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Unit Outlines
Use the unit outlines to help you follow the sequence of the class. We will use our textbook more as a reference. These outlines are compiled from New York State Regents standards, the textbook, and additional materials.
When it comes time to study for the test, look at your unit outline first. Then, make sure that you can identify and show the significance of all of the terms on the outline.
Here is an outline for the entire course:
American Studies Course Outline
American Beginnings to 1783
Physical Geography of North America
Pre-contact Native American Indian Peoples
Exploration, Discovery, Colonization
Empires: Spanish, French, British colonies
Origins of Colonial Slavery
French and Indian War
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Government and Constitution
Articles of Confederation
The U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
The U.S. Government
Democracy in a New Nation; The Constitution Tested, 1789-1862
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Industrial/Market Revolution
Jacksonian Democracy
Indian Removal
Slavery
Women's Rights; Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1865, 1865-1877
Differences between North and South
The Road to Civil War; Western Expansion and the Slavery Question
The Civil War
Why the North Won
Radical Reconstruction
Age of Industrialization, 1876-1900
Passing of the “Frontier,” the “Wild West”
Indian Wars; Sioux, Nez Perce
Rise of Big Business; Carnegie, Steel and Industrialization
Workers and Unionism
Big Business and Government Regulation
Urbanization
Immigration
The Progressive Era (Responding to Industrialization and Immigration), 1900-1914
Populism
Reform Movements
Trust-Busting
Environmental Conservation
America Becomes A World Power, 1898-1918
Spanish-American War
U.S. Imperialism in the Pacific and South America
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
World War I; MAIN causes, technology, total war, home front
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
The 1920s; Modern, Urban America
Prosperity
Changes in Manners and Morals
Red Scare
Nativism, Immigration Restrictions
Harlem Renaissance
Great Depression and the New Deal, 1930s
The Stock Market
Causes, nature and effects of the Great Depression; city and country
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
Rise of Aggression and World War II, 1933-1945
Causes and nature of WWII; Pacific and European theaters
Decision to Drop the Bomb
Internment of Japanese-Americans
The Cold War, 1945-1990
Soviet Union
Split of Communism between Soviet Union and China
Atomic Bomb
Space Race
Partition of Germany
Red Scare, McCarthyism
Conformity, Suburbia
Korean War
Vietnam War
Civil Rights, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Civil Rights movements:
African-Americans, Women, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans
Changes in Immigration Laws
Counterculture movement of the 1960s
Conservatism, 1970s and 80s
Moral Majority
Reaganomics
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