Seminar preparation/downloadable materials

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Colonial Period (1606 - 1774)

1. Colonial period-seminar video worksheet

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Towards Independence (1775 -1783)

1. Declaration of Independence-original text
2. Declaration of Independence-seminar activity

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The Formation of a National Government (1777 -1791)

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Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny

1. Westward Expansion: Gone West-seminar video worksheet.doc

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The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877)

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Years of Growth: American Empire

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Discontent and Reform

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War and Prosperity (1917 - 1929)

1. Fourteen Points Speech-original text
2. Wilson Imagines a Better Future-article
   

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Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1941)

1. Depression and New Deal-seminar video worksheet

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From Isolationism to Hiroshima: World War II.

1. Conflicting Historical Viewpoints-Why Was Atom Bomb Used on Japan
2. Origins of Cold War, Diplomatic Crossroad-Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima, 1945

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Cold War and Conflict Abroad: America in the Fifties

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America in the Sixties and Early Seventies