US History Online

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This course is a full-year survey that provides students with a comprehensive view of American history from the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century to recent events. Readings are drawn from Stride’s The American Odyssey: A History of the United States. Online lessons help students organize study, explore topics in-depth, review in preparation for assessments, and practice skills of historical thinking and analysis. Activities include analyzing primary sources and maps, creating timelines, completing projects and written assignments, and conducting independent research.

When enrolling in the full year option of this course it will be delivered in two semesters. Transcripts will reflect each semester separately

SEMESTER 1

Unit 1: Founding a Nation
•    Semester Introduction
•    Meet Your Classmates
•    Native American Governments
•    The New England Colonies
•    The Middle and Southern Colonies
•    New Ideas
•    Freedom Continues Today
•    The Road to Revolution
•    Toward Independence
•    Independence
•    Governing the New Nation
•    Creating a More Perfect Union
•    Our Constitution

Unit 2: Defining a Nation
•    Setting a Course
•    Visions for a Nation
•    Growing in Area
•    Growing in Power
•    New Politics
•    Reforming
•    Expanding
•    Growing Apart
•    Compromises
•    Debate and Division
•    Disunion
•    Terrible War
•    Reconstructing a Nation

Unit 3: Entering the Modern Era
•    Settling the Great American West
•    The Changing West
•    Native American Voices
•    The End of a Way of Life
•    Transcontinental Railroads
•    New Industries Emerge
•    Inventors and Industrialists
•    Benefits and Drawbacks of Monopolies
•    How Big Is Too Big?
•    The Price of Industrialization
•    Seeking a Better Way
•    Child Labor

Unit 4: A New Century
•    Beacon of Hope
•    The Immigrant Experience
•    Immigrants Help Shape America
•    A Different Experience
•    Cities Grow
•    Urban Issues
•    City Life
•    Populists
•    Progressives
•    Confronting Reality
•    Taking on Power
•    The Power of One

Unit 5: New Directions
•    Less Than Equal
•    Different Visions
•    Demanding a Voice
•    Working Toward Equality
•    An American Empire
•    Presidents and Policies
•    Shaping a Nation
•    The Great War
•    Conscientious Objectors
•    The War at Home
•    Assessing the Great War

Unit 6: Research Project: Students will complete a research project in this unit and then continue their study 

Unit 7: Turning Points
•    Embracing the Peace
•    A New Culture
•    Action and Reaction
•    Presidents in the Twenties
•    The Harlem Renaissance
•    The Bubble Bursts
•    Depression
•    Seeking Solutions
Unit 8: Semester Review and Test: Students prepare for and take the semester test.

SEMESTER 2

Unit 1: Facing Crisis and War
•    Semester Introduction
•    Confronting the Crisis
•    New Strategies
•    Reflections
•    Lasting Programs
•    Evaluate New Deal Programs
•    War Clouds
•    Going to War
•    Democracy Denied
•    Fighting on Two Fronts
•    Serving Democracy Abroad and at Home
•    Horror Uncovered
•    War's End

Unit 2: Postwar America
•    A War of Words and Ideas
•    Confronting Communism
•    The Cold War Abroad
•    The Cold War at Home
•    Eisenhower at the Helm
•    From War to Peace
•    New Places to Live
•    A New American Dream and New Frontier
•    American Dream for All?

Unit 3: Trauma at Home and Abroad
•    The Beginning of Change
•    Demanding Change
•    How to Achieve Equality?
•    I Have a Dream
•    New Directions
•    Other Paths
•    The Struggle for Equality
•    Crisis
•    War in Vietnam
•    Many Voices of War
•    A Different Kind of War
•    Those Who Served
•    Reflections on War

Unit 4: Turmoil: The Cold War
•    Culture and Counterculture
•    Tragedies
•    Women on the Move
•    Voices for Change
•    More Voices for Change
•    Complex Times
•    The Watergate Scandal
•    Transition

Unit 5: Modern Turning Points
•    Difficult Times in America
•    A Changing Mood
•    Reaganomics
•    Cold War Warriors
•    The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
•    Legacies
•    Tensions in Eastern Europe
•    Tensions in Africa
•    Tensions in the Middle East

Unit 6: Research Project: Students will choose a topic from any period in American history between 1930 and about 1980 

Unit 7: Toward a New Millennium
•    A New Age
•    Demographics Close to Home
•    Immigration
•    The Clinton Years
•    Divisions
•    North American Geography
•    Regions of the United States
•    Canada and Mexico
•    Our Environment
•    Challenges at Century's End
•    Entering a New Millennium
•    New Realities
•    War and Disaster
•    Looking Ahead
•    The United States 2012 to 2020
•    Global Issues 2010-2021

Unit 8: Semester Review and Test: Students prepare for and take the semester test.
 

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