Less than $5 7th Grade Government Resources (by date, latest first)

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the Reconstruction era in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• RECONSTRUCTION
• FREEDMENS BUREAU
• RADICAL REPUBLICANS
• IMPEACHMENT
• POLL TAX
• PLESSY V FERGUSON
• MORRILL ACT
• DAWES ACT
• TEN PERCENT PLAN
• ANDREW JOHNSON
• FOURTEENTH
• FIFTEENTH
• SEGREGATION
• SHARECROPPING
• EXODUSTERS
• THIRTEENTH
• BLACK CODES
• RECONSTRUCTION ACTS
• KU KLUX KLAN
• JIM CROW LAWS
• HOMESTEAD ACT
• BUFFALO SOLDIERS

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the South's pre-Civil War era in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• COTTON GIN
• FACTORS
• FOLK TALES
• NAT TURNER
• PLANTERS
• TREDEGAR
• SPIRITUALS
• COTTON BELT
• YEOMEN
• NAT TURNER'S REBELLION

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to U.S. citizenship and the Constitution!

Key Terms Include:

• FEDERALISM
• EXECUTIVE ORDER
• SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
• PETITION
• INDICT
• NATURALIZATION
• INTEREST GROUP
• IMPEACH
• PARDON
• JAMES MADISON
• SEARCH WARRANT
• DOUBLE JEOPARDY
• DEPORT
• PAC
• VETO
• THURGOOD MARSHALL
• MAJORITY RULE
• DUE PROCESS
• EMINENT DOMAIN
• DRAFT

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the Roaring Twenties in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• ROARING TWENTIES
• FLAPPERS
• MODEL T
• SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL
• IMMIGRATION ACTOF1924
• STOCKMARKETBOOM
• ALCAPONE
• WOMENSSUFFRAGE
• JAZZAGE
• HARLEMRENAISSANCE
• HENRYFORD
• REDSCARE
• 18THAMENDMENT
• BLACKTUESDAY
• THELOSTGENERATION
• CONSUMERCULTURE
• PROHIBITION
• GREAT MIGRATION
• CHARLES LINDBERGH
• KU KLUX KLAN
• 19TH AMENDMENT
• ORGANIZED CRIME
• THE GREAT GATSBY

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the North's pre-Civil War era in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• SAMUEL SLATER
• MASS PRODUCTION
• LOWELL SYSTEM
• ROBERT FULTON
• TELEGRAPH
• CYRUS MCCORMICK
• TEXTILES
• ELI WHITNEY
• RHODE ISLAND SYSTEM
• STRIKES
• CLERMONT
• MORSE CODE
• ISAAC SINGER
• RICHARD ARKWRIGHT
• INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
• TRADE UNIONS
• TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
• GIBBONS V OGDEN
• JOHN DEERE

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the American Civil War in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• STONEWALL JACKSON
• ANTIETAM
• SHILOH
• CONTRABANDS
• HABEAS CORPUS
• PICKETTS CHARGE
• SHERMAN
• BULL RUN
• IRONCLADS
• VICKSBURG
• MASSACHUSETTS
• CLARA BARTON
• GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
• TOTAL WAR
• ROBERT E LEE
• ULYSSESS GRANT
• EMANCIPATION
• COPPERHEADS
• GETTYSBURG
• WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
• APPOMATTOX

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to reform movements of the 19th and early 20th-centuries in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• NATIVISTS
• TENEMENTS
• ABOLITION
• FREDERICK DOUGLASS
• SENECA FALLS
• KNOW NOTHING PARTY
• TRANSCENDENTALISM
• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• SOJOURNER TRUTH
• SUSAN B ANTHONY
• MIDDLE CLASS
• TEMPERANCE
• LIBERATOR
• HARRIET TUBMAN
• ANTISUFFRAGISTS

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the United States Home Front during WWII!

Key Terms Include:

• HOMEFRONT
• WAR BONDS
• OWI
• EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066
• DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
• VJ DAY
• PEARL HARBOR
• RATIONING
• WOMENS ARMY CORPS
• DOUBLE V CAMPAIGN
• FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
• INTERNMENT CAMPS
• MANHATTAN PROJECT
• ROSIE THE RIVETER
• VICTORY GARDENS
• MANHATTAN PROJECT
• USO
• HARRY S TRUMAN
• VE DAY

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to The Great Depression in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• GREAT DEPRESSION
• BANK FAILURES
• FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
• WPA
• FDIC
• HERBERT HOOVER
• HAWLEY SMOOT TARIFF
• OKIES
• STOCK MARKET CRASH
• DUST BOWL
• SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
• AAA
• SEC
• BONUS ARMY
• BREADLINES
• ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
• BLACK TUESDAY
• NEW DEAL
• CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
• NIRA
• TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
• HOOVERVILLES
• SOUP KITCHENS
• COURT-PACKING PLAN

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the Postwar Economic Boom following WWII!

Key Terms Include:

• POSTWAR PROSPERITY
• SUBURBANIZATION
• INTERSTATE
• CONTAINMENT
• KOREAN WAR
• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• TELEVISION
• GI BILL
• LEVITTOWN
• MCCARTHYISM
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE
• SPACE RACE NIKITA
• KHRUSHCHEV
• BABY BOOM
• CONSUMERISM
• COLD WAR
• MARSHALL PLAN
• RED SCARE
• ROCK AND ROLL

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the 1810s-1830s of U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• SECTIONALISM
• SIMON BOLíVAR
• THOMAS COLE
• MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
• RUSH BAGOT
• HENRY CLAY
• CUMBERLAND ROAD
• GEORGE BINGHAM
• JAMES MONROE
• ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
• AMERICAN SYSTEM
• MONROE DOCTRINE
• JAMES COOPER
• WASHINGTON IRVING
• HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL
• NATIONALISM
• ADAMS-ONíS TREATY
• ERIE CANAL

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the pre-Civil War era in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• FREE SOIL PARTY
• UNCLE TOMS CABIN
• KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
• DRED SCOTT
• CONSTITUTIONAL UNION
• WILMOT PROVISO
• SECEDE
• FRANKLIN PIERCE
• REPUBLICAN PARTY
• FREEPORT DOCTRINE
• CONFEDERACY
• SECTIONALISM
• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
• STEPHEN DOUGLAS
• JAMES BUCHANAN
• JOHN BROWN
• JEFFERSON DAVIS

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the era of Westward Expansion in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• JOHN JACOB ASTOR
• SANTA FE TRAIL
• FATHER MIGUEL HIDALGO
• MANIFEST DESTINY
• BEAR FLAG REVOLT
• DONNER PARTY
• MOUNTAIN MEN
• MORMONS
• ALAMO
• JAMES K POLK
• GUADALUPE HIDALGO
• FORTY NINERS
• OREGON TRAIL
• BRIGHAM YOUNG
• BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
• CALIFORNIOS
• GADSDEN PURCHASE
• PROSPECT

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the Jefferson Era of the U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• JUDICIAL REVIEW
• ANDREW JACKSON
• MARBURY V. MADISON
• JOHN MARSHALL
• NEW ORLEANS
• TREATY OF FORT JACKSON
• JOHN ADAMS
• THOMAS JEFFERSON
• JAMES MADISON
• LOUISIANA PURCHASE
• WARHAWKS
• TECUMSEH
• LAKE ERIE
• TIPPECANOE
• SACAGAWEA
• USS CONSTITUTION
• OLIVER PERRY
• IMPRESSMENT
• EMBARGO ACT
• HARTFORD CONVENTION
• LEWIS AND CLARK

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the early stages of the new American government!

Key Terms Include:

• BILL OF RIGHTS
• VIRGINIA PLAN
• AMENDMENTS
• THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
• FEDERALISTS
• GREAT COMPROMISE
• SUFFRAGE
• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTYFEDERALISM
• CONSTITUTION
• SHAYS REBELLION
• INFLATION
• DEPRESSION
• FEDERALIST PAPERS
• INTERSTATE COMMERCE
• NEW JERSEY PLAN
• CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
• ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
• TARIFFS
• RATIFICATION
• ANTIFEDERALISTS
• NORTHWEST ORDINANCE

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to The Gilded Age and Progressive Era of U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• GILDED AGE
• JANE ADDAMS
• MONOPOLY
• PULLMAN STRIKE
• SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT
• THEODORE ROOSEVELT
• UPTON SINCLAIR
• AFL
• HULL HOUSE
• LABOR UNIONS
• PROGRESSIVISM
• SAMUEL GOMPERS
• SQUARE DEAL
• TRUSTS
• WOODROW WILSON
• HAY MARKET RIOT
• KNIGHTS OF LABOR
• MUCKRAKERS
• ROBBER BARONS
• SOCIAL DARWINISM
• TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST
• URBANIZATION

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to President Andrew Jackson and this time period of U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• Nullification Crisis
• John Calhoun
• Indian Territory
• Daniel Webster
• Mcculloch V Maryland
• Convention
• Martin Van Buren
• Worcester V Georgia
• William Henry Harrison
• Spoils Sytem
• Tariff Of Abominations
• Blackhawk
• Sequoya
• Trail Of Tears
• States Rights
• Bureau Of Indian Affairs
• Whig Party
• Democratic Party
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Osceola
• Indian Removal Act
• Kitchen Cabinet

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the early of the United States of America!

Key Terms Include:

• ALEXANDER HAMILTON
• ELECTORAL COLLEGE
• NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION
• PRIVATEERS
• FEDERALIST PARTY
• JAYS TREATY
• SEDITION ACT
• STRICT CONSTRUCTION
• PRECEDENT
• PINCKNEYS TREATY
• THOMAS JEFFERSON
• WHISKEY REBELLION
• FRENCH REVOLUTION
• SPECULATORS
• LOOSE CONSTRUCTION
• XYZ AFFAIR
• BONDS
• GEORGE WASHINGTON
• NATIONAL DEBT
• POLITICAL PARTIES
• DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY

Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to introduce and review key terms relating to the period of American Imperialism in U.S. History!

Key Terms Include:

• IMPERIALISM
• MANIFEST DESTINY
• OPEN DOOR POLICY
• ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
• SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
• BERLIN CONFERENCE
• EMILIO AGUINALDO
• HEARST
• COLONIALISM
• MONROE DOCTRINE
• BOXER REBELLION
• PANAMA CANAL
• WHITE MANS BURDEN
• CECIL RHODES
• THEODORE ROOSEVELT
• JOSEPH PULITZER
• NATIONALISM
• SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
• PLATT AMENDMENT
• DOLLAR DIPLOMACY
• SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
• QUEEN LILIUOKALANI
• WILLIAM MCKINLEY

In this fun and engaging project, students will explore every aspect of an empire in history by conducting research, creating a visual representation, and presenting their findings to the class! This project can be modified to specific needs and can be adapted for use with any time period that you’re studying in class. Examples of empires/civilizations may include:

• River Valley Civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China)
• Classical Empires (Persia, Greece, Mauryan, Gupta, Qin, Han, Rome)
• Gunpowder Empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal)
• Maritime Empires (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, British)
• Age of Imperialism (Belgium, Germany, France, etc.)

Here's what's included:

1. Project Instructions

2. Template for project assigned to individual students.

3. Template for project if assigned to groups.

4. Examples of group project designs.

5. Guiding topics for each research category

6. Grading Rubric

This project has options for either group or individual assignment!