Document-Based Learning
For each chapter, there are a range of document-based learning opportunities. Each helps students become better at analyzing documents and thinking about the content standards from a document-based perspective. Some of the activities and resources are at a lower cognitive level, providing students with a chance to engange the documents at a surface level. Other activities require higher-level thinking and a deep understanding of content. All of the activities provide students with the opportunity to interact with real-world documents connecting history to life!
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Chapter 1: Louisiana's Geography
Chapter 2: Louisiana's Culture
Chapter 3: Louisiana's Economy
Chapter 4: Louisiana's Government
Chapter 5: Louisiana's Native People and Early European Explorers
Primary Source Activity
Prequel to Independence
Finding American Symbols
To Sign or Not to Sign-Declaration of Independence
We the People
Chapter 8: Louisiana from Colony to Territory to State
Internet Activity
Indian Nations vs. Settlers on the Frontier: 1786-1788
Lewis & Clark's Expedition to the Complex West
Chapter 9: Louisiana's Antebellum Politics, Commerce, and Culture
Internet Activity
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
U.S. v. Amistad: A Case of Jurisdiction
Twelve Years a Slave
Chapter 10: Secession and Civil War
Internet Activity
The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
Comparing Civil War Recruitment Posters
How Effective Were the Efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What Else Was Happening
During the Civil War Era?
Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Annie Davis
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Reasons for Westward Expansion
Chapter 11: Reconstruction and Redemption
Internet Activity
To What Extent was Reconstruction a Revolution (Part I)
To What Extent was Reconstruction a Revolution (Part II)
Settlement of the American West
The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities
Chapter 12: Louisiana's Politics, Economy, and Culture in an Era of Change
Internet Activity
WWI America: Babe Ruth's Draft Card
Americans on the Homefront Helped Win WWI
Baseball on the World War I Homefront
The Zimmermann Telegram
Comparing WWI Posters Urging Americans to Conserve Food for the War Effort
Effects of Food Regulation in the Progressive Era
Extending Suffrage to Women
Artists Document World War I
WWI Propoganda and Art
Chapter 13: The Era of Huey Long
Internet Activity
Primary Source Activity
The School Lunch Program and the Federal Government
The New Deal: Revolution or Reform?
Where Was the New Deal?
Chapter 14: Louisiana from 1940 to 1972: Politics, War, and Civil Rights
Internet Activity
Primary Source Activity
"A Date Which Will Live in _______"
Can You Figure Out What This Document Is?
Confronting Workplace Discrimination on the WWII Homefront
The Night Before D-Day
What Kind of Leader Was Douglas MacArthur?
Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces
We Shall Overcome
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Mrs. Jackson's Letter
A Famous Person and Event Are Revealed
A Call to Action: Responses to Civil Rights
The Constitution in Action: Article III
The Constitution in Action: Article V, VI, VII
Chapter 15: Louisiana from 1972 to the Present: The Edwards Era and Beyond
Apollo-Soyuz: Space Age Detente
Watching What?
The Constitution in Action: Article I
Birth of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Lowering the Voting Age: Nixon and the XXVI Amendment
Landing a Man on the Moon: President Nixon and the Apollo Program
Nixon Visits China: The Week That Changed the World
President Reagan and the Cold War: Vision and Diplomacy