American History--Course Outline
(Topics are tentative and subject to changes—Not all sections in chapters used)
Mr. Prissel
Text is used as topical guide—other materials will be implemented as well.
(First Day or Two of class--Welcome & Classroom policies & procedures)
Unit 1—History Introduction & Civil War & Reconstruction (1860-1877) (Quarter 1)
- Primary and Secondary Sources
- Why History Matters & Is History True
- Pre-Civil War
- Civil War
- Reconstruction
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 2—Moving Towards the 20th Century (1877-1900) (Quarter 1-2)
- Changes and Expansion on the Western Frontier
- A New Industrial Age
- Immigrants and Urbanization
- Turn of the Twentieth Century
- **The Jungle
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 3—The Early 1900s & World War I (1900-1920) (Quarter 2)
- The Progressive Era
- Women’s Suffrage
- America Claims an Empire
- Imperial Movements
- Spanish American War
- American Expansion Beyond Our Boundaries
- World War I (Causes, Fighting, 1914-1917, 1917-1918)
- **The Jungle
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
*****END OF SEMESTER 1*****
Start of Semester 2
Unit 4—The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920-1935) (Quarter 3)
- Politics after World War I
- Daily Life in the 1920s (Business Expansion, Automobile Expansion, Economic Expansion)
- Roaring Twenties (Rural vs. Urban, Prohibition, Organized Crime, Women’s Societal Changes)
- Harlem Renaissance
- The Great Depression (Economic Issues, Causes of Depression, Stock Market Problems, Dust Bowl)
- The New Deal (FDR, Plans and Programs, Culture of the 1930s, Impacts of World War II Starting)
- **YEP Project
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 5—World War II and the Related Consequences and Outcomes (1935-1945) (Quarter 3)
- World War Looming (World Powers Growing, Issues in Europe/Asia, Holocaust, USA Move to War)
- The USA in WWII (Getting Ready for War, Timeline of War, Selected Battles/Theaters of War)
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- YEP Project
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 6—World War II "Ends" the Cold War and Baby Boom "Begins (1945-1968) (Quarter 4)
- Cold War Conflicts (USA vs. USSR, Command vs. Freedom, Korean War, Communist Witch-Hunt)
- The Postwar Boom (American Dream, Readjustment & Recovery, Baby Boom, Mass Media)
- The New Frontier and the Great Society (Programs & Plans of JFK & LBJ)
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- YEP Project
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 7—The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1970) (Quarter 4)
- Civil Rights (Segregation vs. Integration, Leaders, Events, Places, Heroes, Challenges & Struggles)
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- YEP Project
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 8—The Vietnam Era and a Changing Nation (1954-1975) (Quarter 4)
- The Vietnam War (Geography, Public Perception, Reasons for Fighting, Successes vs. Failures)
- Social Changes
- **YEP Project Completed and Presented
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
Unit 9—Today’s "History" (1975-2013) (IF TIME PERMITS???????) (Quarter 4)
- An Age of Limits
- The USA Today
- Various Related Primary and Secondary Sources
- End of Unit Test/Project—Evaluation or Assessment
*****END OF SEMESTER 2*****
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