WEEK |
TOPIC |
7 |
7.1 Colonial Period (1606 - 1774) |
Amerindians. First European explorers. Virginia and New England. The French and Indian War (1756 -1763) |
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7.2. Towards Independence (1775 -1783) |
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The Origins of Revolution. The American War of Independence. Declaration of Independence. |
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8 |
8.1 The Formation of a National Government (1777 -1791) |
The Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. |
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8.2 Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny |
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The Louisiana Purchase. The War of 1812. The Monroe Doctrine. The Missouri Compromise. Indian Removal. |
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9 |
9.1 The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877) |
The North and the South. Slavery. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Reconstruction. |
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9.2 Years of Growth and the American Empire |
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The American West. Industry and technology. The Robber Barons. Immigration. The Spanish-American War. |
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10 |
10.1 Discontent and Reform |
American farmers and Populism. The Labour movement. Reformers and progressives. T. Roosevelt & W. Wilson. |
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10.2 War and Prosperity (1917 - 1929) |
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World War I. Wilson's Fourteen Points. The Roaring twenties. Prohibition. The Suffragists. |
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11 |
11.1 Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1938) |
Crash and depression. F. D. Roosevelt and the policy of New Deal. Isolationism and the outside world. |
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11.2 From Isolationism to Hiroshima: World War II. |
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End of neutrality. War in the Pacific & Europe. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The post-war settlement. |
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12 |
12.1 Cold War and Conflict Abroad: America in the Fifties |
Truman Doctrine. McCarthyism and "Red Scare". Korean War. The Civil Rights movement and desegregation. |
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12.2 America in the Sixties and Early Seventies |
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J.F.K. The Vietnam War. Martin Luther King. R. Nixon and the Watergate Affair. |