A Crossroads Resource

I. Crossroads Background Survey Course for Teachers of American History

Two-Semester Course Versus Trimester Course

Two-Semester CourseTrimester Course
First Semester: Contact to Reconstruction Foundings
The Americas to 1500 Contact: Europe and America Meet 1492-1620
The Founding of New Societies, 1607-1763
What Was the American Revolution? 1760-1836
The Ambiguous Democracy in America 1800-1848
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war" 1848-1880
 First Trimester:
The Americas to 1500
Contact: Europe and America Meet,1492-1620
The Founding of New Societies,1607-1763
What was the American Revolution? 1760-1836
Second Semester: Confronting the Modern World "What, then, is this American?" 1865-1900
Waves of Reform, 1880-1921
Boom and Bust, 1921-1933
The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt,1933-1945
"Leader of the Free World" 1945-1975
A Nation in Quandary, 1975--
 Second Trimester: The Nineteenth Century The Ambiguous Democracy in America, 1800-1848
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war" 1848-1880
"What, then, is this American?" 1865-1900
Third Semester: The Twentieth Century
Waves of Reform, 1880-1921
Boom and Bust, 1921-1933
The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt,1933-1945
"Leader of the Free World" 1945-1975
A Nation in Quandary, 1975--


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