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This curriculum contains sixteen hands-on lessons including topics such as:
- exploring the economic relationship between the colonies and England;
- looking at the trade-offs made in writing the Constitution;
- exploring the role of Eli Whitney's invention in the spread of cotton plantations across the South;
- study of the demand for cotton created by the manufacturing North;
- the Gettysburg Address and a cost-benefit analysis of the Civil War;
- decision-making of those who chose to be pioneers;
- the movement from an agricultural society to an urban society.
This is a terrific curriculum for getting your students really involved in the "why's" of history, while they're developing critical thinking skills.
The workshop and curriculum are free.
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