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Defining A Regional Community

Oakland County

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Courage, Secret Codes, Kept Clandestine Railroad on Track

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• European Settlement
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• The Southern Colonies
• The American Revolution
• The Constitution
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• Jamestown Online Adventure:  Interactive Game
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• A More Perfect Union
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• Before and Beyond the Constitution
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• History of the Declaration of Independence
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• Slavery in Michigan

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The Western World:  Canada

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Early European Contact and the Fur Trade

The Quebec Act of 1774

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The History of Barter

The History of Money

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• China
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• American Revolution
• Virtual Marching Tour of the Revolutionary War
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• Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of 1800
• Hamilton and the U.S. Constitution

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• Perspectives on the West
• The Way West 
• Manifest Destiny On-line
• Panic of 1837:  First Depression in U.S. History 
• Trail of Tears
• The Trail of Tears:  1830
• Trail of Tears Presentation
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 

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The Civil War

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This one semester course introduces the discipline of economics. The overarching problem of scarcity, unlimited human wants pursuing limited resources, is a focal point of the course.
 

This one semester course deepens students' knowledge of national, state, and local government in America. Students review the philosophical foundations of democratic government in the United States.

Tenth Grade

This two semester course introduces students to the history of the United States from its emergence as a world power to the present day. 

Eleventh Grade