The Shifting Size and Scope of the National Government

Unit Schedule


Writing Assignment & Associated Documents




Affordable Care Act Closing Summative Discussion


Lesson 1: Introduction to the Unit


Lesson 2: The Size and Scope of the United States Government From the Founding through the Industrial Revolution


Lesson 3: From Industrial Revolution to the Gilded Age: The Rise of Corporations


Lesson 4: From Industrial Revolution to the Gilded Age: The Effects of Corporations on American Society


Lesson 5: Labor, Workers, and Labor Unions in the Gilded Age


Lesson 6: Government in the Gilded Age


Lesson 7: Taking Stock of the Size and Scope of the Government in the Gilded Age: Formative Discussion


Lesson 8: Populism: A Critique of the Gilded Age


Lessons 9-14: Progressivism: A Critique of the Gilded Age



Green Presentations:




Yellow Presentations:


Lesson 15: The 1920s


Lesson 16: The Great Depression


Lessons 17, 18, and 19: The New Deal and New Deal Debate



New Deal As "Periodic Table"
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/pdfs/periodictablenewdeal.pdf

Lesson 20: The 1950s


Lessons 21 & 22: The 1960s & The Great Society


Lesson 23: Contradictory Conservatism in the 1970s


Lesson 24: Conservative Resurgence in the 1980s


Lesson 25: Bill Clinton and the 1990s: A Conservative Liberal?


Lesson 26: George W. Bush and the 2000s