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Grade 10, United States History to 1877
Std 1.4:
Explaining how mercantilism was a motive for colonization

Lesson Plans:

Exploring the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company
Four comprehensive lesson plans and two lists of ideas for presentations, reports and essays.

Slavery and Sugar: Molasses to Rum to Slaves
Students will participate in a trade simulation based on values for slaves, sugar, wood, molasses, and rum around the year 1700 to identify how the sugar industry served as the "engine" of the Triangle Trade.

 

 

Resources:

Early European Conquests and the Settlement of Mobile

Conquistadors.  PBS special online resources and activities

Alabama Virtual Library

History Timelines (Alternatime)

History Matters  Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

National Archives Digital Classroom


American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress.

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