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Lift-the-Flap Timelines:
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10 Easy-to-Make, Fact-Filled Timelines That Help Kids Learn
About Important Topics and Events in American History
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Timeline Writing Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Timelines
Explorers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Revolutionary War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Growth of Our Nation—State by State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
American Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Westward Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Immigration to the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Civil Rights Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Women and the Vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Great Inventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Activity Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Activity Page Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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Welcome to Lift-the-Flap Timelines!
Lift-the-Flap Timelines put history right into the hands of your students! With each
timeline, students lift a flap and read the fun fact. Each timeline is designed to
delight students while supplementing and supporting the social studies curriculum.
Sure, Lift-the-Flap Timelines are packed with interesting historical facts. But this
book is also brimming with the opportunity to build skills found on standardized
tests. As students learn about the fascinating people and events that shaped our
country, they’ll gain valuable reading practice—not to mention the important skill
of reading a timeline. Activity pages provide reading comprehension practice, while
thought-provoking writing prompts invite students to think critically and respond
personally to each timeline (see pages 6–8). After your students thoroughly explore
each timeline inside and out, have them turn the timeline over and display the
related famous quote on the back. These banners will inspire your students as they
illuminate the ideas behind the timelines.
Bon voyage to you and your class as you travel back in time—with timelines that
your students won’t want to put down!
How to Assemble the Timelines
2. Trim along the dotted
3. Fold along
lines at the edges of each
the gray
page. Tape together.
line.
4. Cut along the
dotted lines
to create
flaps.
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Make doublesided copies
of the pages.
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Introduce, Teach, and Review
American History Units
With These Timelines!
Introduce the Unit
Pique Interest Before delving into any of the ten American history topics presented in this book, hand out the accompanying timeline to students. Explain that the
timeline gives an overview of the topic that students will be studying. Have volunteers take turns reading each event and accompanying fun fact.
Raise Questions After volunteers read the events and facts on the timeline, have
each student write three questions they have about the topic. Students may also jot
down the events or people they’d like to learn more about. As students share their
responses with the class, note the questions and points of interest that pop up for
more than one student. Let students know when and how their question or point of
interest will be addressed in the course of the unit. If you find that several students
are interested in a topic that you were not planning to include or spend much time
on, you may want to revise your plans.
Teach the Unit
Add Events Make a copy of the timeline for the wall. As your unit unfolds, have a
student color each flap with a colored pencil, to note your progress.
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Individual or Group Research Assign individuals or groups different events from
the timeline to research. Have students prepare a brief presentation that fleshes out
the event, with details that answer who, what, when, where, and why.
Review the Unit
Unit Overview Timelines are useful for reviewing your unit. The writing prompts
on pages 6–8 and the activity pages (pages 59–68) are additional ways to review
historical events.
Student-Made Timelines Have students review the information presented on any
given timeline by creating their own timeline on the same topic. Though many events
will be the same, challenge students to include three events that are not on the
timelines found in this book. Have them provide fun facts for each new event.
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Timeline Writing Prompts
Explorers (pages 9–12)
Which explorer interests you most? Why? What are three
things you’d like to know about this explorer?
Describe the challenges that explorers faced. Describe the
rewards and benefits that successful explorers enjoyed.
If you lived during the days of exploration, do you think you would have liked to
have been an explorer? Why or why not?
The Revolutionary War (pages 13–18)
Pretend it is your job to persuade Americans to join the
Continental Army. You will post your notice in public
places throughout the colonies. What will your notice say?
Illustrate your notice to make your case even stronger.
The Proclamation of 1763 forbade further settlement west
of the Appalachian Mountains and required those already in those regions to
return east. About 5,000 settlers ignore the proclamation and moved west. What
would you have done if you had been planning to move west? What would you
have done if you had already moved west? Explain your answers.
How do you think the history of the United States might have been different if
the colonists had not rebeled against the British?
Which three facts did you find most interesting or
surprising? Why?
After doing some research, write three more fun
facts about your state.
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Some people think Washington, D.C. (a district) and
Puerto Rico (an island territory) should become
states. What do you think?
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American Presidents (pages 25–30)
Which presidents do you admire? Why?
What qualities do you think make a good president?
Choose three presidents from the timeline to research.
Write what each was known for and include one fun
fact for each.
The Civil War (pages 31–36)
How do you think the history of the United States might have been different if
the South had been allowed to secede from the Union?
Look at Abraham Lincoln’s quote on the timeline
under the November 1863 flap. Describe in your
own words what this quote means. Why do you
think this speech is important?
Women and the Vote
(pages 37–40)
John Adams did not fulfill his wife’s request to include
women in the language of the Declaration of Independence.
How might women’s issues be different today if he had?
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In your own words, explain the motto of The Revolution—
“Men, their rights, and nothing more. Women, their rights,
and nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony broke the law when she tried to vote in the presidential
election. In your opinion, did she do the right thing? Explain your answer.
W e s t wa r d E x pa n s i o n
(pages 41–44)
After doing research, write a descriptive paragraph
about the Trail of Tears. What were the conditions?
What was the mood?
Pretend you live happily on the east coast in the mid1800s. Would you be tempted by the Gold Rush to
move west? How about the Homestead Act?
Why or why not?
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Some immigrants settle in communities where other
people from their country live. They surround themselves
with the language, customs, and foods found back home.
Other immigrants thoroughly adopt American ways and
leave behind their traditional holidays and language. Many others find a balance
between holding onto their culture and adopting a new culture. If you were to
move to another country, which route do you think you would take? Why?
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Immigration to the United States
In your own words, describe what this quote from former President Jimmy
Carter means: “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different
people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
Give an example that supports this idea.
Write about your own family history. First, write what you already know. Then,
write what you want to know. After interviewing family members about your
family history, write what you learned.
The Civil Rights Movement (pages 49–52)
The bus boycott was a way to fight against unfair laws. Do you
think the boycott was a good idea? Explain your answer.
The bus boycott is an example of a nonviolent way to solve a
problem. Think about a problem in your life—at school or at
home. What is a positive response to the problem?
(pages 53–58)
List four inventions that you would not want to live without. Describe a typical
day without these four inventions.
Choose an invention and describe how you think it might
be improved.
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Which invention from the timeline would you like to learn
more about? Why?
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Ferdinand Magellan
leaves Spain to sail
around the world with
five ships and 260 men.
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Ex p l o r e r s
1510
Christopher Columbus
sails from Spain to the
Americas, searching for
a shorter route to Asia.
1492
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Hernando Cortés
conquers the Aztec
empire in Mexico.
1521
1550
1560
1580
Hernando de Soto
leads the first European
expedition across the
southeastern United States.
1539
1570
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did not wish to affirm it was land…
small wax candle that rose and lifted up.”
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FACT: On the long voyage, the crew
threatens to push Columbus overboard
and sail home! When they finally land
on islands south of Florida, Columbus
thinks he is on islands off the coast
of Japan.
FACT: Only 18 men return from the voyage
around the world. Magellan is not
one of them.
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FACT: Soon after he captures the city of
Tenochtitlán (tay-nahk-tee-TLAHN),
Cortés begins to build Mexico City on the
Aztec ruins.
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FACT: De Soto searches for gold,
but doesn’t find any. He is the first
European known to have seen the
Mississippi River.
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1610
Francisco Vásquez
de Coronado explores
the southwestern part
of the United States.
1540
1600
1630
Samuel de Champlain founds
Quebec, the first permanent
European settlement in Canada.
1608
1620
1640
1660
Henry Hudson explores
present-day New York and
the Hudson River.
1609
1650
1680
Father Jacques Marquette and
Louis Jolliet explore the
Mississippi River.
1673
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1690
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I saw it once or twice and it was like a
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FACT: Coronado searches for the Seven
Cities of Cíbola, where the streets and
houses are said to be made of gold
and jewels. He finds the Grand
Canyon, but no gold.
FACT: Champlain becomes known as the
father of New France (the area of
present-day Canada claimed by
France). His goals are to map North
America, find a quicker way to reach
the Pacific Ocean, and teach the native
people of North America about
Christianity.
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FACT: Hudson makes three voyages to
find a shortcut from Europe to the
Far East in 1608, 1609, and 1610. On
the final journey, the angry crew set
Hudson and his son in a small boat on
the icy waters of the Hudson Bay.
They are never heard from again.
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FACT: Marquette and Jolliet are the
first Europeans to follow the
course of the river.
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Colonies
The Sugar Act
Indian
Territory
1764
1764
The Proclamation of 1763
1763
1763
1762
King George III becomes
the new king of Great Britain.
1761
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The Stamp Act
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1766
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FACT: This stubborn, 22-yearold king wants to make the
American colonists help pay
the costs of England’s Seven
Years’ War with France.
There is conflict between
the king and the colonists
from the start.
FACT: This proclamation prohibits settlement west of the
Appalachian Mountains and requires those already settled in
those regions to return east. Roughly 5,000 settlers ignore the
proclamation and move west.
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FACT: The British Parliament
passes the Sugar Act, which
puts a tax on molasses. The
British argue the tax is
necessary to help pay for
keeping British troops in the
Colonies for their defense.
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FACT: This act, passed by
Parliament, calls for taxing
printed materials such as
newspapers and legal
documents. A stamp is pressed
onto each taxable item. The
angry colonists believe the
act is “taxation without
representation,” and urge the
king and Parliament to cancel
the act.
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The Boston Massacre
British troops arrive in Boston.
1770
1768
1769
The Townshend Acts
1768
1767
1767
Samuel Adams forms the
Committee of Correspondence.
1772
1771
The Boston Tea Party
1773
1772
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FACT: These acts tax
imports such as tea,
paper, glass, and other
goods that come into the
colonies. The colonists
fight back by refusing to
buy those British goods
included in the acts.
FACT: British authorities
request help from British
troops after constantly being
harassed by protesting
colonists. A British warship
armed with fifty cannons
sails into Boston Harbor.
FACT: After an angry mob of
colonists harass British
soldiers, the troops fire
their muskets into the
crowd, killing five.
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FACT: Rebels form a 21member committee in
Boston to improve
communication and
coordinate action between
the colonies. Within a year,
similar committees are
organized in the 12 other
colonies.
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FACT: In an act of
rebellion against the Tea
Acts, colonists disguised
as Mohawk Indians board
British ships and dump
all 342 containers of tea
into Boston Harbor.
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An unordered “shot heard
around the world” begins
the American Revolution.
March 23, 1775
Patrick Henry gives his
famous “give me liberty or give
me death” speech to the First
Continental Congress.
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Continental
Congress
is formed
1775
1774
1774
1776
1776
The Declaration of Independence
is signed on July 4th.
May 10
George Washington is appointed
general and commander in chief of the
new Continental Army.
“Give me
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The British surrender at Yorktown,
Virginia, ending the Revolutionary War .
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FACT: The 56 delegates who
make up the First Continental
Congress are a mixture of
moderates (those who seek a
peaceful solution to a problem)
and radicals (those who favor
extreme measures to solve a
problem). Patrick Henry speaks
for the radicals with his speech.
FACT: At about 4:30 in the
morning in Lexington, about
70 armed Massachusetts
militiamen stand face to face
with some 600 British
soldiers. Nobody knows if the
first shot was fired by a
militiaman or a British
soldier.
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FACT: The votes for
Washington are
unanimous.
FACT: Congress chooses a fiveman committee to write a draft
announcing to Great Britain that
the colonies would form a free
and independent nation. The
committee chooses Thomas
Jefferson, the strongest writer in
the group, to do the actual
writing. The Declaration of
Independence describes a new
government that had never been
tried before—a government that
gets its power from the consent
of the people it governs.
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FACT: As Yorktown is
about to be taken, the
British send out a flag
of truce. General
Washington and General
Cornwallis work out
terms of surrender.
1780
North Carolina (12th)
Georgia (4th)
Connecticut (5th)
Massachusetts (6th)
Maryland (7th)
1788
South Carolina (8th)
New Hampshire (9th)
Virginia (10th)
New York (11th)
1790
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1790
1789
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware (1st)
Pennsylvania (2nd)
New Jersey (3rd)
Georgia
New Jersey
1787
Pennsylvania
Delaware
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1792
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Vermont (14th)
1791
Tennessee (16th)
1796
1800
1810
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Indiana (19th)
1816
Ohio
Maine (23rd)
1820
Louisiana
Alabama (22nd)
1819
1820
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Mississippi (20th)
1817
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Illinois (21st)
1818
Tennessee
Kentucky
Louisiana (18th)
1812
Vermont
Rhode Island
North Carolina
New York
Ohio (17th)
1803
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New Hampshire
South Carolina
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri (24th)
1821
Indiana
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and illuminations,
the other.”
—John Adams,
describing his idea of
a 4th of July celebration
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FACT: The first thirteen states were the original
thirteen colonies that united to fight against
Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. The
thirteen stripes on the American flag stand for
each of the original thirteen states.
• Louisiana’s Port of New Orleans has handled more
shipping than any other port in the country.
• Indiana means “land of Indians.”
• The first human heart transplant took place in
Mississippi. (1964)
• Illinois was home to the first metal skyscraper. It was ten
stories high and built in Chicago. (1885)
• Alabama was home to the first electric streetcars. (1886)
• The first earmuffs were patented in Maine. (1877)
• The first ice-cream cones were served in Missouri, at the
world’s fair in St. Louis. (1904)
• Daniel Boone led the way to Kentucky, marking trees
with his ax to show the way. (1775)
• Tennessee was the first state to be readmitted to the
Union after the Civil War. (1866)
• Ohio was home to the first professional baseball team,
the Cincinnati Red Stockings (today’s Cincinnati
Reds). (1869)
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Arkansas (25th)
1836
Illinois
Michigan (26th)
1837
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Alabama
1840
Maine
Iowa (29th)
1846
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Texas (28th)
1845
Arkansas
1850
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California (31st)
1850
Wisconsin (30th)
1848
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Missouri
Minnesota (32nd)
1858
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Nevada (36th)
1864
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West Virginia (35th)
1863
Florida
Kansas (34th)
1860
1861
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Oregon (33rd)
1859
Michigan
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Nebraska (37th)
1867
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1876
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sports, balls, bonfires,
end of this continent to
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FACTS:
• Minnesota’s nickname is “The Land
of 10,000 Lakes,” but may have more
than 22,000!
• Oregon has produced more forest products
than any other state.
• Our country’s first female mayor, Susanna
Salter, was elected in Argonia, Kansas.
(1887)
• West Virginia was the first state to have a
sales tax. (1921)
• Nevada is home to one of the world’s largest
concrete dams—the Hoover Dam.
FACTS:
• The first U.S. manned space flights
were launched from Cape Canaveral,
Florida. (1962)
• Texas has led all states in the
production of oil.
• Iowa has grown the most corn.
• Wisconsin’s two million cows have
made more milk than any other state.
• The first cable-car system began
operating in San Francisco,
California. (1873)
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• Arkansas was home to
the Crater of Diamonds,
the only diamond mine
in the United States.
• The first lines to mark
traffic lanes were painted
near Trenton, Michigan. (1911)
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• Colorado is home to the world’s highest
suspension bridge. It spans Royal
Gorge near Canon City.
• Arbor Day, a national day for planting
trees, originated in Nebraska. Nebraska
has the largest planted forest in the
United States.
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Nevada
West Virginia
Idaho (43rd)
Wyoming (44th)
Utah (45th)
1890
Kansas
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North Dakota (39th)
South Dakota (40th)
Montana (41st)
Washington (42nd)
1889
Minnesota
California
1900
Colorado
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
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Oklahoma (46th)
1907
1910
Washington
Montana
Wyoming
New Mexico (47th)
Arizona (48th)
1912
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Idaho
“Shows, games,
from one
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Utah
1920
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
1960
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Hawaii (50th)
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Hawaii
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• Members of more than sixty Native American peoples
live in Oklahoma.
• The deepest limestone caves in the world are in New
Mexico. Each night, thousands of bats fly out of their
caves to feast on millions of insects.
• The oldest inhabited village in the United States is
believed to be in Arizona.
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• In North Dakota’s Burning Coal mine, coal has been
burning underground for several hundred years.
• South Dakota has the largest gold mine in the U.S.
• Sapphires can be found in Montana.
• Washington is the only state named after a president.
• Idaho grows the most potatoes each year.
• Women in Wyoming were able to vote before other
American women, thanks to laws passed by the
Wyoming Territory. (1869)
• Utah is home to the biggest dinosaur footprints.
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• Juneau, Alaska, is the only state capital that
can’t be reached by road.
• Hawaii was ruled by kings and queens from
1795 until 1893.
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James Madison
(4th)
(3rd)
(1st)
1800
1810
1820
(7th)
1830
1837
Martin
Van Buren (8th)
1841
William Henry
Harrison (9th)
1825
John Quincy
Adams (6th)
1829
Andrew Jackson
(5th)
(2nd)
1801
Thomas Jefferson
1790
1817
James Monroe
1797
John Adams
1789
George Washington
1780
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1841
John Tyler
1840
1845
James K.
Polk (11th)
(13th)
(12th)
(15th)
1857
James Buchanan
1850
1850
Millard
Fillmore
1849
Zachary
Taylor
can do for your country.”
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Did you know . . .
he loved to eat
cream of peanut
soup?
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he soaked his feet in
cold water every
morning to keep
from getting a cold?
FACTS: Thomas
Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of
Independence.
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FACTS: Some
people wanted
to call George
Washington king,
but he would
not hear of
such a thing.
FACTS: Andrew Jackson
saw himself as the
first “people’s
president” because
he did not come from
a wealthy family.
Did you know . . .
the first attempt to
assassinate an
American president
was made on
Andrew Jackson?
FACTS: James Madison
is considered the father
of the Bill of Rights
(ten amendments that
protect the rights of
every individual).
Did you know . . .
he was the shortest of
our presidents, at 5 feet
4 inches?
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Did you know . . .
he was president
for only 31 days?
FACTS: William
Henry Harrison was
the first president
to die in office.
Did you know . . .
he was called
“His Accidency”
by his critics?
Did you know . . .
he was the only
president that never
married?
FACTS: James
Buchanan tried to
find a compromise
that would keep the
South from seceding
from the Union.
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FACTS: John Tyler
was the first president
to take office upon
the death of
his predecessor.
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1861
Abraham Lincoln
1860
1853
Franklin
Pierce (14th)
(18th)
1869
Ulysses S. Grant
(21st)
1881
Chester A.
Arthur
(19th)
1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
1880
(20th)
(17th)
1870
1881
James A.
Garfield
1865
Andrew
Johnson
1890
(26th)
(22nd, 24th)
1910
1920
(29th)
1921
Warren G.
Harding
(28th)
1913
Woodrow Wilson
1909
William
Howard
Taft (27th)
1901
Theodore Roosevelt
1900
1897
William
McKinley (25th)
1885, 1893
Grover Cleveland
1889
Benjamin
Harrison (23rd)
American Presidents
(31st)
1929
Herbert C. Hoover
1930
1923
Calvin
Coolidge (30th)
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he got a speeding
ticket while driving
his horse and
carriage?
Did you know . . .
he barely had a year
of schoolhouse
education?
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Grant, the decisive
Civil War hero, was
an indecisive
president.
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FACTS: Abraham
Lincoln led our
country during
the Civil War and
ended slavery.
Did you know . . .
he was the first
president to use a
telephone in the
White House?
FACTS: Rutherford
B. Hayes lost the
popular vote but
won the presidency.
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FACTS: Theodore
Roosevelt had
the Panama Canal
built and created
national parks.
Did you know . . .
he sometimes read
three books a night?
FACTS: Grover
Cleveland was the
first Democrat
elected president
after the Civil War.
Did you know . . .
he is the only
president to be
elected to two nonconsecutive terms?
Did you know . . .
he was the first
president to hold a
news conference?
Did you know . . .
he was the first
president born
west of the
Mississippi River?
FACTS: Herbert C.
Hoover was
president for just a
few months before
the Great Depression
began.
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FACTS: Woodrow
Wilson led the country
into World War I and
created the peace plan
that ended it.
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Harry S. Truman
(33rd)
(32nd)
1950
(35th)
1961
John F. Kennedy
1960
(36th)
(34th)
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1940
1963
Lyndon B.
Johnson
1953
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
(37th)
1969
Richard M. Nixon
1970
1974
Gerald R.
Ford (38th)
1980
1990
1977
James E. (Jimmy)
Carter (39th)
1981
Ronald W.
Reagan (40th)
(41st)
1989
George H.W. Bush
2000
1993
William J.
(Bill) Clinton (42nd)
(43rd)
2001
George W. Bush
2010
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Did you know . . .
he was the only 20thcentury President who
never went to college?
Did you know . . .
he was the only
president elected
four times?
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FACTS: Harry S. Truman
made the decision to
drop the atomic bomb
on Japan. World War II
ended days later.
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FACTS: Franklin D.
Roosevelt led the
country out of the
Great Depression
and into World War II.
Did you know . . .
he hated to watch TV?
said these famous
words in his inaugural
address: “Ask not
what your country can
do for you. Ask what
you can do for your
country.”
FACTS: John F. Kennedy
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Did you know . . .
he was the first
president to visit all
fifty states?
FACTS: Richard M.
Nixon is the only U.S.
president to resign his
office. He quit to avoid
being impeached over
the Watergate scandal.
Did you know . . .
he was the first
president born
in a hospital?
FACTS: James E.
(Jimmy) Carter
worked hard to
bring about peace
in the Middle East.
Did you know . . .
he is known as “W”
to his friends?
FACTS: George W.
Bush is the first
president to begin
serving in the 21st
century.
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he was the first
president to refuse
publicly to eat
broccoli?
FACTS: George H.W.
Bush led the country
in the Gulf War
against Iraq.
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Sep
The first shots are fired at Fort
Sumter.
Jul
The Confederate States of
America is formed.
Jun
Six southern states follow
South Carolina and secede
from the union.
May
Apr. 1861
Apr
Feb. 1861
Mar
Jan. 1861
1861
Jan
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Nov
Dec
Confederate victory at the
Battle of Bull Run
Oct
Feb
Abraham Lincoln is
elected President.
Nov. 1861
1862
Jan
Mar
Apr. 1862
May
Jun
A narrow Union victory at the
Battle of Shiloh
Apr
new nation, conceived in
men are created equal.”
–Abraham Lincoln
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FACT: Secede means
“to withdraw from
membership.”
FACT: Delegates from
six seceded states
elect Jefferson Davis
as president of the
new government.
FACT: Shots from fifty
cannons begin the
Civil War in
Charleston, SC. Fort
Sumter is captured by
South Carolina
troops.
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FACT: The Battle of Bull
Run, fought at Manassas
Junction, VA, is the war’s
first major battle. It ends
in a disastrous defeat for
the Union Army. Lincoln
realizes the war will
be long.
FACT: Lincoln is the first
Republican President.
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FACT: After a surprise
Confederate attack,
13,000 of Union General
Ulysses S. Grant’s
troops are killed or
injured. The battle is
fought on the
Tennessee River.
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Aug
Robert E. Lee takes
over command of the
Confederate Army.
Jul
Sep
Aug. 1862
Nov
Jan
Sept. 1862
Feb
Mar
Antietam
MARYLAND
Union victory at the Battle of
Antietam
1863
Dec
Confederate victory at the
Second Battle of Bull Run
Oct
Jan. 1863
May
Jun
Lincoln issues the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Apr
July 1863
Aug
Sep
Pittsburgh
Gettysburg
Harrisburg
Allegheny Mountains
Philadelphia
Lancaster
PENNSYLVANIA
Union victory at the
Battle of Gettysburg
Jul
The Civil War
Nov. 1863
Nov
Lincoln delivers his
Gettysburg Address.
Oct
Dec
forth on this continent a
to the proposition that all
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FACT: During the Battle of
Seven Pines in Virginia,
Robert E. Lee replaces
the wounded Joseph
Johnston.
FACT: In a second victory
at Bull Run, 55,000
Confederates defeat
75,000 Federals.
FACT: This battle, fought in
Antietam, Maryland, is
the bloodiest day in U.S.
military history. There
are heavy losses on
both sides.
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FACT: The Emancipation
Proclamation declares
that slaves in the
seceded states are
now free.
FACT: The tables begin to
turn when the
Confederates are
defeated in this battle,
fought in Pennsylvania.
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FACT: Lincoln is ill when
he writes and delivers
this famous speech,
which lasts only two
minutes: “. . . our fathers
brought forth on this
continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the
proposition that all men
are created equal.”
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GEORGIA
Atlanta
Atlanta is captured.
Sept. 1864
1864
Jan
Oct
Lincoln is re-elected
President.
Nov. 1864
Sep
Jan
1865
Jan. 1865
Dec
Congress passes the
Thirteenth Amendment.
Nov
Mar
Richmond
VIRGINIA
Petersburg, VA falls.
Union troops occupy
Richmond, VA.
Apr. 2–3, 1865
Feb
Apr. 9, 1865
May
Jun
General Robert E.
Lee surrenders.
Apr
Aug
Lincoln is shot.
Apr. 14, 1865
Jul
Sep
Remaining
Confederate forces
surrender.
May 1865
Oct
“…Our fathers brought
liberty, and dedicated
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FACT: Lincoln wins all
but three states, with
55% of the popular
vote and 212 of 233
electoral votes.
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FACT: “Atlanta is
ours, and fairly
won,” General
William T. Sherman
telegraphs Lincoln.
This victory helps
Lincoln win reelection. Savannah
falls to Sherman
three months later.
FACT: The
Thirteenth
Amendment
abolishes slavery
throughout the
United States.
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FACT: Union troops
raise the Stars and
Stripes after
Richmond, the
Confederate capital,
is evacuated.
FACT: Lee surrenders
his army to General
Grant in Virginia.
FACT: The nation
is reunited as the
Civil War ends.
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FACT: John Wilkes
Booth fatally shoots
Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater during the
third act of a play.
1776
1840
Abigail Adams makes a
request of her husband, John,
on behalf of women’s rights.
1776
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The first women’s rights
convention in the U.S. is
held in Seneca Falls, NY.
1850
1872
Susan B. Anthony is arrested
for trying to vote.
1869
The women’s rights movement
splits into two factions.
1868
1870
Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton found
The Revolution—a weekly
suffrage newspaper.
1860
Women and
to be self-evident, that
are created equal.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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FACT: While John Adams
is working on the
Declaration of
Independence, Abigail
writes her husband,
“remember the ladies.”
FACT: Participants sign a
document that outlines the
main goals of the new
women’s movement,
including the right to vote.
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FACT: The paper’s motto
reads: “Men, their rights,
and nothing more.
Women, their rights, and
nothing less.”
FACT: The National Woman
Suffrage Association is more
radical and The American
Woman Suffrage Association
is more conservative.
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FACT: Susan B. Anthony
is brought to trial for
trying to vote for
Ulysses S. Grant in the
presidential elections.
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1890
The National Woman Suffrage
Association (NWSA) and the
American Woman Suffrage
Association (AWSA) unite.
A Woman Suffrage Amendment
is introduced in the U.S. Congress.
1890
1878
the Vote
1900
Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive
Party becomes the first national
political party to support suffrage.
1912
1910
We hold these truths
all men and women
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The Nineteenth Amendment
gives women full voting rights.
1920
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FACT: This amendment is defeated
every year until 1920.
FACT: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
becomes president of the newly
formed National American Woman
Suffrage Association. The group
focuses on getting the vote at the
state level.
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FACT: At the first national
convention of the Progressive
Party, observers note the large
number of female delegates and
female leaders.
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FACT: This amendment is also called
the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
With this victory, the National
Woman Suffrage Association
ceases to exist.
1820
out from St. Louis, Missouri.
1804: Lewis and Clark set
1804
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1825
1825: The Erie Canal is complete.
1830
1830: Indian Removal Act
1838: Trail of Tears
1835
1843: Oregon Trail
1840
Westward
don’t you cry for me.
with a wash pan on my knee.”
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FACT: Thomas Jefferson
more than doubles the
size of the U.S. with the
Louisiana Purchase. He
chooses Meriwether
Lewis (who invites
William Clark) to lead
the expedition to explore
the new land. Their main
goal is to follow the
Missouri River and find
an all-water route to the
Pacific Ocean.
FACT: Missouri trader
William Becknell creates
this route from
Independence, Missouri
to Santa Fe, New
Mexico. The trip takes
forty to sixty days, and is
the main way for goods
and settlers to get to
Santa Fe and the
Southwest.
FACT: The Erie Canal
links New York City to
the Great Lakes. It
cuts travel time by a
third and the cost of
shipping by a tenth.
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FACT: President Jackson
signs this act which
gives the federal
government the power
to relocate Native
Americans to land in
the west. The moves
are paid for by the
government, but are not
always voluntary.
FACT: The U.S.
government forces
over 14,000
Cherokee Indians to
leave their homes in
the southeast and
head to Oklahoma
along the “Trail of
Tears.” About 4,000
Cherokees die along
the way.
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FACT: John Fremont
becomes a hero when
he blazes west along
the Oregon Trail. This
route is a pathway to
Oregon, as well as the
entire western U.S. It is
the only way to get
across the mountains.
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1848: Gold Rush
1845
Expansion
1860: Pony Express
1850
1862: Homestead Act
1855
1865: The Indian Wars
1860
“Oh, Susannah, now
I’m going to California
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1865
1869: Workers complete the
Transcontinental Railroad.
1870
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FACT: Gold is discovered in
California. The following
year, 80,000 people rush to
California, hoping to get
rich. Only about seventy
are women!
FACT: Young men deliver mail
on horseback along a 2,000mile route from Missouri to
California.
FACT: The Homestead Act
grants up to 160 acres of free
land to settlers who farm the
land for five years.
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FACT: Native Americans fight
back after losing their land
to the U.S. government.
Their greatest victory comes
at the Battle of Little Big
Horn, where they defeat
General George A. Custer.
However, by 1900, Native
Americans are forced onto
reservations.
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FACT: In Utah, the crowd
cheers and a band plays as
the Union Pacific tracks join
those of the Central Pacific
Railroad. The railroads are
joined with a golden spike.
The railroad stretches from
Omaha, Nebraska, to
Sacramento, California.
Ireland
Germany
1840 A mass migration takes
place during this decade (mostly
from Ireland and Germany).
1840
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settle in New York City.
1850
1848 German immigrants
settle in the Midwest.
1860
1849 Chinese immigrants
settle in California.
1870
1862 The Homestead Act
lures farmers from western
and northern Europe.
1872 Scottish immigrant
Alexander Graham Bell
comes to America.
1880
Immigration to the
tired, your poor,
yearning to breathe free”
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FACT: About seven
and a half million
immigrants come
to the U.S.
FACT: About 1.5 million
Irish come to the U.S.
to escape the potato
famine. Irish make up
nearly half of all
immigrants coming to
the U.S.
FACT: Germans come to
the U.S. due to political
upheaval in Germany.
Some work as farmers.
Others work in cities
such as Cincinnati and
St. Louis.
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FACT: Chinese immigrants
take part in the California
Gold Rush. About 15
years later, Chinese
workers are hired to
do the very dangerous
work of building the
transcontinental railroad.
They work long hours for
little pay.
FACT: The Homestead Act
gives 160 acres of free
land to anyone who is a
citizen or intends to
become a citizen, is 21
years or older, and
agrees to work the land
for five years.
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FACT: Four years after his
arrival, Bell patents the
telephone.
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1881 The largest wave of
immigration in American history
1890
1892 Ellis Island opens.
United States
1930
1924 The National Origins
Act of 1924
1940
1950
1948 Displaced Persons Act
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1954 Ellis Island closes.
1960
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FACT: This wave of
immigration brings people
from southern and eastern
Europe. Italians, Slavs, and
Greeks seek jobs and a
better way of life. Eastern
European Jews escape
religious persecution.
FACT: Ellis Island serves as a
processing center for 12
million immigrants over the
next 30 years. Almost half of
all Americans today have a
relative who came through
Ellis Island.
FACT: This act effectively ends
the waves of immigration for
forty years.
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FACT: This act allows
Europeans displaced by the
war to immigrate to the U.S.
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FACT: Ellis Island is now a
national monument.
1954
Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka, Kansas
1954
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
1956
1956
Montgomery buses
desegregate.
1957
1957
Desegregation at
Little Rock, Arkansas
1958
1960
Sit-in protest in
Greensboro, North Carolina
1959
The Civil Rights
children will one day live in a
judged by the color of their skin
of their character.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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FACT: In the early 1950s,
school segregation is the
law in most southern
states. In 1954, the U.S.
Supreme Court rules that it
is illegal to keep white and
African-American students
apart in public schools.
Alabama, Rosa Parks is
arrested for not giving
up her seat to a white
person. The black
community responds
with a bus boycott—a
planned decision to stop
riding the buses.
FACT: In Montgomery,
FACT: The Montgomery buses
desegregate after more than
a year of the boycott and a
legal battle. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. is one of the
boycott’s leaders.
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FACT: There is trouble when
Central High School is
desegregated. Nine black
students are blocked from
entering the school by
National Guardsmen and an
angry mob. President
Eisenhower sends troops to
restore order and protect
the students.
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FACT: Four black college
students begin a sit-in at a
segregated Woolworth’s
lunch counter. They sit at the
counter, day after day, until
they are served. They are
joined by more student
protestors—black and white.
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Freedom Rides
1960
1961
1962
Desegregation effort
continues in Mississippi.
Movement
1963
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
leads march in Washington, D.C.
1962
1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1963
1964
1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965
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nation where they will not be
but by the content
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FACT: Freedom Rides take
place across the South.
Groups of black and white
people ride buses to protest
segregation. The nonviolent
protest is sometimes met
with violence.
FACT: James Meredith is the
first black student to enroll at
the University of Mississippi.
President Kennedy orders the
National Guard to escort him
to campus. Before the guards
arrive, a riot breaks out and
two students are killed.
FACT: About 250,000 civil
rights marchers gather at
the Lincoln Memorial
and listen as Dr. King
gives his famous “I Have
a Dream” speech.
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FACT: President Johnson
signs this act, making
segregation in public places
and discrimination in
employment illegal.
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FACT: Congress passes a law
that makes it illegal to
prevent people from voting
or getting a job because of
their race or religion.
1850
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Combination lock
1852
Passenger
elevator
1860
1870
1879
Thomas Edison’s
electric lightbulb
1876
Alexander Graham Bell
patents the telephone.
1880
1890
First practical
dishwasher
1886
percent perspiration.”
–Thomas Alva Edison
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FACT: Bell taught
people who were
deaf, so he
understood how
speech vibrations
travel and realized
that voice signals can
be sent over wires.
son of a locksmith, was
a mechanical engineer.
He invented the modern
combination lock in
1862. You can see the
name "Yale" on many
locks today!
passenger elevator in
the U.S., designed by
Elisha Otis, is
installed in a New
York City store.
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electric lightbulb one year
before Edison. But Edison
figures out how to make the
lightbulb last. He experiments
with materials to place inside
the bulb to make the light
glow. Finally, he finds
carbonized thread.
FACT: Joseph Swan makes an
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FACT: In 1850, Joel
Houghton patents a
wooden machine
designed to clean
dishes. The problem is,
it doesn’t work.
Josephine Cochran says,
“If nobody else is going
to invent a dishwashing
machine, I’ll do it
myself.” And she does.
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1927
Television
1921
BAND-AID ®
1903
1920
Powered flight
1910
1930
1928
Sliced bread
1940
GREAT INVENTIONS
1948
Instant camera
1950
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FACT: Orville Wright
becomes the first person
to fly in a powered plane.
The plane, designed by
Orville and his brother,
Wilbur, stays in the air
for only 59 seconds.
FACT: Earle Dickson is
inspired by his wife to
invent the BAND-AID. She
often cuts her fingers while
cooking and the gauze and
tape she uses fall off easily.
By putting the gauze in the
center of the tape and
covering the tape in a
sterilizing chemical,
Dickson creates the
fabulous BAND-AID!
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FACT: Philo Taylor Farnsworth
is only fourteen years old
when he began thinking about
television. He is only twentyone years old when he
transmits the first television
image. The image is the shape
of a dollar sign.
FACT: Bread has been
around for about 12,000
years, but Otto Frederick
Rohwedder has the idea to
slice it. He also wraps the
pre-sliced loaves to keep
the bread moist.
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FACT: Edwin Land, an
American physicist,
invented a one-step
camera that allowed the
photographer to remove a
developing print right after
the picture had been
snapped. He founded the
Polaroid Corporation to
manufacture his new
camera and began selling
them in 1948.
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Apple II personal
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1974
Rubik’s Cube
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Internet
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1980
1981
Space shuttle
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DVD
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FACT: The idea for the
Internet begins as a way
for the U.S. Department
of Defense to swap
information with
university researchers.
FACT: Erno Rubik, a
Hungarian teacher of
architecture, invents this
cube by accident while
teaching his students
about geometry. Nearly
one in every five people
has played with this
popular puzzle.
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FACT: Apple II is the most
popular of the first
personal computers.
With only $1,300 to work
with, Steve Jobs and
Stephen Wozniak build
the computer in their
garage!
FACT: The space shuttle
Columbia is the world’s
first reusable spacecraft.
It combines the
technologies of both
rockets and airplanes.
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created by one person or
one company, but many
companies and their
employees.
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Name ______________________________________
SKILL: MAKING INFERENCES
Exploring Explorers
Read the riddles below. Use the Explorers timeline to figure out which explorer each riddle
describes. Write the correct answer on the line.
Christopher
Columbus
Ferdinand
Magellan
Hernando
Cortés
Hernando
de Soto
Francisco
Vásquez
de Coronado
1. ✵ I am a Spanish explorer.
✵
✵
✵
✵
Samuel
de Champlain
Henry
Hudson
Father
Jacques
Marquette
Louis
Jolliet
2. ✵ I am a Spanish explorer.
✵ I explore parts of the United States.
✵ I do not search for a shorter route to Asia.
✵ I do not search for the Seven Cities of Cibola.
✵ I explore 47 years after Columbus first sets sail
I explore in the 1500s.
I do not explore the United States.
I set sail with five ships.
I do not make it home alive.
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My name is ________________________________
My name is ________________________________
and I am known for _________________________
and I am known for _________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
3. ✵ I explore in search of a shortcut
4. ✵ I am not a French explorer.
✵ I set sail in the 1500s.
✵ I do not explore present-day New York.
✵ I am also a “conquistador” or conqueror.
✵ I have a city built.
to the East.
✵
✵
✵
✵
My crew becomes angry with me.
I am not looking for gold.
I explore parts of the Unites States.
I do not make it home alive.
My name is ________________________________
My name is ________________________________
and I am known for _________________________
and I am known for _________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
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Name ______________________________________
SKILL: SEQUENCING
Everything’s in Order!
This list shows 14 events that took place during the Revolutionary War. Write the year in
which each event occured. Then write numbers on each line to show the chronological
order of events.
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1768
______ British troops arrive in Boston __________
______ The Boston Tea Party __________
______ King George III becomes the new king of Great Britain __________
______ The Townshend Acts __________
______ The “shot heard around the world” is fired __________
______ The Boston Massacre __________
______ The Proclamation of 1763
______ The First Continental Congress is formed __________
______ George Washington is appointed general and Commander-in-Chief
______ The British surrender at Yorktown __________
______ The Sugar Act __________
______ The Stamp Act __________
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______ The Declaration of Independence is signed __________
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Name ______________________________________
OF
OUR NATION ACTIVITY PAGE
SKILL: READING COMPREHENSION
Name That State!
Use the timeline to complete each sentence below. Then write the answer in the bubble next to the
number that corresponds with each statement. We did the first one for you. Now read the question
in the box at bottom. To get the answer, write the letter that corresponds to each number.
thirteen
1. The ________________
stripes on the American flag stand for each of the original thirteen states.
2. New York is the __________________ state to join the Union.
3. Arbor Day originates in this midwestern state. ________________________
4. Minnesota’s __________________ is “The Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
5. Maine is where the first __________________ were patented.
6. The first professional baseball team is the Cincinnati Red ______________.
7. This is one Native American people that lived in Indiana before the settlers arrived. ______________
8. Louisiana is the ___________________ state to join the Union.
9. There are ___________________ states to join the Union between 1850 and 1880.
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Missouri is one of only two states to border eight other states. Which other state borders eight states?
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Name ______________________________________
SKILL: READING COMPREHENSION
Name That President!
Read each fact. Use the timeline to decide which President the fact is about. Write the
name of the President on the line next to the correct fact.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• John F. Kennedy
• Woodrow Wilson
• George W. Bush
• George Washington
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Grover Cleveland
• Theodore Roosevelt
• James Madison
1.
________________________
I wrote the Declaration of Independence.
2.
________________________
I said, “Ask not what your country can do for you.
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Ask what you can do for your country.”
3.
________________________
Some people wanted to call me king, but
I would not let them.
I was elected in the beginning of the 21st century.
5.
________________________
I was a Civil War hero.
6.
________________________
I was the father of the Bill of Rights.
7.
________________________
I created the peace plan that ended World War I.
8.
________________________
I sometimes read three books a night.
9.
________________________
I was the only president to be elected to two
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I led our country during the Civil War and ended slavery.
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10.
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CIVIL WAR ACTIVITY PAGE
Name ______________________________________
SKILL: TRUE
AND
FALSE
To Tell the Truth
Each statement below is false. Replace the bold words with words
that make each statement true. Write the new words on the line.
1. Delegates from eight seceded states elect Jefferson Davis
________________________
2. In 1862, there is a Union victory at the Battle of Bull Run.
________________________
3. President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address lasts for twelve minutes.
________________________
4. The first shots are fired at Manassas Junction.
________________________
5. “Atlanta is ours, and fairly won,” General Sherman telephones Lincoln.
________________________
6. The Union passes the Thirteenth Amendment.
________________________
7. Shots from ten cannons begin the Civil War in Charleston, SC.
________________________
8. In 1861, the Confederate States of the South is formed.
________________________
9. After a planned Confederate attack at the Battle of Shiloh,
________________________
13,000 Union troops are killed or injured.
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10. The first major battle is fought at Fort Sumter.
________________________
11. When Lincoln is re-elected, he wins all but five states.
________________________
12. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the South.
________________________
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AND THE
VOTE ACTIVITY PAGE
SKILL: READING COMPREHENSION
Women & the Vote Puzzle
Use the Women and the Vote timeline to answer the questions below. Then carefully write
your answers in the puzzle. The last letter of one answer will be the first letter of the next
answer. Some answers will wrap around corners.
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2.
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1. “Remember the _________________ ,” Abigail Adams reminds her husband, John.
New York.
3. Susan B. Anthony is _________________ for trying to vote.
4. A Woman Suffrage Amendment is _________________ each year until 1920.
5. At the Progressive Party’s first national convention, observers note the large amount of female
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2. The first women’s rights convention in the U.S. is held in _________________ Falls,
7. The motto of the Revolution is “Men, their rights, and nothing more. Women, their rights, and
_________________ less.”
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Name ______________________________________
SKILL: READING COMPREHENSION
West-Word Search
Use the timeline to complete each sentence. Then find the answer in the word search.
Words are written across, down, and diagonally.
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1. The _______________ trail begins in Missouri.
their homes.
3. In 1848, about 80,000 people head for California because of the _________ _________ .
4. Congress passes the _______________ Act in 1862.
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5. _______________ is delivered by the Pony Express.
6. Lewis and Clark set out from this state _______________ in 1804.
7. The Erie Canal links New York City to the Great _______________ .
8. President _______________ signs the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
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SKILL: READING COMPREHENSION
All About Immigration
Use the Immigration to the United States timeline to complete the statements below and
fill in the immigration puzzle. Three have been done for you.
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IMMIGRATION ACTIVITY PAGE
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1. The _______________ Persons Act allows Europeans displaced by the war to immigrate to
the United States.
2. Many German immigrants settle in the _______________ .
4. Irish come to the United States because of the potato _______________ .
Migration begins 11 years before Ellis Island opens.
5. The Great _______________
6. The Homestead Act grants up to 160 acres of _______________ land to settlers.
7. Half of all _______________ today have a relative who came through Ellis Island.
8. Alexander Graham Bell is a _______________ immigrant.
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11. The Chinese Exclusion Act prevents Chinese workers from entering the United States
ten
for _______________
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ACTIVITY PAGE
Name ______________________________________
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President Eisenhower
sends troops to
restore order at
Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas.
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To get through the maze, travel only through the boxes that contain facts. If a box contains a false statement, stop and go back. The correct path to the finish will take you
through seven boxes. Check your work with your Civil Rights Movement timeline.
In 1955, the bus
boycott takes place
in Montgomery,
Alabama.
The Montgomery
buses desegregate
after three months
of the boycott and
legal battle.
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SKILL: TRUE
Freedom Rides
are nonviolent
protests that are
sometimes met
with violence.
In 1963, Dr. King
leads a march in
Washington,
D.C., at the
Washington
Monument.
Dr. King is
one of the bus
boycott leaders.
In 1960, there is a
sit-in protest in
Greensboro, North
Carolina.
Freedom Rides
take place
across the
North.
About 250,000
civil rights
marchers listen as
Dr. King delivers
his “I Have a
Dream” speech.
Only black
students protest
at the Greensboro
sit-in.
The Freedom
Ride protesters
are white.
The Civil Rights
Act of 1964
comes ten years
after Brown v.
Board of
Education.
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A riot in
Mississippi
takes place two
years after the
Freedom Rides.
President
Kennedy signs
the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
The Voting
Rights Act
makes it harder
for black people
to vote.
SKILL: CREATING
TIMELINE
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2030
2040
2050
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Inventions of the Future Imagined by __________________
fold along dotted line
What fabulous inventions are right around the corner? Make your predictions on this timeline. First, fold this page in half along the dotted
line. Now imagine four new inventions. On the timeline, use a dot to show when they will be invented. Then label and draw a small picture
of each invention. Cut in between each invention to create four flaps. Under each flap, describe the invention!
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Great Inventions of the Future
Name ______________________________________
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Activity Page Answers
Exploring Explorers, page 59
Women and the Vote Puzzle, page 64
1. Magellan (attempting to sail around the world)
2. De Soto (leading the first European expedition across
the southeastern U.S.)
3. Hudson (exploring present-day New York)
4. Cortés (conquering the Aztec empire)
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thirteen
eleventh
Nebraska
nickname
earmuffs
stockings
Shawnee
eighteenth
eight
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Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
George W. Bush
Ulysses S. Grant
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Abraham Lincoln
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To Tell the Truth, page 63
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America
surprise
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6 – British troops arrive in Boston (1768)
9 – The Boston Tea Party (1773)
1 – King George III becomes the new king of Great
Britain (1760)
5 – The Townshend Acts (1767)
11 – The “shot heard around the world” is fired
(April 1775)
7 – The Boston Massacre (1770)
2 – The Proclamation of 1763
10 – The First Continental Congress is formed (1774)
12 – George Washington is appointed general and
commander in chief of the new Continental Army
(May 1775)
14 – The British surrender at Yorktown (1781)
3 – The Sugar Act (1764)
4 – The Stamp Act (1765)
13 – The Declaration of Independence is signed (1776)
8 – Samuel Adams forms the Committee of
Correspondence (1772)
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