| AMERICAN
HISTORY JACKDAW KITS
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Keeley Library
Rev. 4/4/2001
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THE FOLLOWING AMERICAN HISTORY JACKDAW KITS ARE LOCATED IN THE REFERENCE AREA. Most have a "Think for yourself" section with questions, and a list of recommended books.
Note : Some of the following Jackdaw
kits also have an accompanying booklet of reproducible student activities.
Each booklet includes vocabulary, quotes, guided writing, hands-on extended
projects involving critical thinking and problem-solving, research, and
interdisciplinary activities.
| Columbus and the Discovery of America | Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers |
| Immigration in Colonial Times | Slave Trade and Its Abolition |
| American Revolution | Women in the American Revolution |
| Making of the Constitution | Presidency |
| America China Trade 1783-1843 | Early Industrialization of America |
| The War of 1812 | Communes and Communitarians in America |
| Nat Turner's Slave Revolt | Slavery in the United States |
| California Gold Rush | NORTH WEST PASSAGE |
| SANTA FE TRAIL | FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD |
| CONQUEST OF MEXICO | Civil War |
| BLACK VOTING RIGHTS | Reconstruction |
| Indians of North America | Women's Rights in the United States |
| Indian Resistance-The Patriot Chiefs | Custer's Last Stand |
| WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE AND GHOST DANCE RELIGION | WOMEN IN REVOLT, THE FIGHT FOR
EMANCIPATION |
| Coxey's Army | Populism and the Election of 1896 |
| IMMIGRATION- 1870--1930 | VOTES FOR WOMEN |
| MILLS, EARLY TEXTILE WORKERS | WORLD WAR I |
| 1920'S AMERICAN ENTERS THE MODERN AGE | HISTORY OF POLITIAL PARTIES IN AMERICA |
| Oklahoma Land Rush | Remember the Maine |
| The Depression | CIO and the Labor Movement |
| NEW DEAL | LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA |
| ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, FIRST LADY | CENTURY OF SMOKING AND TOBACCO |
| BLUES IN AMERICA, A SOCIAL HISTORY | BAND MUSIC IN AMERICAN LIFE, SOCIAL HISTORY |
| ATOMIC BOMB | COLD WAR |
| WORLD WAR II, THE HOME FRONT | JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT |
| MODERN IMMIGRATION | VIETNAM WAR |
| Canada and the Civil War | Canadian American Relaltions |
| 54-40 or Fight | Quebec 1775-6 Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony |
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Jane Constant, Reference Librarian
Keeley Library, B.M.C.Durfee High School
of Fall River
September, 1978 to June, 2001