Each LightUnit includes a self test for each section and a LightUnit test, and should be completed in about three weeks.

Contents

Samples display a couple pages from each LightUnit.

LightUnit 1: Foundations of American Democracy

• I. Foundation of American Democracy
• II. Virginia and the New England Colonies
• III. Middle and Southern Colonies

LightUnit 2: Development of Constitutional Government

• I. Relations with England
• II. The Revolutionary War
• III. Birth of a Nation

LightUnit 3: National Expansion

• I. Ship of State
• II. Revolution of 1800 and War of 1812
• III. Nationalism and Sectionalism

LightUnit 4: A Nation Divided

• I. The Emergence of Sectionalism
• II. The Emergence of Slavery

LightUnit 5: A Nation Divided and United

• I. Regionalism
• II. Civil War
• III. Reconstruction

LightUnit 6: United States Involvement at Home and Abroad

• I. Surge of United States Industry
• II. Change of Industrial Life Style
• III. Isolationism of the United States
• IV. March into Conflict

LightUnit 7: The Search for Peace

• I. The Great War and Its Aftermath
• II. The Golden Twenties
• III. The Great Depression
• IV. The New Deal

LightUnit 8: War and the Nonresistant Christians

• I. World War II
• II. Cold War Era
• III. "Resist Not Evil": Conscientious Objectors in American History

LightUnit 9: America During the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Administrations, 1961-1974

• I. President Kennedy and the New Frontier, 1961-1963
• II. President Johnson and the Great Society, 1963-1969
• III. President Nixon and the New Internationalism, 1969-1974

LightUnit 10: America During the Ford, Cater, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations, 1974-1996

• I. President Ford and President Carter, 1974-1981
• II. President Reagan and the Reagan Revolution, 1981-1989
• III. The Bush and Clinton Administrations, 1989-1996