Free Printable US History Worksheets
Every major topic in American History is represented, including the Civil War, the Rise of Industry, and the Great Depression. Our bank of assignments also include activities that utilize maps, projects that analyze presidential elections, tests that explain national holidays, and much more.
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US History Lessons
Our animated lessons feature an overview of some of the seminal documents in U.S. history, including the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Lessons are accompanied by practice questions and worksheets.
Seminal Documents
U.S. Geography
US History Tests, Quizzes, and Worksheets
Colonial Developments
Native-American and early European settlements in the New World provide essential understandings of the new ways of life developed in North America, and set the stage for the birth of a nation.
- Paleo-Indians
- Pre-Columbian North America
- Pre-Colonial America - Iroquois
- Pre-Colonial America - Sioux
- Pre-Colonial America - Mound Builders
- Mound Builders
- Tribes and Nations
- Chaco Canyon
- Cultural Areas: Basin, Southwest, Plains
- Cultural Areas: Arctic and Subarctic
- Cultural Areas: Northwest, California, Plateau
- Cultural Areas: Northeast and Southeast
- Traditional Native American Homes by Region
- Who Were the Colonists?
- Roanoke
- Jamestown
- Pilgrims
- Mayflower Compact: Background and Significance
- Plymouth Colony
- Plymouth Colony: Facts and Fiction
- Early American Settlements
- The 13 Colonies
- Life in the Colonies
- Colonial Settlements
- Salem Witch Trials
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Indian Wars (Colonial)
- Iroquois Confederacy
- The French and Indian War
- American Revolution
- Continental Congress
- Thomas Paine and "Common Sense"
- The Intolerable Acts
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Boston Tea Party
- Triangular Trade
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Declaration of Independence(HS)
- Declaration of Independence(ES)
- Benedict Arnold
- Alexander Hamilton
- Aaron Burr
- Mercy Otis Warren
Constitutional Foundations and Early Years
The struggle to create a new nation and to define the relationships among the branches of government makes this an especially complicated period for the young country.
- Formation of American Government
- Historical Myths: Founding of The United States
- The Articles of Confederation
- Great Seal of the United States
- American Symbols
- Northwest Ordinance
- Creating the Constitution
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- Federalist Papers
- The Bill of Rights (Long)
- Shays' Rebellion
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Washington, D.C.
- The White House
- Early US Presidents
- XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War
- American Political Parties
- America in the Early 1800s
- The Early Republic
- American Political Parties
- Gerrymandering
- Utopian Societies
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis and Clark
- War of 1812 (HS)
- War of 1812 (ES)
- The National Anthem
- Indian Wars (Pre Civil War)
- Trail of Tears
- Tecumseh
- Jacksonian Era
- Industry and Urbanization
- History of the Postal Service
- The National Road
- America's First Fifty Years
- Benjamin Banneker
- Pre-Civil War - African-American History
- Nat Turner
- The Alamo: Facts and Fiction
- Manifest Destiny
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Sojourner Truth
- Mexican-American War
- California Gold Rush
- Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
Civil War, Expansion, and Industrialization
The battle over states rights and sectionalism explodes, while America continues its journey to becoming the modern juggernaut of the 20th century.
- Origins of the Civil War
- Free and Slave States
- Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman
- Discrimination and Slavery in the 1800s
- Missouri Compromise
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass Quotes
- Abolitionists
- Civil War (Basic)
- Civil War (Advanced)
- The Monitor and the Merrimack
- Abraham Lincoln
- Gettysburg Address (ES)
- Gettysburg Address (HS)
- Life during the Civil War
- Emancipation Proclamation
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (Long)
- Reconstruction
- Jim Crow Laws
- 1876 Presidential Election
- Arlington National Cemetery
- American Expansion
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Westward Expansion
- Oregon Trail
- Indian Wars (Civil War)
- Indian Wars (Post Civil War)
- Ghost Dance
- Pioneers of Westward Expansion
- Rise of American Industry and Response
- Booker T. Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Granville T. Woods
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Great Chicago Fire
- Populism
- Statue of Liberty
- Progressive Era
- The Progressive Era
- Susan B. Anthony
- Women's Suffrage
- Ida Tarbell
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Anna Jarvis (Mother's Day founder)
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Spanish-American War
20th Century and Modern Day
America experiences triumph and tragedy as the central figure in world events, while struggling to cope with domestic strife and enjoy success and infrequent peace on the home front.
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes
- The Great Migration
- The Boy Scouts of America
- National Parks
- World War I
- World War I
- Red Summer
- Red Scares
- Roaring 20's
- History of Jazz
- Harlem Renaissance
- America in the 1920s
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Tulsa Race Riots
- Prohibition
- Amelia Earhart
- The Great Depression
- The Great Depression and the New Deal
- New Deal Programs
- FDR's Alphabet Soup (HS)
- The Dust Bowl
- Native American Veterans
- World War II
- Manhattan Project
- Women in WWII: Rosie the Riveter
- Sullivan Brothers
- D-Day
- Tuskegee Airmen
- The Civil Rights Movement (Basic)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- King Quotes
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Medgar Evers
- School Desegregation
- Greensboro Sit-Ins
- The Freedom Rides
- Emmett Till
- Malcolm X
- John Lewis: Civil Rights Icon
- Selma March
- Civil Rights Test (HS)
- Shirley Chisholm
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou's poem "On The Pulse Of Morning"
- US Constitutional Amendments
- Cold War Quiz
- U.S. in the 1950's
- U.S. In the 1960's
- Cold War in the 1960s
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- War in Vietnam, Part One: War Before the War
- War in Vietnam, Part Two: Americans in Combat
- War in Vietnam, Part Three: Nightfall
- War in Vietnam, Part Four: Homefront
- Kent State Shootings
- Watergate
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Gladys West
- Muriel Siebert
- Cold War in the 1980s
- George H.W. Bush
- United States Armed Forces
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA)
- U.S. Census
- NAFTA
- September 11, 2001
- The Great Recession and Financial Crisis
- The Presidents: Harry S. Truman
- The Presidents: Gerald Ford
- The Presidents: Jimmy Carter
- The Presidents: Ronald Reagan
- The Presidents: George H. W. Bush
- The Presidents: Bill Clinton
- The Presidents: George W. Bush
- The Presidents: Barack Obama
- The Presidents: Donald Trump
US History Activities and Seasonal Tests/Worksheets