Sectionalism

Development of Ohio and American Sectionalism

• The Underground Railroad (Columbus Neighborhoods) - Documentary video excerpt with accompanying discussions and learning activities about the Underground Railroad in Columbus.

• The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery (Scholastic) - Web-based interactive with teacher's guide

• Ohio Inventors (ODE) - Students will gain an understanding of the impacts that inventions have made on the lives of others and how new developments led to the growth of Ohio and the United States.

• Lesson Plan: Immigration Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5 (Scholastic)

• Lesson Plan: Immigration: Where are We From? (Ohio Geographic Alliance)

• Lesson Plan: The Ohio and Erie Canal (History Teaching Institute)

• Lesson Plan: Transporting Ohio Goods to Market in the 1840s: The Port Washington Road (History Teaching Institute)

• Lesson Plan: Transportation Systems (Ohio Department of Education)

• Lesson Plan: Back to History Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan: The Underground Railroad in Ohio (History Teaching Institute)

• Lesson Plan: Underground Railroad Through Ohio

• Lesson Plan Resource: The Underground Railroad Teaching Guide (Scholastic)

• Lesson Plan: Ohio Inventors

Background Information:

• Teaching Immigration with the Immigration Stories Project

• Faces of America

• Ohio As America

• The Progression of Transportation in Ohio and the West (History Teaching Institute)

• Canal vs. National Road (History Teaching Institute)

• Canals: Getting Goods to Market (History Teaching Institute)

• The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio (National Park Service)

• Transportation and Social Justice: The Roles of the United States Federal Government and State Governments (Indiana Department of Transportation)

• United States Transportation (Brittanica)

• A Journey Through American Transportation: 1776-2016 (United States Department of Transportation)

• Transportation in America Before 1876 (National Museum of American History)

• Transportation:Past, Present and Future (Teaching History.org)

• Underground Railroad in Ohio (Touring Ohio)

• Underground Railroad List of Sites (National Park Service)

• Curious Cbus: Where Did the Underground Railroad Pass Through Columbus? (WOSU)

• FreedomCenter.org

• Underground Railroad (Ohio History Central)

• Ohio’s Underground Railroad (Pinterest)

• Underground Railroad (Ohio History Connection)

• Ohio Inventions

• You Probably Didn’t Know These 17 Inventions Came From Ohio

• Photos: Inventions That Wouldn’t Exist Without Ohio

Books:

• Transcontinental Railroad (TrueFlix online book; requires Columbus Metropolitan Library card sign in)

• Travel Then and Now

• How Ohio Helped Invent the World

• The Underground Railroad (Get Epic! online book; requires sign in)

Videos:

• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Columbus Neighborhoods: Underground Railroad

• Did You Know? Harriet Tubman (Get Epic! video; requires sign in)