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Civil Rights Movement Word Wall
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Civil Rights Movement Word Wall

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Civil Rights Movement Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this product: • Title page • 50 vocabulary words/terms/important people (26 pages) with images and definitions Terms include: • Discrimination • Racism • Segregation • CORE • NAACP • Plessy v. Ferguson • Thurgood Marshall • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Earl Warren • Integration • Little Rock 9 • Rosa Parks • Boycott • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Civil Disobedience • John F. Kennedy • “New Frontier” • Lyndon B. Johnson • Poverty Line • Job Corps • Medicare • Medicaid • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Sit-in • Ella Baker • Robert F. Kennedy • Interstate • James Meredith • George Wallace • Medgar Evers • Register • “Freedom Summer” • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Malcolm X • “Black Power” • Feminists • NOW • Equal Rights Amendment • Sandra Day O’Connor • Latino • Cesar Chavez • American Indian Movement ★ 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! © 2017 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.
Articles of Confederation and Constitutional Convention Flash Cards
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Articles of Confederation and Constitutional Convention Flash Cards

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Articles of Confederation Flash Cards Buy the BUNDLE and SAVE!! •• This product is also included in the Articles of Confederation UNIT BUNDLE with BONUS card sets! •• Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 40 vocabulary words/terms/important people flash cards with images and definitions ★★ 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. ★ Find more Flash Card sets HERE! Digital Papers by Christi Fultz KG Fonts © 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.
1990s America Word Wall
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1990s America Word Wall

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America 1990s Word Wall with Definitions & Images Included in this product: • Title page • 39 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images and definitions 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.
1980s America Word Wall
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1980s America Word Wall

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America 1980s Word Wall with Definitions & Images Included in this product: • Title page • 39 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images and definitions 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.
World War I Word Wall
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World War I Word Wall

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World War I Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this resource: • Title page • 74 vocabulary words/terms/important people (38 pages) with definitions & images Terms include: Isolationism Expansionism Archduke Franz Ferdinand Nationalism Militarism Alliance System Balance of Power Imperialism Triple Entente Triple Alliance Allied Powers Central Powers Western Front Stalemate Military Front Battle of the Marne Trenches Poisonous Gas U-Boats Zeppelin Machine Gun Red Baron Dogfights Armored Tank Propaganda Lusitania Zimmerman Note 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.
Imperialism Word Wall
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Imperialism Word Wall

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Imperialism Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this resource: • Title page • 43 vocabulary words/terms/important people (23 pages) with definitions and images Terms include: Imperialism Isolationism Theodore Roosevelt Expansionism Matthew Perry Annex William H. Seward “Seward’s Folly” Spheres of Influence Open Door Policy Boxer Rebellion Russo-Japanese War Treaty of Portsmouth Yellow Journalism Spanish-American War William Randolph Hearst Rough Riders 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.
Immigration and Urbanization FLASH CARDS
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Immigration and Urbanization FLASH CARDS

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Immigration FLASH CARDS Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 44 vocabulary words/terms flash cards 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 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!” © 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.
America in the 1970s Word Wall
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America in the 1970s Word Wall

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1970s America Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this product: • Title page • 43 vocabulary words/terms/important people (24 pages) with images and definitions 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
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Vietnam Era Word Wall

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Vietnam Era Word Wall Included in this product: • Title page • 49 vocabulary words/terms/important people (26 pages) with images and 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.
Cold War Word Wall without definitions
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Cold War Word Wall without definitions

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Cold War Word Wall without definitions Included in this product: • Title page • 56 vocabulary words/terms/important people (30 pages) with images Terms include: Harry Truman Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Fair Deal Cold War Containment Communism Truman Doctrine NATO Warsaw Pact Berlin Airlift Mao Zedong 38th Parallel Blacklists Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Closed Shop Stalemate Demilitarized Zone Arms Race Nuclear Summit Korean War 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.
2000s America Word Wall
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2000s America Word Wall

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America 2000s Word Wall with Definitions & Images Included in this product: • Title page • 40 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images and 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.
2010s America Word Wall
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2010s America Word Wall

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America 2010s Word Wall with Definitions & Images Included in this product: • Title page • 27 vocabulary words/terms/important people (20 pages) with images and 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.
Civil War Map Activity
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Civil War Map Activity

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Civil War Map Activity The War Between the States Map Activity Aim: Map Application FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • War Between the States Map Activity instructions: students label and color states/territories/rivers according to scaffolded directions • Critical Thinking Application Question for student responses • Sample completed map • Answer Key for Teachers Students will identify, label, color and answer questions based on information and instructions regarding the Civil War. Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - application, literacy, vocabulary, argument Differentiation: map application, scaffolding questions, cooperative (may work with a partner(s) according to teacher’s discretion for activities) ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Civil War Map Activity ASSL •• Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★ You can find all of my Civil War lessons and activities HERE! Cover page digital paper by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts © 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.
Cold War Flash Cards
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Cold War Flash Cards

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Cold War FLASH CARDS Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 56 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: Harry Truman Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Fair Deal Cold War Containment Communism Truman Doctrine NATO Warsaw Pact Berlin Airlift Mao Zedong 38th Parallel Blacklists Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Closed Shop Stalemate Demilitarized Zone Arms Race Nuclear Summit Korean War 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!” © 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 FLASH CARDS
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Great Depression FLASH CARDS

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Great Depression FLASH CARDS Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 58 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with 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 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.
2010s America Flash Cards
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2010s America Flash Cards

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2010s America Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 27 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with 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 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!” © 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.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
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Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

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How did the presence of carpetbaggers and scalawags during Reconstruction impact the political, economic, and social transformation of the South? This lesson examines the definition, background and effects of carpetbaggers and scalawags on the South during Reconstruction. Students will examine political cartoons and analyze documents to conclude how carpetbaggers and scalawags lived and how they played a complex role. They will critically think to conclude how carpetbaggers and scalawags helped shape the path and long-term expectations of the Reconstruction era. Included in this resource: Do Now - “The Man with the Carpet Bags” by Thomas Nast political cartoon analysis questions Carpetbaggers reading passage with graphic organizer scaffolding questions Carpetbagger perspective with scaffolding questions Scalawags reading passage with graphic organizer scaffolding questions James Lusk Alcorn/Scalawag perspective with scaffolding questions Who was Thomas Nast? short reading passage with three scaffolding questions “The Strong Government 1869-1877” political cartoon with analysis questions Social, Political, and Economic Influence of Carpetbaggers and Scalawags reading passage Carpetbaggers and Scalawags Venn diagram Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the involvement of carpetbaggers and scalawags during Reconstruction shape the path and long-term expectations of the Reconstruction era, and what were the consequences for the future of the South? Answer key for teachers ★ Please Note: I execute this lesson with my 8th grade honors students and my 11th grade gen-ed students. Please make an executive decision whether or not this lesson can be executed with your students based upon the preview file. Thank you! ©2023 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.
Zimmermann Note
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Zimmermann Note

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How did the Zimmermann Note influence the United States’ decision to enter World War I? This lesson and activity examines the background and impact of the Zimmermann Telegram. 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 - Zimmermann Telegram primary source excerpt analysis with scaffolding questions Zimmermann Note reading passage analysis with scaffolding questions for each document Influencing Propaganda reading passage analysis with scaffolding questions “Hand carving up a map of the United States” primary source political cartoon analysis with scaffolding questions Zimmermann Note Poster Activity with student rubric Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: Why did the Zimmermann Note increase support for the United States to join 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.
World War I Alliances, Central Powers, Allied Powers
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World War I Alliances, Central Powers, Allied Powers

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Why did the system of alliances in Europe lead to a global conflict during WWI? This lesson and 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 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 - “A Threatening Situation” 1912 primary source political cartoon analysis with scaffolding questions Alliances document analysis with scaffolding questions 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 Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the alliances during WWI impact the course and outcome of the war? 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.
America World War I Overview
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America World War I Overview

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How did the involvement of the United States in World War I help it emerge as a world power? This lesson and document activity examines the background and impact of America’s entrance into 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 - Woodrow Wilson’s Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany 1917 primary source analysis with scaffolding questions Document Activity (pass or stations) with scaffolding questions Document #1: Neutrality at First Document #2: Reasons for Joining the War Document #3: America Enters the War Document #4: American Troops in Europe Document #5: End of the War Document #6: Fourteen Points and Treaty of Versailles Document #7: Impact on the U.S. Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Assessment: How did the end of World War I impact the global standing of the United States? 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.