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Unit 9: America – A World Power

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Unit 9 [flag bg_color=”#d6e3bc” text_color=”#9d241a”]Middle School[/flag]

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Unit Overview

Subjects Covered

Grammar, Literature, Composition, History

Time Period

Modern

Grade Level

Middle School: 6 – 8

Civilization

American

Literature

Across Five Aprils – by Irene Hunt. 

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Unit Description

The continued need for civil and government reform plagued President Grant’s second term in office and continued through to the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Presidents Harrison, Cleveland and McKinley all led our nation through a time of confusion as we continued to establish ourselves in world trade, develop our national resources, continue civil and government reform, and host the World’s Columbian Exhibition to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World.

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Leading Ideas and Biblical Principles

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• Honesty is a character quality to be desired.
  • The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please Him. — Proverbs 20:23
• The Bible provides the ethics upon which to judge people and nations.
  • And God spoke all these words:…(continue reading). — Exodus 20:1-17
• God is sovereign over the affairs of men.
  • From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. — Acts 17:26
• Scripture addresses the Christian’s Responsibility to Government.
  • Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. — Romans 13:1-7

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VIDEOS ON THIS WEBSITE SHOULD BE PREVIEWED BY PARENTS BEFORE ALLOWING STUDENTS TO WATCH VIDEOS. SOME VIDEOS MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION ON SENSITIVE TOPICS.

Additional Maps:

• Map of Territory Growth in USA until 1920
• Map of Gilded Age Politics
• Map of Spanish-American War

Complimentary Sources:

• Gilded Age Timeline
• Gilded Age – the presidents of the gilded age and the issues each president faced
• Gilded Age – summary of the political machine 
• Gilded Age – politics…also includes primary resources and information about the Presidents
• Rutherford B. Hayes – his diaries and letters
• President McKinley – bio
• The Spanish War – more information about the war from the Library of Congress
• Timeline of the Spanish-American War (very detailed!)

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