Immigration Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this resource: • Title page • 44 vocabulary words/terms/important people (25 pages) with definitions & images Terms include: Emigrate Steerage Emma Lazarus Ellis Island Sweatshop Assimilate Chinese Exclusion Act Immigration Act of 1917 Tenements Slums Suburbs Gilded Age Settlement Houses Hull House Jane Addams and more! ★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board ! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Westward Expansion Flash Cards Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 42 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: • Vigilantes • Siting Bull • Geronimo • Cowboy/Cowgirl • Populist Party • & more! ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” ★ Find more Flash Card sets HERE! © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Reconstruction Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 49 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: • Ten Percent Plan • Reconstruction • Poll Tax • Literacy Test • Grandfather Clause • & more! ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

World War II Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • 76 vocabulary words/terms/important people (39 pages) with images Terms include: Fascism Appeasement Munich Conference Blitzkrieg Allied Powers Axis Powers Battle of Berlin Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor WAC WAVES Mobilizaiton Ration Tuskegee Airmen Interment Camps Dwight Eisenhower George Patton and more! ★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Roaring Twenties Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 58 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: Capitalism Anarchists Red Scare Calvin Coolidge Marcus Garvey Warren G. Harding Ohio Gang Teapot Dome Scandal Laissez-Faire Economics Isolationism Kellogg-Briand Pact Gross National Product Installment Buying Henry Ford Assembly Line Charles Lindbergh Flapper and more! ★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” ★★ Find more Flash Card sets HERE! © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

1970s America Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 43 vocabulary words/terms/important people (24 pages) with images Terms include: • Henry Kissinger • Realpolitik • Detente • Balance of Power • “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” • Zhou Enlai • Technology • Leonoid Brezhnev • Salt I • Embargo • Yom Kippur War • Golda Meir • Anwar el-Sadat • New Federalism • Revenue Sharing • Affirmative Action • OSHA • EPA • Tight Money Policy • Deficit • OPEC • Energy • Watergate Scandal • Sam Ervin • Executive Privlege • Gerald Ford • Impeach • Resign • Controversy • Amnesty • Jimmy Carter • Trade Deficit • Three Mile Island • Human Rights • Apartheid • Camp David Accords • Salt II • Fundamentalists • Iranian Revolution • Election of 1980 • Richard Nixon ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Vietnam Era Word Wall Included in this product: • Title page • 49 vocabulary words/terms/important people (26 pages) without definitions Terms include: • Guerrilla Warfare • Respond • Flexible Response • Executive Order • Peace Corps • Fidel Castro • Bay of Pigs • CIA • Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Blockade • NASA • John Glenn • Apollo 11 • Neil Armstrong • Vietnam War • Ho Chi Minh • Geneva Accords • Hanoi • Ngo Dinh Diem • Vietcong • Regime • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Escalate • Search and Destroy Missions • Napalm • Agent Orange • Counterculture • Military Draft • Deferment • Conscientious Objector • Tet Offensive • Credibility Gap • Robert F. Kennedy • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Hubert H. Humphrey • George C. Wallace • Richard M. Nixon • Henry Kissinger • “Vietnamization” • Demonstrations • Martial Law • Pentagon Papers • Paris Peace Accords • M.I.A. ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

America 2000s Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 40 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images without definitions Terms include: George W Bush Richard Cheney September 11, 2001 Terrorism Election of 2000 Condoleeza Rice al-Qaeda Counter-terrorism Department of Homeland Security USA Patriot Act 2001 War in Afghanistan War on Terror WMD Iraq War Hurricane Katrina Nancy Pelosi Gobalism Trade Deficit World Trade Organization Global Warming Hillary Clinton Joseph Biden Great Recession Barack Obama John Kerry Operation Enduring Freedom No Child Left Behind Columbia Explosion ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

America 2010s Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 27 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) without definitions Terms include: Barack Obama Joe Biden Election of 2012 Osama bin Laden Hurricane Sandy Black Lives Matter Boston Marathon Bombing Election of 2016 Donald Trump Mike Pence Michelle Obama Melania Trump Election of 2018 Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton and more! ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Prehistory and Early Humans Word Wall without definitions Included in this resource: • Title page • 42 vocabulary words/terms/important people without definitions Terms include: Artifacts Culture Archaeologists Excavated Site Anthropologists Paleontologists Fossils Mary Leakey Hominid Donald Johanson “Lucy” Australopithecines Opposable Thumbs Old Stone Age Paleolithic Age Stone Age New Stone Age Neolithic Age Homo Habilis Homo Erectus Neanderthal Cro-Magnon Technology Homo sapiens Nomad Hunter-Gatherer Slash and Burn Farming Cause of the Agricultural Revolution Domestication Catal Huyuk Shrines Civilization Advanced Cities Specialization Artisans Institution Scribes Cuneiform Bronze Age Ur Barter Ziggurat ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board. Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Why was the Selective Service Act important for the United States’ involvement in World War I, and how did it change the U.S. military? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of the Selective Service Act and the draft during World War I. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - Selective Service Act newspaper headline primary source excerpt analysis with scaffolding questions Selective Service Act 1917 reading passage analysis with scaffolding questions for each document A Message from President Wilson regarding the Selective Service Act primary source quote analysis with scaffolding questions Key Provisions of the Selective Service Act analysis with scaffolding questions Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: Why was the draft through the Selective Service Act crucial in shaping the United States’ ability to successfully contribute to World War I? Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Great Depression Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 75 vocabulary words/terms/important people (38 pages) with images (without definitions) Terms include: Herbert Hoover Stock Exchange Hoovervilles Black Tuesday Public Works Bonus Army Hundred Days Fireside Chats Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt New Deal Work Relief Tennessee Valley Authority Dust Bowl Corporation Shares Invest Overproduction Under-consumption Prosperity Recession Depression and more! ★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board. Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

America 1990s Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 39 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images Terms include: Ronald Reagan Deregulation Sandra Day O’Connor Supply-side economics Federal Debt George HW Bush Geraldine Ferraro Iran-Contra Affair Mikhail Gorbachev INF Glasnost Tienanmen Square Saddam Hussein Colin Powell Norman Schwarzkopf New Right Miracle on Ice Solidarity Movement Recession SDI/Star Wars Sally Ride South Korean Flight 007 Reagan Doctrine Challenger Black Monday Exxon Valdez Berlin Wall AIDS Epidemic Steve Jobs Apple Inc. Microsoft Windows Bill Gates The Internet ★★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

How did the United States government control public opinion and limit dissent on the homefront during World War I, and what impact did this have on Americans’ rights and freedoms? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of life on the American homefront during World War I. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - Committee on Public Information 1917 primary source poster analysis with scaffolding questions America on the Homefront document analysis with scaffolding questions for each document Document #1: Labor Shortage and Workforce Changes Women working, Great Migration Document #2: Public Opinion Committee on Public Information Document #3: Limiting Criticism Espionage Act, Sedition Act Document #4: Schenck v. United States Supreme Court Case Spotlight On: Schenck v. United States analysis with scaffolding questions Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: Why did the government’s efforts to control public opinion and suppress dissent during World War I have a lasting impact on American society, including the way we view free speech and civil liberties today? Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Why did Socialists believe that replacing capitalism with socialism was necessary to achieve true equality and fairness in society? This lesson and activity examines the development and impact of the rise of progressives and the differing of opinions from socialists during the Progressive Era in the United States. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - Progressives vs. Socialist opinion quotes with scaffolding questions Progressives vs. Socialists reading passage with graphic organizer scaffolding questions Progressive view POV with scaffolding questions Socialist view POV with scaffolding questions Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the differing approaches of Progressives and Socialists impact efforts to address social and economic problems in the early 20th century? Answer key for teachers ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Civil War - Battles of the Civil War Reading Passages, Scaffolding Questions, Graphic Organizer Aim: How did certain battles shape the Civil War? FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Battles of the Civil War reading passages: Bull Run, Antietam, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Sherman’s Total War, Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Lincoln’s Assassination, Results of The Civil War • Battles of the Civil War scaffolding questions and Sum It Up graphic organizer • Application/Closing/Higher Order Thinking Question for student understanding and application • Suggested Answer Key for Teachers Students will read, research, analyze, and critically think to answer questions based on their knowledge of the Civil War and Social Studies. ★ NOTE: I use this reading passage and activity with students in grades 7 and 8. Your use is based on YOUR discretion. Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary, argument Differentiation: cooperative (may work with a partner(s) according to teacher’s discretion for scaffolding questions and graphic organizer) ★ You can find all of my Civil War lessons and activities HERE! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Civil War Battles ASSL •• Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! Cover page digital paper by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

How did the United States organize its resources and people to support the war effort during World War I? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of life on the American homefront during World War I. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - Liberty Bond political cartoon primary source analysis with scaffolding questions Government Supplies and Funding document analysis with scaffolding questions for each document Document #1: Government Bonds and War Funding Document #2: War Industries Board Document #3: National War Labor Board Document #4: Fuel Administration Document #5: Food Administration and Victory Gardens Victory Gardens mini poster activity with student rubric Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the efforts to manage resources and labor during World War I impact life on the American home front? Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Why did the United States enter World War I despite initially trying to stay neutral? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of the sinking of the Lusitania. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - Theodore Roosevelt’s Letter to the Editor 1915 primary source excerpt analysis with scaffolding questions The Lusitania reading passage analysis with scaffolding questions for each document New York Times sinking of the Lusitania headline 1915 analysis with scaffolding questions Letter from M. Garry primary source document analysis with scaffolding questions Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the sinking of the Lusitania and Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine warfare impact American public opinion and lead to U.S. involvement in World War I? Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

How did new technologies and weapons during World War I, such as artillery, machine guns, poison gas, and tanks, change the way wars were fought and affect the soldiers on the battlefield? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of new weapons and ways of fighting during World War I. Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents. They’ll then answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer the final summary question to apply their knowledge. Included in this resource: Do Now - German soldiers enduring poison gas primary source photo analysis with scaffolding questions New Ways of Fighting document station activity analysis with scaffolding questions for each document Artillery Machine Guns Poison Gas Psychological Warfare Submarines Armored Tanks Airplanes and Aces Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: Why did the introduction of new weapons and tactics during World War I, like machine guns, poison gas, and airplanes, make the war more deadly and change the way future wars were fought? Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

This activity examines the background and impact of the causes and effects of the forging of alliances before and during World War I. Students will analyze Allied Powers and Central Powers perspectives and answer corresponding scaffolding questions. They will answer comparative analysis questions. Included in this resource: WWI Alliances Point of View Analysis Activity with scaffolding questions and comparing perspectives analysis questions Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria France Russia Great Britain Italy Japan United States Serbia Answer key for teachers (suggested) ★ Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2024 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.