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Standards: MSCCRS (2018)
11th Grade: US History: 1877 to the Present
US History Primary and Secondary source materials on the transcontinental railroad, focusing on its construction and completion; as well as economic, cultural, and environmental impact on wildlife and native American tribes. This topic sits at a pivotal point of many US History themes, allowing these primary sources to be applied to the topics of Westward Expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
The abundance of primary and secondary source materials allows teachers to easily incorporate primary sources into any part of a history lesson, either as a supporting artifact or utilized as the main part of a lesson. Many of the listed sources would be engaging lesson launches/bellringers. The many images are useful for visual discovery as many parts of the railroad's construction was sketched, photograph, or mapped. There are also many primary source writings that students can read and practice historic inquiry, analyzing source, contextualizing, corroborating, as well as doing close readings of various documents.
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