AMERICAN HISTORY PRESENTS

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AMERICAN HISTORY PRESENTSTHE TRAVELING TRUNK
SHOW
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History of the Travel Trunk

• First real luggage
• Various sizes
• Unique style characteristics
• Used by travelers, circus,
• businessmen, etc
• Used by people to store memorabilia
• Used by museums and historical facilities to
  store artifacts and collections.
• Restoration as a hobby
• Hold someones past/memories/
• Priceless items that tell about a persons life
  events

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FOUNDING FATHERS Westward Expansion SYMBOLS OF DEMOCRACY
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR WOMEN OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY
THEMES
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Symbols of Democracy

• Liberty Bell
• American Flag
• Congress
• John Locke
• Thomas Paine
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Star Spangled Banner

• Bill of Rights
• U.S. Constitution
• Declaration of Independence
• Mayflower Compact
• Paper used for documents
• Ink and quills
• Newspapers

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Suggested Activities for Democracy

• Flag changes over the years
• Beliefs of Locke and Paine
• What do the words of the Pledge mean?
• Tell history of Liberty Bell
• Money symbols

• Recite Preamble (no notecards)
• Recite the Bill of Rights
• Choose one Amendment and present, poster, etc.
• Signing of a freedom document (mural)

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Westward Expansion

• Meriwether Lewis
• William Clark
• Sacagawea
• LouisianaPurchase/Jefferson
• New discoveries
• (plants/animals)
• Donner Party

• Mormon movement
• Trails
• Zebulon Pike
• Rocky Mountain Explorations

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Suggested Activities forWestward Expansion

• Lewis Clark Journals
• Plant/animal samples
• Maps created by explorers
• Compass/telescope used by explorers
• Gates of the Mountains
• Pikes Peak

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Education and Communication

• Town Crier
• Postal office
• Horn book
• Colonial Education
• Great Awakening
• Enlightenment
• Noah Webster

• First public schools
• Newspapers
• Horace Mann
• New England Primer
• Yale/Harvard

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Suggested Activities for Education and
Communication

• Demonstrate the role of a town crier and
  introduce presentations.
• Life in a one room school house
• History of the postal service/stamps
• How to make a horn book
• Effects of the Great Awakening
• Results of the Enlightenment

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Medicine and Technology

• Dentistry and Doctors
• (tools, sterilization, etc.)
• Edward Jenner
• Quinine
• Conestoga Wagons
• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Cotton gin
• Farming tools
• Weavers
• Horses, mules
• Developments of roads and Inns
• Printing Press

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Suggested Activities forMedicine and Technology

• Development of Dr.s office
• Nurse prepares a doctors instruments
• How does a cotton gin work?
• Woven goods

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Women of the 17th and 18th Centuries

• Family (mother, daughter, wife)
• Daughters of Liberty
• Notable women (Lucy Stone, Phyllis Wheatley)
• Women in War--
• Molly Pitcher
• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Salem trials
• First Ladies
• Teachers/nurses
• Clothing
• Seamtress/Betsy Ross
• Pocahontas
• Sacajawea

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Women-17th and 18th

• A day in the life of a 1700 woman
• Demonstrate a quilt party
• Demonstrate a tea party
• Other jobs and positions (making a candle)
• Village life
• Education for women

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Founding Fathers

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• James Madison

• Robert Livingston
• Richard H. Lee
• Roger Sherman
• Famous quotes

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Suggested Activities for Founding Fathers

• Hold Constitutional meeting
• Demonstrate clothing styles (a day in the life)
• Family life goals of accomplishments
• Through the years

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Revolutionary War

• John Paul Jones
• Benedict Arnold
• Francis Marion
• Patrick Henry
• Boston Massacre
• Sons of Liberty
• Paul Revere
• Ethan Allen/Green
• Mountain Boys

• Boston Tea Party
• Major Battles
• George Washington
• Famous quotes
• Nathan Hale
• Causes of War
• Lexington and Concord

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Suggestions for Revolutionary War Activities

• Demonstrate how to play a fife or drum tune
• Draw a mural of a battle scene and explain.
• Justify the win or loss of a battle
• Explain various uniforms and supplies used by
  both sides