“HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION”

Looking for something new for your history class on the Constitution? The following programs are from the new series “History of the Constitution” and are available to be copied for your library. They are 30 minutes long and are for Junior High and High School students.

Printable Nursery Rhyme Mini Books continued from page 1

All 24 mini books can be found as a PDF on the State Library's web site: http://www.state.lib.la.us/empowerlibrary/
ALL%2024%20NRNS%20Mini%20Books.pdf

Instructions to print nursery books:

• Under “File Menu”, select “Print
• At PDF, pull down the arrow and click on “Compress PDF”
• Save as “Nursery Rhyme” to your desktop
• Open the saved PDF file, located on your desktop
• Go to File, select “Print”
• At “Page Scaling” pull down the arrow & click “Fit to Printable Area”
• Select “Print”

DV16187 Seeds of the Constitution Covers: 1619 - Virginia Colonists Create the First Legislative Assembly; 1733 - Parliament Restricts Free Trade Through the Molasses Act; 1735 - The Peter Zenger Trial Lays the Seed for Freedom of the Press; 1739 - Black Uprising in South Carolina Foreshadows Constitutional Crisis; 1739 - The Great Awakening and the Separation of Church and State.

DV16188 Founding of the Constitution Covers: 1619 - Virginia Colonists Create the First Legislative Assembly; 1733 - Parliament Restricts Free Trade Through the Molasses Act; 1735 - The Peter Zenger Trial Lays the Seed for Freedom of the Press; 1739 - Black Uprising in South Carolina Foreshadows Constitutional Crisis; 1739 - The Great Awakening and the Separation of Church and State.

DV16189 Writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Covers: 1774 - First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia; 1776 - Declaration in Independence; 1786 - Shay's Rebellion Shows the Need for a New Constitution; 1787 - The United States Constitution is Written; 1788 - Congress Sends 12 Amendments to the States; 1789 - Alexander Hamilton Shapes America's Modern Industrial Economy; 1791 - States Ratify Madison's Bill of Rights.

DV16190 Testing the Constitution Covers: 1793 - Congress Enacts a Fugitive Slave Act; 1794 - Congress passes the 11th Amendment Protecting States Rights; 1794 - Freedom to Protest is Tested in the Whiskey Rebellion; 1796 - John Adams Becomes the Second President of United States Inaugurating the Two-party System and is Responsible for the 12th Amendment; 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts Usher in a Bleak Period of American Political Freedom; 1803 - John Marshall Establishes a Strong Supreme Court Through Marbury v. Madison.

DV16191 Constitution is Expanded Covers: 1865-70 - 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments; The Anti-Slavery Amendments; 1872 - Susan B. Anthony Fights for Women's Right to Vote; 1887 - The Interstate Commerce Act Opens the Door for Increased Federal Power; 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Establishes Separate but Equal for Black America; 1913 - 16th Amendment Creates the Income Tax; 1913--17th Amendment Allows for the Popular Election of Senators; 1918 - Prohibition and the 18th Amendment.

DV16192 Constitution Survives Covers: 1810 - Marshall Establishes the Sanctity of Contracts; 1828 - Jacksonian Democracy and the Constitution; 1848 - Mexican American War and Manifest Destiny Set up America's Greatest Constitutional Crisis; 1861 - Southern States Secede and Force Constitutional Crisis.

DV16193 Constitution In A Changing World Covers: 1919 - The Supreme Court Limits Free Speech and Freedom of the Press in Schenck v. U.S.; 1920 - Women Gain the Right to Vote Through the 19th Amendment; 1933 - 20th and 21st New Deal Amendments Herald a Change in American Life; 1951 - Americans Limit a President to Two Terms with the 22nd Amendment; 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education Ends 'Separate but Equal' for Black America; 1961 - Citizens of Washington D.C. Gain the Right to Vote with the 23rd Amendment.

DV16194 Constitutional Reform & Controversy Covers: 1961 - Supreme Court Prevents Illegal Search and Seizure with Mapp v. Ohio; 1964 - Warren Court Strengthens 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty' Through Miranda; 1964 - 24th Amendment Prohibits Poll Taxes in Federal Elections; 1967-1992 - The 25th, 26th and 27th Amendments Reform America's Political Landscape; 1973 - Roe v. Wade Extends Constitutional Right of Privacy; 2000 - American Contests a Presidential Election.