Course Curriculum Map

Course Title: US History
First Quarter / Second Quarter / Third Quarter / Fourth Quarter
Units Included / Begin Foundations of America
Begin Industrialization
Begin Progressive Era / Continue Progressive Era
Begin Emergence of the US as a World Power
Begin WWI and WWII / Continue WWI and WWII
Begin The Great Depression
Begin The Cold War / Begin Civil Rights Movements
Begin Post War Society to the New Millennium
Evidence Outcomes / Evaluate a historical source for point of view and historical context.
Analyze continuity and change.
Investigate the effects of Industrialization.
Analyze the complexity of events.
Examine and evaluate issues of unity and diversity.
Investigate the historical development of and impact of major scientific and technological innovations.
Analyze the origins of fundamental political debates and how conflict, compromise and cooperation have shaped national unity and diversity.
Analyze ideas critical to the understanding of American history, including populism and progressivism. / Gather and analyze historical information, including contradictory data, from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including sources on the Internet to support or reject hypotheses.
Analyze continuity and change.
Investigate the effects of American Imperialism.
Evaluate the historical development and impact of political thought, theory and actions.
Analyze ideas critical to the understanding of American history, including isolationism and imperialism.
Investigate the causes and effects of WWI and WWII / Construct and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence.
Differentiate between facts and historical interpretations, recognizing that a historian’s narrative reflects his or her judgment about the significance of particular facts.
Analyze continuity and change.
Investigate the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Describe and analyze the historical development and impact of the arts and literature on the culture of the United States.
Investigate the causes of the Cold War. / Interpret and evaluate the impact of policies on various groups – women, indigenous people, minorities, GLBTQ – throughout history.
Analyze continuity and change.
Investigate the causes of globalization.
Analyze the complexity of events.
Examine and evaluate issues of unity and diversity.
Evaluate the historical development and impact of political thought, theory and actions.
Analyze the origins of fundamental political debates and how conflict, compromise and cooperation have shaped national unity and diversity.
Analyze ideas critical to the understanding of American history including liberalism, fundamentalism and conservatism.
Key Themes and Topics / Foundations (Review)
American independence
Origins and structure of government
Early economies of the US
Civil War and Reconstruction
Race relations and Native American interactions
Industrialization
Railroad Expansion
Big business and development of unions
New immigration and urbanization
The Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Populism
Progressivism
Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage Movement / Emergence of the US as a World Power
American Imperialism
Social Darwinism
Big Stick Diplomacy
WWI and WWII
Total war
Causes of US involvement:
WWI and WWII
The Home front
Peace processes / The Great Depression
Causes
Roaring 20’s
Harlem Renaissance
New Deal (social, political, economic impact)
Changing Gender Roles
The Cold War
Arms race
Space race
Proxy wars
Counterculture
Red scares
Containment
brinkmanship / Civil Rights
Segregation (both the South and West)
Native American rights
Women’s rights
GLBTQ
Chicano Rights
Rights of the Disabled
Post War Society to the New Millennium
1950s society
Nixon years
Environmental activism
Culture wars
Globalization
US role in international organizations
terrorism
Key Terms and Vocabulary / Committee of correspondence, Stamp Act, Common Sense, Declaration of Indpendence, The Constitution, popular sovereignty, Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist, Industrial Revolution, role of slavery, Missouri Compromise, sectionalism, Native American Removal, Manifest Destiny, causes of the Civil War (political, social and economic), Emancipation Proclamation, plans for Reconstruction (Lincoln, Johnson and Congress), Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, labor unions, significance of the railroad, free enterprise, types of business organizations, vertical and horizontal integration, role of working women, “new immigrants” (European and Asian), discrimination in cities and the workplace, Social Darwinism, Populism, Jim Crow laws / Neo-Imperialism, Pan-Americanism, Spanish-American War, US roles in Latin America and the Pacific, Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, Progressivism, suffrage, prohibition, labor and zoning laws, militarism, nationalism, US isolationist policies, alliance systems, role of US in both world wars, the Home Front, the Great Migration, women and minorities in the military, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Fourteen Points, Red Scare, early terrorism of the 1920s, social and cultural effects of the war, fascism, internationalism, American neutrality, causes of WWII, Jewish immigration, US role in WWII (European and Pacific), Japanese internment, wartime economy, daily life in wartime, the Manhattan Project, Declaration of Human Rights / Significance of the radio, the consumer society, nativism, fundamentalism, Prohibition, pop culture of the 1920’s, the Harlem Renaissance, causes of the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal (First and Second), lasting legacies of the New Deal, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, Iron Curtain, containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, proxy wars (Korean War, Vietnam, Iran), HUAC, McCarthyism, life during the Cold War, massive retaliation, brinkmanship, postwar America, baby boom, affluence vs. poverty, role of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans, Cuban Missile Crisis, counterculture / Civil Rights Movement, NAACP, Brown v. Board of Ed, Little Rock Nine, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Youth Movement, Women’s Movement, League of United Latin American Citizens, La RazaUnida, Nixon Doctrine, Watergate, stagflation, OPEC, Affirmative Action, American Indian Movement, The Disability Rights Movement (Section 504), environmentalism, Rachel Carson, EPA, Love Canal, liberalism and conservatism, Reaganomics, “peace through strength”, collapse of the USSR, “New World Order”, Technological Revolution, globalism, North American Free Trade Agreement, European Union, World Trade Organization, Election of 2000, War on Terrorism, cause and effects of 9/11
Inquiry Questions / How does the point of view of the historian impact how history is interpreted?
What qualifies as historically significant rather than simply noteworthy?
How have philosophical and religious traditions affected the development of political institutions?
How have scientific and technological developments affected societies? / What if the history of a war was told by the losing side?
Why are historical questions important?
How do historical thinkers use primary and secondary sources to formulate historical arguments? / How has culture defined civilization?
How does society decide what is important in history?
How has music, art, and literature reflected powerful ideas throughout history? / How might historical inquiry be used to make decisions on contemporary issues?
What impact have individuals had on history?
What ideas have united people over time?
How has diversity impacted the concepts of change over time?
What if the belief “all men are created equal” did not exist?
Assessments / Foundations
Industrialization
Progressive Era / Emergence of the US as a World Power
WWI and WWII / The Great Depression
The Cold War / Civil Rights
Post War Society to the New Millennium
Key Skills
(including literacy, technology, and Social Studies skills) / Be able to identify cause and effect relationships.
Be able to read and analyze primary sources, including recognizing bias of time, place and person.
Note-taking from teacher-centered lecture.
Be able to read text for information.
Document-Based Questions, which includes the analysis of primary and secondary sources to support an argument. / Analyze political cartoons for facts and satire.
Use map skills to chart neo-Imperialism and the changes in American colonies.
Use photojournalism and other photographs as a primary source.
Debate whether or not the US should get involved in World War I. (Or World War II.)
Analysis of Supreme Court cases
Study the role of technology in social changes / Read and interpret charts and graphs of the stock market.
Understand basic financial literacy and the role of the stock market.
Economic skills including the stock market, speculation, and buying on the margin.
Analysis of photography and the role of propaganda / Understand the use of the internet and the world wide web.
Explain the limitations of government regulation of the Internet.
Brainstorm solutions to environmental problems that are a result of both the individual and macro society.