Educator ResourceChapter 1: 1491-1607 Inquiry Organizer
How did the collision of cultures create a “New World”?
BRI's free, online U.S. History resource for high schoolers
BRIng America's Story to Life!
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Help your students connect ideas, events, and civic principles across 250 years of the American experiment. Join thousands of teachers using Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness to make history vivid, rigorous, and alive.
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Bill of Rights Institute has developed a scope and sequence using Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness content to cover a one school year U.S. History or AP U.S. History course.
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Each unit connects primary sources, stories, and classroom-ready activities into coherent themes that foster civic reasoning and dialogue.
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Each chapter centers on an Inquiry Organizer, your turnkey teaching backbone. It outlines objectives, background resources, and assessments, ensuring your lessons remain structured while encouraging open discussion. Educators can use Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness to:
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Designed by Teachers, Grounded in Scholarship
This landmark project brings together over 90 contributing scholars and 10 scholar editors, each dedicated to telling America’s full story with integrity and balance, and the Institute’s staff team, many of whom are former educators. The Result: A free resource, developed for classroom teachers by those who understand your reality: crowded schedules, diverse learners, difficult topics, and limited budgets.Why Teachers Trust It:
- Standards-aligned: fits AP U.S. History and most state frameworks
- Narrative-driven approach: builds inquiry, critical-thinking, and writing skills
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Some components of this resource contain terminology that is no longer used because the terms are recognized to be offensive or derogatory. These terms are retained in their original usage in order to present them accurately in their historical context for student learning, including understanding why these are not acceptable today.