American History Gallery Walk Bundle (US History)

The bundle contains 10 gallery walks/stations for essential content in American History (Colonial America, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Causes of the American Revolution, War of 1812, Andrew Jackson, Causes of the Civil War, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the American West). I have included answer keys. Please message me if you have any questions.

*Promotes active engagement and critical thinking skills!

*Students will be analyzing primary source excerpts, pictures, cartoons, and maps.

*This is a great activity to get students out of their seats and moving!

*The activity does not require the use of a textbook.

*Editable Word Documents

***The documents can be uploaded to your website or Google Drive; please make sure, however, that it is password protected.

Gallery Walks/Stations included:

Colonial America (9 stations and 40 questions):

• Jamestown
• Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact
• Salem Witch Trials
• James Oglethorpe and Georgia
• Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
• William Penn and Pennsylvania
• The Founding of Connecticut and the Fundamental Orders
• The Founding of Maryland and the Act of Toleration
• Atlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade and Middle Passage)

Declaration of Independence (8 stations and 30 questions):

• Excerpts from the D.O.I.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (6 stations and 30 questions):

• Excerpts from the A.O.C.
• Shay’s Rebellion Picture
• Colonial Currency Picture
• Northwest Territory Map
• Powers of Congress Chart

Causes of the American Revolution (7 stations and 35 questions):

• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Benjamin Franklin
• No taxation without representation
• Quartering Act
• Boston Massacre
• Paul Revere
• Tea Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Patrick Henry
• Poor Old England Cartoon
• Join, or Die Cartoon

War of 1812 (6 stations and 33 questions):

• Impressment
• British trading weapons to Native Americans
• Battle of Tippecanoe
• Effects of the Battle of Tippecanoe
• Tecumseh
• William Henry Harrison
• British blockade
• Battle of Lake Erie
• Captain Oliver Hazard Perry
• Burning of the White House
• Creek Native Americans
• Andrew Jackson
• Battle of Baltimore
• Ft. McHenry
• Francis Scott Key
• Star-Spangled Banner
• Treaty of Ghent
• Battle of New Orleans
• Effects of the Battle of New Orleans
• Effects of the War of 1812

Andrew Jackson (7 stations and 25 questions):

• Election of 1824
• Election of 1828
• Spoils System Cartoon
• Jackson Fights the Second Bank Cartoon
• Great Father Cartoon
• Indian Removal Map
• King Andrew Cartoon

Causes of the Civil War (9 stations and 38 questions)

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Free-Soil Party
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• The Trial of John Brown
• Secession from the Union
• Election of 1860

Civil War (10 stations and 35 questions):

• Anaconda Plan
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Address Excerpt
• Emancipation Proclamation Excerpt
• 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner
• Battle of Vicksburg
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Map of Sherman's March to the Sea
• Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Reconstruction (8 stations and 32 questions):

• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)
• Worse Than Slavery Cartoon (Ku Klux Klan)
• The First Vote Illustration (African American men voting)
• Sharecropping
• Carpetbaggers
• Election of 1876
• Compromise of 1877
• Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws

American West (8 stations and 33 questions):

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Chinese immigrants building the Transcontinental Railroad
• Plains Indians and the buffalo
• American cowboy
• Homestead Act
• Sod House
• Dawes Act
• Native American Boarding School
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee Massacre