U. S. History

Day 1  

Activities: 

Introduce U.S. History course.  Go over: class rules, grading, U.S. History End-of-Course Exam, materials, needed, syllabus.  Distribute books.
Discussion/notes on Age of Exploration, Native Americans, the 13 English Colonies, the American War for Independence & its Results

 Classes (Days 2-6)

 Unit One: “Foundations of Our Republic to the Age of Jefferson ,1787-1824”, 

Day 3 

Activities:  

Discussion/ Notes on the Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Foreign Policy and Farewell Address, Formation of Political Parties, Election of 1796, the Undeclared Naval War with France, Election of 1800, "midnight judges", Judiciary Act of 1801, Revolution of 1800,  Jeffersonian Democracy

Day 4  

Activities:  

Discussion/ Notes on the Louisiana Purchase from France, Lewis & Clark, Sacajawea, U.S. policy of neutrality, impressment, Chesapeake incident, Embargo Act, Napoleon's orders, Non-Intercourse Act, Macon's Bill No. 2, Madison's election, & the War of 1812

Day 5  

Activities:   

Discussion/ Notes on Era of Good Feeling, American System, Henry Clay, 2nd Bank of the U.S., Tariff of 1816 - protective; Adams-Onis Treaty, Andrew Jackson's 1st Seminole War, Monroe Doctrine; Review for Unit One test;

Day 6  

Activities: 

TEST on Unit One & reading assignment after the test.

U. S. History Unit Two

 Days 7-11

Sectionalism,the Age of Jackson ,& Reform, 1824-1845” 

Competency Goal 2: Expansion & Reform (1801-1850) - The Learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism & sectionalism.

2.01   Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union .
2.02  Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature and language.
2.03  Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04  Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.05  Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06  Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery & other social movements/issues.

Day 7  

Activities:  

Discussion/ Notes on  Election of 1832; nat'l conventions; the Bank War; Nicholas Biddle; the Maysville Road veto; Whig party; King Andrew I; the national debt; Specie Circular; Distribution Bill; Election of 1836; Martin Van Buren;
Panic of 1837; boundary disputes w/ Britain; Election of 1840; Wm. H. Harrison; "Hard Cider" campaign; "Tippecanoe & Tyler , Too!"; Tyler's lonely term;  

Day 9  

Activities: 

Discussion/ Notes on the Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, interchangeable parts, Robert Fulton, steamboat era, New Orleans, John Deere, Samuel Morse, Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper, National Road, Lancaster Turnpike, Erie Canal, New York City; Deism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism; Religious Communes: Shakers, Mormons; Univ. of NC; Univ. of VA; Emma Willard; Mary Lyon; Oberlin College; neo-classical architecture; Thoreau (Walden & "Essay on Civil Disobedience"); Emerson ("Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar"); Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

Day 10  

Activities:  

Do test corrections from Unit One Test for homework. Review for test.

Day 11  

Activities: 

TEST on Unit Two - The Age of Jacksonian Democracy

Unit Three: “Reform, Manifest Destiny & the Turbulent 1850’s”

Competency Goal 2: Expansion & Reform (1801-1850) - The Learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism & sectionalism.

2.01   Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union .
2.02  Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.
2.03  Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04  Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.    
2.05  Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06  Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social movements/issues.

Competency Goal 3: The Learner will analyze ssues that led to the Civil War, effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
3.01  Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of Civil War.
3.02  Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.

Day 13

Activities:

Discussion/Notes on the Mexican War & results; President Taylor; Sutters' Mill, California’s '49er gold rush; Great Debate of 1850; Compromise of 1850 (5 parts); Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty,

Day 14   

Activities: 

Discussion/Notes on Fugitive Slave Law of 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom's Cabin, "personal liberty" laws, Kansas- Nebraska Act & "Bleeding Kansas", Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks; the Election of 1856; the Lecompton constitution;

Day 15  

Activities: 

Lecture/discussion/notes on Dred Scott decision; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry; the Election of 1860; secession movement; the CSA; Jefferson Davis; the Crittenden Compromise.

Day 16 

Activities:  

Review of Unit Three.

Day 17 

Activities: 

TEST on Unit Three.

   Unit Four: “War Between the States & Reconstruction, 1855-1877”
Competency Goal 3: The Learner will analyze issues that led to the Civil War, effects of the war & the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.

3.01  Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War.
3.02  Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.
3.03  Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the outcome of the conflict.
3.04  Analyze the political, economic & social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify reasons why Reconstruction came to an end.
3.05  Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a test of the supremacy of the national government.

Day 19 

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Fredericksburg,  54th Mass. Regiment, Lincoln's goal: "Save the Union", 13th Amendment; Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Grant at Chattanooga, Wilderness and Spotsylvania C. H., Cold Harbor, Atlanta, Richmond and Petersburg, trench warfare, the Crater, Sherman's "March-to-the-Sea", Ft. Fisher, Appomattox C. H., Ford's Theatre, John W. Booth,

Day 20 

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on the Election of 1864, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans vs. Johnson; Tenure of Office Act, the K. K. K.; Force Act; U.S. Grant; corruption, 14th Amendment, carpetbagger, redeemer

Day 21 

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on black codes, Jim Crow segregation laws, 15th Amendment, poll taxes, literacy tests. Henry Grady & the New South, growth of the textile industry;

Day 22 

Activities:  

Day 23 

Activities:  

Review of Unit Four

Day 24 

Activities:

TEST on Unit Four

Day 25 

Activities: 

First/Fourth Six Weeks Exam Review

Day 26 

Activities:  

EXAM on First/Fourth Six Weeks 

Day 27 

Activities: 

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Chapter 6, Sections 1-2:  2nd Industrial Revolution; Communications Revolution; corporations, stock, dividends; industrialization; railroads, safety changes, time zones; inventors: Drake, Bell, Goodyear, Edison,  Westinghouse, Sholes, Duke, Wright brothers, auto pioneers; monopolists: Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, ; holding companies, trusts, pooling; vertical and horizontal consolidation; "robber barons"; captains of industry; Gospel of Wealth; philanthropy

Day 28 

Activities:  

Lecture/Notes/Discussion on Chapter 6, Sec. 3-4: Karl Marx, theory of communism; Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly, Haymarket Square bombing; industrial unions; American Federation of Labor, craft unions; Samuel Gompers, limited goals of AFL; rail strike of 1877; Homestead Strike of 1892; Pullman Strike of 1894; side taken by the fed'l gov't in strikes of the 1800's.

Day 29 

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Chapter 7, Sec. 1& 2:  wars against Native Americans in the West; the Sand Creek Massacre; the Battle of the Little Big Horn; assimilation policy; Dawes Severalty Act; gold rushes; cultural changes, literature, sports; closing of the frontier; Cattle Kingdom; farming technological advances; farmers’ problems, the Grange

Day 30 

Activities:  

 (Patrons of Husbandry), the Grange,  Railroad abuses,  farmers’ alliances, Morrill Act; Populist party, silverites, gold standard,  J.P Morgan,  W.J. Bryan, “Cross of Gold” speech, mugwumps

Day 31 

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on & Chap.  Gilded Age, laissez faire, Credit Mobilier scandal, spoils system, Republican "Stalwarts" vs. "Halfbreeds", "waving the bloody shirt", civil service, Garfield’s assassination, Pendleton Act; Grover Cleveland, rebates.  Also give open-book quiz on

Day 32 

Activities: 

Lecture/Discussion/Notes "Granger" laws, Munn v. Illinois (1877),  Wabash Railway decision (1886), Interstate Commerce Act (1887), Benjamin Harrison, the Homestead strike, Cleveland's 2nd term, gold standard, Pullman strike, Amer. Railway Worker's Union, Election of 1896; Old vs. New Immigration (characteristics/location/religions); Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Review for Unit 5 Test

Day 33 

Activities: 

TEST on Unit Five

Unit Six  "Life at the Turn of the Century and the Progressive Era" 

Competency Goal 5: The learner will describe innovations in technology and business & assess their impact on economic, political and social life..
5.01  Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life
5.02 Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and
        economic power.
5.03 Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.
5.04 Describe the changing role of government in economic and political affairs.

Competency Goal 7:  The learner will analyze the economic, political and social reforms of the Progressive Era.
7.01  Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism.
7.02 Analyze how different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the            
        Progressive Period. 
7.03 Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the United
        States ' society.
7.04 Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social and cultural life in the
        United States . 

Day 34

Activities: 

Begin Unit Six   "Life at the Turn of the Century and the Progressive Era" 
Discussion/Lecture/Notes  Improved transportation; Frederick Olmstead, Elisha Otis, Louis Sullivan; urban problems; dumbbell tenements; Social Gospel Movement;  settlement houses; Jane Addams & Hull House in Chicago; Lillian Wald,  temperance movement:  Anti-Saloon League &
Reading Assignment - Read Chap. 9, Sec. 2-4.

Day 35

Activities:

Review Chap. 9, Sec. 1.  Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 9, Sec. 2-4.  public schools, one-room schoolhouses, high schools, "Americanization" of immigrants, segregated schools, the 3 R's, McGuffey's Readers, black colleges, women's colleges, Vasser, discrimination against females, Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois; professional sports, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, basketball & football, Trolley Parks, the circus, McClure's, Cosmopolitan, & Collier's; writers: Mark Twain, local-colorists, Bret Harte, Willa Cather; yellow journalism
Reading Assignment – Read Chap. 11, Sections 1 & 2.

Day 36

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 11, Sec. 1.   Socialists: Henry George, Edward Bellamy; muckrakers:  Jacob Riis;
Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, John Spargo, David Phillips, Frank Norris; female reformers:
Carrie Nation & the W.C.T.U.; Florence Kelley & the Nat'l Consumers' League; Mother Mary Jones & union organizing;
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 - led to workplace safety laws; local gov't reforms:  "home-rule", commission form
of gov't (Galveston TX after hurricane of 1900), council-manager form of gov't (Dayton, OH after a flood); reform mayors -
regulated monopolies that provided water, natural gas, electricity, etc.; state election reforms:  initiatives, referendums,
direct primaries; recall elections, 17th Amendment; workplace reforms: workmen's compensation laws, minimum wage laws,
laws regulating hours for women, laws prohibiting child labor; Robert LaFollette & reforms in Wisconsin
Reading Assignment – Read Chap. 11, Section 2 & 3.

Day 37

Activities:

Review Chap. 11, Sec. 1 & 2.  Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 11, Sec. 2.  Notes on Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal;
1902 coal strike, Northern Securities decision, 1904, the "Trustbuster", Hepburn Act, "good trusts" and "bad trusts";
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, FDA; Conservation movement, Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, Gifford Pinchot as head of Forestry Service, first nat'l parks - Yellowstone and Yosemite;
the Three C's of the Square Deal:  control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation
Reading Assignment – Read Chap. 11, Section 4.

Day 38

Activities:  

Review Chap. 11, Sec. 3. Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 11, Sec. 3 & 4.  Taft as President:  upset Progressives when he fired Gifford Pinchot, opposed limiting the power of the Speaker of the House, and signed Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill;
set aside more land for conservation and did more trustbusting than TR but got little credit; the return of TR, the Election of 1912, the Bull Moose Progressive party, Wilson's New Freedom vs. TR's New Nationalism; results of the election; reforms under Wilson: Federal Reserve Banking Act; Clayton Anti-Trust Act & Fed'l Trade Comm.; Underwood Tariff & 16th Amend. Review Chapters 9 & 11

Day 39

Activities:  

Review of Unit Six, Chapters 9 & 11.

Day 40

Activities:  

TEST on Unit Six (Chapters 9 & 11).  "Life at the Turn of the Century & Progressivism".

Unit Seven (Chapters 10 & 12). "Imperialism and The Great War"
Competency Goal 6: The learner will analyze the causes and effects of the United States emergence as a world power.

6.01  Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in
         world affairs.
6.02  Identify the areas of the United States military, economic and political involvement and
         influence.
6.03  Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government impacted the
         affairs of other countries.

Competency Goal 8: The learner will analyze U.S. involvement in World War I & the war's influence on international affairs during the 1920's.

8.01   Examine the reasons why the U.S. remained neutral at the beginning of World War I but
         later became involved.
8.02  Identify political and military turning points of the war and determine their significance 
       to the outcome of the war.
8.03  Assess the political, economic, social and cultural effects of the war on the United States
         and other nations.

Day 41

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 10, Sec. 1 & 2:  tests of the Monroe Doctrine, Alaska’s acquisition; Hawaii’s takeover, Queen Liliuakalani, to annex or not?; jingoism: Alfred Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge; Cuban Revolution, Spanish misrule, U.S. interests, “watchful waiting”, Hearst, Pulitzer & “yellow journalism”, the U.S.S. Maine, De Lome’s letter; Dewey & the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo, San Juan Hill, “Rough Riders”, Santiago Bay; Treaty of Paris, 1898, 

Day 42

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 10, Sec. 2 & 3:  annexation of the Philippines, Anti-Imperialist League, Social Darwinist opposition, support for annexation, Josiah Strong, Rudyard Kipling & “the White Man’s Burden", Aguinaldo’s rebel forces, Gov. William H. Taft, “benevolent assimilation” programs; “Insular Cases” decisions, Platt Amendment, Teller Amendment, protectorate, yellow fever, Leonard Wood, Walter Reed, Puerto Rico;

Day 43

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 10, Sec. 3 & 4:  Election of 1900, TR, “Big Stick” diplomacy, the U.S.S. Oregon, Panama’s Revolution, the U.S.S. Nashville,  the Panama Canal, debt problems, Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine; China, spheres of influence, John Hay’s “Open Door” policy, Boxer Rebellion; Treaty of Portsmouth, the Gentlemen’s Agreement; Nobel Prize; 

Day 44

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 1 & 2: WWI begins, US neutrality, u-boats, Britain's blockade, the Lusitania, the Election of 1916, unrestricted sub warfare, Wilson's response, the Zimmerman note, declaration of war Pershing & the AEF, doughboys, victory gardens,

Day 45

Activities: 

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 2 & 3.  George Creel & the Committee on Public Information, Hoover & the Food Administration, Taft & the War Labor Bd., victory & liberty bonds, voluntary compliance, victory gardens, Sedition Act, Schenck v. U.S.; Nov. 11, 1918, Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Versailles Treaty, the Big Four, 

Day 46

Activities: 

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 3 & 4.  Wilson 's compromises, League of Nations, war guilt clause & reparations, Article X, "Irreconcilables" & "Reservationists", Henry Cabot Lodge, Wilson 's tour and stroke, Lodge's Fourteen Reservations, votes in the Senate, the Election of 1920 

Day 47

Activities:

Review of Chapters 10 & 12

Day 48

Activities:

Test on Unit Seven: Chapters 10 & 12 / Begin Chapter 13 after the test.

Unit Eight  (Chapters 13-16), "The Roaring '20's & the Depression"    Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goal 8: The learner will analyze U.S. involvement in World War I & the war's influence on the internat'l affairs during the 1920's.

8.03  Assess the political, economic, social and cultural effects of the war on the United States
         and other nations.

Competency Goal 9:  The learner will appraise the economic, social and political changes of the decades of "The Twenties" and "the Thirties".

9.01   Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920's and 1930's.
9.02  Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period.
9.03  Analyze the significance of social, intellectual and technological changes on lifestyles in
         the U.S.
9.04  Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race and gender.
9.05  Assess the impact of New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in
         American life.

Day 49

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chapter 14 - Politics and Prosperity: the 1919 strikes, 1st "Red Scare"; Palmer Raids, Election of 1920, "Return to Normalcy", Washington Naval Conference & the Five Power treaty; Harding's Cabinet, the "Ohio Gang"; Fordney-McCumber Tariff, mergers encouraged by Hoover, Teapot Dome Scandal; Calvin Coolidge, Election of 1924, Kellogg-Briand Pact; flappers; split in rural-urban America; the Great Migration of African-Americans; 1920's immigration laws; Prohibition: goals, 18th Amendment, Volstead Act, speakeasies, bootleggers, organized crime, Al Capone, J. Edgar Hoover;

Day 50

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes: Chapter 13 - Postwar Social Change
 Lindbergh & Earhart; sports heroes; Hollywood: Demille, silent film stars, The Jazz Singer, KDKA, advertising, jazz music/musicians; 1920's writers: S. Lewis, E. O'Neill, the Lost Generation, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,  F. Fitzgerald, rejection of materialism & disillusionment; the Harlem Renaissance: James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke & The New Negro, Zora Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes; fundamentalism, Billy Sunday, the Scopes Trial, Clarence Darrow, Wm. J. Bryan, impact; racial tensions: "red summer", new KKK; black leadership: Marcus Garvey;

Day 51

(Nov. 10 / Apr. 7)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes: Chapter 15, Crash and Depression; new industries of the 1920's: radio, advertising, tourism, suburbs, electric appliances; Election of 1928, Herbert Hoover & "Rugged Individualism", Al(cohol) Smith, rural-urban split, radio; "buying on the margin", "Black Thursday" and "Black Tuesday"; the crash of the stock market, theories about the causes of the Depression; "prosperity is just around the corner"; opposition to direct relief; Hawley-Smoot Tariff; Reconstruction Finance Corporation, "trickle-down" economics;

Day 52

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes:  Finish Chapter 15 & Begin Chapter 16 - The New Deal:  Hoover's "Rugged Individualism";  "Hoovervilles"; eviction of the Bonus Army; direct gov't relief vs. private charity; high levels of unemployment; the Election of 1932; FDR's optimism, the forgotten man, bold experimentation,  Hoover's heartlessness, pessimism; election results; lame-duck period, 20th Amendment; banking crisis; bank holiday; special session of Congress, Hundred Days' Congress, FDIC;
Glass-Steagal Act; creation of the S.E.C.; Fed'l Emergency Recovery Admin. & direct dole payments

Day 53

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on  Chapter 16 - The New Deal :  Second New Deal, higher taxes on the wealthy; the AAA,
Social Security Act, Tenn. Valley Authority, Nat'l Industrial Recovery Act & the Nat'l Recovery Admin., demagogues:
Huey Long & his "Share Our Wealth" proposals, Father Charles Coughlin & "Social Justice";  Dr. Francis Townsend; losses for the New Deal in the Supreme Court: Butler v. US and Schecter v. U.S.; the Works Progress Admin.; Fed'l Writers Project
Fed'l theatre Project; Fed'l Arts Project

Day 54

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes: Finish Chapter 16 - The New Deal :  gains for labor:  Section 7a of the N.I.R. Act;  the Wagner Act or Nat'l Labor Relations Act; Fair Labor Standards Act- 1st minimum wage law; movies & books during the Depression:  Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Snow White & the Seven Dwarves; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; the Dust Bowl; rising deficits, the continuing Depression & the increasing nat'l debt; Alf Landon, Election of 1936; FDR's "court-packing scheme"; conservative Democrats & Republicans block more New Deal spending after 1937;

Day 55

Activities:

Review the 1920's and 1930's in preparation for a test.

Day 56

Activities:

TEST on Unit Eight (Chapters 13-16)

Day 57

Activities:

Test Corrections and EXAM REVIEW:  Civil war to New Deal

Unit 9 (Chaps. 17-18):  "The 2nd World War & the Early Cold War"  Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goal 10:  The Learner will analyze U.S. involvement in W.W. II & the war's influence on internat'l affairs in following decades.

10.01  Elaborate on the causes of World War II and reasons for U.S. entry into the war.
10.02  Identify military, political and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their
          significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
10.03  Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political and
          cultural life.
10.04  Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the beginnings of the
           Cold War.

Competency Goal 11:  The Learner will trace economic, political and social developments and assess their significance for the lives of Americans during this time period.

11.01  Describe the effects of the Cold War on economic, political and social life in America .
11.02  Trace major events of the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact.

Day 59

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 17, Sec. 1-4.  FDR's foreign policy:  recognition of the USSR , Good Neighbor policy,  the rise of Fascism & Communism in Europe , 1930's background events leading to WWII, Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1936 Sept. 1, 1939, blitzkrieg, sitzkrieg, Dunkirk, the fall of France, Neutrality Act of 1939, Battle of Britain, bases-for-destroyers deal, Lend-Lease Act, Hitler's invasion of Russia, Japanese aggression in China, Pearl Harbor

Day 60

Activities:

See video on U.S. foreign policy in the 1930's (Our Century hosted by Peter Jennings).  Quiz on Chapter 17. 

Day 61

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes  on Chap. 18, Sec. 1 & 2.  the European theater, North Africa, Rommel, Sicily & Patton, Italy, Stalingrad, Ike, D-Day, battle of the Bulge, the Pacific theater, Corregidor & Bataan, MacArthur, island-hopping, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, kamikazes, Iwo Jima & Okinawa, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, V-J Day

Day 62

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 18, Sec. 3 & 4.  War Production Bd., Baruch, Office of Price Admin. & rationing and price controls, detention camps, Korematsu v. U.S., Nisei, 442nd Regt., "Rosie the Riveter"; See video on World War II (Our Century hosted by Peter Jennings).  Quiz on Chapter 18.

Day 63

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 19, Sec. 1 & 3.  Yalta Conference, Truman, Stalin, the Potsdam Conference, James Kennan, Winston Churchill's "iron curtain" speech, containment, Greece and Turkey, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin crisis & airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact, 

Day 64

Activities:

Review for Unit Nine Test

Day 65

Activities:

Test on Unit Nine - World War II and the Early Cold War (Chapters 17-19)

Day 66

Day 67

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 19, Sec. 3 & 4.  inflation, strikes, Taft-Hartley Act, Fair Deal, Full Employment Act of 1946, G.I. Bill of Rights, Republican Congress, Election of 1948. Truman, Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrat States' Rights party, Henry Wallace & the Progressive party, Thomas Dewey, Truman's surprise victory; 22nd Am.

Day 68

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 20, Sec. 1 & 2.  The Election of 1952; Nixon's "Checker's Speech"; McCarthyism;
"Modern Republicanism"; Highway Act of 1956; Levittown, (Long Island) NY; suburbs; "baby-boom"; Dr. Spock's
"Baby & Childcare" Book; Ike's foreign policy:  rollback of communism; brinksmanship; domino theory & SE Asia;
Dien Bien Phu; Ho Chi Minh; Krushchev; Hungarian uprising;

Day 69

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 20, Sec. 3 & 4.  Sputnik; Nat'l Defense Education Act; Israel; The Shah of Iran; the Suez Crisis; Eisenhower Doctrine; Sputnik, ICBMs and a "missile gap"; U-2 Incident, Gary Powers; Ike's "Farewell Address" & warning about the "military-industrial complex"; television; "rock-and-roll" music, black musicians, Elvis Presley; Beatniks, Jack Kerouac; Jonas Salk
Show videotape on the 1950's (Our Century hosted by Peter Jennings). 

Day 70

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chapter 21, Sec. 1 & 2.  Jackie Robinson; Brown v. Topeka Bd. of Education, 1954; review for test

Day 71

Activities:

Unit 10 Test - Truman and Eisenhower, 1945-1960

Day 72

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on the Kennedy Years and Civil Rights Movement
Show videotape on the 1950's (Our Century hosted by Peter Jennings). 

Day 73

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on LBJ's "Great Society" and Activists of the 1960's. 

Day 74

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on

Day 75

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on the Vietnam War.
Review for test. 

Activities:

Test on Unit Ten (Chapters 21-24)

Day 77

Activities: 

 Unit 11 (Chaps. 21, 22 & 24):  "Ike to Nixon, 1952-1973"
Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goals 8.03, 9.01-9.05

Day 78

Activities:

  Unit Eleven (Chs 21-25) "LBJ, Nixon, Ford & Carter: Liberalism & Conservatism"
 

Day 79

Activities:

  Unit 12 (Chaps. 25-26):  "Nixon to Clinton , 1969-1999"
Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goals 8.03, 9.01-9.05

Day 80