Neitz – HIS/220
Potential Topics for Week 4 Slideshow
Week 1 Topics – Immigration & Expansion
European Exploration
Native American Diversity
The Colombian Exchange
Jamestown Colony
Joint-Stock Companies
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan Religious Influence
Indentured Servitude
Slavery
African-American Culture
Louisiana Purchase
Irish & German Immigration
Southern & Eastern European
Immigration
Nativism
Western Migration & Frontier
Indian Wars
Manifest Destiny
American Imperialism
Purchase of Alaska
Annexation of Hawaii
Week 2 Topics – Business & Technology
Economic Crisis in 1780s
Formation of National Bank
Industrial Revolution
Outwork System
Early Textile Mills (Lowell, MA)
Corporate Charters
Market Revolution
Canal & Railroad Innovations
Farming Inventions
Mining Boom
Telegraph & Morse Code
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line Factories
Gilded Age (corruption)
Captains of Industry
Uneven Distribution of Wealth
Labor Unions
The Great Upheaval
Skyscrapers & Electricity
Automobiles & Mass Transit
1920s Consumerism (credit)
Great Depression & New Deal
Post-War Boom & Suburbia
1970s Stagflation
1980s Reaganomics
The Information Age
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Week 3 – Political Freedom
French & Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Slavery & Slave Codes
Sectionalism (North vs South)
Popular Sovereignty
Elections of 1860 & 1864
Civil War
Allies vs Central Powers (WWI)
American Isolationism
U.S. Involvement in WWI
Creel Committee (CPI)
Alien & Sedition Acts
Women’s Suffrage
Allies vs Axis Powers (WWII)
FDR’s Four Freedoms
Pearl Harbor
Holocaust
Atomic bombs
Cold War
Containment Policy
United Nations
Week 4 – Equality vs Equity
Colonial Regions
Death of Primogeniture
Republican Motherhood
Abolitionism
Great Awakening
Utopian Movements
Victorian Values
Education Reforms
Impact of Linotype Machine
Impact of Radio
Impact of Great Depression
Contributions of Women
Contributions of Minorities
New American Middle Class
Jim Crow Laws (segregation)
24th Amendment
Poverty & Urban Ghettos
Beat Generation
Civil Rights Movement
Emergence of Youth Culture