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Comparing the Dawes Act and a Hopi Petition
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Finding a Sequence
The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities
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Finding a Sequence
Reasons for Westward Expansion
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Weighing the Evidence
Evaluating Perspectives on Westward Expansion
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Making Connections
The Settlement of the American West
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Making Connections
The Chinese Village Exhibit at the 1899 Export Exposition
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Spotlight
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony: Petitioning for the Right to Vote
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Patent Analysis: Thomas Edison’s Lightbulb
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Compare and Contrast
Why Did Women Want the Right to Vote?
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Contextualizing a Photograph: On Exhibit at the “Chinese Village”
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Patent Analysis: Joseph Glidden’s Barbed Wire
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Patent Analysis: J.W. Davis and Levi Strauss’s Fastening Pocket Openings
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