Cadre Theme
Our Place in American History
Elementary: Content Focus: Kentucky before 1820
- Daniel Boone and the Long Hunters
- American Revolution
- The Louisiana Purchase
- War of 1812
- Henry Clay – “The Great Compromiser”
Middle School: Content Focus: 1820-1865
- Transportation – steamboat, railroad
- Agriculture and Industry
- Social Changes – education, religion, women
- Slavery and anti-Slavery
- The Civil War
High School: Content Focus: After 1865
- Prohibition and Progressivism
- WWI
- Economics: Bourbon, Tobacco and Coal
- The Great Depression and New Deal
- WWII and the Cold War
- Civil Rights