United States History and Geography: Modern Times - Hardcover

Appleby; Brinkley; Broussard; McPherson; Ritchie

9780076608690: United States History and Geography: Modern Times

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0076608697 ISBN 13: 9780076608690

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2014

Each lesson includes a variety of print-based and digital activities designed to teach a range of skills, including: critical thinking skills, visual skills, reading skills, technology skills, and writing skills. Each chapter planner concludes with intervention and remediation strategies for every lesson, as well as online resources that can be used to help students understand the content. Each lesson ends with activities designed to help students link the content to the lessons Guiding Questions and the chapters Essential Questions special features include: analyzing primaries sources, analyzing supreme court cases, biography, thinking like a historian. Each chapter ends with a chapter assessment that includes the following: Lesson Review, 21st Century Skills, exploring the Essential Question, analyzing Historical Documents, Extended-response Question. Chapters include Creating a Nation, Settling the West, Industrialization, Urban America, Becoming a World Power, The Progressive Movement, World War I and Its Aftermath, The Jazz Age, The Great Depression Begins, Roosevelt and the New Deal, A World in Flames, America and World War II, The Cold War Begins, Post-war America, The New Frontier and the Great Society, The Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, The Politics of Protest, Politics and Economics, The Resurgence of Conservatism, A Time of Change, America's Challenges for a New Century.

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