Raw Material

Guns, Germs & Steel

Virginia: the Founding of Jamestown

New England: the Founding of Massachusetts Bay

Tightening the Screws: Outbreak of the American Revolution


Slavery: the Peculiar Institution

Confederation and Constitution

Civil War

TV Tokenism

Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement

American Mythology

Imperialism and the Philippines

World War I and the Red Scare

1920s ads

Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression

Death of Osama bin Laden

Causes of the Great Depression

  1. “Sick” Industries, Merger Mania, and Weak Regulation
  2. Overproduction and Underconsumption
  3. Overexpansion of Farming
  4. Easy Credit and Buying on the Margin
  5. Unequal Distribution of Wealth and Taxes
  6. Hoarding of Money
  7. Bank Failures and Runs
  8. International: World War I debts and Tariffs


TASK: explain your assigned cause to the class, visually and orally. What are some other causes you can think of?