Lecture Topics
In addition to the lectures listed below, guides talk about states and facilities along the route.
The Constitution:
- The principle of federalism.
- The principles of separation of jurisdictions of the federal government and state governments.
- The separation of power, and the system of checks and balances.
- The election system.
- The origin and meaning of the first 16 amendments.
History:
- The development of North America by England and the formation of the first democratic institutions.
- The war with the French and Native indigenous.
- The American Revolution, Declaration of Independence and the principles of American freedom.
- The War for Independence.
- The Louisiana purchase.
- The expedition of Lewis and Clark, mastering the Wild West, and the Oregon Trail.
- The discovery and development of California.
- The Mexican-American War.
- The Civil war: causes, brief chronology, results and consequences.
- The purchase of Alaska.
- The Spanish War of 1898.
- Joining Hawaii.
- The US involvement in world wars.
- The Lend - Lease.
- The causes and consequences of the intervention in the Vietnam War.
Native Indigenous:
- The history of relations between native Indigenous and pioneers.
- The reasons for the Indian wars, and the actions of the government to protect the native Indigenous.
- Reservations: history, reasons and goals of their creation.
Slavery:
- The emergence of slavery, and the laws of slavery.
- The fight against slavery and its abolition.
- The fight against segregation, and its abolition.
Educational system:
- From kindergartens to universities: principles of education, financing, rules for admission, etc.
Federal Reserve System:
- Democratic principles that compromise the free market and state control in building the financial system.
- State debt.
Protection of Nature:
- The system of national and state parks/reserves.
Labor law
- Pension system
- Unions.
Medical system:
- Private and state insurance.
Social Security System:
- Unemployment benefits.
- Benefits for poverty, age and large families.
- The plight of the homeless.
US Military and Special Forces:
- Specialization of the different government special forces.
- Legal regulation of the work of special services.
- The principles of recruitment to the US Military.
- Benefits for special services officers.
Foreign policy:
- The principles of building US foreign policy as a guarantor of democracy on the planet.
- Old and new doctrines.
- Standard methods for achieving goals.