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U.S. History Course Outline

Mr. Mitchell

Battle Ground Academy

I.                   Constitution

A.    Problems of the Articles of Confederation

B.     Constitutional Convention

C.     Three Branches of Government

II.                Washington’s Presidency

A.    Cabinet

B.     Washington’s precedents

C.     Farewell Address

III.             Jefferson’s Presidency

A.    Louisiana Purchase

B.     Embargo Act

C.     War of 1812

IV.             Jackson’s Presidency

A.    Jacksonian Democracy

B.     Jackson versus the National Bank

C.     Common Man’s President

V.                Differences in the North and the South

A.    Northern Economy

B.     Southern Economy

C.     Slave Life

VI.             Civil War and Reconstruction

A.    Differences

B.     B.  Sectional Politics

C.     Preparation for war

1.                  Advantages

2.                  Disadvantages

D.    Reconstruction

VII.          Westward Expansion

A.    Inventions and Innovations

B.     Growth of Industry

VIII.       Graft and Corruption

A.    Politics

1.                   

B.     Reform

C.     Populism

Course Outline Continued

IX.             Progressives

A.    Reform

B.     Theodore Roosevelt

C.     Woodrow Wilson

X.                World War I

A.    World Powers

B.     Alliances

C.     Treaty of Versailles

XI.             1920’s

A.    Normalcy

B.     Economic Prosperity

C.     Crash of 1929

XII.          The Great Depression and FDR

A.    The First One Hundred Days

B.     Criticisms of FDR

C.     The Second One Hundred Days

XIII.       World War II

A.    German Advances

B.     United States commits to war

C.     Creation of United Nations

XIV.       US as a World Power

A.    Return to prosperity

B.     Cold War

C.     Fight against segregation

XV.          John F. Kennedy

A.    NASA

B.     Bay of Pigs

C.     Cuban Missile Crisis

XVI.       President Johnson

A.    Great Society

B.     Vietnam