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  1. Being An American
  2. Being An American ELL
  3. Founders and the Constitution
  4. Heroes and Villains
  5. Preserving the Bill of Rights
  6. Supreme Court Document Based Questions
  7. Liberty and Security in Modern Times
  8. Religious Liberty: An American Experiment
  9. Congress and the Constitution
  10. Immigration and Citizenship
  11. Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Explore Our American Portraits:

Engaging narratives from across American History that allow your students to step into the past and meet the men and women, both well-known and forgotten, who have helped shape our history.

Liberty and Security in Modern Times

Civil Liberties and McCarthyism

Clock 120-180 minutes

In this lesson, students will use primary source documents to examine and analyze the anti-communist behaviors that characterized American public life following World War II.

Founding Principles

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Inalienable / Natural Rights

Freedoms which belong to us by nature and can only be justly taken away through due process.

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Liberty

Except where authorized by citizens through the Constitution, the government does not have the authority to limit freedom.

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Limited Government

Citizens are best able to pursue happiness when government is confined to those powers which protect their life, liberty, and property.

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