United States History
Credits: 1 Unit
Course ID: SSG02
Course Area: Social Studies
Description:
This course offers different perspectives on historic events in American
history as well as the nations and individuals involved in these
events. Begin by exploring Native cultures and then colonization, followed
by the evolution of the United States from a scrappy little country huddled
on the east coast of North America to a powerful nation that spans "from
sea to shining sea" and stands as a symbol of freedom and democracy around
the world.
Course Outline:
- Unit 1:
- Lesson 1: Native America and European encroachment
- Lesson 2: Going on 50
- Lesson 3: Colonial culture
- Lesson 4: Colonial protest and revolutionary ideas
- Lesson 5: Revolution: early events leading to war
- Lesson 6: The American Revolutionary
War - battles and strategies
- Lesson 7: The war's aftermath
- Lesson 8: The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
- Lesson 9: Ratification and the Bill of Rights
- Lesson 10: Early politics
- Unit 2:
- Lesson 11: A new nation
- Lesson 12: Putting the "united" in United
States
- Lesson 13: Slavery, compromise and corruption
- Lesson 14: Andrew Jackson and manifest destiny
- Lesson 15: An age of reform
- Lesson 16: The Mexican War and beyond
- Lesson 17: A crumbling union
- Lesson 18: Civil War politics and battles
- Lesson 19: Early Reconstruction
- Lesson 20: The end of reconstruction
- Unit 3:
- Lesson 21: The West
- Lesson 22: The rise of industry
- Lesson 23: Coming to America
- Lesson 24: Growth of cities and corruption
- Lesson 25: The populist movement
- Lesson 26: Segregation and reaction
- Lesson 27: The progressives
- Lesson 28: From isolation to world power
- Lesson 29: Leading up to war
- Lesson 30: World War I
- Unit 4:
- Lesson 31: The roaring twenties
- Lesson 32: The Great Depression
- Lesson 33: FDR and the New Deals
- Lesson 34: World War II begins
- Lesson 35: America at war
- Lesson 36: War's end
- Lesson 37: The Cold War
- Lesson 38: America after World War II
- Lesson 39: The 1970s and 1980s
- Lesson 40: The 1990's and beyond
Items Provided by Students: None
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