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Here is a great collection of additional sites that may help you along your journey of 8th grade Social Studies.

Equality and Diversity
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Women's Fashion by decade Here is a great example of how women's clothes have changed over time and how modern seamtresses recreate those fashions.
Women's Suffrage This is a great site to learn more about Women's Suffrage.
Learn more about Black History Here are a collection of fantastic African American Historic figures and milestones in equal rights.

Civil War
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Ken Burns Civil War Pictures This is a great selection of images from the Civil War.
Gettysburg Teaching Materials
Sharecropping
Civil War resources from University at Buffalo Here's a great site that will lead you to other sites on specific Civi War topics
Civil War Medicine
Civil War Medicine-National Parks Service
THE BEST CIVIL WAR SITE EVER This is a great set of resources on any topic of the Antebellum Era.
The South during the Civil War and Reconstruction This is a great site from the Library of Congress on what it was like in the South during the Civil War.
Union Soldiers during the Civil War
Gettysburg

Gilded Age
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DuBois and Washington Project
NYC's Tenement Museum Take a virtual tour of an old tenement building.
Virtual Tour of the Elms This PBS Site allows you to take a sneak peak into one of the mansions of the Gilded Age.
Biltmore Estate Take a photo slide show tour of the Biltmore Estate
History of Inventions Interactive Timeline
Enchanted Learning Inventors
Inventions at about. com
Pan Am 1901
McKinley's Assassination

Progressive Era
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Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition of 1901 Take a look when Buffalo was the 8th largest city in the US. This is also where Pres. McKinley was assassinated.
The Great Chicago Fire

Imperialism
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Imperialism Time Line Excellent data
A Splendid Little War Background info. on the "Splendid Little War"
Spanish American War site
Hawaiian Annexation in Pictures See how many mainland Americans interpreted the Annexation of Hawai'i from Puck Magazine.

World War I
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Palace of Versailles Look where the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I was signed!
Trench Warfare Webquest Find out what life was like for those in the trenches.

The Roaring 20's
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Roaring 20's list Here's a great set of links on the 1920's
1920's Webquest/ Magazine Cover Here is a fabulous webquest project!
Seneca Falls Convention 1848 Take a look at where the roots of the American Women's Suffrage movement come from.

The Great Depression
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The Causes of the Great Depression Here's an easy list of all the causes of the Great Depression.
Great Source of Great Depression Links Anything you want to know about the Depression is here at your fingertips.

World War II
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Stories of Service These are short historical biographic mini movies about our soldiers & others who have been affected by war. It's a great site.
Days of Infamy Compare Pearl Harbor & 9/11 attacks via American Public radio reports

Great Current Events Sites
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National Public Radio This is a wonderful place to hear about new & old events in a different perspective
The Primary Race covered by the NY Times Find out who's going to be running for president this November!
Understanding Prejudice How do you view the world? Are you bias? Check out this site and see where you fall.

Political Cartoons
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Library of Congress Political Cartoons
Herblock's Political Cartoons

Mrs. K's Favorite Historic Places
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Stratford Hall This is the ancestrial home of the Lee Family. Take a look where two signers of the Declartion of Independence & the famous General Robert E. Lee were born.
FDR & ER's Homes Here is where FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt called home.
Cape Hatteras, NC Here's my favorite spring time place to enjoy pirates, the ocean, hang gliding, and so much more!
Quebec City Take a look at the wonder just north of us.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Slide Show One place I always wanted to visit but haven't got there yet!

How the Mind Works
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Multiple Intelligence Test Get a snapshot of how your brain works on this wonderful site. Take the test, it's short and I promise you won't be graded on it : )
Classic Short Stories

Government
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The Branches of Government from the Truman Libraries

Mrs. Kwiatkowski's Site
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