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Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.






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Interpreting Primary Sources:

Conflict Over Ratifying the Constitution


Interpreting Statistics:

Politics and Society in Post-Revolutionary America
Differences between Federalists and Antifederalists


Study Aid:

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution


Fact Check:

Quiz on the Constitution

Primary source documents with classroom questions:
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald
Ambassador Jefferson on the New Constitution and the Commercial Treaty Negotiations
Analyzing an excerpt from Marbury v. Madison
Federalist #68 - The Electoral College Process

Recommended lesson plan:

The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=282


Timelines:

A timeline of the 18th century










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