Description: This section includes a comprehensive narrative on the homes, diet, culture, and wars of Comanche nation

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: This is a full biography of French explorer Robert Sieur de la Salle

Description: This is a full biography of Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Coronado.

Description: This page describes the Louisiana Purchase.

Description: This comprehensive section includes profiles of twelve American land acquisitions or occupations including the Louisiana Purchase, Adams-Onis Treaty, Mexican-American war acquisitions, Alaska Purchase, Hawaii annexation, and many others.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Profiles of America's Land Acquisition Section

Description: This activity requires students to use the interactive map to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This page describes the Battle of the Alamo and Texas independence.

Description: This page describes the Mexican-American War and the subsequent acquisition of what is now the American Southwest.

Description: This interactive map provides details of each of twelve major engagements pitting the United States military against the Native Americans. It includes the Comanche Wars, Sioux Wars, the Long Walk, Red Cloud's War, Cayuse War, Whitman's Massacre, Chickamauga Wars, and many more.

Description: This section contains detailed information about the Comanche War.

Description: This page describes the concept of manifest destiny and how it was used to justify expansion throughout the continent, and the expense of Native Americans and other nations.

Description: This page describes the process in which eleven southern states seceded, forming the Confederate States of America.

Description: This interactive map allows students to click on any state to learn its role in the Civil War. Awesome for research.

Description: This is a complete biography on Texas hero Stephen F. Austin

Description: This is a complete biography on Texas hero Sam Houston.

Description: This is a full biography on Lyndon B. Johnson. It is part of our presidents series.

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