Grade 7 - Pivotal Events in U.S. History: Washington to Jackson

General Online Resources

• Databases

  • ABC-CLIO U.S. Geography & History

  • World Book Online

  • EBSCOHost 

• Websites

  • History.com

Expectations 

 The Project

Citation Expectations

Information Evaluation & Note Taking Expectations

Print Resources in Our Library Collection

Evaluate!

Read!

Think!

Read!

Look away & think!

Write!

Check!

Cite!

Write page numbers!

Topic-specific Web Sites

• Gold Rush - California's Untold Stories

• Hamilton, Alexander

• Lewis & Clark

  • Discovering Lewis & Clark

  • PBS Lewis & Clark

• Mills & Factories

  • Lowell Mills, National Historic Park

• Presidents 

  • Internet Public Library2 - POTUS

  • Washington

  • Adams, John

  • Jefferson

  • Madison

  • Monroe

  • Adams, J.Q.

  • Jackson

• War of 1812

  • National Museum of American History

  • PBS - The War of 1812

• Westward Expansion

  • PBS - New Perspectives on the West

  • The Oregon Trail

Pathfinder Key Words