We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.
General
Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!
- Euratlas
- National Geographic: modern maps (source; printable) for every country in the world.
- More great outline maps: easy to use and nice and clear!
- Excellent link for all units! Click here for the Historic Atlas Resource.
- An excellent site for reviewing geography. Click here and scroll down to “All of our Maps and Software”. Free downloadable games for each continent, includes capitals and where the country belongs!
- Great historical map site.
- Interactive Historic Atlas.
- Creator has done a superb job making this site, which will be lots of help in all four year-plans.
- MegaMaps: print up maps from the size of a single page to 7 feet across!
- Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of world events? View this 90-second flash presentation!
States:
- Use this site as you are making your deck of state cards: 50states.com
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World
Week 1: When John Adams Was President
- A helpful site for geography terms.
- The Key to Understanding Maps
- Map showing dates that each state entered the union
- Here is a pdf. file to download if you need a blank world map.
Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career
- Full map of Europe in year 1800
- Germany and Italy before Napoleon.
- French Empire at its greatest extent, c. 1811
- From USGS: Map projections
- From National Geographic: introduction to latitude and longitude
- National Geographic Map Skills: PreK-6th grade.
- Here is a .pdf file to download if you need a blank world map.
- Blank .pdf map of Europe for you to label.
Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution
- Labeled map of the British Isles.
- Another good map of the United Kingdom
- Identify the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa here.
- Blank map of the British Isles.
Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- Map showing the Louisiana Purchase, Oregon Country, holdings of Spain, Illinois Territory, Michigan Territory, Indiana Territory, and the Mississippi Territory
- Another map of the Louisiana Purchase, showing the modern U.S. states
- Path of Lewis and Clark with rivers.
- Blank map of the United States with labeling.
Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court
- There are no objectives this week.
Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812
- Battles of the War of 1812
- The Northern Frontier in the War of 1812
- War of 1812 battle maps.
- War of 1812.
Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America
- From Enchanted Learning: South America
- From Enchanted Learning: Flags of South America
- Plants of South America
- From Enchanted Learning: South American Animals
- South America Map Puzzle
- Map of South America
- Blank outline maps of South America
- Map of Europe at the time of the Congress of Vienna.
- Map of Napoleonic Europe. This Map includes Napoleon’s conquests and battles.
- San Diego Zoo’s page for South American Animals
- Caribbean Islands
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Europe 1800
Week 8: South America in Transition
- From Enchanted Learning: South America
- From Enchanted Learning: Flags of South America
- From Enchanted Learning: South American Animals
- South America Map Puzzle
- Blank outline maps of South America
- Map of Europe at the time of the Congress of Vienna.
- Map of Napoleonic Europe. This Map includes Napoleon’s conquests and battles.
Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere
- Map of Europe after the Congress of Vienna
- Your choice of a blank map of South America, or one with labels.
- Map of Europe at the time of the Congress of Vienna.
- Map of Napoleonic Europe. This Map includes Napoleon’s conquests and battles.
- South American Independence
Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion
Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments
- Map of Erie Canal
- Map of Texas Rivers
- Map of Texas
- Texas Climate
Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy
- Map showing the Five Civilized Tribes
- Picture of The Great Smoky Mountains.
Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe
Week 13: Victorian England
- Interactive map: The War of 1812.
- Blank outline map of the War of 1812 (pdf file)
- Use this map or this one to find locations of various Native American tribes.
- Interactive map to Native Americans (Grammar Students)
- Blank outline map of the US (pdf file)
- The British Isles
- The climate of the British Isles.
Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad
- Blank map of Australia
- Nice map of Australia.
- Map of New Zealand
- The major climate regions of Australia.
- The climate regions of the British Isles.
Week 15: Manifest Destiny
Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea
- Map of Mexican Territory
- The Mormon Trail
- The climate of California.
- Major Mountain Ranges of the West: click here
- Major Rivers: Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah
Week 17: The Oregon Trail
Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder
- The Gold Rush map
- The Continents and Oceans of the world.
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Cape Horn, South America
- Strait of Magellan
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- San Francisco, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- Coloma, CA Where Sutter’s Mill was located
- Platte River
- Humboldt River
- San Francisco Bay
- Great Salt Lake
- Forty Mile Desert (now called Lahontan Valley)
Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing
Week 19: Westerners in Asia
- Blank outline map of China
- The same site at Enchanted Learning offers more information about China. Excellent!
- All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you’ll need for a study of China.
- Map of China
- Map of Japan
- Outline map of Japan
- Pictures of China, Japan and India
Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War
- No links for this week.
Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites
- Very clear map showing slave and free states.
- Blank outline map of the United States. This is a pdf file.
- This is a really neat animated atlas that you can use anytime while studying the rest of this year-plan. Don’t miss it!
Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War
- WOW! Wonderful, clear maps of Civil War battles, state by state. GREAT resource for kids (Upper Grammar and up).
- Union and Confederate Boundaries: Free states and slave states in each area.
- Abraham Lincoln: The places he worked and lived can be found here and here.
- A blank map of the United States.
Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War
- No links for this week.
Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War
- No links for this week.
Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction
- Blank outline map of the United States. This is a pdf file.
- Iroquois Tribes
- Map of battles, posts, and tribes.
- The South During Reconstruction
- Boarders and five military districts during Radical Reconstruction
Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars
- Toward the Unification of Germany
- Another helpful map showing the unification of Germany
- Several maps, showing the progression of the states from 1812 to 1990
- A blank map of Germany, ready for printing and labeling.
- Plains Indians
Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany
- Location of the Suez Canal
- Map of Bismarck’s new German Empire
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age
General Resources for this Unit
- Great Maps of Africa
- Great Videos about Africa
Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires
- West Africa Geography and Information
- Blank outline map of Africa
- A labeled map of Africa and Southwest Asia. (pdf file)
- Interactive map of Africa. Really cool!
- Map of Africa’s Bodies of Water.
Week 29: The Scramble for Empire
- Fun site: The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire.
- Map and information about Eastern Africa
- Map and information about Central Africa
- The scramble for Africa
- Map of Africa, Imperial boundaries, 1914
- European Colonies in Africa and Asia
- European Colonies in Asia
Week 30: Imperialism and Culture
- European Colonies in Africa and Asia
- European Colonies in Asia
Week 31: Waves of Immigrants
- Great interactive map that shows the way immigrants moved across America.
- Download this blank world map. (pdf file)
- US Territorial Maps 1775-1920
Week 32: Captains of Industry
Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South
Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards
- Blank outline of North America
Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women
- Review geography terms
Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism
- Map of Cuba
- Blank China outline map
- Map of South Pacific islands
- Blank outline map of Hawaii