American History

Research basic information about the four presidential elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944) to complete Presidential Election - Organizing Information Chart.

Using the primary sources provided, students will work in groups to evaluate four options available to President Truman to end the war in Japan and to end the Second World War.

Students will look at a campaign button from losing candidate Dewey in the 1948 election. They will then weigh the merits of using the slogan in a short writing assignment.

Students will debate the achievements of the Presidents.

Document analysis and DBQ Essay on the Cold War.

This lesson will allow students to evaluate the use of propaganda during presidential election years.

Students will work individually or in pairs to analyze Norman Rockwell's Family Squabble.

Students will be able to analyze one or more primary sources in order to take and defend a position on the World War Two atomic bombing in Japan.

Have the students research the phrase, find the document where it originally appeared, discuss its origin or what the people who first used it were trying to accomplish/say.

Students will review primary source documents, secondary resources and related news articles and current events relating to the events and impact of the test of the atomic bomb at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.