Lesson 1-5
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
6. Lincoln’s Election
Firebell in the Night – Fort Sumter
7. What Are We Fighting For?
Causes of the Civil War – Review
THE CIVIL WAR
8. A Tale of the Tape – Advantages & Disadvantages
9. Civil War Strategy
North & South
10. Civil War on the Battlefield – Part I – Big Paper
Highlight Civil War Technology
11. The Emancipation Proclamation
12. Civil War on the Battlefield – Part II – Big Paper
13. The Gettysburg Address
14. The Assassination of Lincoln
The Tragedy at Ford’s Theater
RECONSTRUCTION
15. “O Captain! My Captain!” vs “The Good Ol’ Rebel” (9/30-10/2)
Three Cups of Tea (10/5-10/9)
16. The War is Over, Let the Healing Begin (10/13)
17. Now What? The President & Congress Clash Over Reconstruction
18. The Contradictions of Reconstruction
African American Gains & Losses
Strange Fruit
19. The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Hate groups as a reaction to black emancipation
20. Reconstruction in the New South
Hurricane Katrina footage – Think deeply
Has the nation been fully reconstructed?
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AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
THE FRONTIER
21. The Frontier in American History
Post-War America & a New Age of Expansion
What is a Frontier
Analyze the works of Frederic Remington – Detail
22. “Don’t Fence Me In”
The Impact of railroads, mining, and ranching in the west
The Game of Monopoly – Greed - John Stossel
23. A Way of Life Ends
Native American are confronted with relocation and reservations
24. The Census of 1890
Is the Frontier Really Closed?
25. “Far & Away”
Clips from Cruise and Kidman’s film about Irish immigration
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH & NEW BUSINESS MODELS
26. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons - Research
27. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons - Research
28. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons - Debate
29. The Game of Monopoly – Highlight the railroad industry
Video
30. Economic Principles – Supply & Demand
Capitalism
Free Market
Monopoly
Competition
Laissez faire
31. Does Capitalism Lead to Efficiency & Invention?
Electric power, telephone, automobile, refrigeration, the airplane
LABOR IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRY
32. Supply & Demand and its Impact on Wages
Highlight the impact of widespread immigration
33 The Immigrant Experience: A Story of the American Dream
Video – Janek & Family
34. Labor Practice in the Age of Industry – Conditions
Triangle Fire
Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin
35. The Oceanside Tootsie Roll Factory
36. The Oceanside Tootsie Roll Factory
37. Workers Attempt to Unite
IMMIGRATION & URBANIZATION
38. The Statue of Liberty
An Icon or an Eyesore?
Have we lived up to the principles set forth by Emma Lazarus?
39. Push & Pull
Factors leading to immigration
40. Americans Welcome Their New Neighbors. Do They Really?
41. The Changing Face of the American City - Physically
42. The Changing Face of the American City – Culturally
43. What is an American?
As presented in the art and literature of the day
PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORMS
44. Reform – Boss Tweed (Symbol)
• Gangs of New York (15 minutes)
45. Reform/Muckrakers
46. Reform/Muckrakers
47. Reform/Muckrakers
48. Reform/Muckrakers
49. Teddy Roosevelt - Symbol of progressivism
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THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - WW I (1898-1914)
50. Steer Clear of Permanent Alliances
Examining the foreign policy advice of Washington
51. Introduction: The Age of Imperialism
Forces making expansion possible
Trace American Expansion (1796-Today)
52. The Spanish-American War
Causes/War
Social Darwinism
“White Man’s Burden”
53. Spanish-American War
Propaganda
"Remember the Maine"
54. Spanish-American War
Relations with Latin America
World’s Constable
WORLD WAR I
55. War Erupts in Europe - MANIA
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
56. The Sinking of the Lusitania
57. Should the U.S. Enter the War?
Zimmerman Telegram
Declaring War
"The world must be made safe for democracy”
58. The Nation at War
Winning the war on the homefront
Selective Service Act
“Food will win the war”
Liberty Bonds
Victory Gardens
George M. Cohan – “Over There”
59. Civil Liberties are Under Attack
Debs & Schenck
60. World War I in the Trenches
Sponge War w/ slide show
61. Results of World War I
Armistice Day
New boundaries
Financial
Casualties
New World Order
62. The Treaty of Versailles
14 Points
Wilson’s plan for peace
Can it create peace in the 20th century?
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THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE WARS
THE ROARING TWENTIES
63. The War is Over: Now What?
Americans Celebrate & Modernize
64. New Ways of Life - Cultural
The Jazz Age
The Flapper buoyed by the 19th Amendment
Dance, Dance, Dance!!!
65. Alcohol & American Morality
Did the widespread disregard for the 18th Amendment
highlight new trend of permissiveness that would culminate
in the culture wars of the early 21st century?
The Simpsons – “The Beer Baron”
66. Clouds on the Horizon
Al Capone & oganized crime
KKK
Backlash against immigrants – Sacco & Vanzetti
The Red Scare
67. The Scopes Monkey Trial
A symbol of the clash between American traditional
Values and modernity
68. The Business of America is Business
Republican presidents of the 20’s help promote American
Growth
69. Americans As Investors
Speculation frenzy leads to great riches (on paper)
Buying on margin
Highlight the concept of uneven prosperity
70. A Mass Culture – What is An American?
Automobile, radios, movies. literature
Consumerism – Installment Buying
Fads
71. Hero Worship & the 1920’s
Langston Hughes & the artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
72. The Stock Market Crashes
Black Tuesday – 10/29/29
73. The Cycle of Depression
74. President Hoover’s Response
Viewed as ineffectual
Blamed for not having the foresight to avoid this crash
The Bonus March illustrates a breach of confidence
And insensitivity (Examples: Hoovervilles; Hoover Leather; Hoover Blankets)
75. “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
The Depression Slide Show
Try to tap into the mood of the Great Depression
76. The Dust Bowl
Selections from The Grapes of Wrath
77. The Election of 1932
President Roosevelt Gives Hope to Americans
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Roosevelt’s polio
78. The New Deal - Programs
79. The New Deal - Programs
80. The New Deal - Programs
81. The New Deal - Criticisms
Too much power in the hands of government
82. Americans Try to Escape the Depression
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
Snow White
THE U.S. ASSUMES WORLWIDE RESPONSIBILITIES
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
83. A Recipe for War: The Causes of World War II
From the Treaty of Versailles to Germany’s
Invasion of Poland
The rise of dictatorships, global depression, reparations,
appeasement
84. The Rise of Totalitarianism
Mussolini’s Fascists
Hitler and the Nazi Party – Highlight “Final Solution”
and Hitler’s ideology
Japan’s military rule
85. The War Breaks Out in Europe and Asia
American neutrality
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
86. The United States Under Attack
Pearl Harbor
87. Did American Intelligence Fail Us?
Could the attack on Pearl Harbor have been thwarted?
88. Americans Mobilize for War
Rationing
The draft
Victory gardens
Scrap metal drives
Propaganda Campaigns
89. Women on the Homefront
Rosie the Riveter
The WAVES
90. Minorities & the War
A Proving Ground?
91. Japanese Internment Policy
92. Civil Liberties & Japanese Internment
93. World War II Battles & Strategy
94. World War II Battles & Strategy
95. Winning the War
D-Day & the Normandy Invasion
Victory in Europe
96. Saving Private Ryan – Edited
97. World War II in the Pacific
98. The Ethics of the Atom Bomb
99. The War is Over
What do learn about man’s humanity/inhumanity?
The Holocaust
Bataan Death March
Stalin’s Purges
THE COLD WAR
100. The Origins of the Cold War
Communist vs. Democratic Principles
101. The Cold War Heats Up: Global Balance of Power Shifts
Soviet Expansion
Importance of Berlin
102. The Shocks of 1949:
Soviet Atomic Program
Communist Rule in China
103. Communists Among Us?
McCarthyism & the Red Scare
104. Cold War Hot Spots
105. Cold War Hot Spots
106. Case Study: Vietnam
The Domino Theory
107. Case Study: Vietnam
War Protest – Kent State
Music, Literature, The Arts
108. Born on the 4th of July
Idealism to Disillusion
109. A Nation Attempts to Heal
Importance of Maya Lin
Are monuments important?
110. The Cold War Comes to An End
Nixon visits China – Détente (1972)
SALT Agreement
STAR Wars – Reagan – “Peace through strength”
Reagan and Gorbachev
Fall of the Soviet Union
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: WORLD WAR II – TODAY
111. What is an American? (1950-2005)
“We Didn’t Start the Fire”
112. The Baby Boom & the Rise of Suburbia
Levittown as a symbol
GI Bill
113. Economic Prosperity & Security
Automobiles
Suburbia
Interstate Highway Act
Growth of the Subelt
Commercial Air Travel
Some confusion – Beatniks/Elvis/Sameness (Stepfords)
114. The Importance of John F. Kennedy
Youthful vitality
Camelot
Inspiring –“Ask not what….”
Space Program
115. Kennedy’s Assassination
116. Civil Rights Movement
117. Civil Rights Movement
Riots in the Street
118. Civil Rights Movement
119. Civil Rights Movement
1968: A Year of Tragedy
120. Nixon & Watergate - Ford
121. Carter & Iran Hostage Crisis
122. The Reagan Presidency
The Conservative Revolution
The Fall of Communism
Tiananmen Square
Berlin
Cuban refugees
123. President Bush & The Gulf War
124. Global Unrest in the Post-Cold War Era
Bosnia
Israel
African Apartheid
Somalia
125. “9/11 and the End of Innocence”
126. How Can We Make a Better World?
