U.S. History 1600s-1890s ACTIVITIES Bundle: Colonial Period-Reconstruction

Check out this bundle of my favorite activities from my American History course—from pre-colonization through Reconstruction! Get students active and engaged with these student-centered ACTIVITIES ranging from the 1600s-1890s!

This bundle INCLUDES:

14+ Worksheets/Reading Activities

• Native Americans and America Before Columbus Readings & Group Activity
• Settling Jamestown Primary Source Worksheet
• Enlightenment Influence on the American Revolution Worksheet
• American Revolution Warm-Up Readings (7)
• Patriots’ Primary Sources: Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine
• Guns and Ships Lyrics Analysis (from Hamilton the Musical)
• Washington’s Farewell Address (Group Jigsaw)
• Alien and Sedition Acts Worksheet
• Understanding Judicial Review: What if it didn’t exist?
• Frontier Experiences on the American West Readings
• Texas Annexation Debates Worksheet
• Opposition to the Mexican-American War Readings
• Compromise of 1850: Notes + Worksheet/Role-Taking Perspective Activity
• Reading on Battle of Little Bighorn and Massacre at Wounded Knee

14+ Projects/Creative Activities

• French and Indian War Movie Poster Activity
• Firebrand Business Cards – Advertise for American Patriots
• American Revolution Project: African Americans/Native Americans/Women/Spies
• Grade the Articles of Confederation! Student Project Assessing the Early Gov
• Federalist Papers Songs Group Activity
• Constitutional Issues: Comparing the Convention to Today’s Issues
• Critical Period Editorial or Political Cartoon Activity and Rubric
• Election of 1824: John Quincy Adams v Jackson Presidential Stump Speech Activity
• Sectionalism Rap Battle in the Antebellum: North vs. South vs. West in the 1800s
• Antebellum Presidents Campaign Activity: Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, etc.
• Abolitionist Propaganda Group Activity: Douglass, Garrison, Walker, Jacobs w/ NOTES
• Gold Rush Newspaper: Teaching the Forty-Niners
• Antebellum Project! Essay, Newscast, Magazine, Timeline of the 1820s-1850s
• Ranking the Presidents: Research + Creative Activity for Presidential Legacies

4 Simulations/Collaborative Learning

• Make Your Own Mayflower Compact
• Joint Stock Company Simulation
• Founding Fathers DEBATE: Heroes or Traitors?
• Investigating the Burr v. Hamilton Duel—STUDENT DETECTIVES

8 Stations Sets

• Race, Slavery, and Violence in the American Colonies
• Remembering the American Revolution Stations
• Lewis and Clark/Corps of Discovery: Gallery Walk/Stations Activity
• Market Revolution and American System Gallery Walk
• Antebellum Reform Movements Stations
• Civil War Politics STATIONS: Draft Riots, Greenbacks, Emancipation Proclamation, etc.
• Reconstruction Stations, Handout, and Key: Amendments, Jim Crow, etc.
• Anti-Chinese Immigration Stations

3 Political Cartoon Analysis Activities

• Monroe Doctrine Political Cartoon Analysis & Era of Good Feelings NOTES
• Andrew Jackson: 8 Political Cartoons Analysis-Stations/Gallery Walk, Jigsaw
• Emancipation Proclamation Political Cartoon Analysis

I LOVE designing student-centered activities for my students. Use these ready-to-go activities in your classroom!

My teaching style involves a short, teacher-centered introduction of content before letting students dive into the material themselves. This is great for students' learning--but means a LOT of planning and lesson-designing from me. Use these activities in your American History classroom and save yourself lots of time!

Topics covered:

• Native American civilizations before European colonization
• Mayflower Compact
• Joint Stock Companies
• Jamestown
• American Exceptionalism
• Pilgrims
• French and Indian War
• American colonies
• Slavery, racism, and exploitation
• Enlightenment philosophy and its influence on America
• “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
• The American Revolution
• Saratoga, Lafayette, and French assistance in the American Revolution
• Founding Fathers
• The Articles of Confederation (and its strengths and weaknesses)
• The US Constitution and its lasting debates
• George Washington’s Farewell Address
• John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Election of 1796
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Judicial Review
• Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
• Burr v. Hamilton Duel
• Monroe Doctrine
• Election of 1824: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson
• Market Revolution
• Nationalism and sectionalism
• Antebellum conflicts (westward expansion, slavery, industrialization)
• Antebellum politics and reform movements
• The abolitionist movement (including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Jacobs, and David Walker)
• Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny
• Texas annexation
• The Mexican-American War
• The Compromise of 1850
• The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
• Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth
• Politics during the Civil War (draft riots, greenbacks, income taxes, wartime restrictions, etc.)
• Reconstruction (Jim Crow segregation, Plessy v. Ferguson, Reconstruction Amendments, etc.)
• Anti-Chinese Immigration including the Chinese Exclusion Act
• Native American Wars in the late 1800s (Massacre at Wounded Knee and Battle of Little Bighorn)
• Dawes Act

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