In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

In these Learning Adventures, we will be learning about important Historical Documents that helped to shape the United States as a Nation.

Learn about what a law is, who makes the laws, and how laws are made.

Learn about the language of the law and discover how laws are made.

How is a law actually made? What’s the whole process like? That depends, of course, on what type of law we're talking about. For this example, we'll look at a simple example of how a bill introduced in the House of Representatives becomes a public law.

In this lesson, students gain a sense of the dramatic effect of FDR's voice on his audience, see the scope of what he was proposing in these first two "Fireside Chats," and make an overall analysis of why the series of speeches were so successful.

What conditions provided the impetus for the Sedition Act? Partisan animosity was strong during Adams's presidency. The first two political parties in the U.S. were in their infancy"”the Federalists, to which the majority of members of Congress belonged, and the Democratic-Republicans, led by former vice-president Thomas Jefferson and four-term Congressman James Madison, who had left the House in 1796.

Many accounts portray the campaign of 1840 as almost exclusively image-based. This lesson offers students the opportunity to reflect on the nature of the campaign. Though intended for the teacher, all or part of the following background information may be useful for some students.

This lesson will help students develop a better understanding of the election of 1824 and its significance.

This lesson focuses on the problems under the Articles of Confederation between 1783 and 1786 leading to the 1787 Convention. Through examination of elementary sources, students will see why some prominent American founders, more than others, believed that the United States faced a serious crisis, and that drastic changes, rather than minor amendments, to the Articles were necessary.

Before the birth of opposition political parties, divisions among U.S. leaders developed over the ratification of the Constitution.