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Lesson Plan 1: High School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930) --
Standard 1:
How Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption.
Standard 3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression.



Lesson Plan 2: High School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) -- Standard 2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.


Lesson Plan 3: Middle School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s), Standard 3: The institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.


Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National Standards for History:

Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), Standard 1C: The student understands the ideology of Manifest Destiny, the nation’s expansion to the Northwest, and the Mexican-American War.




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