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8th Grade ~ Areas Of Study History Of The United States
 * Essential Question For The Year**: What is the role of the United States in the global community?

a. Echoes of the conflict throughout modern U.S. history
 * I. Review of the Civil War **

a. Relationship of the North and South (1865-1877) b. Role of black codes, Jim Crow laws, Freedman’s Bureau, and Amendments
 * II. Reconstruction **

a. Productivity, immigration, and invention b. Vertical and horizontal integration, anti-trust laws, and robber barons
 * III. Industrial America (1860-1900) **

a. Differences in wealth: the new rich and the urban poor b. Corruption in society and laissez-faire government
 * IV. Gilded Age **

a. Lives of settlers; development of industry; interpretations of the region b. Changing relationships with Native Americans
 * V. The Frontier and Western migration **

a. Expansionist policy, new market exploration, and entrance into the Pacific
 * VI. United States as a world force **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Emergence of the United States as a global power <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Impact of growing alliances, nationalism, and technologies across Europe
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VII. World War I (1914-1918) **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Causes and effects of post-war boom; mood of government and society <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Flourishing of art, fashion, music, and inventions during the time
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VIII. The Roaring Twenties **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Causes of the collapse; Hoover and the early years <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Roosevelt and the New Deal
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">IX. The Great Depression **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Rise of dictators in Europe and Asia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Turning points, technologies, effort on the home front, and the Holocaust
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">X. World War II (1941-1945) **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. The rise of communism; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan & containment <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. The nuclear age and the arms race
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XI. Post-War Period – Seeds of the Cold War **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Korea, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and pivotal moments <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Civil Rights: leaders and legislation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XII. The Cold War **

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