Mrs. Hamilton's History Classes

Fall Semester

Unit #1: Foundations of American History

1. Understanding Americas Founding Ideals

2. Revolutionary War Review Reading

3. Ideals in the Civil War Era Reading (for chart & paragraph)

4. Ideals in the Reconstruction Era Reading (for chart & paragraph)

5. Juneteenth Article (extra credit)

 

Unit #2: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization & Reform

1. Industrialism Reading

2. Big Business Reading

3. Biographies on Carnegie and Rockefeller

4. Effects of Industrialization Reading

 

Unit #3: America Becomes a World Power

1. Presidential Foreign Policies

2. "White Man's Burden" Reading

3. World War I Homefront Reading

4. Treaty of Versailles Summary

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Unit #4: Between the Wars

1. 1920s Tension Reading

2. 1920s Reading (extra credit)

3. Great Depression Reading 

4. New Deal Reading (for paragraph)

 

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Spring Semester

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Unit #1: World War II​

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1. Road to War

2. American Response to the Holocaust

3. Pearl Harbor: A Surprise?

4. Impact of WWII (World War II and the Economy)

5. Opportunities & Hardships (reading to print & annotate)

6. D-Day

7. Internment Extra Credit Reading

8. A-Bomb Reading
    

Unit #2: Early Cold War

1. Causes of the Cold War​

2. Korean War Reading

3. Government Response to the Red Scare and the Creation of the CIA

4. Red Scare Reading

5. Kennedy & the Cold War

 

Unit #3: Conformity & Change

1. JFK Inaugural Address

2. JFK Assassination Reading #1 and #2

3. Great Society Speech

4. Pro-Con Analysis of Great Society

5. Youth Culture & Politics

6. Segregation Reading

 

Unit #4: The Vietnam Conflict

1. Introduction to Vietnam Reading

2. Getting Drafted

3. What Did you do in the Class War Daddy?

4. Stop the War

5. TET Offensive

6. 1968 Overview

7. Nixon's War/Vietnamization

8. Kent State Incident

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Unit #5: Modern Foreign Policy

1. Reagan & Bush Cold War Policies

2. Post Cold War Foreign Policy

3. War on Terror 

4. 9-11 and the American Ideals 

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