Themes
American Revolution
Indigenous History
Periods
Colonial North America
Revolutionary Period
Skills & Document Types
Mock Trial
Written Assessment
These classroom materials were produced through a generous annual fellowship for digital education on American Women’s History or Early American History funded by the Chicago Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2022.
Below are two assessment options related to the Collection Essay Native Nations in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783.
Mock Council Activity: Choosing Sides in the American Revolution
Written Assessment Prompts
About the Author
Rachel Banke, PhD, currently works as a Teaching Associate at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School (Uni High) in Urbana, Illinois, an innovative public school for talented and motivated students in the 8th-12th grades. Her experience includes teaching American, British, Atlantic, and world history classes at the secondary and university levels. She has previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Missouri-Columbia, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and Aurora University. Dr. Banke received her PhD in early American history from the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation entitled “Bute’s Empire: Reform, Reaction, and the Roots of Imperial Crisis.” She also recently published a chapter entitled “The Ideology of Imperial Reform: Enlightened Absolutism and the American Colonies” in Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (University of Virginia, 2021).
Related Newberry Resources
A custom curriculum hosted by the Newberry and centered on Chicago as a Native Place.
Created in alignment with Illinois State Standards and to support the HB1633 mandate to teach Native history.