Meeting Social Studies Standards
Illinois Learning Standard 16.D.3a (US) Describe characteristics of different kinds of communities in various sections of America during the colonial/frontier periods and the 19th century.
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<> CliThen click on the “American Memory” collection, where you’ll find images of various communities during these eras. Have your students study these collections:
Broadsides and Printed Ephemera ~ ca. 1600-2000
California, First-Person Narratives ~ Books ~ 1849-1900
Chesapeake Bay and Washington, D.C. ~ Books ~ 1600-1925
The Chinese in California ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1925
Great Plains ~ Photographs ~ 1880-1920
Louisiana Purchase ~ Maps ~ 1572-1902
Maritime Westward Expansion ~ Multiformat ~ 1820-1890
Ohio River Valley ~ Multiformat ~ 1750-1820
Prairie Settlement, Nebraska ~ Photographs and Letters ~ 1862-1912
Traveling in America ~ Books ~ ca. 1750-1920
Turn-of-the-Century America ~ Detroit Publishing Company ~ Photographs ~ 1880-1920
Upper Midwest ~ Books ~ ca. 1820-1910
Utah and Western Migration ~ Multiformat ~ 1846-1869
Posted by Dr. Jim Vandergriff