Modern History CopybookGDI Basic Edition Grades K-3

E a s y C l a s s i c a l P r e s s

E a s y C l a s s i c a l W r i t i n g

Modern History CopybookGDI Basic Edition Grades K-3

By Sandra Williams

Easy Classical WritingA Division of Easy Classical Education

Winterville, NC

This book is dedicated to

My children: Jared, Mat-

thew, Emily and Jennifer

Modern History Copybook

by Sandra Williams

Published by Easy Classical Press

P. O. Box 1965

Greenville, NC 27835

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©2012 by Sandra Williams

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Cover design by Sandra Williams

Cover photo: Buzz Aldrin and the U.S. flag on the Moon: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag dur-ing an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. While astro-nauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM, the “Eagle”, to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) “Columbia” in lunar-orbit. Reference Numbers-Center: HQ; Center Number: AS11-40-5875; GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2001-000012. Website: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/AB-STRACTS/GPN-2001-000012.html, August 23, 2010.

Inside painting: The Peacemakers. Painting is an oil on canvas painted by Healy, George Peter Alexan-der in 1868. The White House Historical Association (White House Collection) Acquisition Number: 947.2558.1. Website: http://www.whitehouseresearch.org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset?id=103

Table of Contents

Contents

Week 1: James Monroe ................................................................. 2

Week 2: First Industrial Revolution .............................................. 6

Week 3: Transportation in America ............................................ 10

Week 4: Andrew Jackson and Democracy ................................... 14

Week 5: Abolitionists ................................................................. 18

Week 6: Indian Removal Act of 1830 ......................................... 22

Week 7: War with Mexico/Texas Becomes a State ....................... 26

Week 8: Trails Leading West ....................................................... 30

Week 9: Forty-niners and the California Gold Rush ................... 34

Week 10: Two Harriets ............................................................... 38

Week 11: Abraham Lincoln ........................................................ 42

Week 12: The War Between the States ........................................ 46

Week 13: The Battle of Gettysburg ............................................. 50

Week 14: Generals of the Civil War ............................................ 54

Week 15: The End of the War .................................................... 58

Week 16: Reconstructing the South ........................................... 62

Week 17: Black Leadership in the South .................................... 66

Week 18: Transcontinental Railroad ........................................... 70

Week 19: Cowboys and the West ............................................... 74

Week 20: The Last of the Indian Lands ...................................... 78

Week 21: The Spanish-American War ......................................... 82

Week 22: Theodore Roosevelt .................................................... 86

Week 23: Immigrants to America ............................................... 90

Week 24: Inventors at the Turn of the Century .......................... 94

Week 25: World War I ............................................................... 98

Week 26: Women’s Suffrage/19th Amendment ......................... 102

Week 27: The Great Depression ............................................... 106

Week 28: The Holocaust .......................................................... 110

Week 29: World War II ............................................................ 114

Week 30: Russia and Communism ........................................... 118

Week 31: Communism Hysteria and Korea ............................. 122

Week 32: The Vietnam War ..................................................... 126

Week 33: The Space Race ......................................................... 130

Week 34: The Civil Rights Movement ...................................... 134

Week 35: The End of Communism and the Cold War ............. 138

Week 36: Modern History in Review ....................................... 142

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James Monroe Quotes

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Day 2

“If America wants concessions,

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she must fight for them. We||

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must purchase our power with |

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our blood.”||||||||||||||||||||||||

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“The best form of government |

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is that which is most likely to|

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prevent the greatest sum of evil.”

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James Monroe

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