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Watch out for the rats in the WW1 trenches!

What will we learn this year?
 
6th grade social studies is one of the most interesting and exciting years of history you will have because you get a chance to study what happend in the United States during the last 150 years.  This time period in U.S. history is exciting because it includes a ton of wars and shows how the U.S. got to where we are today.  Some of the topics we will be studying are listed below.
 
   * The Civil War
   * Westward Expansion & Indian Removal
   * The 3 I's - Inventions, Industrialism & Immigration
   * Imperialism
   * World War 1
   * The Roaring 20's
   * The Great Depression
   * World War 2
   * The Civil Rights Movement
   * The Korean War
   * The Race to Space
   * The Vietnam War

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Imperialism Poems at the Conquered Cafe

Current Topic of Study - The Civil War
Already covered: Compromises that helped delay the war, Causes of the war, the North and the South at the beginning of the war, Secession
This coming week: The start of the war, Major battles, Soldier life

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