HIGH SCHOOL VERSION

Unit I. Colonial Era to the Revolution 1. Columbus: Hero or Rogue 2. Jamestown 3. Social Class in Colonial America 4. Mercantilism 5. Justifying the Tea Party & Intolerable Acts 6. Boston Massacre and Kent State 7. Declaring Independence.

II. The Constitution & Federalist Era 1. The Articles of Confederation & Critical Period 2. 23 Constitution Writers Convention Debates for Simulation 3. Representation by State or Population 4. Dividing Power Between Nation & States 5. Democracy vs. Checks and Balances 6. Philosophies of Hamilton & Jefferson 7. The Whiskey Rebellion 8. The Sedition Act

III Events Leading to the Civil War 1. Africa and the Slave Trade 2. How Slaves Were Treated 3. Methods of Control & Responses 4. Tallmadge Amendment & Compromise 5. Jackson and the Cherokees 6. Women’s Rights Declared 7. Manifest Destiny & Texas 8. The War with Mexico 9. Lincoln and Slavery 10. Election 1860 & War Begins.

IV. Reconstruction After the Civil War 1. Two Plans of Reconstruction 2. Impeachment Trial of A. Johnson 3. Land for Freedman? & Sharecropping 4. Plessy Decision and Jim Crow Laws 5. Washington vs. Du Bois

Unit V. The Industrial Revolution 1. The Industrial Revolution 2. Theory of Laissez-faire 3. How Standard Oil Got Started 4. Rockefeller: Industrial Statesman or Robber Baron 5. Trial of Standard Oil 6. How the Other Half Worked 7. Debs and the Pullman Strike

Unit VI. Progressive Era & Foreign Policy, 1898-1920 1.Jane Addams & Women as Bread giver 2.The Election of 1912 3. The Spanish-American War 4. Shall We Keep the Philippines? 5. How the US Acquired the Panama Canal Zone 6. Neutrality & the Lusitania 7. The Versailles Treaty

Unit VII. ’20’s & the Depression

1. Scopes Trial & Intelligent Design 2.Prosperity of the 1920’s 3.Rise and Crash 4.Hubert Hoover & the Depression 5. New Deal programs simulation 6. New Deal & the Farmer 7. The WPA: Model for Today?

Unit VIII. WW II and the Cold War War in Europe and Lend Lease 2. Pearl Harbor and Japanese Internment 3, War in the Pacific and the A Bomb 4. Containment & the Berlin Blockade 5. Asia and the Korean War 6. Truman vs. MacArthur on Korean War 7. McCarthy & McCarthyism 8.The Cuban Missile Crisis

Unit IX. Civil Rights and Vietnam 1. The Court Orders Desegregation 2. Sit-in Demonstrations and Public Accommodations 3. Busing in Boston 4. Watts: The Ghetto Erupts 5. The French and Indochina 6. Falling Dominoes and Strategic Hamlets 7. Gulf of Tonkin: Incident and Resolution 8. Fighting a Guerilla War and My lai 9. A Noble Attempt or a Mistake from the Beginning?

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JUNIOR HIGH AND UNDERACHIEVING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT UNITS

Unit I. Colonial Era to the Revolution 1. Columbus: Hero or Trouble 2. Social Class in Colonial America 3. Mercantilism 4. Government in the Colonies and England 5. The Stamp Act 6. Tea Party & Intolerable Acts 7. Boston Massacre and Kent State 8. The Battle of Lexington 9. Social Contract & State of Nature.

II. The Constitution & Federalist Era 1. The Articles of Confederation & Critical Period 2. Constitution Writers 3. Representation: Simulate and Resolved 4. How Power was Divided 5. Three Branches of Government 6. The Bill of Rights 7. Slavery, Amendments & Ratification 8. Philosophies of Hamilton & Jefferson 9. The Whiskey Rebellion 10. The Sedition Act

III. Events Leading to the Civil War 1. Africa and the Slave Trade 2. How Slaves Were Treated 3. Methods of Control & Responses 4. Tallmadge Amendment and Compromise
5. Jackson and the Cherokees 6. Women’s Rights Declared 7. Manifest Destiny & Texas 8. The War with Mexico 9. Kansas and Dred Scott 10. Election 1860 & War Begins

IV. Reconstruction After the Civil War 1. The Problem of Reconstruction 2. Two Plans of Reconstruction 2. Congressional Reconstruction 4. The End of Reconstruction, 5. Land for Freedman? 6. Equality Postponed, 7. Washington vs. Du Bois

Unit V. The Industrial Revolution Similar to high school version. Available after January 3, 2008

Unit VI. Progressive Era & Foreign Policy, 1898-1920 Similar to high school version. Available by February 1, 2008 or earlier

Unit VII. ’20’s & the Depression Similar to high school version. Available by March 1, 2008 or earlier

Unit VIII. WW II and the Cold War Similar to high school version. Available by March 20, 2008 or earlier

Unit IX. Civil Rights and Vietnam Similar to high school version. Available by April 15, 2008 or earlier

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