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Please select the following American history topics that you feel you need to learn more about to teach your history curriculum.

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Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World, European Exploration, Settlement to 1700 .

Life and Society in Colonial NH in context with Colonial America (17th & 18th c.)

Political and Social Conflicts in the Colonies, the American Revolution (1760s-1770s)

Origins of the U.S Constitution, Federalism, and Governing a New Nation (1775-1820s)

Economic Growth and Conflict in the North and South, 1800-1860

Westward Expansion, Immigration, Economic Opportunity and Change (19th c.)

 

Immigrants and Industrializing America (1820s-1920s)

Social & Political Conflicts, Reform, and the U.S. Constitution (19th and 20th c)

Please select the following documents that you feel you need to learn more about to teach your history curriculum.

Magna Carta (1215)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

John LockeÕs Treatises of Civil Government (1690)

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

The Articles of Confederation (1777)

The New Hampshire Constitution (1784)

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)

The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

The United States Constitution (1787)

Selected Federalist Papers, such as numbers 1, 9, 10, 39, 51, and 78 (1787–1788)

The Bill of Rights (1791)

George WashingtonÕs farewell address (1796)

Thomas JeffersonÕs first inaugural address (1801)

Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, Volume I (1835) and Volume II (1839)

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)

Frederick DouglassÕs Independence Day speech at Rochester, New York (1852)

Abraham LincolnÕs ÒHouse DividedÓ speech (1858)

Abraham LincolnÕs Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Emma Lazarus, ÒThe New ColossusÓ (1883)

Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)

The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles (1905)

Theodore RooseveltÕs ÒThe New NationalismÓ speech (1910)

Woodrow WilsonÕs ÒPeace Without VictoryÓ speech (1917)

Younghill Kang, East Goes West (1937)

Franklin RooseveltÕs ÒFour FreedomsÓ speech (1941)

Justice Robert M. JacksonÕs opinion for the Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) 

Learned Hand, ÒThe Spirit of LibertyÓ (1944)

The Truman Doctrine (1947)

George Kennan, ÒThe Sources of Soviet ConductÓ (1947)

John F. KennedyÕs Inaugural Address (1961)

Reverend Martin Luther KingÕs Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963)*and ÒI Have A DreamÓ speech  (1963)

Lyndon JohnsonÕs speech to Congress on voting rights (March 15, 1965)*

Ronald ReaganÕs speech at Moscow State University (1988)