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Inventions That Shaped America Primary Sources Pack Gallopade International

The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence. The Inventions That Shaped America Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.

Inventions That Shaped America Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!

Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.

The 20 documents in the Inventions That Shaped America Primary Sources Pack are:
1. The cotton gin - 1794
2. Illustration (1869) published in Harper's Weekly of the "First Cotton Gin" produced around 1800
3. Illustration of Robert Fulton's steamboat the Clermont - ca. 1810
4. The telegraph, pioneered by Samuel Morse in the 1830s and 1840s
5. Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper in 1884, first patented in 1848
6. Photograph of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah - 1869
7. Entry in Alexander Graham Bell's journal, describing an experiment - 1876
8. Patent drawing for the telephone (1876) and various reactions to the invention
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