Description: NEW AND IMPROVED! Simply click on the state to learn all about its history all on the same page! Try our digital scavenger hunt for this activity as well. You can unlock this interactive and every resource on MrNussbaum.com when you become a subscriber. Only $49 per year for a teacher and unlimited students!

Description: This awesome resource allows students to complete the digital scavenger hunt by clicking on states to find answers. There are ten questions, randomly chosen from a pool of questions. The hunt gives immediate feedback. You can unlock this interactive and every resource on MrNussbaum.com when you become a subscriber. Only $49 per year for a teacher and unlimited students!

Description: In this interactive story, students travel through key moments in the history of Pilgrims heading to the New World, guided by their thoughts, hopes, and experiences. At each historic location, they explore illustrated scenes, read narrated passages, and answer thoughtful comprehension questions to track their progress. When all sites are visited, students receive a printable score report showing their journey through America’s founding story.

Description: This page describes the history and voyages of the Mayflower

Description: This article describes the creation, meaning, and legacy of the Mayflower Compact - the document that some say describes America's first rudimentary constitution.

Description: This page tells all about the Plymouth Colony and what some call the first Thanksgiving.

Description: This article outlines the similarities and differences between the Pilgrims and the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Description: This page discusses the realities and myths of what would become the holiday of Thanksgiving.

Description: This article discusses the increasing hostility between Puritan settlers in Massachusetts and local Native groups that culminated in the deadly war.

Description: This articles discusses life as a Puritan settler in Massachusetts.

Description: This article provides a brief overview of the events which culminated in the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

Description: This is an article on the formation, role, and effects of the Sons of Liberty.

Description: The students will information about the Boston Massacre and answer questions about what they read.

Description: This article explains the actual story of The Bloody Massacre - a virulent example of propaganda (that Revere may have stolen) during the Revolutionary era.

Description: This article discusses the trial of those accused in the Boston Massacre and explains why John Adams decided to defend them.

Description: This page describes the Boston Tea Party and its causes and effects.

Description: This articles describes the strict rules that governed the Boston Tea Party. Interesting and very surprising!

Description: This is a description of what happened before, after, and during, the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Description: This is a description of what happened before, after, and during, the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Description: This article discusses the incredible transfer of weapons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston orchestrated by Henry Knox.

Description: This is a full biography on Puritan minister Cotton Mather.

Description: This is a complete biography on Squanto.

Description: This is a complete biography of Crispus Attucks, the first person killed in the American Revolution

Description: This is a full biography on Samuel Adams.

Description: This is a full biography on Paul Revere.

Description: This is a full biography on John Hancock.

Description: This is a full biography on John Adams. It is part of our presidents series.

Description: This is a short biography on first lady Abigail Adams

Description: This is a full biography with images on Revolutionary-era painter John Singleton Copley.

Description: This is a full biography on John Quincy Adams. It is part of our presidents series.

Description: This is a full biography on John F. Kennedy. It is part of our presidents series.

Description: This page describes the life and times of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is part of our authors series.

Description: This is a complete biography of Ansel Adams. It contains images and a video.

Description: This is a complete biography of Winslow Homer.

Description: This is a full biography on Elias Howe - inventor of the sewing machine.

Description: This is a complete biography of Clara Barton.

Description: This is a complete biography of Dorothea Dix.

Description: This is a full biography on the inventor of the telephone - Alexander Graham Bell

Description: This page describes the life and times of Henry David Thoreau. It is part of our authors series.

Description: This page describes the life and times of philosopher and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of our authors series.

Description: This page describes the life and times of Emily Dickinson. It is part of our authors series.

Description: This is a brief biography on Susan B. Anthony

Description: This article tells about the arrest of Susan B. Anthony in 1872 for casting a vote for President.

Description: This article describes the history of the Susan B. Anthony $1 coin.

Description: This is a full biography on George H.W. Bush. It is part of our presidents series.