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US History

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).

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Alfred Mossman Landon

alfred mossman landon
governor of kansas

biography
Alfred Landon was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania on September 9, 1887. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he embarked upon a banking career, but four years after it he found it distasteful and in 1912 became an independent petroleum producer. During World War I he served as a first lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army.

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Robert Marion la Follette

robert marion la follette
united states senator

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After his graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, La Follette was admitted to the bar in 1880 and began his political career in Dane County as its district attorney, in which office he remained until 1884. From 1885 to 1891, he was a Republican representative from Wisconsin in the House of Representatives, where as a member of the Ways and Means Committee, he took a prominent party in framing the McKinleyy Tariff.

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John F. Kennedy

president john f. kennedy John F. Kennedy
thirty-fifth president of the united states 

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President Kenedy was the youngest man elected president. He was the youngest to die in office.

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"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." - Inagural address

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Lyndon B. Johnson

president lyndon b. johnson Lyndon B Johnson
thirty-sixth president of the united states  

interesting facts  
Lyndon B. Johnson was the fourth Vice-President to be elected President because of an assassination of a predecessor.

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"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help, and God's." 

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Andrew Johnson

president andrew johnson Andrew Johnson
seventeenth president of the united states 
 
interesting facts  
Andrew Johnson faced impeachment by Radicals when he violated the Tenure of Office Act (created by radicals) - he was acquitted by one vote.

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Andrew Jackson

president andrew jackson Andrew Jackson
seventh president of the united states

interesting facts
Andrew Jackson was the first "Common Man" and Western President.

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"Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!" - A toast directed at John C. Calhoun

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Thomas Jefferson

president thomas jefferson Thomas Jefferson
third president of the united states

interesting facts
Thomas Jefferson increased the territory of the US by nearly two times with the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.

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"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists"

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