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Lessons – Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

4375 minutes

82 Items

Question Formulation Technique (QFT): Map of 1491 vs. 1754

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55 Min

Ship Technology

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55 Min

Richard Hakluyt and the Case for Undertaking Sea Voyages

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75 Min

Paideia Seminar: Christopher Columbus

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95 Min

Colonial Comparison: The Rights of Englishmen

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90 Min

Benjamin Franklin Mini DBQ

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55 Min

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45 Min

Unit 1 Civics Connection: The Colonial Origins of American Republicanism

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80 Min

Unit 1 Essay Activity

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Acts of Parliament

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85 Min

Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Mini DBQ

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85 Min

An engraving titled The Federalist Pillars. Six pillars are shown representing states, with the sixth pillar falling over. Below the pillars reads United they stand - divided fall.

The Path to Independence

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90 Min

Constitutional Convention

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90 Min

Argumentation: The Process of Compromise

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90 Min

Federalist/Anti-Federalist Debate on Congress’s Powers of Taxation DBQ

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65 Min

State Constitution Comparison

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70 Min

Argumentation: Self-Interest or Republicanism?

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80 Min

The Global Impact of the American Revolution DBQ

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90 Min

Actions of the First Congress

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95 Min

The National Bank Debate

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65 Min

Methods of Slave Resistance DBQ

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80 Min

George Washington in American Art

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65 Min

George Washington’s Views on Slavery

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The Founders’ Failure to End Slavery

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Using Political Cartoons to Understand History

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Be Washington: Whiskey Rebellion

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Unit 2 Civics Connection: An Apple of Gold in a Frame of Silver

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80 Min

Unit 2 Essay Activity

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John Marshall’s Landmark Cases DBQ

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70 Min

Changing Views of Slavery Mini-DBQ

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Responses to the Cherokee Removal Mini DBQ

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95 Min

American Indians in American Art

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The Women’s Movement and the Seneca Falls Convention

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55 Min

Panel (a) is a portrait of John Calhoun. Panel (b) is an image of the first page of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest.

Unit 3 Civics Connection: Liberty and Union

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115 Min

Unit 3 Essay Activity

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Irish and German Immigration DBQ

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50 Min

Dred Scott v. Sandford DBQ

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90 Min

John Brown: Hero or Villain? DBQ

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The Election of Lincoln and the Secession of Southern States DBQ

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90 Min

The Emergence of Black Codes DBQ

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90 Min

The Rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln DBQ

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85 Min

Comparing Impeachments across U.S. History

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75 Min

Unit 4 Civics Connection: Equality, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

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80 Min

Unit 4 Essay Activity

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The photograph shows marines lined up in a clearing surrounded by palm trees.

The Annexation of Hawaii DBQ

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100 Min

Industry and Immigration in the Gilded Age

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85 Min

Debating Industrial Progress: Andrew Carnegie vs. Henry George

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65 Min

Populists and Socialists in the Gilded Age

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75 Min

Debating Strategies for Change: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois

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65 Min

Unit 5 Civics Connection: Civil Rights and Economic Freedom

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80 Min

Unit 5 Essay Activity

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Women’s Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment

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75 Min

The Progressive Movement DBQ

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80 Min

Schenck v. United States DBQ

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80 Min

Ernest Hemingway and the Lost Generation

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90 Min

The KKK during Reconstruction vs. the KKK in the 1920s

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85 Min

The Blues and the Great Migration

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Was the Use of the Atomic Bomb Justified? DBQ

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65 Min

Korematsu v. United States and Japanese Internment DBQ

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80 Min

Unit 6 Civics Connection: The Role of Government According to the Founders and the Progressives

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60 Min

Unit 6 Civics Connection: The Constitution and Foreign Policy, 1898-1945

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70 Min

Unit 6 Essay Activity

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McCarthyism DBQ

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70 Min

Kennedy vs. Nixon: TV and Politics

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The Sound of the Suburbs

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Civil Disobedience across Time

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90 Min

The Music of the Civil Rights Movement

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Civil Rights DBQ

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A Civil Rights Investigation: Mississippi Burning

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We Shall Overcome: The Fight for Voting Rights

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Comparing Presidential Campaign Advertising 1964-1980

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95 Min

The New York Blackout of 1977

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80 Min

Vietnam War DBQ

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Unit 7 Civics Connection: Modern Liberalism, Limited Government, and Rights

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65 Min

Women walk down a city street and hold signs that say Women Demand Equality and GWU Women's Liberation.

Unit 7 Essay Activity

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Continuity and Change: Immigration in the United States

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90 Min

Security, Liberty, and the USA PATRIOT Act LLPH

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90 Min

George Washington’ Foreign Policy: Comparisons across U.S. History

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Executive Power in Times of Crisis

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Cold War DBQ (1947-1989)

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Unit 8 Civics Connection: Civil Discourse and Contentious Issues

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65 Min

Unit 8 Essay Activity

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