Year 4 Government

General

• Another massive site: teachers 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 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

• Lochner Vs New York
• U.S. Constitution

Week 2: The Progressive Era

• Pollock Vs Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co.

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

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Week 4: Deadlock and Death

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Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

• The Communist Manifesto

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

• Debs Vs. U.S.

Week 7: Postwar America

• Election of 1920
• Election of 1924
• Suffrage wins in Senate

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

• The Volstead Act
• Election of 1928
• The Hoover Administration

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

• Pierce Vs The Society of Sisters

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

• Prohibition *content is good and relevant, but noticed that pop up ads exist
• 18th Amendment

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

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Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

• Read original documents about the New Deal
• Fireside Chats of FDR

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

• Wickard Vs Filburn
• The Commerce Clause

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

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Week 15: World-Wide War

• Korematsu Vs U.S.

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

• Minersville School District Vs Gobitis
• WV. Board of Education Vs Barnette

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War

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Week 18: A Jewish Homeland

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Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture

Week 19: India’s Independence

• The Partition of India

Week 20: China’s Revolution

• Mao Zedong’s Government
• President Truman’s Statement on US Policy Toward China. From the New York Times, December 15, 1945

Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare

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Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis

• McCarthyism and the Supreme court

Week 23: Conformity and Change

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Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers

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Week 25: Camelot and Crisis

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Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society

• Transformation of American Religion

Week 27: A Nation in Distress

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Unit 4 – The Postmodern World

Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate

• Roe v. Wade

Week 29: Ford’s Integrity

• Buckley v. Valeo

Week 30: Carter’s Malaise

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Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution

• Texas v. Johnson

Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order

• Employment Division v. Smith

Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity

• US v. Lopez

Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror

• Bush v. Gore

Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

Week 36: Reflections and Revelation

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