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  • Old vs. New Immigration
    Summary: From 1865 to 1915, approximately 25 million immigrants entered the United States. Most immigrants settled in large cities and went to work in factories, having a big impact on industrialization.
    Subject: Immigration
    Course Name: U.S. History II 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: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1887
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  • Oregon Trail
    Summary: This interactive allows students to see the forms of transportation used by the settlers heading west on the Oregon Trail.
    Subject: Westward Expansion
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 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/2188/1070
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  • Organized Labor
    Summary: Both workers and managers try to have their voices by organizing and tactics.
    Subject: Organized Labor; Industrialization; Labor; Organization; Management Tactics; American Federation of Labor; Samuel Gompers; Management; Labor Unions; Sherman Antitrust Act; Strike; Homestead Strike; Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers; 1892; Carnegie Steel Company; Henry Clay Fricke; Pullman Strike; George Pullman; 1893; Pullman Sleeping Cars
    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/2188/1866
    Is Part of: Lesson 18: The Gilded Aged: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1760
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  • Origins of the Vietname War
    Summary: This topic is about the Vietnam War.
    Subject: Vietnam War; Ho Chi Minh; French IndoChina; North Vietnam; Southeast Asia; Viet Minh; Indochina; People'S Republic Of China; Soviet Union; South Vietnam; Communism; France; Vo Nguyen Giap
    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/2188/1978
    Is Part of: Lesson 26: The United States and Vietnam, 1953-1974: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1768
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  • Other Southern Industries
    Summary: Other industries in the South subjected workers to long hours and rough conditions. The interracial cooperation in industry came into being.
    Subject: Southern Industries; Post-Civil War; Tobacco Factory; North Carolina; American Tobacco Company; African American; Women; Interracial Cooperation; Knights of Labor; United Mine Workers; Strike; Biracial Union
    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/2188/1839
    Is Part of: Lesson 16: Creating the New South: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1757
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  • Partisan Politics
    Summary: This topic discusses John Adam's presidency and the challenges he faced, with particular emphasis on the emerging Democratic-Republican Party, the XYZ Affair and foreign relations with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts and the response to the Acts with the Kentucky Resolution and Virginia Resolves.
    Subject: Kentucky Resolution; Alien and Sedition Acts; Virginia Resolution; The XYZ Affair; Adams Administration; John Adams
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; 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/2188/736
    Is Part of: Lesson 7: Creating the United States: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/995
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  • Pearl Harbor
    Summary: Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, convinced the United States to enter World War II.
    Subject: Greater East Asia Stamp; Tensions with Japan; Immigration Restriction Policies; Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; Stimson Doctrine; Henry Stimson; A Date Which Will Live in Infamy; Pearl Harbor Attack; Battleship Row
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Audio; 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/2188/1946
    Is Part of: Lesson 24: The United States and World War II: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1766
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  • Political Machines
    Summary: This topic introduces the political machines during the process of industrialization and urbanization
    Subject: Political Machine; Government Corruption; Ulysses S. Grant; Grantism; Urbanization; Democratic Tammany Hall; Laissez Faire Politics; White House; Gilded Age; Grover Cleveland; Reconstruction; Congress; Charles J. Guiteau; Assassination; Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act; 1883; Republican; Democrat
    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/2188/1867
    Is Part of: Lesson 18: The Gilded Aged: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1760
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  • Politics and Economy-American Prosperity and Consumerism
    Summary: The United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity in the 1920s. National and personal income increased, and the American standard of living became the best in the world.
    Subject: Billboards Advertising; 1920s; National and Personal Income; Economic Growth; Gilded Age Policies; Lax Standards; New Technologies; Charles Lindbergh; Transportation Advances; Henry Ford; Philosophy of Business; Scandals; Warren G. Harding; Teapot Dome; Albert Fall; Corrupt Administration; Fall’s Corruption; Transportation
    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/2188/1929
    Is Part of: Lesson 22: The Roaring Twenties: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1764
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  • Politics and Economy-Coolidge and Hoover
    Summary: The prosperity and consumption pervading the 1920s masked several underlying economic weaknesses. 
    Subject: 1924; Calvin Coolidge; keep Cool with Coolidge; Business Creed; The Election of 1928; Al Smith; Talking Pictures; 1928; Economic Weaknesses; Unemployment; 1920s; Stock Market Crash; Dorothea Lange; Radio Corporation of America; Downward Spiral; Hoover’s Reaction; Committee on Unemployment Relief; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Public Disillusionment; Hobos; The Bonus Army
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Video; 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/2188/1930
    Is Part of: Lesson 22: The Roaring Twenties: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1764
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  • Pontiac's Rebellion
    Summary: This is an interactive map of Pontiac's Rebellion. Students can highlight key battle sites.
    Subject: Native Americans; Pontiac's Rebellion
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation 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/2188/874
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  • Population Shift Between 1970 and 1990
    Summary: It is an animation of lesson 28. Find information about the population shift in the Population Shift Interactive.
    Subject: Population
    Course Name: U.S. History II 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: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/2250
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  • Populism and Expression of Sentiments
    Summary: It is a flash interation game about what Populists stood for and believed in.
    Subject: Populism; Populist Party; Expression of Sentiments
    Course Name: U.S. History II 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: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1851
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  • Portuguese Voyages
    Summary: This interactive map displays the routes of Portuguese explorers Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco de Gama.
    Subject: Portuguese Exploration; Explorers
    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/2188/883
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  • Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867
    Summary: This topic discusses Presidential Reconstruction under President Andrew Johnson and includes Joint Committee on Reconstruction Report 1866, Black Codes, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
    Subject: Presidential Reconstruction; Andrew Johnson; Black Codes; Susan B. Anthony; Fourteenth Amendment
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Animation; Image; Webpage 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/2188/744
    Is Part of: Lesson 15: Reconstruction: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1055
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  • Problems Facing the New Country
    Summary: This topic discusses problems facing the United States immediately after ratification of the Constitution, with a particular emphasis on the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Whiskey Rebellion.
    Subject: Whiskey Rebellion; Battle of Fallen Timbers
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image 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/2188/857
    Is Part of: Lesson 7: Creating the United States: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/995
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  • Proclamation Line
    Summary: This interactive map provides information on the the Proclamation Line of 1763, particularly its location in relationship to established settlements.
    Subject: Proclamation Line of 1763
    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/2188/932
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  • Proclamation Regarding Nullification
    Summary: This article presents Andrew Jackson's proclamation regarding nullification, issued on December 10, 1832.
    Subject: Nullification
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: 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/2188/1024
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  • Products from Colonial Ports
    Summary: Based on the material presented, this drag and drop interactive asks students to match a list of products to one of four seaport cities that shipped them to London and elsewhere.
    Subject: Charleston; New York; Boston; Philadelphia; Colonial Life
    Course Name: U.S. History I 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: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/895
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  • Progessive Legislation with Its Description
    Summary: Learn more about Progressivism by matching the legislation with its definition in the drag-and-drop.
    Subject: Progressive Legislation; Federal Trade Commission Act; Keating-Owen Child Labor Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; Hepburn Act; Federal Reserve Act; Underwood-Simmons Tariff
    Course Name: U.S. History II 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: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1956
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