Description
This year-long interactive notebook mega-bundle includes everything you need to teach about American history from Colonial America through present day.
The organizers in this resource can be used on their own, or as a supplement to student notes. Interactive notebooks are a great tool to keep students organized and engaged in the lesson!
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In this resource you will find…
• 431 graphic organizers with text on them, and others left blank for your own customization
• 158 pages of thorough suggested answers that you are free to use with these graphic organizers and flippables.
• 8 maps are also included
• Previews of each page in action for you or your students to reference.
• A cover page and table of contents for each notebook is also included.
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Material Covered:
American History INB Bundle PART 1
Colonial America Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – lost colony, meetinghouse, middle colonies, musket, New England colonies, plantation, Quakers, southern colonies, charter, House of Burgesses, great awakening, cash crops
2. Lost colony of Roanoke – location, original plans, first colony, second colony, disappearance, theories
3. Jamestown settlement – sailing to America, Jamestown, first settlers, first year, the Powhatan, John Smith, starving time
4. Plymouth Colony – why, sailing to America, the Mayflower Compact, Plymouth, first winter, the Wampanoag, Thanksgiving
5. Voyage of the Mayflower – size of the ship, route to America, life on the Mayflower, passengers, crew
6. The Thirteen Colonies – what is a colony, each of the colonies
7. Williamsburg, Virginia – Middle Plantation, William and Mary College, capital of Virginia, planned city, gunpowder incident, American Revolution, restoration
8. The Puritans – who were they, what did they believe, why did they go to America, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Great Migration, Rhode Island, Connecticut
9. King Philip’s War – who fought, where it was fought, leading up to the war, major battles & events, results and consequences
10. The French and Indian War – who fought, seven years war, where it was fought, leading up to the war, major battles & events, results and consequences
11. The Salem Witch Trials – belief in witches, how the trials started, panic, how many were killed, end of the trials
13. Who was a witch? – touch test, confession by dunking, lord’s prayer, dreams, submersion, pressing
13. Men & women’s clothing – 2 flippables to describe different pieces of clothing men and women wore
14. Daily life – on the farm vs. in the city
15. Colonial jobs – apothecary, blacksmith, cabinetmaker, cobbler, cooper, chandler, gunsmith, miller, printer, tailor, wheelwright, wig maker
16. Colonial women – education, legal status, work, maintaining a household, wealthy women, women in the city, slave women
17. Slavery in the colonies – indentured servants, beginning of slavery, jobs, clothes, homes, treatment
18. Important people – William Bradford, Henry Hudson, Pocahontas, William Penn, James Oglethorpe, John Smith, Roger Williams
Causes of the American Revolution Interactive Notebook (FREE)
1. The Stamp Act – paying for the war, no representation, reaction in the colonies, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act repealed
2. The Townshend Acts – what were they, why were they made, importance, reaction in the colonies, results
3. The Boston Massacre – what happened, after the massacre, the trials, results
4. The Boston Tea Party – what was it, why were they protesting, was it planned, cost of the tea
5. The Intolerable Acts – Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act, results
6. Continental Congress – First and second congresses, accomplishments
7. Declaration of Independence – who wrote it, agreement, July 4, 1776, signatures
American Revolution Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – colony, confederation, constitution, garrison, haversack, legislature, militia, minutemen, Parliament, Redcoat, Tory, Whigs
2. Causes of the war – French and Indian War, taxes and laws, protests in Boston, Intolerable Acts, Boston blockade, unity in the colonies, First Continental Congress, beginning of the war.
3. Sons of Liberty – who were they, how were they formed, how did they get their name, where did they meet, protesting the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, members
4. Patriots vs. Loyalists – what was a patriot/loyalist, why become a patriot/loyalist, famous patriots/loyalists
5. American military leaders – George Washington, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse, Horatio Gates, Daniel Morgan, Marquis de Lafayette, John Paul Jones
6. British military leaders – William Howe, Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis, John Burgoyne, Guy Carleton, Thomas Gage
7. Battles of Lexington & Concord – Lexington, Concord, British Retreat
8. Capture of Ticonderoga – Green Mountain Boys, capturing the fort, siege of the fort, attack on the fort
9. Battle of Bunker Hill – where, leaders, what happened, results
10. Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn) – when and where, leaders, before the battle, battle, retreat, results
11. Washington crosses the Delaware – Hessian soldiers, battle of Trenton, importance, three crossings
12. Battle of Germantown – when and where, commanders, before the battle, battle, results
13. Battles of Saratoga – leaders, before the battle, Bennington, Freeman’s farm, Bemis Heights, results
14. Battle of Yorktown – before the battle, siege of Yorktown, surrender
15. Valley Forge – where, why, American leaders, conditions
16. The Treaty of Paris – negotiations, major points, other points
17. African Americans – patriots, separate regiments, British side, American side
18. Spies – secret messages, disguises, Culper spy ring
19. Famous spies – Nathan Hale, Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull, Lydia Darragh, Benedict Arnold, Hercules Mulligan, Daniel Bissell, Nancy Hart
20. Roles of women – nurses, spies, camp followers, soldiers
21. Famous women – Abigail Adams, Kate Barry, Lydia Darragh, Mary Draper, Nancy Hart, Molly Pitcher, Betsy Ross, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Otis Warren, Martha Washington
22. Weapons – Musket, bayonet, cannon, other weapons
23. Soldiers – militia, Continental Army, number of soldiers, payment, who joined, ages, diseases and medicine, prisoners of war
Articles of Confederation Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – constitution, Articles of Confederation, compromise, Anti-Federalist, Federalist, impeachment, popular sovereignty, amendment, veto, enumerated powers, concurrent powers, shared powers
2. Articles of Confederation – who wrote them, when each state ratified them
3. 13 Articles – summarize each of the 13 Articles
4. Strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
5. Constitutional Convention – purpose, president, draft, signing, ratification
6. Proposed plans – Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Hamilton’s Plan, Pinckney’s Plan, the Great Compromise
7. Branches of government – executive, legislative, judicial
8. Checks and balances – separation of powers, checks on the branches, power of the states
9. Bill of Rights – summarize each of the 10 amendments
Early American Republic Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – domestic policy foreign policy, neutrality, impressment, factory system, cabinet, internal improvements, John Marshall, nationalism, precedent, Nonintercourse Act, tariff
2. Washington’s administration – inauguration, cabinet, District of Columbia, Northwest Indian War, economic policy, foreign affairs, farewell address
3. Party System – Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
4. Whiskey Rebellion – whiskey tax, grievances, resistance, insurrection, federal response
5. Adams administration – election of 1796, presidency, cabinet, quasi-war with France, Alien and Sedition Acts
6. XYZ Affair – commission to France, reaction in the U.S., reaction in France, treaty
7. Jefferson Administration – elections of 1800 and 1804, cabinet, domestic and foreign policies
8. Louisiana Purchase – more land, cost, size, borders, opposition
9. Lewis & Clark Expedition – Lewis & Clark, exploration, Native American encounters, the Great Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Ocean, accomplishments
10. Marbury v. Madison – Judiciary Acts of 1789, 1801, and 1802, Adams appoints Marbury, Jefferson denies Marbury, decision
11. McCulloch v. Maryland – 1816 Act, case, decision
12. Gibbons v. Ogden – background, case, decision
13. First Industrial Revolution – duration, cultural changes, transportation, working conditions
14. Burr-Hamilton duel – background, Burr’s intentions, Hamilton’s intentions, aftermath, anti-dueling movement
15. War of 1812 – causes, leaders, U.S. attacks Canada, U.S. victories, British fight back, Battle of Baltimore, Battle of New Orleans, peace
16. Era of Good Feelings – post-war nationalism, Great Goodwill Tour, Monroe and political parties
17. Monroe Doctrine – main points, why, long-term effects
American History INB Bundle PART 2
Age of Jackson Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – Jacksonian democracy, spoils system, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, nullification, secession, depression, inflation, Panic of 1837, Donner Party, Forty-Niners, Whig party
2. Second party system – Democratic party, Whig party, leaders of each party
3. Jackson’s presidency – petticoat affair, purging corruption, spoils system, foreign affairs, removal of deposits and censure, assassination attempt
4. Indian Removal Act – background, five civilized tribes, support, opposition, passage, implementation
5. Trail of Tears – Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee
6. Seminole Wars
7. Nullification Crisis – background, tariffs, South Carolina, tariff of 1832
8. Bank war – background, veto, election of 1832
9. Jacksonian democracy – philosophy, common man, new Democratic party
10. Second Great Awakening – theology, burned-over district, camp meetings, church membership
Industrial Revolution Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – industrial revolution, breaker boy, Bessemer process, cottage industry, cotton gin, labor union, luddites, spinning jenny, strike, textile, telegraph, working class
2. Origins – first and second Industrial Revolution
3. Famous people – Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Robert Fulton, John D. Rockefeller, Eli Whitney
4. Inventions – steam power, electricity, textile technology, communication, transportation
5. Steam Engine – how it works, importance, invention, today
6. Factory system – before, centralized workplace, division of labor, unskilled workers, standardized parts, women and children, society
7. Transportation – steamboats, canals, railroads, roads
8. Erie Canal – length, building, importance
9. Labor unions – purpose, improvements, first unions, great railroad strike of 1877, homestead steel mill strike of 1892, Pullman strike of 1894
10. Working conditions – long days, unsafe facilities, dangerous work, living conditions, government regulation
11. Child labor – jobs, money, how many children, end
12. Women – Lowell mill girls, away from the farm, wages, civil war, women’s rights movement
Westward Expansion Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – bronco, boomtown, cattle drive, cowboy, frontier, ghost town, gunslinger, manifest destiny, Northwest Territory, pioneer, reservations, telegraph
2. California gold rush – gold found, forty niners, panning for gold, supplies
3. Transcontinental Railroad – route, pacific railroad act, building the railroad, workers, the golden spike
4. The Homestead Act – the law, opportunity, land rush, sooners
5. Louisiana Purchase – more land, cost, size, borders, opposition
6. Mexican-American War – background, Texas becomes a state, war with Mexico, capture of Mexico city, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
7. Battle of the Alamo – the Alamo, before the battle, leaders, the battle, aftermath
8. Oregon Trail – route, covered wagons, dangers, supplies
9. Pony Express – how it worked, route, riders, duration, end
10. Daily Life – work, frontier women, children, education, entertainment, log cabins
11. Famous People – Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Lewis and Clark, Annie Oakley, James K. Polk, Sacagawea, Thomas Jefferson
12. Famous gunfighters – Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Wyatt Earp, The Wild Bunch
Civil War Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – abolitionist, antebellum, bayonet, commutation, copperhead, Dixie, Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave Law, Mason-Dixon Line, plantation, sectionalism, Yankee
2. Causes of the Civil War – slavery, industry vs. farming, states’ rights, expansion, bleeding Kansas, President Lincoln, secession
3. Slavery – beginning, slaves from Africa, slave codes, slave vs. free states, underground railroad
4. Underground Railroad – railroad terms, workers, travel, danger, duration, escaped slaves, Fugitive Slave Act
5. Harpers Ferry raid – John Brown, plan, raid, capture, consequences
6. The South Secedes – South Carolina, leaders, Confederate States of America
7. Border States – Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, West Virginia
8. Union generals – Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Hooker, Winfield Scott Hancock, George Thomas
9. Confederate generals – Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, P.G.T. Beauregard, Joseph Johnson
10. Important people – Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, Dorthea Dix, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Eli Whitney
11. Daily Life – life, poor men, women at home, war in the South, children in the army
12. Life as a soldier – typical day, medical conditions, age, food, pay
13. Uniforms – start of the war, confusion on the battlefield, Union and Confederate uniforms, weapons, gear
14. African Americans – not allowed to fight, African American soldiers, first black regiments, African Americans in the South
15. Civil War spies – Union & Confederate spy networks, famous Union and Confederate spies
16. Medicine – hospitals, doctors, infection, treatments, disease
17. Weapons and technology – rifles and muskets, hand to hand combat, cannons, submarines and ironclads, balloons, the telegraph, railroads
18. Submarines – use, first submarines, H.L. Hunley, crew, weapons, air, sinking a ship, Hunley sinks
19. Union blockade – duration, the anaconda plan, cotton for weapons, how it worked, getting through the blockade, results
20. Battle of Fort Sumter – Fort Sumter, leaders, before the battle, the battle
21. 1st Battle of Bull Run – when, leaders, the battle, results
22. Battle of the Ironclads – the Merrimack, the Monitor, the battle, results
23. Battle of Shiloh – before the battle, Confederate plan, the battle, the hornet’s nest, results
24. Battle of Antietam – Robert E. Lee on the offensive, the battle, results
25. Battle of Fredericksburg – before the battle, the battle, results
26. Battle of Chancellorsville – before the battle, the battle, results
27. Siege of Vicksburg – importance of Vicksburg, before the battle, the battle, results
28. Battle of Gettysburg – the battle, results, the Gettysburg Address
29. Sherman’s March to the Sea – before the march, march to Savannah, taking Savannah
30. Emancipation Proclamation – freeing the slaves, why wait, the 13th Amendment
31. Robert E. Lee Surrenders – before the surrender, surrender, terms, the Southern army, Jefferson Davis captured, the war over
32. President Lincoln’s assassination – location, how he was killed, conspiracy, Booth captured
Reconstruction Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, scalawags, sharecropper, amnesty, freedmen, impeach, cash crops, segregation, lynching
2. Important people – Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Oliver O. Howard, Hiram Revels, Blanch K. Bruce, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis
3. Lincoln’s Plan – ten percent plan, proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, readmission to the Union, support
4. Andrew Johnson’s Plan – Presidential reconstruction, readmission to the Union
5. Radical Reconstruction – Congressional reconstruction, reconstruction acts, readmission to the Union
6. Johnson’s impeachment – reason, vote
7. Ulysses S. Grant administration – accomplishments, corruption
8. Reconstruction amendments – 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
9. Sharecropping – origins, how it worked, result, end
10. Black codes – purpose, Mississippi, examples, vagrancy laws, northern reaction, purpose
11. Black suffrage – grandfather clause, literacy test, poll tax
12. The Ku Klux Klan – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Klan
13. Freedmen’s Bureau – goal, achievements, education, end of the bureau
14. Ending Reconstruction – President Grant, election of 1876, result
American History INB Bundle PART 3
Gilded Age Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – Gilded Age, half-breed, stalwart, Gospel of Wealth, bloody-shirt, tweed ring, crop-lien system, assembly line, trust, injunction, Social Darwinism, progressives
2. Important people – Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, George Washington Plunkitt, George Pullman, Eugene Debs, Frank Norris, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Thomas Nast
3. Transcontinental Railroad – route, Pacific Railroad Act, building the railroad, the workers, the golden spike
4. Steel Industry – Carnegie, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel
5. Robber barons & monopolies – robber baron, famous robber barons, monopolies, government regulation
6. Child labor – jobs, money, number of children, end of child labor
7. Labor unions – purpose, improvements, first unions, great railroad strike of 1877, homestead steel mill strike of 1892, Pullman strike of 1894
8. Gold vs. Silver – gold standard, problem with gold, banks, farmers, gold standard act
9. Immigration – old vs new immigration
10. Urban life – transportation, tenement housing, disease, sanitary conditions, crime
11. Rural life – homestead act, land cultivation, Grange Movement
12. The “New South” – rural society, race relations, model
13. Settling the West – after the Civil War, Native assimilation, Oklahoma land rush
14. Grant’s Presidency – reluctance, cabinet choices, reconstruction & civil rights, Indian peace policy, accomplishments, corruption, result
15. Haye’s Presidency – election, civil service reform, Indian policy, foreign affairs
16. Garfield’s Presidency – reforms, civil rights, foreign policy, assassination
17. Arthur’s Presidency – civil service reform, immigration, health
18. Cleveland’s Presidency – first & second term
19. Harrison’s Presidency – pensions, antitrust laws, civil rights, Indian policy, foreign policy, civil service reform
20. McKinley’s Presidency – Spanish-American War, territorial gain, pluralism, election of 1900, assassination
U.S. Imperialism Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – imperialism, sphere of influence, Boxer Rebellion, protectorate, Pan Americanism, isolationism, yellow journalism, rough riders, Roosevelt Corollary, Platt Amendment, annexation, Foraker Act
2. Venezuelan crisis of 1895 – background, crisis, arbitration, result
3. Annexation of Hawaii – background, coup d’etat, result,
4. Spanish American War – background, Cuban struggle for independence, Pacific theater, peace, aftermath
5. Philippine-American War – other names, background, origins, American strategy, Filipino strategy, guerrilla warfare, casualties, political atmosphere, end of the war, aftermath
6. Open door policy – background, spheres of influence, the policy, enforcement, second policy, result
7. Boxer Rebellion – background, boxer war, invasion of Manchuria, massacre of Christians, aftermath, consequences
8. Election of 1900 – republican & democratic nominations, campaign, results
9. McKinley’s Presidency – Spanish-American War, territorial gain, pluralism, election of 1900, assassination
10. Roosevelt’s Presidency – domestic policies, foreign policies, election of 1904, second term
11. Panama Canal – early attempts, U.S. acquisition, construction
12. Taft’s Presidency – foreign policy, domestic policy, judicial appointments, after the presidency
13. Dollar diplomacy – definition, in China, in the Caribbean
14. Wilson’s Presidency – first term, election of 1916, second term, foreign policy
15. Big stick diplomacy – definition, Cuba, Venezuela
16. Missionary diplomacy – definition, during Wilson’s Presidency, influence
17. Yellow journalism – definition, origins, 5 characteristics
Progressive Era Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – Progressive era, muckrakers, social welfare, political machine, temperance, prohibition, Socialist Party, settlement house, Bull Moose Party, populists, suffragists, cprruption
2. Political reform – 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th amendments
3. Progressive Presidents – Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
4. Women’s suffrage – background, Seneca Falls, NAWSA, Stanton & Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, the movement splits, 19th amendment
5. Child labor – background, failed laws, state laws, fair labor standards act
6. Philanthropy – the Gospel of Wealth, private foundations, American Red Cross
7. Muckrakers – background, pressure, magazines, the term “muckrakers,” impact
8. Famous muckrakers – Ray Stannard Baker, Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, Jacob Riis, Will Irwin, Chrles Edward Russel, William English Walling
9. Labor unions – purpose, improvements, first unions, great railroad strike of 1877, homestead steel mill strike of 1892, pullman strike of 1894
10. Temperance movement – American Temperance Society, success, support from religious groups, 18th amendment
11. Prohibition – bootleggers, speakeasies, organized crime, end of Prohibition
12. Pure food & drug – dangerous drugs, passage of the act, Upton Sinclair & The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Food & Drug Administration, enforcement
13. Economic policy – 16th amendment, interstate commerce act, sherman antitrust act, underwood tariff, clayton antitrust act, federal reserve system, Henry Ford & the Model T
World War I Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – armistice, Balkans, big four, blockade, Bolsheviks, conscript, doughboy, duckboards, dreadnought, front line, no man’s land, U-Boat
2. Causes of the war – alliances, imperialism, assassination, declarations of war
3. Assassination of Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand, before the assassination, assassination, start of WWI
4. Allied powers – France, Britain, Russia, U.S., other allies
5. Central powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
6. Battle of Tannenberg – Tannenberg, armies, battle, results
7. First battle of the Marne – armies, before the battle, battle, results
8. Trench warfare – how they were built, no man’s land, conditions, life in the trenches
9. Battle of Somme – armies, before the battle, artillery barrage, battle
10. Russian Revolution – Russian Tsar, Bloody Sunday, World War I, February Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, results
11. Sinking of the Lusitania – Lusitania, before the attack, Lusitania departs, German attack, Lusitania sinks, results
12. American involvement – remaining neutral, sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, declaring war, U.S. troops in Europe, Wilson’s 14 points, after the war
13. Famous leaders – Georges Clemenceau, Franz Josef, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Red Baron, Tsar Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Mehmed V
14. Aviation – reconnaissance, bombings, machine guns, famous fighter pilots
15. Modern warfare – airplanes, tanks, trench warfare, naval warfare, new weapons
16. Christmas truce – where, actions, response
17. Wilson’s 14 points – purpose, summary, reactions
18. End of the war – final battles, armistice, treaty negotiations, Treaty of Versailles, new borders, League of Nations
Roaring 20s & Great Depression Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – roaring 20s, flapper, prohibition, speakeasy, bootlegger, Harlem Renaissance, Black Tuesday, Black Sunday, deflation, depression, inflation, Social Security Act
2. Jazz age – origins of jazz, beginning, radio, youth, women
3. Fashion – influences, evolution of the flapper, behavior, image, appearance
4. Temperance movement – American Temperance Society, success, support from religious groups, 18th amendment
5. Prohibition – bootleggers, speakeasies, organized crime, end of Prohibition
6. Lost generation – famous members, literary themes, other uses for the term
7. Harlem Renaissance – background, religion, music, themes
8. New technologies – automobiles, radio, cinema, aviation, television, penicillin
9. Causes of the Great Depression – Stock Market crash, farmers struggle, borrowing, over-production, banking system, world debt & trade
10. Stock market crash – before the crash, the crash, the Great Depression, recovery
11. Bonus army – demands, march on Washington, camp, Congress, Hoover & the army, aftermath
12. Dust Bowl – cause, dust storms, black Sunday, farmers, okies, government aid
13. 1st New Deal – first 100 days, banking reform, stock market, prohibition, public works, farm programs, housing, emergency relief
14. 2nd New Deal – social security, works progress administration
15. City life – food, soup kitchens, clothes, school, Hoovervilles
16. Hoovervilles – name, occupants, conditions, size, hobos, end of Hoovervilles
17. Farm life – food, clothes, entertainment, school, dust storms, migration
18. Fireside chats – name, subjects, first chat, popularity
19. Empire State Building – design, construction, completion
20. Famous people – Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, Amelia Earhart, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. End of the Great Depression – causes, legacy, New Deal, public works
World War II Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – appeasement, Blitzkrieg, Concentration Camp, D-Day, Fascism, Fuhrer, Final Solution, Gestapo, Holocaust, kamikaze, Manhattan Project, eastern front
2. Allied powers – original members, Russia joins, U.S. joins, allied leaders
3. Axis powers – formation, leaders, other Axis countries
4. Causes of WWII – Treaty of Versailles, Japanese expansion, fascism, Hitler & the Nazi party, appeasement, Great Depression
5. Important people – Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Hirohito, Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgy Zhukov, Vasily Chukov, Chiang Kai-Shek, Mao Zedong, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goring, Erwin Rommel, Victor Emmanuel III, Ugo Cavallero, Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Osami Nagano
6. Battle of Britain – duration, name, battle, battle of Britain day
7. Battle of the Atlantic – location, duration, early battles, allied convoys, fighting U-Boats, turning point, result
8. Pearl Harbor – location, before the attack, attack, result
9. Battle of Stalingrad – Stalingrad, duration, battle, surrender, soldiers
10. Battle of Normandy – before the battle, confusion, weather, invasion, result
11. Battle of the Bulge – duration, location, battle, result
12. Battle of Berlin – duration, armies, Soviet attack, German surrender
13. Battle of Midway – location, Japanese attack, surprise, results
14. Battle of Guadalcanal – location, before the battle, battle
15. Battle of Iwo Jima – location, duration, battle, raising the flag
16. The Holocaust – why? ghettos, concentration camps, hiding
17. Japanese internment camps – internment camps, Japanese-Americans, life in the camps, end, government apology
18. Bataan death march – location, before the march, the march, end
19. The atomic bomb – Albert Einstein, Manhattan Project, first atomic bomb, decision, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
20. U.S. home front – rationing, women, propaganda
21. African Americans – segregation, jobs, Tuskegee Airmen, 761st Battalion, desegregation
22. Aircraft – major battles, fighters, bombers, aircraft carriers, transport
23. War crime trials – war crimes, Nuremberg Trials, Tokyo Trials, other trials
24. Marshall Plan – fear of communism, Marshall Plan, success
25. After the war – Europe, Japan & East Asia, war crimes, United Nations, Cold War
American History INB Bundle PART 4
Cold War Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – arms race, capitalism, communism, détente, Eisenhower Doctrine, Iron Curtain, McCarthyism, proxy war, red scare, space race, Truman Doctrine, Warsaw Pact
2. Western leaders – Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher
3. Communism – history, Russia, China, results
4. Arms race – nuclear weapons, arms race, ICBMs, defense, other countries, arms reduction talks, end
5. Space Race – beginning, orbit, race to the moon, Gemini program, man on the moon, end
6. Berlin airlift – tensions, blockading Berlin, airlift
7. Suez Crisis – Suez Canal, Naser & Egypt, seizing the canal, Israel attack, end, results
8. Red scare – 1st red scare, 2nd red scare, government
9. McCarthyism – origins, executive branch, congress, blacklists, laws, McCarran Internal Security Act, Communist Control Act, popular support, communist portrayals, victims
10. Berlin Wall – background, defections, building the wall, wall torn down
11. Bay of Pigs – background, plan, invasion, results
12. Cuban Missile Crisis – background, crisis begins, blockade, negotiations
13. Détente with USSR – red telephone, SALT I, SALT II, Helsinki Accords, end of détente
14. Korean War – background, North Korea attacks, war, battle of Inchon, China enters, 38th parallel, end
15. Vietnam War – background, containment, US enters, Johnson’s war plan, US exits, proxy war
16. Chinese Civil War – background, civil war begins, Ten Years Civil War, long march, WWII, civil war resumes, end of fighting
17. Yom Kippur War – other countries, war begins, counterattack, end
18. Soviet Afghanistan War – background, war begins, war, end
19. Soviet Union Collapse – Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost, Perestroika, Baltic nationalists, attempted takeover, breakup
Civil Rights Movement Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – civil rights movement, segregation, nonviolence, civil disobedience, NAACP, Black Panthers, Kerner Commission, Freedom Summer, boycott, De Jure Segregation, De Facto Segregation, black codes
2. Leaders – Ruby Bridges, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X
3. Jim Crow laws – when they began, grandfather clause, end of Jim Crow
4. Brown v. Board of Education – arguments against segregation, ruling, resistance
5. Emmett Till – encounter with Carolyn Bryant, lynching, funeral & reaction, trial, later events
6. Montgomery bus boycott – Rosa Parks, the boycott, Martin Luther King Jr., working together, backlash, duration, results
7. Little Rock Nine – integration, Little Rock Nine, first day of school, armed escort, attending school, results
8. Sit-ins – NAACP youth council, purpose, first sit-ins, results
9. Freedom Riders – purpose, CORE, danger, freedom rides, results
10. Birmingham Campaign – planning, project C, arrests, letter from Birmingham jail, youth protests, agreement, violence, results
11. March on Washington – purpose, plan, marchers, I have a dream speech, results
12. Martin Luther King Jr. – early life, Montgomery bus boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, march on Washington, Selma voting rights, FBI & personal life, assassination, legacy
13. Malcolm X – early life, nation of Islam, after nation of Islam, pilgrimage & travel, death threats, assassination
14. Civil Rights Act of 1964 – John F. Kennedy, becoming law, main points
15. Harlem Riot of 1964 – purpose, people, location, riot, aftermath
16. Selma voting rights – MLK Jr. in Selma, Selma to Montgomery, Bloody Sunday
17. Voting Rights Act of 1965 – history, provisions, impact
18. Civil Rights Act of 1968 – context, types of discrimination, later changes
19. Kennedy administration – domestic policy, civil liberties, immigration, Native Americans, assassination
19. Johnson administration – Vice Presidency, becoming president, civil rights movement, immigration, education, war on poverty
1950s & 1960s Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – McCarthyism, duck and cover, fallout shelter, National Highway Act, Sputnik, Fair Deal, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Alliance for Progress, Vietnamization, New Frontier, Apollo 11
2. Cold War – Korean War, Suez Crisis, the Americas, Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Crisis, Vietnam War
3. McCarthyism – origins, executive branch, congress, blacklists, laws, McCarran Internal Security Act, Communist Control Act, popular support, communist portrayals, victims
4. Baby Boom – background, marriage rates, family sizes
5. Truman administration – founding the U.N., Cold War, Marshall Plan, China, NATO, Israel, GI Bill, civil rights, Fair Deal, constitutional amendments
6. Eisenhower administration – New Look Policy, Cold War, Eisenhower Doctrine, nonpartisanship, immigration, civil rights, interstate system, labor unions, constitutional amendments
7. Society – capitalism & consumerism, suburbia, women’s fashion, music, movies, television
8. Civil Rights Movement – Montgomery bus boycott, Little Rock Nine, sit-ins, freedom riders, Birmingham Campaign, march on Washington, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Harlem Riots, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Civil Rights Act of 1968
9. Great Society – civil rights, war on poverty, education, Medicare & Medicaid, welfare, consumer protection, environmental policies, labor unions, constitutional amendments
10. Anti-War movement – the draft, students, arts, women, African Americans, Asian Americans
11. Stonewall Riots – background, riots, aftermath, legacy
12. Kennedy administration – 1960 election, judicial appointments, economy, civil rights, space policy, Peace Corps, Cold War
13. Kennedy Assassination – background, Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination, funeral, conspiracy theories, reactions
14. Johnson administration – inauguration, civil rights, Great Society, health care, immigration, space program, Cold War
15. Space Race – start, orbit, race to the moon, Gemini program, man on the moon, end
1970s & 1980s Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – stagflation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Yom Kippur War, Viet Cong, New Federalism, War on Drugs, Equal Rights Amendment, Camp David Accords, détente
2. Nixon administration – foreign policy, domestic policy, space policy
3. Vietnam War – before Nixon, Nixon Doctrine, U.S. opposition, Paris Peace Accords
4. Watergate scandal – wiretaps, cover-ups, impeachment, smoking gun tape, releasing the tapes, resignation, pardon
5. 1973 oil crisis – OPEC, background, embargo, effects, decline of OPEC
6. Détente with USSR – red telephone, SALT I, SALT II, Helsinki Accords, end of détente
7. Three Mile Island accident – accident, emergency declared, evacuation, cleanup, health effects
8. Second Cold War – Soviet Afghanistan War, Raegan & Thatcher, military and economic issues
9. Ford administration – Nixon pardon, domestic affairs, foreign affairs, assassination attempts
10. Carter administration – domestic policy, foreign policy, 1980 Presidential campaign
11. Panama Canal treaties – background, ratification, criticism, implementation
12. Iran hostage crisis – background, rescue attempts, 444-day crisis, aftermath
13. Raegan administration – major legislation, domestic policy, foreign policy, Raegan Doctrine, fall of the Berlin Wall, assassination attempt
1990s to Present Interactive Notebook
1. Key vocabulary – Americans with Disabilities Act, internet, World Wide Web, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, NAFTA, AmeriCorps, Al-Qaeda, War on Terror, Taliban, Saddam Hussein, Great Recession, jihad
2. Dot-Com Boom – growth, get big fast, peak, telecoms crash, stock market downturn, surviving companies
3. 1990s economic boom – background, Federal government, end, legacy
4. Gulf War – other names, background, invasion of Kuwait, war begins, war on the ground, aftermath
5. Early terrorist attacks – World Trade Center, Khobar Towers, U.S. embassies, USS Cole
6. September 11th – Al-Qaeda, attacks, damage, aftermath
7. War in Afghanistan – background, after 9/11, invasion, Taliban resurgence, Obama, Osama bin Laden, withdrawal
8. Iraq War – background, invasion, controversy, occupation, withdrawal, ISIS
9. H.W. Bush administration – domestic policy, foreign policy, NAFTA, 1992 Presidential election
10. Carter administration – domestic policy, foreign policy, 1980 Presidential campaign
11. Clinton administration – first term, Lewinsky scandal, impeachment, second term
12. W. Bush administration – domestic policy, foreign policy, assassination attempt
13. Obama administration – domestic policy, foreign policy, 2012 Presidential election
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