PowerPoint Chapter Presentation Resources
[Project sites link first to Miss Olson’s home site pages for American History]

Election 2008

The United States Primary System
  The Iowa Caucuses
  The New Hampshire Primary

2007-2008 Handbook of Illinois Government (PDF file)
   Illinois Government diagram
Other Illinois Government information

An Outline of American History

The Presidents Unit

MLA Bibliographic Citation Guide

Atlas and Geography Sites

Online Crosswords
   The Presidents I
   The Presidents II

Government Web Sites

Federal
White House (Executive)
www.whitehouse.gov
 Select “Your Government”
      “President Bush’s Cabinet”

Legislative
www.house.gov
  Select “Leadership”
       “Office of the Speaker”
www.senate.gov
  Select “Senators”
       “Leadership”
Judicial
www.supremecourtus.gov/
  Select “About the Supreme Court”
       “Biographies of Current Members”
Wikipedia - The Supreme Court

Illinois
Governor’s Office
http://www.illinois.gov/
  Select “Rod R. Blagojevich, Governor
       “Governor’s Staff”

Illinois General Assembly (House and Senate)
   http://www.ilga.gov/
Illinois Supreme Court
www.state.il.us/COURT/
 

Consitution Resources
  American Politics     
  Schoolhouse Rock “I’m Just A Bill”

Current Government Officeholders
The Executive Branch 
  President
  Vice President
  Secretary of State (State Department)
  Secretary of Defense (Defense Department)
  Secretary of the Treasury

The Legislative Branch

• President Pro Tempore of the Senate
• Speaker of the House
• Senators from Illinois (2)

The Judicial Branch

• Current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• First female justice
• First African-American Justice
• *First Hispanic-American Justice
• First Chief Justice

Illinois Officeholders

• Governor of Illinois
• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
• Secretary of State
• United States Senators (2)
• Your United States Representative 

Textbook citation:

Garcia, Jesus, et al. Creating America: A History of the United States.
   Evanston: McDougal Littell Inc., 2003.

Native American History

500 Nations documentary

Native American History
  University of Washington
Native American History and Culture
  Smithsonian Institute
Native Americans
 

Textbook Units - Creating America: A History of the United States (2003)

Unit 1
Three Worlds Meet
(Beginnings to 1763)

Unit 2
Creating a New Nation
(1763-1791)

Unit 3
The Early Republic
(1789-1844)

Unit 4
A Changing Nation
(1810-1860)

Unit 5
A Nation Divided and Rebuilt
(1846-1877)

Chapter 1 The World in 1500
(Beginnings-1500)

Chapter 6
The Road to Revolution
(1763-1776)

Chapter 9
Launching a New Republic
(1789-1800)

Chapter 12
The Age of Jackson
(1824-1840)

Chapter 15
The Nation Breaking Apart
(1846-1861)

Chapter 2
Exploration of the Americas (1492-1700)

Chapter 7
The American Revolution
(1776-1783)

Chapter 10
The Jefferson Era
(1800-1816)

Chapter 13
Manifest Destiny
(1810-1853)

Chapter 16
The Civil War Begins
(1861-1862)

Chapter 3
The English Establish 13 Colonies
(1585-1732)

Chapter 8
Confederation to Constitution
(1776-1791)

Chapter 11
National and Regional Growth
(1800-1844)

Chapter 14
A New Spirit of Change
(1820-1860)

Chapter 17
The Tide of War Turns
(1863-1865)

Chapter 4
The Colonies Develop
(1700-1753)

The Consitution Handbook

Chapter 18
Reconstruction
(1865-1877)

Chapter 5
Beginnings of an American Identity
(1689-1763)