The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.






Learning Tools


Interpreting Primary Sources:

Manifest Destiny


Recommended lesson plans:

Women of the West, Native American Policy, and the Pony Express
http://www.historynow.org/09_2006/teacher.html

Mapping the West, a collection of worksheets and lesson plans from the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University:
http://exploringthewest.stanford.edu/units/maps.html

Fact Check:

Quiz on Westward Expansion

Primary source documents with classroom questions:

The Homestead Act: The Great American Equalizer
The Battle of Wounded Knee: From an Indian Prospective
The Battle of Wounded Knee: From a U.S. Army Interpreter's Point of View


Timelines:

A timeline of the 19th century









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