Schenectady City
  School District


108 Education Drive
Schenectady, NY  12303

518.370.8100

 

 

      

 

SLIDES

Lesson Support  

 

Albany Institute Artwork

 

Student Resource:
A Bloody Affair

 

The Constitution Tested

 

Reconstruction

 

Railroad Train on the Mohawk and Hudson

This slide show can be used in conjunction with the E.L. Henry  painting of the first Railway Train on the Mohawk and Hudson to illustrate the differences in the economic development of the North and South

 

Robber Barons

Slides can be used as introduction/clarification for the  “Robber Barons” Connections for case study of Albany’s Thomas Alcott using Walter Palmer’s painting “Interior of Arbor Hill”

 

View of State Street

This slide show can be used in conjunction with "View of State Street" (1847).  Compare & Contrast American Cities (1840 - 1900)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

WEB RESOURCES

 

Railroad

 

The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad

 

National Railway Historical Society

 

Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History

 

The Civil War

 

Civil War.com
Includes timeline, places, documents, music

 

The Civil War

 

Civil War Timeline

 

Photography and The Civil War

 

Civil War Photographs

 

Selected Civil War Photographs

 

Civil War Activities

Using the Internet

 

Abraham Lincoln Trivia

 

Abraham Lincoln Research Site

 

Abraham Lincoln

 

The Inauguration

 

The Constitution of the U.S.

 

After the Civil War

 

Civil War and Reconstruction

 

Reconstruction and Freedom

 

Industrialization of the U.S.

 

Industrialism

 

The War Continues  


The Biography of America
  

 

The 13th Amendment

 

Life After the 13th Amendment

 

14th Amendment, 1868

 

Annotated List of Resources from Various Colonial Sites  in the United States

 

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