The
Kentucky Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Kentucky. We have created a
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The Kentucky Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The
Kentucky Primary Sources are:
1. Drawing of settlers traveling the Wilderness Road into Kentucky – early 1800s
2. Lithograph of a caricature portraying the bitter antagonism between Kentucky Senator Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson during the protracted battle over the future Bank of the United States from 1832 through 1836 – 1834
3. Engraving of Henry Clay – circa 1850
4. Oil painting entitled "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap" - 1851
5. Painting of the Battle of Perryville from Harper’s Weekly - November 1, 1862
6. Map of the plan of the Battle of Mill Spring found in the Robert Knox Sneden diary 1861 to 1865 – January 19, 1862
7. Drawing of bird’s eye view of Frankfort, Kentucky – capital city in 1871
8. Lithograph of an advertisement entitled "Chew Punch plug tobacco" - National Tobacco Works – Louisville, Kentucky - 1886
9. Photograph of steamboats and businesses on the Mississippi River in Kentucky – 1900
10. Illustration of assassination of Governor William Goebel – 1900
11. Cover of sheet music entitled "We’ll have a jubilee in my old Kentucky Home" - signifying the state’s official song "My Old Kentucky Home" - 1915
12. Photograph of Kentucky coal miners in Jenkins, Kentucky – October 1935
13. Photograph of the 1937 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky – 1937
14. Photograph of Ohio River flooding Louisville, Kentucky – 1937
15. Photograph of replica of Kentucky log cabin where President Abraham Lincoln was born – photo taken 1940
16. Photograph of Kentucky Senator Happy Chandler presenting a twist of tobacco grown on his farm to U.S. Vice President John N. Garner – 1940
17. Photograph of workers taking burley tobacco in from the fields to dry and cure in the barn – near Lexington, Kentucky – 1940
18. Photograph of Walnut Hall, horse breeding farm in bluegrass region near Lexington, Kentucky –1940
19. Photograph of a one-room school house in Breathitt County, Kentucky – August 1940
20. Photograph of family renting company house with no water or electricity for $6 per day in Bell County – photo part of a project documenting health and living conditions among coal miners – 1946
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 1