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History Explorer Podcast: Underwater Archaeology

History Explorer Podcast: Underwater Archaeology

Grade Range: 6-8
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Worksheets
Duration: 19 minutes
Date Posted: 1/15/2012

In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, curator Paul Johnston discusses the field of underwater archaeology and how the study of shipwrecks can add to our understanding of many areas and eras in US history.  The resource includes a teachers guide and student worksheet. 


National Standards

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans
 
2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions
 
3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800
 
4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period
 

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

4: Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War
 

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