Americans through History

Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

Change requires action.

Investigative Question Investigative Question

What types of change have people fought to make in their communities throughout history?

View three-week lesson which accompanies the following table. (3 MB PDF File)

Change Colonial
(1492 - 1763)		 Revolutionary
(1763-1803)		 Antebellum (through Civil War)
(1803 - 1865)		 Reconstruction to World War II
(1866 - 1941)		 Post-War U.S. History
(1945 - Present)
Social Pocahontas Phillis Wheatley Slave Narrative

Langston Hughes

Ng Poon Chew and Chinese in America

Roberto Clemente
Political Powhatan Samuel Adams and early riots Tecumseh Alice Paul Medgar Evers / Fannie Lou Hamer
Economic Jemmy and the Stono Rebellion Pontiac David Walker William Johnson

Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta
Natural /
Environmental		 Metacomet Benjamin Banneker and the Rise of the City Margaret Fuller John Muir Rachel Carson
Inventions /
Communications		 Massasoit Thomas Paine and Pamphlets Frederick Douglass and Abolition Printing Sarah Breedlove Luis Alvarez

Each square contains one specific person or an item emblematic of a person (i.e., a slave narrative, image of Paul protesting)

Each box will also include a variety of resources relating to that person or central thematic elements of that person’s life.