Description
This interactive notebook mega-bundle includes everything you need to teach about American history from Colonial America through the Reconstruction period.
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…
• 198 pages of activities
• Instructions
• Suggested answer key
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Material Included:
Colonial America Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – lost colony, meetinghouse, middle colonies, musket, New England colonies, plantation, Quakers, southern colonies, charter, House of Burgesses, great awakening, cash crops
2. Lost colony of Roanoke – location, original plans, first colony, second colony, disappearance, theories
3. Jamestown settlement – sailing to America, Jamestown, first settlers, first year, the Powhatan, John Smith, starving time
4. Plymouth Colony – why, sailing to America, the Mayflower Compact, Plymouth, first winter, the Wampanoag, Thanksgiving
5. Voyage of the Mayflower – size of the ship, route to America, life on the Mayflower, passengers, crew
6. The Thirteen Colonies – what is a colony, each of the colonies
7. Williamsburg, Virginia – Middle Plantation, William and Mary College, capital of Virginia, planned city, gunpowder incident, American Revolution, restoration
8. The Puritans – who were they, what did they believe, why did they go to America, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Great Migration, Rhode Island, Connecticut
9. King Philip’s War – who fought, where it was fought, leading up to the war, major battles & events, results and consequences
10. The French and Indian War – who fought, seven years war, where it was fought, leading up to the war, major battles & events, results and consequences
11. The Salem Witch Trials – belief in witches, how the trials started, panic, how many were killed, end of the trials
13. Who was a witch? – touch test, confession by dunking, lord’s prayer, dreams, submersion, pressing
13. Men & women’s clothing – 2 flippables to describe different pieces of clothing men and women wore
14. Daily life – on the farm vs. in the city
15. Colonial jobs – apothecary, blacksmith, cabinetmaker, cobbler, cooper, chandler, gunsmith, miller, printer, tailor, wheelwright, wig maker
16. Colonial women – education, legal status, work, maintaining a household, wealthy women, women in the city, slave women
17. Slavery in the colonies – indentured servants, beginning of slavery, jobs, clothes, homes, treatment
18. Important people – William Bradford, Henry Hudson, Pocahontas, William Penn, James Oglethorpe, John Smith, Roger Williams
Causes of the American Revolution Interactive Notebook (FREE)
1. The Stamp Act – paying for the war, no representation, reaction in the colonies, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act repealed
2. The Townshend Acts – what were they, why were they made, importance, reaction in the colonies, results
3. The Boston Massacre – what happened, after the massacre, the trials, results
4. The Boston Tea Party – what was it, why were they protesting, was it planned, cost of the tea
5. The Intolerable Acts – Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act, results
6. Continental Congress – First and second congresses, accomplishments
7. Declaration of Independence – who wrote it, agreement, July 4, 1776, signatures
American Revolution Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – colony, confederation, constitution, garrison, haversack, legislature, militia, minutemen, Parliament, Redcoat, Tory, Whigs
2. Causes of the war – French and Indian War, taxes and laws, protests in Boston, Intolerable Acts, Boston blockade, unity in the colonies, First Continental Congress, beginning of the war.
3. Sons of Liberty – who were they, how were they formed, how did they get their name, where did they meet, protesting the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, members
4. Patriots vs. Loyalists – what was a patriot/loyalist, why become a patriot/loyalist, famous patriots/loyalists
5. American military leaders – George Washington, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse, Horatio Gates, Daniel Morgan, Marquis de Lafayette, John Paul Jones
6. British military leaders – William Howe, Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis, John Burgoyne, Guy Carleton, Thomas Gage
7. Battles of Lexington & Concord – Lexington, Concord, British Retreat
8. Capture of Ticonderoga – Green Mountain Boys, capturing the fort, siege of the fort, attack on the fort
9. Battle of Bunker Hill – where, leaders, what happened, results
10. Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn) – when and where, leaders, before the battle, battle, retreat, results
11. Washington crosses the Delaware – Hessian soldiers, battle of Trenton, importance, three crossings
12. Battle of Germantown – when and where, commanders, before the battle, battle, results
13. Battles of Saratoga – leaders, before the battle, Bennington, Freeman’s farm, Bemis Heights, results
14. Battle of Yorktown – before the battle, siege of Yorktown, surrender
15. Valley Forge – where, why, American leaders, conditions
16. The Treaty of Paris – negotiations, major points, other points
17. African Americans – patriots, separate regiments, British side, American side
18. Spies – secret messages, disguises, Culper spy ring
19. Famous spies – Nathan Hale, Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull, Lydia Darragh, Benedict Arnold, Hercules Mulligan, Daniel Bissell, Nancy Hart
20. Roles of women – nurses, spies, camp followers, soldiers
21. Famous women – Abigail Adams, Kate Barry, Lydia Darragh, Mary Draper, Nancy Hart, Molly Pitcher, Betsy Ross, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Otis Warren, Martha Washington
22. Weapons – Musket, bayonet, cannon, other weapons
23. Soldiers – militia, Continental Army, number of soldiers, payment, who joined, ages, diseases and medicine, prisoners of war
Articles of Confederation Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – constitution, Articles of Confederation, compromise, Anti-Federalist, Federalist, impeachment, popular sovereignty, amendment, veto, enumerated powers, concurrent powers, shared powers
2. Articles of Confederation – who wrote them, when each state ratified them
3. 13 Articles – summarize each of the 13 Articles
4. Strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
5. Constitutional Convention – purpose, president, draft, signing, ratification
6. Proposed plans – Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Hamilton’s Plan, Pinckney’s Plan, the Great Compromise
7. Branches of government – executive, legislative, judicial
8. Checks and balances – separation of powers, checks on the branches, power of the states
9. Bill of Rights – summarize each of the 10 amendments
Early American Republic Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – domestic policy foreign policy, neutrality, impressment, factory system, cabinet, internal improvements, John Marshall, nationalism, precedent, Nonintercourse Act, tariff
2. Washington’s administration – inauguration, cabinet, District of Columbia, Northwest Indian War, economic policy, foreign affairs, farewell address
3. Party System – Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
4. Whiskey Rebellion – whiskey tax, grievances, resistance, insurrection, federal response
5. Adams administration – election of 1796, presidency, cabinet, quasi-war with France, Alien and Sedition Acts
6. XYZ Affair – commission to France, reaction in the U.S., reaction in France, treaty
7. Jefferson Administration – elections of 1800 and 1804, cabinet, domestic and foreign policies
8. Louisiana Purchase – more land, cost, size, borders, opposition
9. Lewis & Clark Expedition – Lewis & Clark, exploration, Native American encounters, the Great Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Ocean, accomplishments
10. Marbury v. Madison – Judiciary Acts of 1789, 1801, and 1802, Adams appoints Marbury, Jefferson denies Marbury, decision
11. McCulloch v. Maryland – 1816 Act, case, decision
12. Gibbons v. Ogden – background, case, decision
13. First Industrial Revolution – duration, cultural changes, transportation, working conditions
14. Burr-Hamilton duel – background, Burr’s intentions, Hamilton’s intentions, aftermath, anti-dueling movement
15. War of 1812 – causes, leaders, U.S. attacks Canada, U.S. victories, British fight back, Battle of Baltimore, Battle of New Orleans, peace
16. Era of Good Feelings – post-war nationalism, Great Goodwill Tour, Monroe and political parties
17. Monroe Doctrine – main points, why, long-term effects
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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