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Unit
1: American Society, Culture, and History |
| Jan. 18 |
Intro:
Studying Modern American History |
| Jan. 20 |
High
School History and American History |
| Jan. 23 |
Who
Discovered Indian America? |
| Jan. 25 |
Europeans Settling
Indian America |
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Unit
2: Reconstructing the Nation after the Civil War |
| Jan. 27 |
Slavery
and Freedom in America |
| Jan. 30 |
Reconstructing the Nation after the Civil War |
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Unit
3: Making the West Anglo-American |
| Feb. 1 |
American Indians
and the Struggle for the West |
| Feb .3 |
Did
the West Change Women's Lives & Roles? |
| Feb. 6 |
Immigration
and the Development of America |
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Unit
4: The Rise of Modern, Industrial America |
| Feb. 8 |
The
Rise of Big Business in America |
| Feb. 10 |
Immigration
and American Culture and Society |
| Feb. 13 |
The
Populist Movement to Reform America |
| Feb. 15 |
Jim
Crow and the Rise of Segregation in America |
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Unit
5: Reforming Industrial America |
| Feb. 17 |
The Suffrage Movement
and the Birth of Women's Rights |
| Febt. 20 |
Women's
Rights and the Rise of the Modern Woman |
| Feb. 22 |
Graft
and Corruption in 19th Century Urban Politics |
| Feb. 24 |
The Progressivise Movement
and the Struggle for Reform |
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Unit
6: American Imperialism and WWI |
| Feb.27 |
Should
America become an Empire? |
| Feb. 29 |
WWI
and America's Mission in the World |
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Unit
7: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and WWII |
| Mar. 2 |
Did
the New Deal End the Depression? |
| Mar. 5 |
WWII
and the Rise of America as Global Superpower |
| Mar. 7 |
The
American Decision to Drop the Bomb |
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Unit
8: Pax Americana and the Origins of the Cold War |
| Mar. 9 |
Is
the Soviet Union a Threat to Global Peace? |
| Mar. 12 |
The
Truman Doctrine and NSC 68 |
| Mar. 14 |
The
United States Prepares for Global Nuclear War |
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Unit
9: McCarthyism and Cold War Culture |
| Mar. 16 |
Anti-Communism
and the Rise of McCarthyism |
| Mar. 19 |
The
Cold War and American Women |
| Mar.
21 |
The
Rise of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Mar.
23 |
Constructing
the Cold War Liberal Consensus |
| Mar. 26-30 |
No Class -- Spring Break |
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Unit
10: America in the 1960s : Reform, Rebellion, & Reaction |
| Apr. 2 |
President
Johnson and Great Society Liberalism |
| Apr. 4 |
King
and the Struggle for Black Civil Rights |
| Apr. 6 |
The
Women's Movement for Equal Rights in America |
| Apr. 9 |
The
Student Movement for Political Reform in the 1960s |
| Apr. 11 |
The
Civil Rights Movement and the Rise of Black Power |
| Apr. 13 |
America's
War in Vietnam: 1945-1975 |
| Nov. 16 |
Watergate
& Nixon's Criminal Conspiracy |
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Unit
11: The Vietnam War, the Imperial Presidency, and the
Watergate Scandal |
| Apr. 18 |
The
1970s and America's Crisis of Confidence |
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Unit
12: America and the End
of the Cold War |
| Apr. 20 |
Reagan,
Global Nuclear War, and the Evil Empire |
| Apr. 23 |
The
End of the Cold War and the Iran-Contra Scandal |
| Apr. 25 |
Reaganomics
and the Decline of the American Dream |
| Apr. 27 |
Women's
Rights and the Backlash against Feminism |
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Unit
13: America and the 21st Century: Triumph or Decline?
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| Apr. 30 |
The
Political Legacy of Watergate in the 1990s and the Clinton-Lewinski
scandal |
| May
2 |
President Bush, the War on Terrorism, and the Iraq War |
| May
4 |
The Great Boom and the 2008 Financial Meltdown |
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Take-Home
Final Exam Period |
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| Extra material |
America
and the New World Order on
the eve of the 21st Century |
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The Impact
of the Cold War
on the United States |
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Iran-Contral
scandal |
