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Social Studies

America Will Be

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Lesson at a Glance

• Chapter 1
  • Lesson 1: A Tale of One City
  • Lesson 2: A Land of Immigrants
  • Lesson 3: A Country of Many Cultures
  Chapter 2
  • Lesson 1: Understanding Geography
  • Lesson 2: Regions of America
  • Lesson 3: Studying Globes and Maps
  • Lesson 4: Stories Maps Tell
  Chapter 3
  • Lesson 1: What Is History?
  • Lesson 2: What Does a Historian Do?
  • Lesson 3: Why Study History?
  Chapter 4
  • Lesson 1: People Come to the Americas
  • Lesson 2: Four American Indian Cultures
  • Lesson 3: Life in an Iroquois Village
  Chapter 5
  • Lesson 1: Europe in the Age of Exploration
  • Lesson 2: Portuguese and Spanish Exploration
  • Lesson 3: French, Dutch, and English Voyages
  Chapter 6
  • Lesson 1: Spanish and French Colonization
  • Lesson 2: English Settlement in the South
  • Lesson 3: English Settlement in New England
  • Lesson 4: English Settlement in the Middle Colonies
  Chapter 7
  • Lesson 1: A New Settlement in Virginia
  • Lesson 2: Rebellion in Virginia
  • Lesson 3: Slavery in the Southern Colonies
  Chapter 8
  • Lesson 1: The Puritans Come to America
  • Lesson 2: Life in New England
  • Lesson 3: Challenging Authority
  • Lesson 4: Trade in New England
  Chapter 9
  • Lesson 1: The Land of the Middle Colonies
  • Lesson 2: A Mixture of Many Cultures
  • Lesson 3: Farming and Trade
  Chapter 10
  • Lesson 1: Ties to Great Britain
  • Lesson 2: The Seven Years' War
  • Lesson 3: A New British Policy
  Chapter 11
  • Lesson 1: Forming a New Government
  • Lesson 2: Fighting the War
  • Lesson 3: Building a New Society
  Chapter 12
  • Lesson 1: Forming a Government
  • Lesson 2: The Constitution
  • Lesson 3: Becoming American
  Chapter 13
  • Lesson 1: Launching a New Government
  • Lesson 2: Jefferson and National Unity
  • Lesson 3: Economic Life of the New Nation
  • Lesson 4: Everyday Life in the Young Nation
  Chapter 14
  • Lesson 1: The Moving Frontier
  • Lesson 2: Life on the New Frontier
  • Lesson 3: The Next Frontier
  • Lesson 4: The American Indians in Retreat
  Chapter 15
  • Lesson 1: Texas and the Struggle with Mexico
  • Lesson 2: The Road to Oregon
  • Lesson 3: Migrating to California and Utah
  • Lesson 4: Conflicts with the American Indians
  Chapter 16
  • Lesson 1: Plantation Society
  • Lesson 2: A Look at Slavery
  • Lesson 3: Life in the Other South
  Chapter 17
  • Lesson 1: Industrial Growth
  • Lesson 2: New People, New Problems
  • Lesson 3: Life in Northern Cities
  • Lesson 4: Making a Better Society
  Chapter 18
  • Lesson 1: Crisis and Compromise
  • Lesson 2: The Growing Conflict
  • Lesson 3: A House Divided
  • Lesson 4: Civil War and Freedom
  Chapter 19
  • Lesson 1: Outbreak of the War
  • Lesson 2: The Home Fronts
  • Lesson 3: The End of the War
  • Lesson 4: Reconstruction
  Chapter 20
  • Lesson 1: Changes on the Great Plains
  • Lesson 2: Entering the Modern Age
  • Lesson 3: Coming to America
  • Lesson 4: Into Growing Cities

Unit Activities and Resources

• Unit 1: The United States: Past and Present
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Reading a Historical
    Photograph
  • Activity: Learning from Maps
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 2: Exploring and Settling America
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Mayflower Compact
  • Activity: Lacrosse — An Iroquois Game, Then and Now
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 3: Life in the English Colonies
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Evaluating John Smith's Description of Indians in Virginia
  • Activity: Roger Williams — Puritan Dissenter
  • Internet Resources

  Unit 4: The Struggle for Independence

  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Exploring the Bill of Rights
  • Activity: Benjamin Franklin — A Man of Many Talents
  • Internet Resources

  Unit 5: Life in a Growing Nation

  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson
  • Activity: Life in New England in the Early 19th Century
  • Internet Resources
  Unit 6: A Nation in Conflict
  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: The Mill Girls of New England
  • Activity: Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Statement Against Slavery
  • Internet Resources

  Unit 7: Toward the Modern Age

  • Activity: Understanding Primary Sources: Examining the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Activity: A Civil War Conference
  • Internet Resources

From My Class to Yours -

Try these teacher-created activities to support and extend activities in Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbook program.

• Activities

A Closer Look

• Add to your investigation of historical and cultural clues by visiting Internet sites on these topics.

  Musical Instruments

  The Layers of a Map

  Primary Sources

  The Voyage of Columbus

  Pilgrim Woodworking

  West African Culture

  Harvest Time

  Boston Tea Party

  Life at the Convention

  New York Harbor, 1830

  The Lewis and Clark Expedition

  The Oregon Trail

  Slave Culture

  A Walking City

  Immigrant Children

A Moment in Time

• Get your passport ready! Continue your travel through time to meet fascinating people and visit far away places on the Internet.

  An Iroquois Clan Leader

  A Puritan Girl

  A Continental Soldier

  A Frontiersman

  A School Reformer

Home School Connection

• Unit 1 Letter: The United States: Past and Present

  Unit 2 Letter: Exploring and Settling America

  Unit 3 Letter: Life in the English Colonies

  Unit 4 Letter: The Struggle for Independence

  Unit 5 Letter: Life in a Growing Nation

  Unit 6 Letter: A Nation in Conflict

  Unit 7 Letter: Finding America's Future

Literature Activity Masters

• Just click on a book title below to go to the literature activity masters that support that title. Please note that Before Reading activities should be completed before reading the book and Read and Respond activities should be completed during or after reading the book.

  A Williamsburg Household
  by Joan Anderson, photographs by George Ancona

  Pioneer Children of Appalachia
  by Joan Anderson, photographs by George Ancona

  Trouble for Lucy
  by Carla Stevens, illustrated by Ronald Himler

Bibliography

Primary Sources on the Web

 

 

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