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  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Summary: Shortly after Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 into law, another law "the Kansas-Nebraska Act" gripped the legislative body and renewed pressure to resolve permanently the problems regarding slavery.
    Subject: Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lewis Cass; Popular Sovereignty; Stephen A. Douglas
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage 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/2188/747
    Is Part of: Lesson 13: House Dividing: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
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  • La Amistad, Revolt for Freedom
    Summary: This case study is a reenactment of the investigation and trial of the African revolt aboard the Amistad.
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Text; Video; Animation; Image; Audio Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    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/2188/1045
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  • Labor Organizations
    Summary: This topic discusses labor organizations and the development and spread of unions.
    Subject: Economic Change; Labor Parties; Commonwealth v. Hunt; Labor Unions
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Animation; 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/2188/715
    Is Part of: Lesson 9: Growing Nation: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1000
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  • Labor Parties
    Summary: This interactive chart displays the changes in labor organizations from 1800 to 1880.
    Subject: Labor Parties
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: 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/2188/1037
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  • Land Divisions After the Treaty of Paris
    Summary: This interactive map shows the changes in French, Spanish, and British landholdings following the Treaty of Paris (which ended the French and Indian War).
    Subject: French and Indian War
    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/2188/902
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  • Land Expansion as a Result of the Louisiana Purchase
    Summary: This interactive map illustrates the expanded territory of the United States as a result of the Louisiana Purchase.
    Subject: Louisiana Purchase
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: 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/2188/905
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  • Land Laws
    Summary: This interactive allows students to test their knowledge of the land laws by matching the laws with their statements.
    Subject: Westward Expansion; Land Laws
    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/2188/1038
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  • La Salle, Building a French Empire in the New World
    Summary: This is a role playing interactive game representing La Salle's attempt to build a French Colony on the Mississippi River.
    Subject: Exploration Routes; Explorers; Sieur de la Salle; Rene-Robert Cavelier; French Colonization; Colonization
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    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/2188/978
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  • Last of the Mohicans Video Clip
    Summary: This is a video clip from the motion picture The Last of the Mohicans. It is relevant to the discussion of the French and Indian War.
    Subject: French and Indian War; American Indians; French America
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Video 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/2188/913
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  • LBJ and the Great Society
    Summary: Lyndon Johnson pledged to uphold Kennedy’s work against poverty, and many of his programs echoed the former president’s passion for helping the weakest of Americans.
    Subject: Environmentalism; Health Insurance; Water Pollution; Environmental Movement; Lyndon B. Johnson; Barry Goldwater; Volunteers in Service to America; the Office of Economic Opportunity; Head Start; Democratic Party; Republican Party; 1960s; Election
    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/2188/1990
    Is Part of: Lesson 27: The Fifties and Sixties, 1950-1968: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1769
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  • Leaders Emerge
    Summary: This topic continues the Women's Rights Movement by discussing the intense partnership between Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that led to the National American Women Sufferage Association and the first legislation supporting women's rights.
    Subject: Women's Rights; Susan B. Anthony; Antoinette Brown Blackwell; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; National American Woman Suffrage Association
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: 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/2188/709
    Is Part of: Lesson 11: American Society and Culture: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1017
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  • Leading to World War II Timeline
    Summary: It is an animation of lesson 23 about the leading to the world war II timeline.
    Subject: World War II
    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/2188/2190
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  • Learn More about Your Personality
    Summary: This is a animation about Phrenology which is the 'scientific study" of one's character, personality traits, and potential for criminality based on the shape of the head.
    Subject: Head; Personality; Phrenology
    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/2188/1774
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  • Lecompton Constitution, 1857
    Summary: In Kansas, pro-slavery forces held a constitutional convention and drew up the Lecompton Constitution in 1857. The constitution allowed Kansas to be admitted into the union as a slave state. The legislators held a citizen's vote in December and anti-slavery forces, believing that the voting was rigged, refused to participate.
    Subject: Lecompton Constitution 1857; James Buchanan; Slavery
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage 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/2188/762
    Is Part of: Lesson 13: House Dividing: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
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  • Legacy of Jacksonian Democracy
    Summary: Jackson's personality allowed him to greatly expand the president's executive powers, strengthening the position within the larger government. New standards for political involvement were set. White men could vote or run for office regardless of their class or religion.
    Subject: Andrew Jackson; Jackson Administration; The Age of the Common Man
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: 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/2188/814
    Is Part of: Lesson 10: Rise in Democracy: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1005
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  • Leisure
    Summary: This topic introduces the leisure activites in the Gilded Age
    Subject: Leisure; Culture; American Culture; Amusement Park; Carnival; Coney Island; American Leisure; Athletic Event; National Baseball League; 1876; American League; 1900; Baseball; Walter Camp; Football; Rugby; Boxing; American Football; Buffalo Bill; Wild West
    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/2188/1865
    Is Part of: Lesson 18: The Gilded Aged: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1760
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  • Lesson 10: Rise in Democracy
    Summary: This lesson covers the elections of 1824 and 1832 and presidencies of Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Martin Van Buren. Discussions of the Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Jackson's Indian Policy, and Jacksonian Democracy are covered.
    Subject: General Winfield Scott; Second Bank of the United States; Indian Removal; Seminole; John Ross; Political Parties; Native Americans; Nullification; Politics of Personality; South Carolina; Nicholas Biddle; Five Civilized Tribes; Tariff of 1832; Trail of Tears; Tariff of 1833; Treaty of New Echota; Tariff of 1828; Tariff of 1824; Suffrage; The Eaton Affair; John Ridge; Spoils System; William Henry Harrison; The Eaton Affair; Panic of 1837; Tyler Administration; Whigs; Election of 1836; William Crawford; John Tyler; Specie Circular; American System; Bank War; Anti-Masonic Party; Chief Osceola; Voting and Representation; Cherokee; Early American Democracy; Daguerrotype; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; Force Bill; John Q. Adams Administration; John C. Calhoun; John Quincy Adams; Indian Removal; Jacksonian Democracy; Election of 1824; Foreign Policies; American Indians; American Indians
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Image; Animation; Webpage; Text; Audio Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    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/2188/1005
    Is Part of: Unit 3: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1148
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  • Lesson 10: Summary
    Summary: This topic is a summary of Lesson 10: Rise in Democracy.
    Subject: Democracy; Political Parties
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Animation; Audio; 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/2188/861
    Is Part of: Lesson 10: Rise in Democracy: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1005
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  • Lesson 11: American Society and Culture
    Summary: This lesson discusses reform movements that occurred during the expansion of the United States. Topics include the Second Great Awakening, Moral Reform, Social Reform, Utopian Movement, and the American Renaissance. Women's place in society is discussed including their role in reform. Other topics include the Seneca Falls Convention, Anti-slavery Societies, and African American Women's rights.
    Subject: Moral Reform Societies; Slavery; Mormons; Anti-Slavery; Timothy Dwight; Transcendentalism; Protestantism; American Renaissance; American Art; Utopian Movement; Susan B. Anthony; Women's Rights; Temperance; Sojourner Truth; Suffrage; William Lloyd Garrison; American Colonization Society; Cult of True Womanhood; Grimke Sisters; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Antoinette Brown Blackwell; American Literature; Dred Scott Decision; Declaration of Sentiments; Army Nursing Corps; Evangelicalism; Enlightenment; Prisons; Dorothea Dix; Moral Reform; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Seneca Falls Convention; The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance; Mite Societies; Mental Institutions; Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society; Second Great Awakening; Charles Grandison Finney; Lucretia Mott
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Image; Animation; Webpage; Text; Video Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    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/2188/1017
    Is Part of: Unit 3: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1148
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  • Lesson 11: Summary
    Summary: This topic is a summary of Lesson 11: American Society and Culture.
    Subject: Abolitionism; Reform Societies
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation; 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/2188/738
    Is Part of: Lesson 11: American Society and Culture: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1017
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