US History
Fall Semester | ||||||
Unit Title | Westward Expansion and Gilded Age | The Progressive Era | Rise of a World Power | Roaring Twenties | Great Depression/New Deal | World War II |
Time | 3 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 3 weeks |
Understandings | The settlement of the Great Plains led to significant changes in America’s West as a result of increased tensions with Native Americans and the expansion of the transcontinental railroad.
Technological innovations and improved technologies in factories led to increased big labor and more immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Big business and changes in social stratification resulted in movements to curb monopolies and develop organized labor unions in urban cities. | The development of the Progressive Movement from 1900-1919 significantly impacted the relationship between society and big business, substantially changing social and political relations in the United States.
During the Progressive Movement, social reformers pushed for greater social and economic equality for African Americans, women, and immigrants. | From the period of 1895-1915, the United States significantly expanded its global influence by acquiring Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines through annexation and war with Spain, expanding America’s trade opportunities with East Asia (particularly China).
Though the United States remained neutral in World War One when fighting started in 1914, interference with America’s political and economic sovereignty in 1916-1917 eventually led the US to join the Allies in the war and to defeat the Central Powers in Europe. | In the period following World War One, the United States saw a significant period of economic growth as a result of increased consumer spending and decreased tax rates following the war.
The United States saw the emergence of new cultural and social norms, with women and African Americans particularly seeing significant progress during the period. | Following ten years of economic growth and expansion, the United States and much of the world hit a global recession that brought the stock market crashing down and the US economy collapsed in 1929.
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal aimed to improve conditions for most Americans during the 1930s by providing relief and reform from the government.
The Great Depression also saw significant changes in the relationship between the federal and state governments with major growth of federal power. | The United States remained out of World War II until the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, sparking a massive mobilization by the United States to wage a war on two fronts.
The war effort was fought in Europe and the Pacific, with the latter focusing on naval battles and amphibious landings in an island-hopping campaign while the European theatre was spearheaded by a strategic bombing campaign.
On the home front, Americans citizens contributed in multiple ways to the war effort. |
TEKS | USH.2A, USH.3A, USH.3B, USH.3C, USH.12A, USH.13A, USH.13B, USH.14A, USH.15A, USH.15B, USH.15C USH.23A, USH.24A, USH.24B, USH.25B, USH.25C, USH.25D, USH.26A, USH.27A | USH.1C, USH.2A, USH.5A, USH.5B, USH.5C, USH.6A, USH.9A, USH.13B, USH.20B, USH.21A, USH.22A, USH.22B, USH.22C, USH.22D, USH.25A, USH.25C, USH.25D | USH.2B, USH.4A, USH.4B, USH.4C, USH.4D, USH.4F, USH.4E, USH.12A, USH.15C, USH.15D, USH.18B, USH.21B, USH.23B, USH.26B | USH.2A, USH.5A, USH.6A, USH.6B, USH.13A, USH.15C, USH.16A, USH.18C, USH.20B, USH.24A, USH.24B, USH.25C, USH.26A, USH.26C, USH.27A | USH.1A, USH.2A, USH.2B, USH.12A, USH.13A, USH.14A, USH.16B, USH.16C, USH.16D, USH.16E, USH.18A, USH.18B, USH.19B, USH.20B, USH.22A, USH.23A, USH.24A, USH.24B, USH.25D | USH.2A, USH.2B, USH.7A, USH.7B, USH.7C, USH.7D,USH.7E, USH.7F, USH.7G, USH.13B, USH.15D, USH.17A, USH.18B, USH.22A, USH.23B, USH.24A, USH.25C, USH.26A, USH.26B |
Skills TEKS | USH.28A, USH.28B, USH.28C, USH.28D, USH.28E, USH.28F, USH.29A, USH.29B, USH.29C, USH.30A, USH.30B, USH.31A, USH.31B | |||||
Spring Semester | |||||
Unit Title | Early Cold War | Civil Rights Movement | Vietnam War | 1970s-End of Cold War | 1990s-Today |
Time | 2 weeks | 3 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 3 weeks |
Understandings | Following the end of the Second World War, the United States saw a period of economic prosperity as the stagnant consumer economy during the war gave way to massive consumer spending.
The struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War led to significant domestic changes with improvement in science technologies and education.
The fear of communism led to domestic and foreign policies of containment, attempting to prevent the expansion of influence of communist regimes around the world and in the United States. | Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the United States saw numerous minority groups pressing for equality under the law.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 24th Amendment attempted to expand on the Reconstruction amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) by eliminating poll taxes, literacy tests, and other Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised Black voters.
The Civil Rights Movement saw various methods of protest, the most effective being non-violent civil disobedience led by Martin Luther King, Jr. though other methods including more aggressive militancy by groups like the Black Panthers. | After the Geneva Accords of 1954, the United States signed an alliance with South Vietnam to defend it from communist aggression resulting in escalating tensions with Russia and North Vietnam.
America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was not popular at home in large part due to the media coverage of the conflict as well as the drafting of large numbers of young men, many under the age of 21 resulting in the passage of the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18. | The Vietnam War began a period of deescalation under Richard Nixon which many Americans hoped would lead to a return to normalcy, but Nixon’s presidency would be plagued by the Watergate Scandal and the release of the Pentagon Papers.
American trust in the government deteriorated throughout the 1970s and did not improve under Jimmy Carter due to economic struggles and the Iran Hostage Crisis leading to a Republican surge in the 1980 election.
Ronald Reagan’s Administration brought about a conservative shift in the United States and increased military and economic pressure on the Soviet Union will bring the Cold War to an end.
| The period of the 1990s saw significant economic growth in the United States as globalization led to the expansion of big business.
The attacks on 9/11 would lead to a global war on terror that would bring the United States to become involved in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq by the beginning of the new millenium.
America elected the first African American President (Barack Obama) in 2008 while also seeing a significant downturn in the economy following the collapse of a housing and banking bubble that would see American economic policy once again be redefined. |
TEKS | USH.1C, USH.2A, USH.2B, USH.8A, USH.8B, USH.8C, USH.13A, USH.14A, USH.17B, USH.17C, USH.24A, USH.24B, USH.24C, USH.26A, USH.26B | USH.1A, USH.1B, USH.2B, USH.9A, USH.9B, USH.9C, USH.9D, USH.9E, USH.9F, USH.9G, USH.9H, USH.9I, USH.9J, USH.17D, USH.20A, USH.20B, USH.22B, USH.22C, USH.23A, USH.25A, USH.25C, USH.25D | USH.1A, USH.1B, USH.2A, USH.2B, USH.8D, USH.8E, USH.8F, USH.18B, USH.19A, USH.20A, USH.20B, USH.22A, USH.22B, USH.23B,USH.24A, USH.24B | US.2B, US.10A, US.10B, US.10C, US.10D, US.10E, US.11A, US.11B, US.14A, US.14B, US.17D, US.17E, US.18C, US.18D, US.23A, US.24A, US.24C, US.25D, US.26A, US.26C, US.27A, US.27B | US.2B, US.11A, US.11B, US.11C, US.11D, US.12A, US.13A, US.13B, US.14A, US.14B, US.17E, US.18B, US.18C, US.18D, US.19B, US.22C, US.23A, US.24C, US.25C, US.25D, US.26A, US.26B, US.26C, US.27A |
Skills TEKS | USH.28A, USH.28B, USH.28C, USH.28D, USH.28E, USH.28F, USH.29A, USH.29B, USH.29C, USH.30A, USH.30B, USH.31A, USH.31B | ||||