Year 3 Government

General

• Massive site: teacher’s use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
• All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!

Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World

Week 1: When John Adams Was President

• The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man – 1789

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

• The History Guide: The Code Napoleon

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

• FAQs about the Code Napoleon. You can also follow a link here about the Code Napoleon.
• Read excerpts from the Code here.

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

• The Kentucky Resolutions

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

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Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

• Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

• Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville

Week 8: South America in Transition

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Gibbons v. Ogden

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

• Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville

Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion

Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

• Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

• Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

• Barron v. Baltimore

Week 13: Victorian England

• Democracy in America

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

• Australian government
• Definition of commonwealth
• Tocequeville

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

• Tocequeville

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

• Tocequeville

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

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Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

• 15-chapter online biography of Karl Marx. Mature Rhetoric students only.
• Spark Notes: The Communist Manifesto

Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing

Week 19: Westerners in Asia

• Fugitive Slave Act

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

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Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

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Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

• The Thirteenth Amendment
• The Civil Rights Act of 1866
• President Johnson’s Veto message of the Civil Rights Act

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

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Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

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Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

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Unit 4 – The Gilded Age

Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

• Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

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Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

• Compulsory School Attendance and Child Labor

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

• The Anglo-Saxon and the World’s Future

Week 32: Captains of Industry

• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United Sates

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

• In re Debs

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

• Cross of Gold

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

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