St. Paul. The two soon were separated by a storm at sea. Chirikov searched futilely for Bering, but headed home after losing two scouting parties of his own men.

After a futile search for the St. Paul, Bering's men made the first European discovery of the northwest coast of America on July 16, sighting coastal mountains on the northern Gulf of Alaska coast which he named the St. Elias Mountains. By mid-September, Bering had set a return course when, ill with scurvy, he became too weak to command his ships. He and his men took refuge on an uninhabited island. Survivors of Bering's ship finally came ashore in November on land they believed Kamchatka; their journals reveal an extraordinary tale. Bering died in December, but the survivors took advantage of the abundant sea life and natural resources and returned to health by eating whale blubber, and the meat of sea otters and "sea cows,"-the latter having seaweed-nourished meat.

Fur-trading possibilities soon hastened the colonial settlement of Alaska and the Aleutians. The Russian-American Company, led by Grigorii Shelekov and encouraged by Tsarina Catherine the Great, established a Russian outpost on Kodiak Island in 1784. The Russian Orthodox Church founded its first Orthodox mission in North America in 1794.

The online exhibition In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures examines the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian America from 1794 to about 1915. It explores issues of commerce, the relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church to native Alaskans, and the preservation of the Aleut, Eskimo, and Tlingit languages.

Native Peoples

The Native peoples of the greater Aleutian Islands region are the Unangax̂ , also know as the Aleut. It is estimated that native peoples have lived in the Aleutian Islands region for at least 10,000 years, and in greater Alaska for at least 15,000 years. Kiska Island, which is part of the Rat Islands, is said to have been inhabited for at least 6,000 years. All of the Aleutian Islands, including Kiska, had been densely occupied by native peoples long before Europeans or Americans made contact. In fact, reports describe an attack on the shipwrecked crew of the Sv. Kapiton vessel in 1758.

Native customs remained strong in Alaska after U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased this territory from Russia in 1867. However, in 1948, the Cold War halted centuries of native travel back and forth across the Bering Strait. Only after the Reagan-Gorbachev Moscow summit in 1988 did the "Friendship Flights" from Nome to Provideniya allow Alaska natives once again to share their mutual culture. At this time, other economic, scientific, and cultural exchanges also recommenced.

Learn More

Explore items from the Meeting of Frontiers project, a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. These materials are included in the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

View the online exhibition The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated. Prokudin-Gorskii photographed architecture, ethnic diversity, and people at work on the eve of WWI and the coming revolution. Explore more of Prokudin-Gorskii's images through the online collection.

One of the principal features at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York was the "Alaskan or Esquimaux Village." Search on the term eskimo or esquimaux in Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the World's Pan-American Exposition, 1901 to find reenacted scenes of life in the north, such as the Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip.

To see images of Russian Orthodox churches, native peoples, and native villages, view the Harriman Alaska Expedition album in the collection The Evolution of the Conservation Movement.

Search on the term Alaska in the following collections for more related images and stories:

Explore the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies CenterExternal dedicated to the study of Arctic peoples, cultures, and environments.

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On October 25, 1764, Abigail Smith married a young lawyer from Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, by the name of John Adams, who would become, some thirty years later, the second president of the United States.

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Chronicling America: Library of Congress

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Chronicling America: Library of Congress

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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more

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Chronicling America " Library of Congress

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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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These are great games that will allow you to review at home in prepartion for the SOL. Have fun. They are great.

West ward Expansion (USII.2a)

USII.4a-e - Westward Expansion, Immigration,Growth of Cities and Industry:

USII.5a-c - Spanish American War and WWI

USII.6a-d - 1920's, Great Depression

USII.8a-c - Post WWII, Cold War

USII.9a-d - Civil Rights Movement, Women, New Technologies

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Review Games - US History with Mr.Fisher

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These are great games that will allow you to review at home in prepartion for the SOL. Have fun. They are great.

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US History SOL Review Games  by Mr. McDonough

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US History SOL Review Games  by Mr. McDonough

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Students review here:

Henrico County: Quia link to games for almost every unit listed by SOL strands:
​ here and here. For SOL review games that cover multiple areas, go here.
This site has multiple links to games for US History here.
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All classes can review here with games in multiple history courses. ​

Westward Expansion Fling the Teacher game here.
​ Places to know in US History--Treasure Hunt and MapQuest here
​VUS.15 Battleship Review Game ​VUS.8 Industrial Revolution, Immigration, Urbanization Review here.
Review the 13 Colonies with the following interactive maps: Soft Schools Map and Purpose Games Map.
Review the Colonial Time Period here.
Review the American Revolution here.
Review American Geography here.
Interactive US Map activity here.
Westward Expansion Map activity World Map activity here.
Frames World Map activity here.
Continents and Oceans World Map activity here
USA Physical Maps (rivers, deserts, lakes, and mountains) activity here
World Regions Map activity here.
SOL Review at: Mr. Roach's Place
SOL Flash card review here
All classes can review here with games in multiple history courses. ​
​ Review key people here and complete a review by SOL or topic here--this is great for
both class review and individual student review. There are resources for every
​ topic on this website.

Pac-Man Review:
VUS.11 Pac-Man WWII Review Game here
VUS.7 Pac-Man Civil War Review Game here.
Supreme Court Cases Pac-Man Review Game here

You have to get the review questions correct in order
to get to the Pac-Man game board. This is a great way
to practice the same concepts as if you were doing flash
​ cards--with a twist of fun!

Supreme Court Cases Review:
​Supreme Court Cases game Second Supreme Court Cases gem game
Third (shorter) Supreme Court Cases gem game
​Fourth Supreme Court Case dustbin game
Fifth Supreme Court Cases Pac-Man Review Game here
Sixth Supreme Court Cases Quizziz game here, use game code: ​601611

​These games do expire so play them when they are assigned!
Review games to play at Quizizz that give you immediate feedback, go to http://join.quizizz.com/ and enter one of the following codes:
US History End of Course Review: 514277
US History SOL Review 1: 529397
US History SOL Review 2: 551890
US History SOL Review 3: 997428
US History SOL Review 4: 555262
General US History Review: 148399
Great Depression Review: 986535
World War 2 and the Battles:787350
Cold War Review:725278
Early Supreme Court Decisions: Constitution Review: 768712

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Students review here: Henrico County: Quia link to games for almost every unit listed by SOL strands: ​ here and here. For SOL review games that cover multiple areas, go here. This site has multiple links to games for US History here. ​ ​ All classes can review here with games in multiple history courses.

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4 The Byzantine Empire Test
Mr. Tellez

This test covers the split of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Byzantine empire to the Turks in 1453.
Ch 2.

This quiz contains 20 questions.

42 Revolutionary War Review
Mrs. Gilligan

Virginia SOL US History Grade 5
A review of the Revolutionary War.

58 The French Revolution
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Search the Web for the answers to these questions
about the French Revolution.

71 The Great War during 1914-1918
Cristina Pacio

Learn about WWI and how it affected the world. For more information, read textbook: Modern World History, Patterns of Interaction by McDougal Littell.
Chapter #13

76 10.8 World War II
Jennifer Anaforian

Modern World History - Patterns of Interaction
Chapter 16
CA History Social Science Standards 10.8

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Free American History Educational Interactive Games | Student Handouts

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Here is our large assortment of interactive study games and practice tests for the junior or senior high school United States History course. Test your knowledge for free playing Energy Saver, matching, and other learning games.

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Learn about U.S. presidents, United States history, elections, wars, victories, Coolidge, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and more!

In 1953, he married elegant socialite Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. This charismatic young couple created the aura of what one reporter called "Camelot" from a Broadway play of the same name. While recovering from a spinal operation in 1956, Jack Kennedy had written "Profiles in Courage, " which contained biographical sketches of political heroes, and for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Kennedy became, at the age of forty-three, the youngest man, as well as the first Roman Catholic, to be elected to the United States presidency.

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United States Presidents: facts and trivia

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Learn about U.S. presidents, United States history, elections, wars, victories, Coolidge, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and more! In 1953, he married elegant socialite Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. This charismatic young couple created the aura of what one reporter called "Camelot" from a Broadway play of the same name.

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Smarthistory: Art History on Khan Academy

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Smarthistory: Art History on Khan Academy

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TimeMaps

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If you want to know why our world is the way it is, you're in the right place!

Both an atlas and an encyclopaedia, the Timemap of World History covers all the world's history.

The Atlas gives you a panoramic overview of the grand sweep of history.

The Encyclopedia provides a wealth of information which lets you dig deeper into civilizations, empires and events.

The Education area offers teachers and students ideas for getting the most from the site.

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The Timemap of World History: the online atlas and encyclopedia

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Both an atlas and an encyclopaedia, the Timemap of World History covers all the world's history. The Atlas gives you a panoramic overview of the grand sweep of history. The Encyclopedia provides a wealth of information which lets you dig deeper into civilizations, empires and events.

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Interactive Constitution

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How it Works:

We've invited the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society to nominate scholars to discuss every clause of the Constitution, exploring areas of agreement and disagreement about the Constitution's text and history, how it's been interpreted over time, and what it means today. For each major clause and amendment, we've added nonpartisan educational resources from the National Constitution Center, including videos, podcasts, blog posts, and The Drafting Table, a tool that allows users to explore early drafts of the constitutional text.

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Interactive Constitution | The National Constitution Center

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We've invited the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society to nominate scholars to discuss every clause of the Constitution, exploring areas of agreement and disagreement about the Constitution's text and history, how it's been interpreted over time, and what it means today.

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John Locke Hyperdoc

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Verterans Day Hyperdoc