American History High School Course Outline

1- Introduction

• Introduction
• Course Description
• Understanding Plagiarism
• Review: America in early 19th Century
• Review part 2
• MLA Formatting Word 2007
• MLA Documentation updates
• MLA Citation
• MLA Incorporating Sources
• Worksheet: Ongoing Instruction Activity

2- Unit 1: Civil War & Reconstruction

• Introduction
• Handout: Abolitionism
• Civil War Overview
• Handout: Causes of the Civil War
• Handout: The Civil War
• The Union Dissolves
• The Start of the War
• Fighting the War
• Handout: Mapping Assignment
• Assignment: Mapping Assignment
• Civil War Aftermath
• Assignment: The Emancipation Proclamation
• Essay: Civil War Essay
• Reconstruction
• Handout: Reconstruction
• Reconstruction continued
• Essay: Reconstruction

3- Unit 1: Settling the West

• Western Frontier
• Handout: California Gold Rush
• Handout: Life in the West
• Assignment: The Great Plains Indian Wars
• Assignment: Life in the West
• Native American Experience
• Assignment: Native American Reeducation
• Oregon Trail
• Handout: Oregon Trail PowerPoint
• Handout: Oregon Trail Scavenger Hunt Assignment
• Assignment: Oregon Trail Scavenger Hunt
• Assignment: Westward Expansion

4- Unit-1 Industrialization

• Gilded Age
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Handout: Transcontinental Railroad
• Rise of Industry
• Handout: Age of Great Inventions

5- Unit-1 Urban Migration

• Move to the Cities
• Assignment: Ellis Island and the Immigrant Experience
• Reform

6- Unit 2: Progressive Era

• Progressive Era
• Handout: Progressive Era Politics
• Progressive Era continued
• Handout: Muckrakers and Reformers
• Essay: The Standard Oil Monopoly
• Worksheet: Ongoing Instruction Activity

7- Unit 2: American Imperialism

• Seeking Empire
• Assignment: America as World Power
• Spanish-American War
• Handout: Spanish American War
• Assignment: Spanish-American War

8- Unit 2: World War I

• Road to War
• WWI
• Handout: WWI
• Assignment: The U.S. Enters the War
• WWI Propaganda
• End of WWI
• Essay: The Versailles Treaty
• Worksheet: World War I

9- Unit 2: The Roaring 20s

• Roaring 20s
• Handout: The 1920s
• Old Values vs. New
• Assignment: Flappers
• Flowering Culture
• Essay: The Impact of Broadcasting
• Worksheet: Roaring 20’s

10- Unit 2: Great Depression & The New Deal

• America Between the Wars
• Assignment: Great Depression Photo Essay
• 1930s and 40s continued
• Handout: Great Depression
• Handout: FDRs New Deal
• FDR and the New Deal
• Handout: FDR & The New Deal Presentation
• Assignment: FDR and the New Deal
• Causes of the Great Depression
• Handout: Causes of the Great Depression
• Essay: The Great Depression: The Stock Market Crash
• Worksheet: The Great Depression
• Essay: Milestone Assignment
• Quiz: Unit 2 Quiz
• Worksheet: Ongoing Instruction Activity

11- Unit 3: World War II

• WWII
• Handout: World War II
• Assignment: Yalta and Poland
• Assignment: Analyzing Motives
• The War at Home
• Handout: WWII Homefront
• Assignment: The Homefront
• Holocaust in Europe
• Assignment: Memories of the Holocaust
• Essay: The Holocaust and Hiroshima

12- Unit 3: The Cold War Begins

• Post-War Challenges
• Handout: Causes of the Cold War
• Assignment: Marshall Plan
• The Cold War
• Handout: The Cold War
• Handout: Cold War Vocabulary
• Handout: Cold War Graphic Organizer
• Assignment: Cold War McCarthyism
• Assignment: Cold War Vocabulary
• Cold War Continued
• Handout: Cold War Overview PowerPoint
• Worksheet: The Cold War at Home; Truman’s ‘Fair Deal’

13- Unit 3: 1950s — Happy Days?

• 1950s
• Assignment: Truman Doctrine
• Civil Rights
• Handout: Civil Rights Movement
• Assignment: Recipe for Civil Rights
• Quiz: Unit 3 Quiz

14- Unit 4: American Camelot

• Kennedy Administration
• Rising Tensions
• Worksheet: Ongoing Instruction Activity

15- Unit 4: Culture Shock

• Vietnam War
• Handout: The Vietnam War
• Essay: Johnson and the Vietnam War
• Worksheet: Vietnam War
• Time of Malaise
• Assignment: Nixon and the Watergate Scandal

16- Unit 4: End of the Millennium

• Winding Down
• Essay: The War Powers Act
• New Gilded Age?
• Assignment: Cold War Map
• End of the Century

17- Unit 4: America in the 21st Century

• Turn of the Century
• Assignment: Last 50 years
• Growing Problems
• Quiz: Unit 4 Quiz

18- Final Exam

• Quiz: Final Exam

19- Course Survey

• Handout: Course Evaluation
• Assignment: Course Survey