Welcome to the Grade Seven ELA/Social Studies Research Project Page
Recommended Websites for Research Topics
Should Christopher Columbus Be Viewed as a Hero or a Villain?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
U-S History: The Legacy of Christopher Columbus
CNN: Columbus: Intrepid explorer or accidental navigator?
Cal State University: Columbus: Was He a Hero or Villain?
U.S. Trek: Hero? Villian? The Team Gets Mad About Columbus
Capitalism Magazine: Christopher Columbus, We Salute You
Digital History: The Significance of 1492
Digital History: Slavery and Spanish Colonization
Millersville University: Death by Disease
How Did the Colonization of America Affect the Europeans and the Native Americans?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Wikipedia: Columbian Exchange
Answer.com: Columbian Exchange
Answer.com: European Colonization of the U.S.
University of Texas: The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds
The Cowshed: The Euro-biomedical Impact on the American Indian
Digital History:Pilgrims fron the Indian Perspective
Digital History:Native Americans Discover Europeans
Digital History:Native Americans Discover Europeans II
Digital History:Native Americans Discover Europeans III
Digital History: Life in Early Virginia
Digital History: Founding New England
What Was Life Like in the Early Colonies?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Social Studies for Kids: Life in the 13 Colonies
Social Studies for Kids: The 13 Colonies
Social Studies for Kids: Characteristics of the Colonies
PBS: Daily ife in the Colonies
Yale University: Child Life in the Colonies
Digital History: Life in Early Virginia
Digital History: Founding New England
Digital History: Diversity in Colonial America
Digital History: The Quakers of Pennsylvania
The American Revolution: Who Was Right?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Reconstruction to Revolution: Outline of American History: The Road to Independence
USAhistory.org: The Revolution: Opening Events and Causes
Digital History: Why Did the Revolution Take Place?
Digital History: The Road to Revolution
Digital History: Why Did the Colonists Rebel and the British Resist?
About.com: The Boston Massacre
History.org: The Stamp Act
UShistory.org: The Tea Act
Historycentral.com: The Townshend Act
UShistory.org: The Proclamation of 1763
Reconstruction to Revolution: The Boston Tea Party
UShistory.org: The Sons of Liberty
Washington as President: What Characteristics Helped George Washington as the Precedent President of the United States?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
The New Book of Knowledge: George Washington
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: George Washington
Encyclopedia Americana: George Washington
America The Beautiful: George Washington
George Washington: A National Treasure
PBS: Appearance and Reality of George Washington
PBS: Washington's Greatness
PBS: Qualities of Mind and Character
NPR: George Washington's Rules of Civility
NPR: Washington Truly the Father of the Nation (Outstanding 32 minute audio clip)
Lewis and Clark Expedition: What Important Lessons were Learned as a Result of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Social Studies for Kids: The Lewis and Clark Expedition (This has four pages - click the link at the bottom of each page to advance)
PBS: Lewis and Clark
Discovering Lewis and Clark
Smithsonian Institution: Lewis and Clark, Mapping the West
National Park Service: Lewis and Clark Expedition
National Geographic
National Park Service: Native Peoples
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears: Were the Indian Removal Policies of Andrew Jackson Beneficial to the United States?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
PBS: Indian Removal
Digital History: Indian Removal
PBS: Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Text of the Indian Removal Act
National Historic Trail: The Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson Speaks: Indian Removal
Andrew Jacksons Case for Indian Removal
Contrasting Cultures of North and South (1790 - 1860): Can It Be Said that there is an American Culture in the Pre-Civil War United States?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Digital History: The Pre-Civil War South
PBS: Conditions of Antibellum Slavery
Digital History: African American Voices
Antibellum Louisiana: Agarian Life
Role of Women in the Antibellum South
Slave Life
Education and Religion of Slaves
Cornell: Slave Life
Abolition vs. Slavery: How Necessary is Slavery to the United States Before the Civil War?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
PBS: George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery
PBS: James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery
Digital History: Slavery in a Capitalist World
Southern Justification of Slavery
Digital History: Justification of Slavery
Cornell: Origins of Abolition in America
PBS: William Lloyd Garrison
Antislavery Movements Around the World
PBS: Frederick Douglass
PBS: John Brown
National Geographic: The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Women's Rights Movement: What Were Tactics Used By Those in the Women's Rights Movement?
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
Digital History: Women's Rights
Infoplease: Women's Rights Legal Timeline
Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
Women's Right Movement in the United States
History Channel: Important Dats in Women's History
Women's Right National Historic Park at Seneca Falls, NY
About.com: Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott
Discourse of Women (Speech by Lucretia Mott)
PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone: Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Stanton's Address at the First Women's Rights Convention
Women in History: Sojouner Truth
Sojouner Truth
Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony Biography
University of Rochester: Susan B. Anthony
Women in History: Susan B. Anthony
Speech by Susan B. Anthony about Women's Suffrage
National Portrait Gallery: Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention
Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion: Explain How Westward Expansion Affected American Life by Examining Texas, Oregon, and the California Gold Rush
Grolier's Online Encyclopedia
University of Texas, Austin: Texas Revolution
Digital History: Texas Revolution
Digital History: The Texas Question in American Politics
Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail Center
Americanwest.com: Oregon Trail
Digital History: Life on the Trail
Digital History: The Gold Rush
Oakland Museum of California: Gold Rush!
The Gold Rush
Sacremento Bee: Articles about the Gold Rush Broken Up By Subject
