Social Studies Resources
UNITED STATES HISTORY
UNITED STATES HISTORY
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://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