Video presentation and resource packet about the 1807 treason trial of Aaron Burr. 

This Project Based Assessment is meant to be completed over the course of at least two weeks, but as long as the instructor needs to implement. In this program, students will personify a prominent political figure in early American politics; either a Federalist or a Republican. After studying their figure's political writing, researching the figure's profile, and preparing talking points for a debate, students will debate a given question in the format of one of Chief Justice John Marshall's "Lawyers' Dinners" that he often held at his Richmond home. The dinner party debate will be composed of five Federalists, five Republicans, and a moderator. The students' goal is to convince the members of the opposite team to join their position on the given question. An instructor will take John Marshall's position as moderator and host over the party. For bonus fun and impact, students are invited to hold their Lawyers Dinner debate in the John Marshall House dining room.

This is as a study game to help students better identify and internalize definitions and explanations of key political parties, concepts, and people from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the United States.

This primary source activity seeks to introduce and/or reinforce concepts of Virginia living in the Early American Republic by exploring the dichotomy of rural and urban life through the experiences of John Marshall and Patrick Henry between 1771 and 1795, and by extension, the realities of urban and rural slavery in the post-colonial era.

This teaching guide and activity seeks to introduce primary sources to students so that theyT can understand how to analyze and interpret them to make conclusions about the past. The primary sources the students will analyze are from the John Marshall House’s collection. All of the sources presented, both objects and written, focus on the theme of clothing during the Early Republic (1780-1820), the period in which John Marshall lived. This teaching guide and activity follow the Virginia Standards of Learning from 4th-6th grade, but may be applicable for other grades/ages.

Primary source analysis activity from Preservation Virginia's historic John Marshall House, which was the 1790 urban home of the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, his family, and 8-16 enslaved domestic servants until 1835. This activity presents three primary sources relevant to the John Marshall House that detail the variety of lived experiences of women in Early America.