Clash of Cultures – Lessons with Final Review Quiz

The Teaching Unit for this course can be downloaded as a PDF file in the “Attachments” window. Upon course completion, you can take a Final Review Quiz, by clicking the “Take the Quiz” button. (You must subscribe to this course in order to take the quiz.)

1. The Culture of Slavery:

  • “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Harriet Beecher Stowe excerpts
  • First photographs of people, spirituals
  • Eyewitness accounts: Frederick Douglass

2. The Civil War: North vs. South

  • Paintings from Winslow Homer
  • Stephen Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage” excerpt

3. Abraham Lincoln’s mystique: storyteller, politician, president, philosopher

  • Lincoln anecdotes, stories, autobiographies, famous writings
  • Matthew Brady photographs, 19th century illustrations
  • Lincoln and J. F. Kennedy comparisons

4. Native American Voices: East vs. West

  • Causes of Cultural Wars: Railroad (Currier & Ives)  Killing of buffalo
  • Prophets of doom: Chief Joseph, Adario, Red Jacket, Chief Crazy Horse
  • Pictograph of the times – Sioux

5. The Inventor of the 20th century: Thomas Edison

  • His inventions
  • His words

6. Words, Words, Words: Vocabulary List & Structure: Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes

7. Unit Test

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