History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals

History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals centers on the five founding ideals from the Declaration of Independence: equality, rights, liberty, opportunity, and democracy. This program invites students to study how Americans have applied these ideals, from establishing an American republic to the making of modern America.

With hands-on activities, students:

Discover the causes of the Great Depression by playing a game that simulates the stock market in the mid-to-late 1920s.
Play the role of CIA agents to examine how the United States waged the Cold Wars in different areas of the world.
Analyze primary source photographs and songs to highlight six important events of the civil rights movement.

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