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U.S. History A — Founding Ideals, Industrial America and a World Power (California)
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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: Founding Ideals and a Nation Remade
5
1.1
Self-Evident Truths — The Founding and Its Promise
50 mins
1.2
Federal Power, State Power and a Widening Democracy, 1787-1900
50 mins
1.3
Seminar — Faith, Reform and Religious Liberty
50 mins
1.4
Workshop — Washington, Du Bois and the Meaning of Progress
50 mins
1.5
Performance Task — The Promise of the Declaration by 1900
150 mins
Unit 2: Industry, Immigration and the City
5
2.1
Rails, Steel and Oil — Building an Industrial Nation
50 mins
2.2
Working Lives — Factories, Tenements and The Jungle
50 mins
2.3
Seminar — Newcomers, Exclusion and Americanization
50 mins
2.4
Workshop — Survival of the Fittest or the Social Gospel? Machines and Reformers
50 mins
2.5
Performance Task — Public-History Exhibit: The Industrial City and Its People
200 mins
Unit 3: Populists, Progressives and an Emerging World Power
5
3.1
The Farmers’ Revolt — Populism and the Money Question
50 mins
3.2
The Progressive Toolkit — Regulation, Amendments, Conservation and California’s Reforms
50 mins
3.3
Seminar — Did the United States Become an Empire?
50 mins
3.4
Workshop — Big Stick, Dollar and Moral Diplomacy
50 mins
3.5
Performance Task — Structured Academic Controversy: Annexing the Philippines
200 mins
Unit 4: World War I and the Twenties
5
4.1
Over There and Over Here — World War I and the Home Front
50 mins
4.2
Normalcy and the Machine Age — Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the New Economy
50 mins
4.3
Seminar — Liberty under Pressure in the 1920s
50 mins
4.4
Workshop — New Women, New Voices: Suffrage and the Harlem Renaissance
50 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Historical Research Paper, 1914-1929
250 mins
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