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FOR INSTRUCTORS: Using This Template and Additional Resources
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Module 1: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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FOR INSTRUCTORS: Important Guidelines for Using This Template
Chapter 1.0 Introduction
Chapter 1.1 Restoring the Union
Chapter 1.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Chapter 1.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Chapter 1.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
Chapter 1 Key Terms
Chapter 1 Summary
Chapter 1 Review Questions
Chapter 1 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 1 PowerPoint
Module 1 Discussion Forum - History in the News
Module 1 Short Answer Assignment
Module 1 Sources Assignment
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Module 2: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
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Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 2.1 The Westward Spirit
Chapter 2.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Chapter 2.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
Chapter 2.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
Chapter 2.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
Chapter 2 Key Terms
Chapter 2 Summary
Chapter 2 Review Questions
Chapter 2 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 2 PowerPoint
Module 2 Discussion - Place Holder
Module 2 Short Answer Assignment
Module Two Native American Assignment
Module Two Sources Assignment
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Module 3: Industrialization, 1870-1900 & The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
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Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 3.1 Inventors of the Age
Chapter 3.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
Chapter 3.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
Chapter 3.4 A New American Consumer Culture
Chapter 3 Key Terms
Chapter 3 Summary
Chapter 3 Review Questions
Chapter 3 Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 4.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
Chapter 4.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
Chapter 4.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Chapter 4.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
Chapter 4 Key Terms
Chapter 4 Summary
Chapter 4 Review Questions
Chapter 4 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 3 PowerPoints
Module 3 Discussion
Module 3 Sources Assignment The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Module 3 Short Answer Assignment The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Module 3 Sources Assignment Industrialization, 1870-1900
Module 3 Short Answer Assignment Industrialization, 1870-1900
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Module 4: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
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Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 5.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Chapter 5.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Chapter 5.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
Chapter 5.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
Chapter 5 Key Terms
Chapter 5 Summary
Chapter 5 Review Questions
Chapter 5 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 4 Discussion - Place Holder
Module 4 Short Answer Assignment
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Module 5: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
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Chapter 6 Introduction
Chapter 6.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Chapter 6.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Chapter 6.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
Chapter 6.4 Progressivism in the White House
Chapter 6 Key Terms
Chapter 6 Summary
Chapter 6 Review Questions
Chapter 6 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 5 Discussion - Place Holder
Module 5 Short Answer Assignment
Module 5 Sources Assignment
Reforms of the Progressive Era
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Module 6: Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
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Chapter 7 Introduction
Chapter 7.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
Chapter 7.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
Chapter 7.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
Chapter 7.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Chapter 7.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Chapter 7 Key Terms
Chapter 7 Summary
Chapter 7 Review Questions
Chapter 7 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 6 Short Answer Assignment
Module 6 Sources Assignment
Imperialism Video Assignment
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Module 7: Americans in the Great War, 1914-1919
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Chapter 8 Introduction
Chapter 8.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
Chapter 8.2 The United States Prepares for War
Chapter 8.3 A New Home Front
Chapter 8.4 From War to Peace
Chapter 8.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Chapter 8 Key Terms
Chapter 8 Summary
Chapter 8 Review Questions
Chapter 8 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 7 PowerPoint
Module 7 Short Answer Assignment
Module 7 Sources Assignment
Propaganda Assignment
Modue 7 Discussion
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Midterm Assessment/Additional Exam Module
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FOR INSTRUCTORS: Adding a Midterm Assessment or Additional Exam
Exam Information and Instructions
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Module 8: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
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Chapter 9 Introduction
Chapter 9.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
Chapter 9.2 Transformation and Backlash
Chapter 9.3 A New Generation
Chapter 9.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
Chapter 9 Key Terms
Chapter 9 Summary
Chapter 9 Review Questions
Chapter 9 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 8 PowerPoint
Module Eight Short Answer Assignment
Module 8 Discussion - Place Holder
Module 8 Sources Assignment
The Jazz Age: Cultural Relevancy Activity Assignment
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Module 9: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
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Chapter 10 Introduction
Chapter 10.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Chapter 10.2 President Hoover’s Response
Chapter 10.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
Chapter 10.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
Chapter 10 Key Terms
Chapter 10 Summary
Chapter 10 Review Questions
Chapter 10 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 9 Discussion - Place Holder
Module 9 Sources Assignment
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Module 10: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
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Chapter 11 Introduction
Chapter 11.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
Chapter 11.2 The First New Deal
Chapter 11.3 The Second New Deal
Chapter 11 Key Terms
Chapter 11 Summary
Chapter 11 Review Questions
Chapter 11 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 10 Sources Assignment
Module 10 Short Answer Assignment
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Module 11: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
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Chapter 12 Introduction
Chapter 12.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
Chapter 12.2 The Home Front
Chapter 12.3 Victory in the European Theater
Chapter 12.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Chapter 12 Key Terms
Chapter 12 Summary
Chapter 12 Review Questions
Chapter 12 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 11 Short Answer Assignment
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Module 12: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
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Chapter 13 Introduction
Chapter 13.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
Chapter 13.2 The Cold War
Chapter 13.3 The American Dream
Chapter 13.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
Chapter 13.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Chapter 13 Key Terms
Chapter 13 Summary
Chapter 13 Review Questions
Chapter 13 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 12 Short Answer Assignment
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Duck and Cover Video Assignment
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Module 13: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
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Chapter 14 Introduction
Chapter 14.1 The Kennedy Promise
Chapter 14.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Chapter 14.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
Chapter 14.4 Challenging the Status Quo
Chapter 14 Key Terms
Chapter 14 Summary
Chapter 14 Review Questions
Chapter 14 Critical Thinking Questions
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Civil Rights Journal Assignment
Module 13 Short Answer Assignment
Module 13 Sources Assignment
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Module 14: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
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Chapter 15 Introduction
Chapter 15.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
Chapter 15.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Chapter 15.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
Chapter 15.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
Chapter 15.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
Chapter 15 Key Terms
Chapter 15 Summary
Chapter 15 Review Questions
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking Questions
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Module 14 Short Answer Assignment
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Module 15: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 & The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
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Chapter 16 Introduction
Chapter 16.1 The Reagan Revolution
Chapter 16.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
Chapter 16.3 A New World Order
Chapter 16.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Chapter 16 Key Terms
Chapter 16 Summary
Chapter 16 Review Questions
Chapter 16 Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 17 Introduction
Chapter 17.1 The War on Terror
Chapter 17.2 The Domestic Mission
Chapter 17.3 New Century, Old Disputes
Chapter 17.4 Hope and Change
Chapter 17 Key Terms
Chapter 17 Summary
Chapter 17 Review Questions
Chapter 17 Critical Thinking Questions
Module 15 PowerPoints
Module 15: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 Short Answer Assignment
Module 15: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000 Sources Assignment
Culture Wars Assignment
Module 15: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century Short Answer Assignment
Module 15: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century Sources Assignment
20 Years Assignment
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Final Exam/Final Project Module
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Instructions for Adding the Final Assessment
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American History II
Chapter 3.1 Inventors of the Age
Chapter 3.1 Inventors of the Age
Completion requirements
Click on <a href="https://louis.pressbooks.pub/americanhistory2/?p=404">Chapter 3.1 Inventors of the Age</a> to open the resource.
