American History High School Course Outline

The primary content emphasis for this course pertains to the study of United States history from Reconstruction to the present day. Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history. So that students can clearly see the relationship between cause and effect in historical events, students should have the opportunity to review those fundamental ideas and events which occurred before the end of Reconstruction.

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

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