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Lesson Plans
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society
by Gary B. Nash and Julie Roy Jeffrey
John B. Howe, Peter J. Frederick, Allen F. Davis, Allan M. Winkler
©2001 by Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers
The purpose of the following Focus Lessons for The American People is to assist you in planning your daily lessons by highlighting important ideas and concepts in each chapter as well as the relevant sections in the program's ancillaries. The Focus Lessons suggest strategies for assessing how well your students understand the important points in each chapter and also provide test-taking tips that will help your students prepare for and take the AP* United States History test successfully.
Chapter Focus Lessons
| Focus Lesson 1: | Chapter 1: "Three Worlds Meet" Chapter 2: "Colonizing a Continent" |
| Focus Lesson 2: | Chapter 3: "Mastering the New World" Chapter 4: "The Maturing of Colonial Society" |
| Focus Lesson 3: | Chapter 5: "Bursting the Colonial Bonds" Chapter 6: "A People in Revolution" |
| Focus Lesson 4: | Chapter 7: "Consolidating the Revolution" |
| Focus Lesson 5: | Chapter 8: "Creating a Nation" |
| Focus Lesson 6: | Chapter 9: "Society and Politics in the Early Republic" |
| Focus Lesson 7: | Chapter 10: "Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest" Chapter 11: "Slavery and the Old South" |
| Focus Lesson 8: | Chapter 12: "Shaping America in the Antebellum Age" |
| Focus Lesson 9: | Chapter 13: "Moving West" |
| Focus Lesson 10: | Chapter 14: "The Union in Peril" |
| Focus Lesson 11: | Chapter 15: "The Union Severed" |
| Focus Lesson 12: | Chapter 16: "The Union Reconstructed" |
| Focus Lesson 13: | Chapter 17: "The Realities of Rural America" Chapter 18: "The Rise of Smokestack America" |
| Focus Lesson 14: | Chapter 19: "Politics and Reform" |
| Focus Lesson 15: | Chapter 20: "Becoming a World Power" |
| Focus Lesson 16: | Chapter 21: "The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism" |
| Focus Lesson 17: | Chapter 22: "The Great War" |
| Focus Lesson 18: | Chapter 23: "Affluence and Anxiety" |
| Focus Lesson 19: | Chapter 24: "The Great Depression and the New Deal" |
| Focus Lesson 20: | Chapter 25: "World War II" |
| Focus Lesson 21: | Chapter 26: "Postwar Growth and Social Change" |
| Focus Lesson 22: | Chapter 27: "Chills and Fever During the Cold War" |
| Focus Lesson 23: | Chapter 28: "High Water Mark and Ebb Tide of the Liberal State" |
| Focus Lesson 24: | Chapter 29: "The Struggle for Social Reform" |
| Focus Lesson 25: | Chapter 30: "The Revival of Conservatism" |