Landmarks in US history 15-KWPHUSA-LKA-11

Learning contents:

1. Regionalism in America in the Colonial period
2. "Who is the American?" – a letter from the American farmer by Crevecoeur 1782 .America as a melting pot
3. Declaration of independence – and Federalist Letters (The Utility of the Union by Alexander Hamilton) – development of American federalism
4. Indian Removal Act – Andrew Jackson -history of the relations between American federal government and Native Americans.
5. “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” – development of slavery system
6. Gettysburg Address – the Civil War
7. The significance of the Frontier in American History” – Jackson Turner: how the west was won
8. "Declaration of sentiments” 1848 Women’s Rights Convention and 19th amendment
9. “Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Points” message January 8, 1918
10. Roosevelt and The Four Freedoms (1941) – America and WWII
11. "I have Dream and Black Panthers” – Civil Rights Movement – The Butler
12. The Monroe Doctrine, (1823) James Monroe, Atlantic Charter 1941, Yalta Conference, Potsdam, Bretton Woods – building the framework for American ascendancy.
13. White men’s burden 2- American and the 3rd World after WWII
14. Truman orthodoxy - Cold War
15. 9/11 2001 – the beginning of American war on terror foreign policy