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| San Patricios IIIDuring the Mexican War a group of American deserters composed an artillery unit in the Mexican Army: St. Patrick's Battalion.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| San Patricios IIJohn O'Reilly and the San Patricios, a battalion made up mostly of United States deserters, proved to be one of the most effective fighting units in the Mexican Army.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Samuel Davies & Slave Literacy ITeaching slaves to read became increasingly illegal in the antebellum South. Nevertheless, a small number of slaves achieved literacy through the efforts of courageous whites and even that of some slaves themselves.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Samuel Davies & Slave Literacy IIAlthough teaching slaves to read was forbidden, the Rev. Samuel Davies, inspired by the Great Awakening, led a campaign to bring slaves the light of knowledge and of the Gospel.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIn the years leading up to the American Civil War, the territory of Kansas was the scene of extensive guerrilla warfare. James Henry Lane led a band of free-soil raiders.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIn the years before the Civil War bleeding, Kansas produced two guerrilla leaders who laid waste to the countryside--inflaming passions on either side of the question of slavery--James Henry Lane and William Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIIn the bloody run up to war during the 1850s, the Territory of Kansas attracted its share of drifters seeking to take advantage of the conflict over slavery. One of those was William Clarke Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Mammy KateAfter hearing of the impending execution of her "master", Mammy Kate, a house slave of Captain Stephen Heard, formulated an escape plan out of a military jail at Fort Cornwallis in Augusta, Georgia. For her heroism, Heard granted her freedom...but Mammy Kate chose to stay with the Heard family until her death.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Archibald HendersonFor over thirty-nine years prior to his death in 1859, Archibald Henderson served as Commandant of the Marine Corps. Perhaps more than any of the early leaders of the Corps, Henderson set the standards by which the Corps has been judged over the years.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Harriet Beecher StoweWhen Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", first met Abraham Lincoln, the president is said to have said to her, “So this is the lady who made this big war.”Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
