Here in rough chronological order are some ARGUS print materials and CD units that fit well into a class in American history. Many others could help provide context for discussions of historic events in various parts of the country. For example, every ARGUS Case Study (in either print or CD form) could add concrete information to a discussion about the importance of "Great Persons," "Zeitgeist" or "Setting" in trying to understand historic events.

General background CD: Natural Vegetation thematic map;
CD: Plate tectonics thematic map

1400
Native American cultures
CD Activity A: Native American house types
Case Study: Shiprock, New Mexico,

1500
Age of Exploration CD and printed Activity CX: Flows of immigrants
CD: European colony locations

1600
Early settlement CD and print Activity B: Jamestown site and situation
CD: New England and Virginia regional units
CD and printed Activity CX: waves of immigration
Case Study: Vershire, Vermont

1700
An agrarian nation CD and printed Activity K: land use
CD: Land Capability thematic map
CD: Corn Belt regional unit

1800
Westward expansion I CD and printed Activity F: land division
Case Study: Madison, New Jersey
CD and printed Activity C: Dutch settlement in Michigan
CD: Ethnicity in Cemeteries thematic map
CD: Erie Canal landform unit

1825
Industrialization Printed Activity B: Lowell Massachusetts site and situation
Case Study and Geo-Diary: Lowell, Massachusetts,
CD and printed Activity L: Iron and Steel
Case Study: Duquesne, Pennsylvania

Westward expansion II CD: Continental Waterline thematic map
CD Activity CX: section on frontier location
CD and Printed Activity FX: Public Land Survey
CD: Mormon Trek thematic map, North Platte River tour
CD: Great Plains and Texas regional units
Case Study: Wilton, North Dakota
CD: San Francisco street tour

1850
Plantations CD and printed Activity D: landforms and plantations
Case Study: Lexington, Georgia
CD: Deep South and Mississippi Valley regional units
CD: Charleston, South Carolina, geo-diary
CD: New Orleans walking tour

Civil War CD: Harpers Ferry landform unit
Printed Activity P: terrain around Harpers Ferry

Reconstruction Case Study: Lexington, Georgia
Case Study: Tunica, Mississippi
Case Study: Salt Lake City (railroad part)

1875
Indian policy CD: Guthrie, Oklahoma, tour
CD: Oil and Gas thematic map

Urbanization Case Study: Wall Street (Manhattan)
CD: Corporation head offices thematic map
CD: Manhattan geo-diary
CD: Highway 6, Omaha and Lincoln, tour

1900
Industrialization CD: Auto industry bigjob
CD: Houston Main Street tour

1925
Farm mechanization
(different perspectives on
a nationwide process) Case Study: Hill City, Kansas
Case Study: Tunica, Mississippi
Case Study: West Side Chicago
Case Study: Greenfield, Iowa
CD: TVA electricity bigjob
Case Study: Norris, Tennessee

1950
Alaska and Hawai'I CD: Island State regional unit
CD: Hawai'I landform unit
CD: Alaska regional unit
CD: Top of the World geo-diary

Suburbanization Case Study: Austin, Texas
(Pflugerville, Texas, diary)
CD and printed Activity HX: urban land value
CD: Pulaski Road bus tour
CD: Lower East Side walking tour
Case Study: Phoenix, Arizona

Interstate Highway system Case Study: Vail, Colorado
Case Study: Salt Lake City

Wilderness Act CD and printed Activity VX: metaphors for wilderness
CD: Sierra Canyons landform unit

1975
U.S.-Mexico relations Case Study: McAllen, Texas
CD: NAFTA Highway (Laredo) tour

Cuban Marielita migration Case Study Little Havana, Florida

Defense issues CD: Ammunition storage bigjob

Resource controversies CD: Colorado River Water Canal tour
CD Activity W: interest rates and the spotted owl
CD and printed Activity Y: Mississippi River Flooding
CD and printed Activity Z: nuclear waste disposal
Case Study: Oakridge, Oregon
Case Study: Irvine, California,
CD: Alaska fishing bigjob unit
CD: Colorado ski resort bigjob unit
CD: Mountain, Desert, and Pacific regional units

Political representation CD and printed Activity S: election districts
CD: Pulaski Road bus tour
Case Study: Tunica, Mississippi
CD: Whittier Boulevard tour

Summary CD: Mystery Novels thematic map

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