Slavery and other Domestic Challenges of Western Expansion
Contemporary portrayals of the United States' Westward Expansion often painted the process as the inevitable march of progress. Sadly, many of the...
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The Transcontinental Railroad
On July 1, 1862, well into the second year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. While amid a country...
Bellefontaine Cemetery
St. Louis, Missouri | Bellefontaine has become an outdoor museum, containing fine sculptures and memorial art, and with 87,000 interments, it is also...
Disunion 1860: Traditional Middle School Lesson Plan
Grades: Middle School Approximate Length of Time: Approximately 70 min. (not including the final essay) Goal: Students will be able to identify and...
The Missouri Compromise
After reaffirming their independence from Great Britain with the War of 1812, Americans looked westward to new horizons.
A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War 1846-1848
Two long years had passed after the initial shots were fired, sparking the Mexican American War in 1846. After United States forces under General...
Two Wars for Independence
If the American Revolution was the birth of the United States, the War of 1812 was its coming of age. Despite winning the Revolutionary War, the...
Disunion: Inquiry Middle School Lesson Plan
Grades: Middle School Approximate Length of Time: 3.5 hours, broken into 4 sections Goal: Students will develop an argument for the major source of...
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark grew up on the fringes of the American frontier and his life and aspirations were intimately tied to the frontier and westward...
Revolution on the Frontier
While the typical narrative of the American Revolution given in schools focused on the key battles fought in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, the...
Washington in the Backcountry
George Washington was born into a world obsessed with the frontier. The wealthy elite in the colony of Virginia earned their fortunes through the...
Compromise of 1850
By the 1840s America was quickly becoming a “house divided.” The issue of slavery and its expansion into the western territories had largely separated...