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  • Summary: This topic defines the Monroe Doctrine and discusses its significance.
    Subject: James Monroe; Monroe Administration; Monroe Doctrine
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/707
    Is Part of: Lesson 8: Change of Power: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/998
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  • Summary: Alarmed by what they saw as a threat to their faith, some Americans, especially southerners, began challenging recent developments in the field of the physical sciences.
    Subject: Charles Darwin; John Washington Butler; Religious Teaching; William Jennings Bryan; Social Darwinism and the Scopes Trial; John Scopes; The Trial; Clarence Darrow; William Jennings Bryan; 1950s; Scopes Monkey Trial; American Civil Liberties Union; H. L. Mencken; Inherit the Wind; 1920s
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Video; Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1925
    Is Part of: Lesson 22: The Roaring Twenties: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1764
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  • Summary: This topic discusses reform societies that were developed, predominantly by women, that promoted moral reform and temperance.
    Subject: Moral Reform; Moral Reform Societies; Temperance; The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Video; Image; Animation Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/755
    Is Part of: Lesson 11: American Society and Culture: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1017
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  • Summary: This topic introduces why people were so interested in reform at the turn of the twentieth century and what motivated them to work for change.
    Subject: Socialism; Progressivism; Galveston; Henry George; Muckraker; Herbert Croly; Texas
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1896
    Is Part of: Lesson 20: Progressivism, 1901-1917: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1762
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  • Summary: It is an animation of lesson 27. Test your knowledge in the Movers and Shakers interaction.
    Subject: Movers; Shakers
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2241
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  • Summary: It is an interactive file of lesson 23. Find out more about Eleanor’s opinions and contributions by learning about her “My Day” newspaper column in the in the My Day Blog interactive.
    Subject: Eleanor Roosevelt; My Day
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Webpage Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2187
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  • Summary: The thousands of migrants to the West showed little regard for the peoples already living in the region. Indians struggled to preserve their communities and food sources in the face of mass migration and disruption.
    Subject: Native Americans; West; Migrant; Settler; Indians; Plains Indians; Great Plains; Trail of Tears; Indian Wars; Land Ownership; Federal Policy; Sand Creek Massacre; 1864; Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek; 1867; Nez Perce; Ghost Dance; Assimilation; Extreme Makeover; Reformer
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1854
    Is Part of: Lesson 17: New Frontiers-The West: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1759
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  • Summary: It is an animation of lesson 23 about New Deal art displayed in post offices throughout the United States.
    Subject: The New Deal; Art
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2186
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  • Summary: This topic introduces the new nationalism and new freedom. Roosevelt touted a new wide-ranging program of progressive reform called The New Nationalism. Wilson ran on a platform he called the New Freedom
    Subject: Nationalism; Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson; Assassination; William Howard Taft
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1902
    Is Part of: Lesson 20: Progressivism, 1901-1917: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1762
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  • Summary: This topic includes the 1877's compromise about the future of the soutern states between Democrats and Republicans, the redemption and state goverments.
    Subject: Redeemers; Democracy; Compromise Of 1877; Democratic Party; Georgia; Reconstruction Government; Bourbon Triumvirate; Republican Party; Redemption
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1820
    Is Part of: Lesson16: Creating the New South: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1757
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  • Summary: Though Nixon was a staunch anticommunist, he set out to ease tensions with the Communist block after becoming president. 
    Subject: Richard Nixon; Cold War; People'S Republic Of China; Communist Party Of China; Communist Party Of The Soviet Union; Mao Zedong; Mao Tse-tung
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1972
    Is Part of: Lesson 25: The Cold War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1767
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  • Summary: Nixon's policies and the legacy of Watergate.
    Subject: Watergate Scandal; Richard Nixon; Tax Avoidance; Tax Evasion; George McGovern; Social Welfare Provision; New Economic Policy; Election; Supreme Court; Vietnam War; New Federalism; Impeachment
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1996
    Is Part of: Lesson 28: A Changing Nation: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1770
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  • Summary: It is an animation of lesson 28. Learn more about the justices in Nixon’s Supreme Court Appointees Interactive.
    Subject: Justice; Supreme Court
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2248
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  • Summary: This interactive flash map displays cultural information about several North American Indian groups, including the Hopewell, Mississippian, Mogollons, Hohokams, Anasazi, Iroquois, and Algonquin.
    Subject: Pre-Columbian America; American Indians; Anasazi; Hohokams; Mogollons; Mississippian; Hopewell
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 munites
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/882
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  • Summary: This topic covers the indigenous cultures of North America, including the Hopewell, Mississippian, Mogollons, Hohokams, Anasazi, Eastern Woodlands People, and Mound Builders.
    Subject: Mississippian; Hohokams; Mogollons; Hopewell; Anasazi; Pre-Columbian America; Mound Builders; Eastern Woodlands People; American Indians
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/758
    Is Part of: Lesson 1: Pre-Columbian America: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/984
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  • Summary: This drag and drop allows students to distinguish between characteristics of North and South American Indians.
    Subject: American Indians; Pre-Columbian America
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/933
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  • Summary: This covers the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. It also examines the role of religion in this region, as well as the Salem Witch Trials.
    Subject: Religion; English Colonization; Religious Tolerance; Salem Witch Trials; Northern Colonies
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation; Image Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/852
    Is Part of: Lesson 4: The Colonial Experiment: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/992
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  • Summary: Grant did not forget the importance of reducing the southern will to resist as he focused on eliminating the Confederacy's principal armies. A Union victory at Mobile closed one of the last major ports in the South, and in January 1865 Federal forces took Fort Fisher by assault. This allowed them to occupy Wilmington, North Carolina, the only port still open in the South and the one that directly supplied Lee's army at Richmond.
    Subject: Confederacy; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; U.S. Grant; Civil War
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image; Video Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/719
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Summary: It is an animation of lesson 26.
    Subject: Vietnam
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2234
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  • Summary: This topic discusses John C. Calhoun's Nullification Process in response to North Carolina's protest against the Tariff of 1828. This led to Jackson's Nullification Proclamation and the Tariffs of 1832 and 1833.
    Subject: Tariff of 1828; South Carolina; Nullification; John C. Calhoun; Tariff of 1832; Force Bill; Tariff of 1833
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/809
    Is Part of: Lesson 10: Rise in Democracy: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1005
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