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WEEK |
TOPIC |
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1 |
Colonial Period (1606 - 1774) |
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Amerindians. First European explorers. Virginia and New England. The French and Indian War (1756 -1763) |
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| 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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| 3 |
The Formation of a National Government (1777 -1791) |
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The Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. |
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| 4 |
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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5 |
The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877) |
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The North and the South. Slavery. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Reconstruction. |
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| 6 |
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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| 7 | Mid-semester test on topics 1 - 6 |
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8 |
Discontent and Reform |
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American farmers and Populism. The Labour movement. Reformers and progressives. T. Roosevelt & W. Wilson. |
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| 9 |
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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10 |
Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1938) |
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Crash and depression. F. D. Roosevelt and the policy of New Deal. Isolationism and the outside world. |
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| 11 |
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 |
Cold War and Conflict Abroad: America in the Fifties |
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Truman Doctrine. McCarthyism and "Red Scare". Korean War. The Civil Rights movement and desegregation. |
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| 13 |
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. |