Description
This paperless digital interactive notebook bundle includes everything you need to teach about American history from the Age of Jackson through Reconstruction (Jackson’s Presidency – end of Reconstruction).
The organizers in this resource can be used on their own, or as a supplement to student notes. Interactive notebooks are a great tool to keep students organized and engaged in the lesson!
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This digital resource is completely PAPERLESS! It can be used with Google Drive, Google Slides, and Microsoft OneDrive!
In this resource you will find…
• 98 pages of activities
• Instructions
• Suggested answer key
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Material Covered
Age of Jackson Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – Jacksonian democracy, spoils system, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, nullification, secession, depression, inflation, Panic of 1837, Donner Party, Forty-Niners, Whig party
2. Second party system – Democratic party, Whig party, leaders of each party
3. Jackson’s presidency – petticoat affair, purging corruption, spoils system, foreign affairs, removal of deposits and censure, assassination attempt
4. Indian Removal Act – background, five civilized tribes, support, opposition, passage, implementation
5. Trail of Tears – Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee
6. Seminole Wars
7. Nullification Crisis – background, tariffs, South Carolina, tariff of 1832
8. Bank war – background, veto, election of 1832
9. Jacksonian democracy – philosophy, common man, new Democratic party
10. Second Great Awakening – theology, burned-over district, camp meetings, church membership
Industrial Revolution Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – industrial revolution, breaker boy, Bessemer process, cottage industry, cotton gin, labor union, luddites, spinning jenny, strike, textile, telegraph, working class
2. Origins – first and second Industrial Revolution
3. Famous people – Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Robert Fulton, John D. Rockefeller, Eli Whitney
4. Inventions – steam power, electricity, textile technology, communication, transportation
5. Steam Engine – how it works, importance, invention, today
6. Factory system – before, centralized workplace, division of labor, unskilled workers, standardized parts, women and children, society
7. Transportation – steamboats, canals, railroads, roads
8. Erie Canal – length, building, importance
9. Labor unions – purpose, improvements, first unions, great railroad strike of 1877, homestead steel mill strike of 1892, Pullman strike of 1894
10. Working conditions – long days, unsafe facilities, dangerous work, living conditions, government regulation
11. Child labor – jobs, money, how many children, end
12. Women – Lowell mill girls, away from the farm, wages, civil war, women’s rights movement
Westward Expansion Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – bronco, boomtown, cattle drive, cowboy, frontier, ghost town, gunslinger, manifest destiny, Northwest Territory, pioneer, reservations, telegraph
2. California gold rush – gold found, forty niners, panning for gold, supplies
3. Transcontinental Railroad – route, pacific railroad act, building the railroad, workers, the golden spike
4. The Homestead Act – the law, opportunity, land rush, sooners
5. Louisiana Purchase – more land, cost, size, borders, opposition
6. Mexican-American War – background, Texas becomes a state, war with Mexico, capture of Mexico city, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
7. Battle of the Alamo – the Alamo, before the battle, leaders, the battle, aftermath
8. Oregon Trail – route, covered wagons, dangers, supplies
9. Pony Express – how it worked, route, riders, duration, end
10. Daily Life – work, frontier women, children, education, entertainment, log cabins
11. Famous People – Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Lewis and Clark, Annie Oakley, James K. Polk, Sacagawea, Thomas Jefferson
12. Famous gunfighters – Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Wyatt Earp, The Wild Bunch
Civil War Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – abolitionist, antebellum, bayonet, commutation, copperhead, Dixie, Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave Law, Mason-Dixon Line, plantation, sectionalism, Yankee
2. Causes of the Civil War – slavery, industry vs. farming, states’ rights, expansion, bleeding Kansas, President Lincoln, secession
3. Slavery – beginning, slaves from Africa, slave codes, slave vs. free states, underground railroad
4. Underground Railroad – railroad terms, workers, travel, danger, duration, escaped slaves, Fugitive Slave Act
5. Harpers Ferry raid – John Brown, plan, raid, capture, consequences
6. The South Secedes – South Carolina, leaders, Confederate States of America
7. Border States – Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, West Virginia
8. Union generals – Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Hooker, Winfield Scott Hancock, George Thomas
9. Confederate generals – Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, P.G.T. Beauregard, Joseph Johnson
10. Important people – Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, Dorthea Dix, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Eli Whitney
11. Daily Life – life, poor men, women at home, war in the South, children in the army
12. Life as a soldier – typical day, medical conditions, age, food, pay
13. Uniforms – start of the war, confusion on the battlefield, Union and Confederate uniforms, weapons, gear
14. African Americans – not allowed to fight, African American soldiers, first black regiments, African Americans in the South
15. Civil War spies – Union & Confederate spy networks, famous Union and Confederate spies
16. Medicine – hospitals, doctors, infection, treatments, disease
17. Weapons and technology – rifles and muskets, hand to hand combat, cannons, submarines and ironclads, balloons, the telegraph, railroads
18. Submarines – use, first submarines, H.L. Hunley, crew, weapons, air, sinking a ship, Hunley sinks
19. Union blockade – duration, the anaconda plan, cotton for weapons, how it worked, getting through the blockade, results
20. Battle of Fort Sumter – Fort Sumter, leaders, before the battle, the battle
21. 1st Battle of Bull Run – when, leaders, the battle, results
22. Battle of the Ironclads – the Merrimack, the Monitor, the battle, results
23. Battle of Shiloh – before the battle, Confederate plan, the battle, the hornet’s nest, results
24. Battle of Antietam – Robert E. Lee on the offensive, the battle, results
25. Battle of Fredericksburg – before the battle, the battle, results
26. Battle of Chancellorsville – before the battle, the battle, results
27. Siege of Vicksburg – importance of Vicksburg, before the battle, the battle, results
28. Battle of Gettysburg – the battle, results, the Gettysburg Address
29. Sherman’s March to the Sea – before the march, march to Savannah, taking Savannah
30. Emancipation Proclamation – freeing the slaves, why wait, the 13th Amendment
31. Robert E. Lee Surrenders – before the surrender, surrender, terms, the Southern army, Jefferson Davis captured, the war over
32. President Lincoln’s assassination – location, how he was killed, conspiracy, Booth captured
Reconstruction Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, scalawags, sharecropper, amnesty, freedmen, impeach, cash crops, segregation, lynching
2. Important people – Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Oliver O. Howard, Hiram Revels, Blanch K. Bruce, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis
3. Lincoln’s Plan – ten percent plan, proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, readmission to the Union, support
4. Andrew Johnson’s Plan – Presidential reconstruction, readmission to the Union
5. Radical Reconstruction – Congressional reconstruction, reconstruction acts, readmission to the Union
6. Johnson’s impeachment – reason, vote
7. Ulysses S. Grant administration – accomplishments, corruption
8. Reconstruction amendments – 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
9. Sharecropping – origins, how it worked, result, end
10. Black codes – purpose, Mississippi, examples, vagrancy laws, northern reaction, purpose
11. Black suffrage – grandfather clause, literacy test, poll tax
12. The Ku Klux Klan – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Klan
13. Freedmen’s Bureau – goal, achievements, education, end of the bureau
14. Ending Reconstruction – President Grant, election of 1876, result
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