I. Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

II. Industrialization

A. Inventions and Innovations

B. Rise of Big Business

C. Realities of Industrial Life

D. Labor Unions and Industrial Conflict

III. Immigration

A. Push and Pull Factors

B. The "American Dream"

C. Nativism and Immigration Restriction

D. Jacob Riis and Tenement Life

E. Immigration Issues Today

IV. Progressivism

A. Origins and Objectives of Progressivism

B. Muckrakers and Other Progressive Reformers

C. National Progressivism

D. Modern Day Muckrakers

V. World War I

A. Causes of World War I

B. American Involvement in WWI

C. War Propaganda

D. Life on the Homefront

VI. The Roaring Twenties

A. The Red Scare

B. Politics of the 1920s

C. Flappers

D. Popular Culture of the 1920s

E. The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance

F. Culture Clashes: Prohibition and the Scopes Trial

VII. The Great Depression and the New Deal

A. Causes of the Great Depression

B. Impact of the Great Depression

C. Leadership of the Depression: Hoover and Roosevelt

D. ABCs of the New Deal

E. Was the New Deal a Success or a Failure?

VIII. World War II

A. Causes of WWII

B. Daily Life on the Homefront

C. Women and the War

D. Life on the War Front

E. Japanese Internment

F. America and the Holocaust

G. Dropping the Bomb

IX. The Cold War and the 1950s

A. Causes of the Cold War

B. The Red Scare and McCarthyism

C. Atomic Anxiety

D. 1950s Popular Culture

E. Rock and Roll

X. The Sixties and the Seventies

A. JFK and LBJ

B. Civil Rights Movement

C. The Vietnam War

D. Hippies and the Counterculture

 

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