U.S. History Overview Game Project
Criteria
· 1 Test Grades
· Student will design a game and lead their classmates in the game.
o Board game
o Family Feud
o Dominos
o Sports
o Etc., Be creative
· Game must include information about specific items listed for topic. Each group will research and find information to formulate into the game. Not everything will be a definition, so think in terms of effects and impacts on the U.S. Each member of your group should understand the concepts associated with the information and how it pertains to the development of the U.S. The game should be challenging enough so your classmates understand the big picture also.
· The game must be playable by all members of the class. It may be all individual players, a small number of groups, or many groups. The greater the participation of each student, the higher possible grade awarded. Games such as trash ball with two teams and only two students participating at a time will not receive a grade higher than a 70.
· This will be an extremely fun and learning project with a little effort on your part. I will give you lots of class time, please give me your best.
· Have fun!
Topics:
1969-2000
Industrialization and the Gilded Age
America Builds an Empire
America in WWI
America in WWII
Background to the US
Society in Transition
The 60’s
The Civil Rights Movement
The Cold War
The Great Depression and New Deal
The Progressives
The Roaring 20’s
Expansionism/Great Depression
Free enterprise
Cattle boom
Growth of Labor Unions
Industrialization
Political machines
Indian policies
Transcontinental railroad
Homestead Act
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Immigration Quotas
Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Stock Market Speculation
Bank Failures
New Deal
FDIC
SEC
SSA
Electrical power
Telephone
Satellite Communication
Steel production
Computers
Assembly Line
Time-Study Analysis
Robotics
Immigration
Social Darwinism
Eugenics
Nativism
Red Scare
Prohibition
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Ford
Glenn Curtis
Marcus Garvey
Charles Lindbergh
Urbanization
Social Gospel
Emergence of U.S. as World Power/Reform in the U.S.
Spanish-American War
Guam
Hawaii
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Henry Cabot Lodge
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
Sanford B. Dole
Causes of WWI
U.S. entry into WWI
American Expeditionary Forces
John J. Pershing
Machine guns
Airplanes
Tanks
Poison gas
Trench warfare
Isolationism
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
Battle of the Argonne Forest
Progressive Party
Populist Party
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
Susan B. Anthony
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Dubois
Interstate Commerce Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
World War II
Dictatorships
Pearl Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
U.S. Office of War Information
Holocaust
German, Italian, and Japanese American internment
Executive Order 9066
Conventional and Atomic Bombs
Battle of Midway
Island hopping
Bataan Death March
Invasion of Normandy
Multiple Fronts
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas McArthur
Chester A. Nimitz
George Marshall
George Patton
Volunteerism
War Bonds
Victory Gardens
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers
Rationing
GI Bill
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK
Arms Race
Space Race
McCarthyism
HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee)
Venona Papers
Domino Theory
Vietnam War
Tet Offensive
Escalation of forces
Vietnamization
Fall of Saigon
Draft
26th Amendment
Role of the media
Credibility Gap
Silent Majority
Anti-war Movement
Civil Rights
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Political organizations
Martin Luther King JR. and his famous speeches
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Hector P. Garcia
Betty Friedan
Black Panthers
Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
George Wallace
Orval Faubus
Lester Maddox
Brown v. Board of Education
Mendez v. Westminster
Hernandez v. Texas
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
Sweatt v. Painter
Plessy v. Ferguson
Great Society
Affirmative Action
Title IX
1970-Present
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Reaganomics
Peace through Strength
Camp David Accords
Iran-Contra Affair
Marines in Lebanon
Iran Hostage Crisis
Phyllis Schlafly
Contract with America
Heritage Foundation
Moral Majority
National Rifle Association
Persian Gulf War
Balkans Crisis
9/11
Global War on Terror
2008 Presidential Election
Bill Gates
Sam Walton
Estee Lauder
Robert Johnson
Lionel Sosa
Geography and Culture
Settlement of the Great Plains
Klondike Gold Rush
Panama Canal
Dust Bowl
New Orleans Levee failure after Katrina
Western Expansionism
Rural To urban
Great Migration
Rust Belt to Sun Belt
National Parks System
Environmental Protection Agency
Endangered Species Act
5th Amendment Property Rights
Tin Pan Alley
Harlem Renaissance
Beat Generation
Rock and roll
Chicano Mural Movement
Country and Western Music
Assimilation of Immigrants and American Indians
Frances Willard
Jane Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dolores Huerta
Jane Adams
Sonia Sotomayor
Oprah Winfrey
“e pluribus unum”
“In God We Trust”
Vernon J. Baker
Alvin York
Roy Benavidez
Government
Watergate
Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
USA Patriot Act of 2001
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
War Powers Act
Tinker v. Des Moines
Wisconsin v. Yoder
White v. Regester
Alexis de Tocqueville
Lobbying
Non-Violent Protesting
Litigation
24th Amendment
American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Andrew Carnegie
Thurgood Marshall
Billy Graham
Barry Goldwater
Sandra Day O’Connor
Hillary Clinton
Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries (OPEC) oil embargo
General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)