Social Studies Resources

STATE AND CAPITAL FUN!

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/usa-capitals-map-game.php

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

http://www.50states.com/tools/usamap.htm

EXPLORERS

https://nsms6thgradesocialstudies.weebly.com/explorers.html

https://www.landofthebrave.info/american-history-of-early-explorers.htm

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/

https://mrnussbaum.com/history/explorers

https://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/explorers.html

https://famous-explorers.org/

https://a2zhomeschooling.com/explore/social_studies_kids/world_culture_history/age_of_exploration_1400_1600/

Thirteen Colonies

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3044

https://mrnussbaum.com/13-colonies-interactive-map

http://www.softschools.com/social_studies/13_colonies_map/

https://www.purposegames.com/game/13-colonies-quiz

https://www.landofthebrave.info/

African-American Firsts: 

Government

• • Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641

  • State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836.

  • Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855.

  • County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869.

  • State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870.

  • City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868.

  • U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870.

  • U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870.

  • Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872.

  • Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904.

  • Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938.

  • Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964.

  • U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966.

  • U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966.

  • Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967.

  • Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969.

  • Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977.

  • Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989.

  • Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991.

  • Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992.

  • U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001.

  • Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005.

  • Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015.

African-American Firsts: Law

• • Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845.

  • Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872.

  • Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919.

  • Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946.

  • Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966.

  • U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967.

  • President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002.

African-American Firsts: Diplomacy

• • U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869.

  • Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950.

  • Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965.

  • U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977.

African-American Firsts: Military

• • U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778.

  • Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863.

  • Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865.

  • West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877.

  • Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949.

  • Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900.

  • Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917.

  • General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940.

  • Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979.

  • Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980.

  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989–1993.

  • Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998.

African-American Firsts: Science

• • Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821.

  • Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884.

  • Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967.

  • Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983.

  • Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990.

  • Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992.

  • Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998.

African-American Firsts: Medicine

• • • Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832.

    • M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837.

    • M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847.

    • Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864.

    • Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890.

    • Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891.

    • Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893.

    • Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940.

Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980.

President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995.

African-American Firsts: Scholarship

• • College graduate (B.A.): John Chavis, 1799.

  • Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828

  • College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849.

  • Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850.

  • College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856.

  • Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870.

  • Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. .

  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877.

  • Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907.

  • Women Ph.D’s: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921.

  • Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001.

African-American Firsts: Art and Literature

• • Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746.

  • Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760.

  • Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773.

  • Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture.

  • Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831.

  • Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853.

  • Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859.

  • Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885

  • Pulitzer prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950.

  • Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970

  • Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976.

  • Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993.

  • Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993.

African-American Firsts: Newspapers and Other Print Media

• • Newspaper: Freedom’s Journal, 1827.

  • Daily newspaper: New Orleans Tribune, 1864.

  • Mass Circulation Magazine: Ebony, 1945

African-American Firsts: Music and Dance

• • Published musical composition: Francis Johnson, 1817.

  • Theatrical company: The African Company, 1821.

  • Nationally recognized dance performer: William Henry Lane (Master Juba), 1845.

  • Member of the New York City Opera: Todd Duncan, 1945.

  • Member of the Metropolitan Opera Company: Marian Anderson, 1955.

  • Male Grammy Award winner: Count Basie, 1958.

  • Woman Grammy Award winner: Ella Fitzgerald, 1958.

  • Principal dancer in a major dance company: Arthur Mitchell, 1959, New York City Ballet.

African-American Firsts: Film and Theater

• • First African American film company: Lincoln Motion Picture Company, 1916.

  • Film director: Oscar Micheaux, 1919.

  • First Oscar winner: Hattie McDaniel, 1940.

  • First Honorary Oscar: James Baskett, 1948.

  • Tony Award Winner: Juanita Hall, 1950.

  • Oscar, Best Actor: Sidney Poitier 1963.

  • Director for a major Hollywood studio: Gordon Parks, 1969.

  • Woman director for a major Hollywood Studio: Julie Dash, 1991.

  • Oscar, Best Actress: Halle Berry, 2001.

  • First President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars): Cheryl Boone Isaacs, 2013.

African-American Firsts: Radio and Television

• • Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925.

  • Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949.

  • Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956.

  • Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962.

  • Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965.

  • Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV,  1975

  • First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978.

  • Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986.

African-American Firsts: Sports

African-American Firsts: Religion

• • Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754

  • Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756

  • First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794

  • Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773.

  • African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794.

• Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856.

• Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879

  • Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906.

  • National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909.

  • Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989.

  • Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie,2000.

  • President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012

African-American Firsts: Business and Labor

• • Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640.

  • Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance Company, 1810.

  • Black Labor Union: American League of Colored Laborers, 1850.

  • Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889.

  • Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893.

  • Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905.

  • Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915.

  • Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921.

  • Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921.

  • Black-owned metropolitian newspaper: Robert Maynard and the Oakland Tribune, 1983

  • Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television.

Other African-American Firsts:

• • Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909.

  • First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956.

  • Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921.

  • Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941.

  • Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942.

  • Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957.

  • Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958.

  • President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975

  • Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978.

  • Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992

  • Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990.

  • President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 1994.

  • President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995

  • Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007.

  • Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007.

United States Presidents

http://www.fun-facts.org.uk/american-presidents/american-presidents.htm

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_name

http://www.presidential-power.org/pictures-presidents.htm

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/uspresidents/

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/presidential-fun-facts/

http://www.usa4kids.com/presidents/Presidents.html

https://www.mrnussbaum.com/presidents/presidents_profiles/

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/timeline-guide-us-presidents/

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents

THIRTEEN COLONIES

• Connecticut Colony

• Delaware Colony

• Georgia Colony

• Maryland Colony

• Massachusetts 

• New Jersey Colony

• New York Colony

• New Hampshire Colony

• North Carolina Colony

• Pennsylvania Colony

• Rhode Island Colony

• South Carolina Colony

• Virginia Colony