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This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).
president herbert hoover 
thirty-first president of the united states
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Parties at the White House during Herbert Hoover's term were big events. As many as 4,000 invitations to a gala
would be loaded on trucks and hand delivered around Washington.
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president william henry harrison 
ninth president of the united states
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William Henry Harrison gave the longest Inaugural address in the history of the US in 1841 on a very cold day. He caught pneumonia, and died of it nearly one month after his speech. He was president for one month.
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rutherford birchard hayes
nineteenth president of the united states
interesting facts
In 1879, President Hayes installed the first telephone in the White House. At first it was hardly used, because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call.
president benjamin harrison 
twenty-third president of the united states
interesting facts
Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.
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president warren gamaliel harding 
twenty-ninth president of the united states
interesting facts
Warren G. Harding, winning his presidency by a landslide "looked like a President".
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winfield scott hancock
general
biography
john parker hale
united states senator
biography
John Parker Hale was an American legislator and diplomat, born on March 31, 1806 in Rochester, New Hampshire. From 1843 to 1845 he served as a member of Congress from New Hampshire and between 1847 and 1853 and 1855 to 1865 he sat in the United States Senate.
horace greeley
editor
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"Go West, young man, go West!"
biography
president ulysses simpson grant 
eighteenth president of the united states
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Ulysses S. Grant's two term presidency is considered the most corrupt in US history. Many consider him the first Gilded Age President.
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"Let us have peace." - Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency
barry morris goldwater
united states senator
biography
U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater, was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on Jan. 1, 1909. Goldwater was elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1952. He became a spokesman for right-wing Republicans in their campaign against big government, advocating instead greater state and local powers.
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