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Lesson Plans -year three
| Americanization: A Melting Pot or a Fruit Salad? Taking a closer look at early 20th century immigration and the melting pot theory |
| Progressivism - Then and Now Who were the Progressives, what issues did they chosoe as targets for reform, and what methods did they chose to address those issues? |
| Sinclair’s The Jungle As It Relates to Urbanization, Industrialization, and Immigration of the Progressive Era Analyzing Sinclair's The Jungle and the impact of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration on the immigrants and on the American population and culture. |
| Progressivism and You: Making Change Today What key issues did Progressives seek to reform and what key issues need reform today? |
| FAUX NEWS ALERT: WOMAN SUFFRAGE—A MENACE TO SOCIETY? What were the main arguments for and against Woman Suffrage in the thirty years leading up to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution? |
| Not tired, not huddled, not wretched Discovering the push-pull theory of immigration and the origins and goals of late 19th and 20th century immigrants |
| Southern Slavery What was life like for a slave in the Antebellum South? |
| Was slavery cruel? Examining the true cruelty of slavery and the justification of slave owners. |
| The True Experience of the Peculiar Institution Comparing and contrasting the portrayals of slavery in primary documents and non-fiction and fiction writing. |
| Boun' for de promised land: Harriet Tubman Evaluating the actions and decisions of Harriet Tubman |
| Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, An Insight to Slavery Through Personal Letters Illustrate the dehumanizing aspects of slavery through the letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson. |
