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  Unit 1: American Society, Culture,
and History		  
Aug. 28 Intro: What is American Studies? Introduction
Aug. 30 High School History and America's Past HighSchool
Sept. 1 Who Discovered America? Destiny
Sept. 4  No Class--Labor Day Holiday  
Sept. 6 Settling Indian America Settling
Sept. 8 Slavery and Freedom in America Slavery
  Unit 2: Reconstructing the Nation
 after the Civil War		  
Sept. 11 Slavery and Freed Black's Rights Rights
Sept. 13 Reconstruction: Success or Failure? Failure
  Unit 3: Making the West Anglo-American  
Sept. 15 Indians and the Struggle for the West Indians
Sept. 18 Did the West Change Women's Roles? Roles
Sept. 20 Immigration and Western Development Western
  Unit 4: The Rise of Modern, Industrial America  
Sept. 22 The Rise of Big Business Business
Sept. 25 Immigration and American Culture and Society Migrate
Sept. 27 The Populist Movement Populism
Sept. 29 Jim Crow and the Rise of Segregation Segregate
  Unit 5: Reforming Industrial America  
Oct. 2 Suffrage and the Birth of Women's Rights Suffrage
Oct. 4 Women's Rights and the Modern Woman Flapper
Oct. 6  No Class--Fall Break  
Oct. 9 Progressivism and the Struggle for Reform Progress
  Unit 6: American Imperialism and WWI  
Oct. 11 Should America become an Empire? Spanish
Oct. 13 WWI and America's Mission WWI
Oct. 16 Prohibition and the War on Drugs Klan
  Unit 7: The New Deal and WWII  
Oct. 18 Did the New Deal End the Depression? New Deal
Oct. 20 WWII and America as Global Superpower Hitler
Oct. 23 The American Decision to Drop the Bomb Atomic
  Unit 8: Pax Americana and 
the Origins of the Cold War		  
Oct. 25 Is the Soviet Union a Threat to
Global Peace?		 Soviets
Oct. 27 The Truman Doctrine and NSC 68 NSC68
Oct. 30 The United States Prepares for Nuclear War Cafe
  Unit 9: McCarthyism and Cold War Culture  
Nov. 1 Anti-Communism and the rise of McCarthyism McCarthy
Nov. 3 The Cold War and American Women Fifties
Nov. 6 The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement Civil
Nov. 8 Constructing the Cold War Liberal Consensus Liberal
  Unit 10: America in the 1960s : Reform, Rebellion, & Reaction  
Nov. 10 President Johnson and the Great Society Johnson
Nov. 13 King and the Struggle for Black Civil Rights King
Nov. 15 The Women's Movement for Equal Rights Feminism
Nov. 17 The Student Movement in the 1960s Students
Nov. 20 Black Power and the Silent Majority Power
Nov. 22 No Class--Travel Day for Thanksgiving  
Nov. 24  No Class--Thanksgiving Holiday  
  Unit 11: The Vietnam War,the Imperial
Presidency, and the Watergate Scandal		  
Nov. 27 America's War in Vietnam: 1954-1973 Vietnam
Nov. 29 Watergate and Nixon's Grab for Power Watergate
Dec. 1 The 1970s and America's Crisis of Confidence Anxiety
  Unit 12: America and the End
 of the Cold War		  
Dec. 4 Reagan, Nuclear War, and the 
Evil Empire		 Nuclear
Dec. 6 The End of the Cold War and 
the Collapse of the Soviet Union		 Collapse
Dec. 8 Reaganomics and the Decline
of the American Dream		 Decline
Dec. 11 Women's Rights and the Backlash
against Women		 Backlash
Dec. 13  The Legacy of Watergate
 in the 1980s and 1990s		 Legacy
Dec. 13 The Impact of the Cold War 
on the United States		 Impact
 

 

 Take-Home Final Exam Period  
     
Extra  material America and the New World Order on
 the eve of the 21st Century		 New World
  Iran-Contral scandal Lies