Below you will find web links, extra printables, and other resources to use along with the American History units in the Layers of Learning curriculum.
American History is sold as a single volume and as individual units, which are like chapters within the American History book.
Thirteen Colonies
American Revolution
Expanding Nation
- View the original copy of the Constitution and read the transcribed version
- A hardback, bound copy of the Constitution to purchase
- Benjamin Franklin’s speech at the close of the Constitutional Convention
- How to draw George Washington
- How to draw a liberty torch from Dragoart
- The Birth of the Constitution with Charlie Brown
- How to draw George Washington
- Pun Chi, An Appeal to Congress from a Chinese railroad worker (A primary source for Manifest Destiny)
- Speech by Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee prophet (A primary source for Manifest Destiny)
- Speech by Pablo de Guerra, a Mexican American and California senator (A primary source for Manifest Destiny)
- Pioneer journal by James Bryant, a Welsh immigrant (a primary source for Manifest Destiny)
- Read this first hand account of William Henry Singleton, who was born a slave in 1835
- Listen to negro spirituals from the slaves of the American South
Civil War
- YouTube playlist for Civil War
- Inflation calculator for 1860 to today
- Full text of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
- Article about the abolitionist resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act
- Read the Chief Justice’s opinion on the Dred Scott case
- Mock trial from the National Park Service you can run about the Dred Scott case
- Library of Congress stories from the Civil War
- Civil War stories from America Comes Alive
- Letters from Antietam from the National Park Service
- Animal Mascots of the Civil War (from the City of Alexandria)