American Empire - Review
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Abstract
Movie Discussion: What's your favorite western? Why? Do you believe it's historically accurate? How can you tell?
Contents
- Unit 1:: Industrialization
- The Labor Question
- John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil
- Henry Ford's Assembly Line
- The Bonsack Cigarette Rolling Machine
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Riot
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Industrialization - Review
- Unit 2:: Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
- Ellis Island
- The Gentlemen's Agreement
- The Literacy Test
- Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific - Review
- Unit 3:: The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
- Louis Sullivan
- The Electric Streetcar
- Sewer Socialists
- The Growth of Cities and Social Reform - Review
- Unit 4:: American Empire
- Westward Expansion
- The Refrigerated Railway Car
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- Wounded Knee
- American Empire - Review
- Unit 5:: Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
- Granger Laws
- “Free Silver”
- Robert La Follette
- Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives - Review
- Unit 6:: The United States and World War I
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Trench Warfare
- The Committee on Public Information
- The United States and World War I - Review
- Unit 7:: The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
- The Volstead Act
- The Florida Land Boom
- Charles Lindbergh
- The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward - Review
- Unit 8:: The Great Depression
- Bonus March
- “Free Silver”
- The Dust Bowl
- The Great Depression - Review
- Unit 9:: The New Deal
- The Court-packing Plan
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- The New Deal - Review
- Unit 10:: The United States and World War II
- The Manhattan Project
- Henry J. Kaiser
- The Battle of the Bulge
- The United States and World War II - Review
- Unit 11:: The United States and the Cold War
- The “Iron Curtain”
- The “Kitchen” Debate
- The Berlin Wall
- The United States and the Cold War - Review
- Unit 12:: Civil Rights in the United States
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Myers Family of Levittown, Pennsylvania
- Voting Rights Act
- Civil Rights in the United States - Review
- Unit 13:: The Counterculture
- The Vietnam War
- Timothy Leary
- Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
- Woodstock
- The Counterculture - Review
- Unit 14:: Conservatism and Reaganism
- The John Birch Society
- Anita Bryant
- The Moral Majority
- Conservatism and Reaganism - Review
- Unit 15:: Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror