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    The Rise of Industrial America: 1877-1914
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics

     

    Timelines, essays, primary sources, multimedia and more on Industrial America​

     

    Timeline in Words and Pictures

     

    Textbook Chapter on The Rise of Industry (section assignment included)

     

    Prezi Presentation on Industrial America

     

    Lesson Ideas on Pinterest

     

    Immigration and MIgration: Timeline, Essays, Featured Primary Sources, Multimedia, Interactive Features, Teaching Resources

     

    Immigration in Industrial America and the Rise of Nativism: Video, Quiz, Transcripts

     

    Key Figures, and Objects that Came Out of this Area

    The Progressive Era: 1890-1920 
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics

     

    Network for Historians of the Progressvive Era and the Gilded Age​

     

    Digital History: Progressive Era

     

    The Progressive Era: 1900-1918

     

    Key Figures, Movements,Social Reform, Muckrakers and More

     

    Women in the Progressive Era

     

    Economic Reforms in the Progressive Era: Presentation

     

    Progressive Era Politics

     

    American 1900

     

    Immigration During the Progressive Era

     

    The Progressives

    The 1920s
    Primary Documents
     

    The Clash between Traditionalism and Modernism     Red Scare & Civil Liberties

     

    Breakdown of Anti-Modernism and Modernism in the 1920s

     

    1920s Automobiles            Ford's Assembly Line Starts Rolling

     

    Technology in the 1920s        Growth and Effects of Music and Radio  

     

    American Consumerism and Economy      A Return to Normalcy 

     

    Consumerism to Civil Rights and Prohibition     Prohibition and Speakeasies

     

    Native Americans in the Progressive Era     Scopes Trial     Harlem Renaissance

     

    The Lost Generation     Economic Status of Women     Rise of Celebrities

     

    Blues in Memphis     Grand Ole Opry History     W.C. Handy

    United States History: 

    Post Reconstruction to the Present 


    Resources on this page are meant to support instrucution and learning in the course United States History. Resources are organized by the new Social Studies 2014-2015 standards. There are also resources that can be found at www.chslbrarymedia.com

     

    Please email ssmartt@clevelandschools.org for any additional help or support. 

    Contemporary United States: 1980-Today
    Primary Documents    

     

    Obamanation Crash Course Video by John Green 

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    Entrepreneurship Since the 80s

     

    The Reagan Adminstration     The Fall of the Soviet Union

     

    Reaganonmics     The War on Drugs     George H. W. Bush: Foreign Affairs

     

    20th Century Demographic Trends     From the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt

     

    Details and Key Elements of the Clinton Administration     

     

    Foreign Policy: Late 20th Century     Supreme Court Case: Gore v. Bush

     

    Impact of 9/11 a Decade Later     3 Major Impacts of 9/11     

    Modern United States 1945-1979
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics
     

    Economy in the 1950s​     A Culture of Abundance and Consumerism

     

    Baby Boomers Influence on Culture     Baby Boomers Facts and History 

     

    Medical Brakthroughs of the 1960s      The History of Television 

     

    The Development of  the Interstate Highway System    The Birth of Teenage Culture 

     

    Taft-Hartley Act      Merger of AFL-CIO     Tennessee's Impact on Music and Culture

     

    Hoffa and Labor Unions     Robert Kennedy's Role in Organized Labor

     

    JFK's New Frontier     Brown v. BOE    Key Court Cases for Civil Rights

     

    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke      Strom Thurmond     George Wallace

     

    Orval Faubus     KKK     Civil RIghts Act of 1964 with Teaching Extras 

     

    Voting Rights Act of 1965     CIvil Rights Act of 1968     1960s Feminists Movement

     

    American Indian Movement     History & Goals of the Chicano Movement 

     

    Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society     Political Influence of Hippie Generation    

     

    Nixon Presidency     Watergate Scandal     Energy Crisis     Alex Haley

     

    New Enviornmentalism     Carter Administration

    Cold War: 1945-1975
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics
     

    The Red Scare​     NATO     SEATO     The Warsaw Pact

     

    Communisim and the Cold War     The Cold War Museum     The Marshall Plan

     

    Cold War and Anti Communism     The Berlin Airlift     

     

    Documents Related to the Cold War: American Foreign Policy 

     

    Anti Communisim in the 1950s     The Cold War & Containment     

     

    Foreign Policy Under President Eisenhower     The Truman Doctrine

     

    Domino Theory     Massive Retaliation to Flexable Response

     

    The Cold War in Asia     McCarthyism     Estes Kefauver     The Rosenberg Trial

     

    Digital Unit with Resources on The Causes, Controversies, & Consequences of the Korean War

     

    The Nuclear Arms Race     The Cuban Missile Crisis     The Bay of Pigs     

     

    Between the Wars & World War II: 1921-1947
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics
     

     ​League of Nations  Washington Disarmament Conference    Kellogg-Briand Pact

     

    Hoover-Stimson Note   Johnson Debt Default Act   Neutrality Acts of the 1930s

     

    Rise of Fascisim & Totalitarianism in Europe   Totalitarianism Lessons and Tasks

     

    Insights for Teaching FDR's Response to Fascisim   Bataan Death March 

     

    Interactive WW2 Allied and Axis Map   Battle of Midway   Island Hopping

     

    Reasons for America's Entrance to WW2   Events Leading Up to the War

     

    World War 2 Timeline  Battle of Iwo Jima   Battle of Okinawa   Battle of the Bulge

     

    Invasion of North Africa and Italy  D-Day    Special Forces   Japenese Internment 

     

    American Women During WW2   African Americans in WW2   The Homefront

     

    Aviation, Meds, & Technology  Tennessee Goes to War   Manhattan Project   

     

    American Response to Holocaust   Yalta & Postdam Conferences Video 

     

    UN & Cordell Hull

    The Great Depression
    Primary Documents    Key Figures and Topics

     

     

    The New Deal Crash Course Video by John Green

     

    Facts, Summary, Speeches, & Videos     The New Deal Political Cartoon Downloads

     

    Rugged Individualism Campaign Speech    

     

    Reconstruction Finance Corporation     The New Deal Lesson Plans

     

    Hoovervilles     TVA History      Norris Dam      Dale Hallow Lake History

     

    The Dust Bowl     The Dust Bowl: Pictures, Videos, Summaries

     

    Is the New Deal Socialism?     First Inaugural Address by FDR

     

    The Grapes of Wrath: Summary, Themes, Essays, Characters, Quotes, Quizes

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