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The Foundation of American Government
I. Geography Skills> Long./Lat; Mjr. Conts/Ocns.;US Pol/Phys.
US Landforms, US States
II. Foundation of American Democracy
A. Ancient Greece
B. Ancient Rome, Rise of Christianity, Magna Carta & English Rights
C. Enlightenment   
III. American Revolution
A. Causes
B. The Rebelion, Key Players, & The Declaration of Indepedence
C. The Impact
IV. The Creation Of Our Constitution
A. Need for a Strong Government
B. The Convention
C. The Constitution & It's Imapct Today
UNIT 1-FOUNDING OF OUR CONSTITUTION
UNIT 1- A FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT:
SLAVERY & CIVIL WAR
CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Slavery as seen as a human condition from Africa to America
The Peculiar Institution of the Southern Economy
The ten key events of the 1850's that led to the Civil War
Key figures, events and a House Divided begin to unravel our
nation.
Lincoln is elected with the South seceding. The Civil War begins.
Four years of bloody conflict brings about emancipation of four
million slaves and over 600,000 killed including our beloved
Lincoln to an assassin's bullet.
The success of new amendments to empower freedmen remain
as the only true benefits of Reconstruction marked by political
strife and racist terror.
UNIT 2 SPRING SEMESTER
Industrialization/Progressivism/Urbanization/
Immigration
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
The Expansion of Industry
Big Business and Labor (PowerPoint)
The New Immigrants
The Challenges of Urbanization
Politics in the Gilded Age
The Origins of Progressivism
Women in Public Life
Social Reformers
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM & WORLD WAR I
  
Empire Building in the 20th Century      

Teddy Roosevelt

 Wilson’s New Freedom

 The War to End All Wars??

  The Peace Treaty that Didn't Last
UNIT 3 - America's Rise To Power
The Great Depression and New Deal
  • Causes for the Depression
  • The Crash of the Stock Market
  • Total Economic Failure
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt & His New Deal for American Society
  • Relief, Recovery & Reform The First 100 Days
  • NRA, WPA, AAA FDIC, TVA, & other Alphabet Programs
  • 2nd New Deal
  • New Political Power fo Women thank's to  First Lady Eleanor
  • Culture of the Depression
  • Legacies of the New Deal
UNIT 3 The Great Depression & The New
Deal
World War II
World War II Looms: "Dictators Threaten Peace"
The Holocaust
America Moves Torwards War
The United States In World War II
Mobilizing for Defense; The War in Europe and the Pacific
The Home Front
A New Age of Nuclear Warfare
US Defeats Our Enemies & Discovers a New Foe: The Cold War
Looms
UNIT 4 - World War II
The Fifties & The Cold War
Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War Heats Up
McCarthyism
Two Nations Live on the Edge
Postwar America
The American Dream in the Fifties: The job, A House & 2 Kids
Popular Culture; The Beat Goes On....
The Other America

The Turbulent Sixites
The Kennedy Presidency
The Civil Rights Movement
The Vietnam War
The Counter Culture
Urban Unrest
Nixon
UNIT 5 - The Fifties & Social Consciousness of the
Sixties
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