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  Year 3: Historical Topics
Week Unit 1: Napoleon's World
1 When John Adams Was President
2 Napoleon: The Man and His Career
3 Early Industrial Revolution
4 Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
5 Jefferson and the Supreme Court
6 Madison and the War of 1812
7 Reshaping Europe and South America
8 South America in Transition
9 Monroe and the American Hemisphere
  Unit 2: The Age of Industry and Expansion
10 John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments
11 Jacksonian Democracy
12 Revolutions in Texas & Europe
13 Victorian England
14 Victorians at Home and Abroad
15 Manifest Destiny
16 Sea to Shining Sea
17 The Oregon Trail
18 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder
  Unit 3: Nations Dividing and Uniting
19 China, Japan, and the Opium Wars
20 Crimean War
21 A Nation Dividing (1848-1861)
22 Civil War I (1861-1865): Overview of the Generals, Battles, and Events; President Lincoln
23 Civil War II (1861-1865): Personalities, Portraits, and Appomattox: Lincoln Assassinated
24 Reconstruction (1865-1877): Presidents Johnson and Grant
25 The Plains Indian Wars: 1850's to 1870's
26 The Opening of the African Continent
27 Unification of Italy
Unit 4: The Gilded Age
28 Unification of Germany: The Prussian Wars
29 Overview of European Conditions: 1870-1890
30 European Imperialism after 1870
31 Immigration: Statue of Liberty; Social Darwinism & Laissez Faire Economics
32 Immigrants Who Made Good; Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
33 Immigration and Ellis Island; Inventors/Labor Issues and Trust Busters
34 Labor Issues and Trust Busters
35 George Washington Carver/Populists, Progressives, and "Muckrakers"
36 Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, Spanish-American War, Roosevelt's Early Years, and Hawaii
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