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  CYBER STUDENTS!!! Check out the U.S. HISTORY DUE DATES and CLASS INFORMATION first to see what we will be studying and when the last accepted due date will be.

  For each Module, check out the DIRECTIONS document in each section to see what you have to complete. This document will guide you, showing you what to complete and the order of completion. Once you are done with each assignment, email me (at Thomas.Melhorn@Dallastown.net) the completed assignment so that I can give you a grade. Please let me know if you have any questions.

  -Mr. Melhorn

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  The Foundations of Government and the Declaration of Independence

  

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  The Bill of Rights

  

  
  

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  Unit 3: Voting, the Electoral College, Citizenship, and Local Government

  
  

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  Events of Early American History and Leading up to the Civil War

  

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  The Civil War

  

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  Reconstruction

  

  The Truly Ugly Side of the Reconstruction Time Period: The Effect of a new Organization called the Ku Klux Klan 

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_klan.html

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/plantation/ps_dixon.html

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  http://www.drbilllong.com/LegalEssays/RiotsII.html

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  Encroachment upon

  Native Americans in the West

  

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  Application: the Present

   

  Problems of the Sioux

   

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  Inventions of the Second

   

  Industrial Revolution

   

  

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  The Gilded Age

  

  

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  Becoming a World and Imperial Power- Colonialism and the Spanish American War

  

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  The Great War- World War I

  
  

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  Chapters 22 and 23 The Great Depression and the New Deal

  

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  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28897248/

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