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The World Economy: An Early Problem for Young America.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1984
At the end of the American Revolution, British merchants flooded U.S. seaports with inexpensive and much-desired goods, threatening the healthy markets that U.S. merchants had enjoyed during the war. The broadside in which Massachusetts merchants made their anger and demands known is the basis for the teaching activities presented here. (RM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, International Trade, Primary Sources, Revolutionary War (United States)
Campaign Slogans and Fliers.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1984
A 1944 presidential election campaign flier used by Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for a fourth term as president is the basis for learning activities to be used in a secondary level U.S. history course. (RM)
Descriptors: Elections, Learning Activities, Presidents, Primary Sources
Close Encounters with the Fourth Dimension.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1984
Most of the 11,108 sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) between 1947 and 1966 were explained by the Air Force as astronomical phenomena, aircraft, or balloons. The document from the National Archives produced here for use in secondary classes is typical of those sighting reports. Classroom activities are suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Primary Sources, Secondary Education, Social Studies
Cartoon Analysis of Peace Propaganda.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1984
A cartoon for analysis and other learning activities is provided to help students study about peace propaganda, the nuclear freeze, and disarmament. A cartoon analysis worksheet, designed to help students analyze almost any political cartoon, is included. (RM)
Descriptors: Cartoons, Disarmament, Learning Activities, Nuclear Warfare
Tonkin Gulf: A Study in Historical Interpretation.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1983
Secondary students interpret a primary source document from the National Archives--the Tonkin Gulf Resolution--and are involved in activities which will help them understand the Tonkin Gulf incident in the context of the Vietnam War. Background information is provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Historiography, Learning Activities, Primary Sources, Secondary Education
Man of the Hour: A Comparison of Leadership.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1983
Discusses ways to use a primary source document--a telegram from the U.S. Ambassador to Germany to the American Secretary of State describing Hitler's actions to consolidate his power on March 23, 1933--in helping students understand and compare the leadership of Roosevelt and Hitler. (CS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Materials, Leadership, Nazism
"On Your Mark...Get Set...Go!"--The Space Race.
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Alexander, Mary, Ed. – Social Education, 1983
Secondary students participate in a library scavenger hunt to find answers to questions raised by the press release containing President John F. Kennedy's telegram to Nikita Kruschev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned space flight. Issues for classroom discussion are also presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities, Library Instruction, Primary Sources
Censoring the Mails: What Is Your Opinion?
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Alexander, Mary, Ed.; Childress, Marilyn, Ed. – Social Education, 1982
Contains a primary source document--a letter written in 1916 protesting U.S. Postal Service censorship of an anarchist publication--and suggests ways to use the document in secondary U.S. history classes. Samples of student surveys on mail censorship and a document analysis worksheet are included. (AM)
Descriptors: Censorship, Primary Sources, Secondary Education, Surveys