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Creating America

Focusing on U.S. history from the earliest explorers to 1900, Creating America is a resource book for teachers that includes over 50 lessons, each with suggested resources and activities. The entire book is accessible in Adobe PDF format through the Washington State Colonial Dames Society, which funded Jan Kragen's work.

Table of Contents
Basic Human Needs
Cultural Universals
European Explorers I
Empires of America
Clash of the Titans
European Explorers II
Motivations to Move
Bringing Baggage
Colonial Children
Picking a Place
Escaping Religious Persecution
Compacts and Charters
Expanding Religious Rights
Making Money
Bartering
Buying Land, Taking Land
Compelled to Come
Keeping Slaves
Colonial Regions
Education in America
VIPs of the American Revolution
French and Indian War
The Mercantile Theory
Causes of the Revolution
The Battles Begin
The Try for Canada
Declaration of Independence
Don’t Forget the Women
The Battles of Trenton and Princeton
The Turning Point
We Win!
Establishing Our Government
Napoleon’s Impacts on the United States
Lewis and Clark
Sacajawea
Transportation
Moving West
Andrew Jackson
Texas
The Oregon Trail
California’s Gold Rush
Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement
Lincoln and the Beginning of the War
Fighting the Civil War
The Union Victory
Reconstruction
The Indian Wars
The Transcontinental Railroad and Beyond
Industrial Growth
Immigration
The Spanish-American War
End of the Year Tests
Print and Film Series Bibliography