BOOK 1: Document-Based Activities

Units cover the American Revolution, westward expansion, and women’s suffrage. Among the topics: the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, Patrick Henry, the Declaration of Independence, Valley Forge, the Treaty of Paris, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, the Trail of Tears, the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, the Pony Express, the Homestead Act, the transcontinental railroad, Abigail Adams, Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, African American women and the suffrage movement, Alice Paul, picketing the White House, and the 19th Amendment.