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Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Teacher Resources
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Introduction
Page Resource Links 7 Grade 2 My Passport 7 Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts 10 USCIS Citizenship Resource Center
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Chapter 1
Page Resource Links 13 Map of the Original Thirteen Colonies 13 Image of oxen
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Chapter 2
Page Resource Links 21 Video: How a Canal Lock Works 29 Video: Story of Us: Steamboats 29 Video: 200 years on the Erie Canal 29 The Erie Canal song
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Chapter 3
Page Resource Links 31 Interactive Map of the Oregon Trail 39 Video: Oregon Trail—Story of Us 39 The Oregon Trail Game (option 1) 39 The Oregon Trail Game (option 2) 40 The Oregon Trail Activities and Coloring Book
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Chapter 4
Page Resource Links 47 Video: The California Gold Rush Cartoon 47 Experience the Gold Rush 47 Onsite Adventures 47 Video: Joaquin Murrieta—History Channel
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Chapter 5
Page Resource Links 49 Video: A Kid Explains the Pony Express
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Chapter 6
Page Resource Links 61 Video: Locomotive Read Aloud 62 Video: Transcontinental Railroad and the American West 62 Video: Golden Spike National Historic Site 62 Video: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
62 “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
62 Video: John Henry and the Railroad
62 “The Ballad of John Henry”
62 Video: The Brave Engineer
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Chapter 7
Page Resource Links 64 “Home on the Range” 69 Video: Pecos Bill Read Aloud
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Chapter 8
Page Resource Links 80 Video: The Cherokee Trail of Tears
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Chapter 9
Page Resource Links 87 Video: Sequoyah 87 Video: We’re Still Here: The Cherokee Syllabary
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Page Resource Links 88 Core Knowledge Community 90 Coloring Page: Erie Canal 90 Coloring Page: Wagon Train 90 Coloring Page: California Gold Rush 90 Coloring Page: Pony Express 90 Coloring Page: Transcontinental Railroad 90 Coloring Page: Robert Fulton's Steamboat 90 Coloring Page: Cowboy 90 Coloring Page: Bison 90 Coloring Page: Native American Hunter 90 Coloring Page: Sequoyah 124, 125 Grade 2 My Passport 126 Americans Move West Passport Images
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