Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 5/26/2009
Students will learn how shipbuilders, mariners, and maritime merchants helped the United States defend itself and grow in this section of On the Water: Stories from Maritime America, an online exhibition. Topics covered are the roles that privateers played during the American Revolution and the War of 1812, immigration, early steam travel and coastal shipping in the Atlantic Ocean, the California Gold Rush, and the life-saving technology that was used to rescue the victims of shipwrecks.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
The shape of the bar shot, a center bar with rounded half-circles at either end, made it very eff...
expansion, Asian Pacific American, American revolution, War of Independence, Asian, APA Heritage Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage month, May, immigration, travel, transportation, Revolutionary War, APA, weapon, westward expansion, Asian American Heritage Month, ship, commerce, Asian American, trade
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast o...
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