Video Lessons

Research Process Mini Lesson

Historical Fiction Ideas Lesson

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Ideas

Disasters

79 A.D - Pompeii Volcano 
1849 - Irish Potato Famine
1871 - Great Chicago Fire 
1881 - Thumb Fire
1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888
1900 - Galveston & the Great Storm
1906 - San Francisco Earthquake
1910 - Washington Avalanche
1913 - Great Lakes Storms
1918 - Spanish Flu Pandemic
1944 - Hartford Circus Fire
1952 - Polio Outbreak
1978 - Blizzard of 1978
1985 - Colombia Volcano
1989 - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
1993 - Mississippi Flood
2004 - Indiana Ocean Tsunami
2010 - Haiti Earthquake

Wars

Civil
Cold
Desert Storm
Korean
Revolutionary
Trojan War
Vietnam
War of 1812

Events

Concentration Camps
Japanese-American Internment Camps
Women's Suffrage - Right to Vote
California Gold Rush
Lincoln Assassination
Kennedy Assassination
Great Depression
Oregon Trail
Holocaust
Bombing at Pearl Harbor
Underground Railroad
Hiroshima (Atomic Bomb)
Alamo
Civil Rights Movement
Salem Witch Trials
Orphan Train
Declaration of Independence
Watergate
Apollo 11
Boston Tea Party
Wounded Knee Masacre
Lusitania Sinking
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Trail of Tears

Other

Colonial Life
Pony Express
Transcontinental Rairoad
Statue of Liberty
Discovery of Penicillin
Slavery
Berlin Wall
Ellis Island
Newsies
The Manhattan Project
Smallpox
LA Riots
Wild West
Ford Motor Company 
Panama Canal
Girl Scouts of America
Titanic Sinking
Challenger Explosion
9/11
Hindenburg Disaster

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