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10/28 - US Expansion Through the Mid-1800's

• Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase
• The War of 1812
• The Monroe Doctrine / Foreign Policy through
• The Transportation Revolution
• The Oregon Trail and the Gold Rush
• The Homesteaders

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11/1 - Native American Responses Through the Mid 1800's

• Native American Life in the Southeast
• Tecumseh and Red Eagle / The Creek Wars
• The Seminole Wars
• Sequoyah and the Cherokee Press
• The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

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11/4 - The Mexican-American War

• Mexican Life on the Frontier
• Flashpoints in the War
• American Dissent
• US Troops in Mexico City
• The Legacy of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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11/8 - The Economic Machine and the Reaction

• Industrial Development
• Irish and German Immigration
• The Know-Nothings
• The Anti-Renter Movement
• The Dorr Rebellion
• The Astor Place Riot

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11/11 - The Age of Reform

• Utopian Societies
• Dorthea Dix
• Horace Mann
• Emerson and Thoreau
• Religious Fervor and the Mormons

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11/15 - The Women's Rights Movement

• Lifestyles of Women in 1800's
• The Education Revolution
• The Seneca Falls Convention
• Seneca Falls 2000

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