The mostly highly recommended resources are noted w/ asterisks **before & after their titles**
Topics Explored This Unit:
We are continuing to evaluate the social, cultural, economic, technological and political (domestic and international) developments of the country and how they affected different groups within and outside of the country.
Some specific topics include:
Some specific topics include:
- The Progressive Era
- American Imperialism
- WWI
- Women’s Suffrage
Unit Required Reading:
- Wiegand Intro Summary: Imperialism, Progressivism, and WWI (just overview of unit)
- American Pageant Textbook Excerpt Ch. 28 (Reading Quiz Tuesday, February 15th)
- American Pageant Textbook Excerpt Ch. 27 (Understanding tested during unit test, February 28th)
- American Pageant Textbook Excerpt Ch. 29 (Understanding tested during unit test, February 28th)
- Unit Reading Guide
Kaz's Unit Presentations
The Progressive Era - Additional Resources
If you learn best with videos;
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
- Video Review of American Pageant Chapter 28
- **Crash Course: The Progressive Er**
- **Crash Course: Progressive Era Presidents**
- **Heimler's History: Progressive Era - Goals and Effects**
- **Heimler's History: Progressive Politics, Women, and Reform**
- Heimler's History: Progressive Era - Teddy Roosevelt
- Heimler's History: Progressive Era - Woodrow Wilson
- Progressive Era Presidents - Only 7 minutes!
- Progressive Era - Muckrakers Short clip!
- Progressive Era - Social Reforms Short Clip!
- Hip Hughes: The Progressive Era in 10 minutes
- Hip Hughes: Roosevelt's Square Deal for Dummies
- Hip Hughes: The Muckrakers for Dummies
- Extra History: Teddy Roosevelt
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
American Imperialism - Additional Resources
If you learn best with video resources:
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
- **Video Review of American Pageant Chapter 27**
- **Heimler's History - Spanish America War**
- **Hip Hughes: Spanish American War**
- **Crash Course: American Imperialism**
- Queen Lili'uokalani #Unladylike History
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
America & World War I - Additional Resources
If you learn best with video resources:
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
- Video Review of American Pageant Chapter 29
- **Crash Course: America and World War I**
- **How WWI Changed America: America Goes to War**
- **How WWI Changed America: Citizenship and WWI**
- **How WWI Changed America: Selling the War**
- **How WWI Changed America: Immigrants and WWI** (watched in class)
- **How WWI Changed America: African Americans and WWI** (watched in class)
- **How WWI Changed America: Women and WWI**
- **How WWI Changed America: Native Americans and WWI**
- **How WWI Changed America: Coming Home** (watched in class)
- **How WWI Changed America: The Influenza Epidemic**
- **Supreme Court Case: Schenck v. United States**
- "Native American Code Talkers During WWI"
- History Channel: US in World War I
- Great video playlist from History Channel
- The Great War Playlist (includes multiple WWI subjects!)
- The Great War: Harlem Hell Fighters
- Extra History: Harlem Hell Fighters
- Hip Hughes: WWI in Ten Minutes
- **Crash Course: America and World War I**
- Crash Course Review: WWI
- Horrible Histories (funny): Causes of WWI
- History Channel Clips (Start, Trench Warfare, Sinking of the Lusitania! Go through the list by clicking right on the videos at the bottom)
- WatchMojo: How did it start? 2 min clip
- WatchMojo: Weapons and Technology
- WatchMojo: How did it end?
- WatchMojo: The Aftermath of the War
- WatchMojo: Which countries fought?
- WatchMojo: Treaty of Versailles
- 6 min overview: Causes, Main Events, End
- Hip Hughes: WWI in Ten Minutes
- Crash Course World History Review: WWI
If you learn with short reading summaries/charts:
- Reading review: Chapter on America and World War I
- Armenian Genocide and WWI
- Eyewitness describes American Declaration of War on Germany, 1917
- History Channel WWI Overview
- Bitesize History: WWI
- SparkNotes: WWI
- Summary Diagram (Awesome) Long Term Causes of WWI
- Summary Diagram: Another Set of Causes for WWI
- Summary Diagram: Outbreak of the First World War
- WWI Booklet from John D. Clare - SO Helpful! First link.
- Map: Europe after the First World War
- SparkNotes: Economics after WWI
- Chapter 22 from The American People textbook
- First woman elected to Congress faces agonizing choice - the vote on WWI & Jeannette Rankin
WWI: The One Thing to Remember, The History Channel:
Women's Suffrage - Additional Resources (more on this next unit as well!)
Note: Much more will be discussed next unit!