United States History
1st Semester
Chapter 1: Exploration and the Colonial Era
Chapter Objective Analyze the economic, social, and political growth of the 13 colonies.
SECTION 1 The Americas, West Africa, and Europe
1.
Describe the ancient cultures in the Americas.
2.
Identify, locate, and explain the differences of the diverse Native American groups in North America.
3.
Describe West African societies of the 1400’s.
SECTION 2 Spanish North America
1.
Describe the Spanish exploration of the Americas and its effects on Native Americans,
Africans, and Europeans.
2. Show the pattern of conquest used by the European powers in North America.
SECTION 3 Early British Colonies
1.
Examine the economic relationship between England and its North American colonies.
SECTION 4 The Colonies Come of Age
1.
Characterize the plantation economy in the South.
2. Asses the varied economy in the North.
* Students will be able to compare and contrast Indian, African, and Modern American culture and
traditions.
* Students will be able to label the historic tribes and modern reservations of Wisconsin Indians
Chapter 2: From the Confederation to the Constitution
Chapter Objective
Trace the development of the American republic.
SECTION 3 Confederation and the Constitution
1.
Describe the political and economic problems faced by the Confederation.
2. Describe the form of government established by the Constitution.
3. Explain how and why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
4. Appraise the structure of the Constitution making it a document capable of change.
SECTION 4 Launching the New Nation
1.
Identify and evaluate some of the deep divisions between Federalists and Democratic
Republicans.
The Living Constitution
1. summarize the purposes and the process for changing the United States constitution.
2. identify the basic freedoms guaranteed by the first ten amendments.
3. Identify the powers of the legislature.
4. Explain the powers and duties of the president.
5. Explain how judicial review expands the powers of the judiciary.
6. Describe how states are independent and subject to the federal government.
Chapter 3: The Growth of a Young Nation
Chapter Objective
To analyze the Jefferson Era, the Age of Jackson, manifest destiny, the market revolution,
and various reform movements during the first half of the 19th century. Explain how reform
movements were inspired by the spiritual awakening of the 19th century.
1.
Describe the institution of slavery and the abolitionist movement.
2. Discuss the central role that women played in 19th century reform movements.
SECTION 1 The Jeffersonian Era
1.
Prioritize the significant changes that occurred during Jefferson's presidency.
2. Explain the causes and consequences of the War of 1812.
3. Summarize the ways in which nationalism shaped American foreign policy.
SECTION 2 The Age of Jackson
1.
Describe the regional economic differences in the early United States.
2. Summarize tensions between national and sectional interests.
3. Examine and evaluate the crucial issues and events of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
4. Identify the presidents that followed Jackson and the challenges they faced.
SECTION 3 Manifest Destiny
1.
Summarize the reasons settlers headed West.
2. Describe Texas settlement, struggle for independence, and annexation.
3. Explain the causes and consequences of the War with Mexico.
4. Analyze the California gold rush.
SECTION 4 The Market Revolution
1.
Describe the impact of new markets, entrepreneurs, and inventions on the 19th-century
American economy.
2. Explain the ways in which workplaces changed during the market revolution.
3. Summarize then evaluate efforts of workers to improve their economic security.
SECTION 5 Reforming American Society
1.
Explain how reform movements were inspired by the spiritual awakening of the 19th century.
2. Describe the institution of slavery and the abolitionist movement.
3. Analyze the central role that women played in 19th century reform movements.
Chapter 4: The Union in Peril
Chapter Objective
To understand the events that led to the Civil War, the course and outcome of the war, and the
establishment and eventual failure of Reconstruction.
SECTION 1 The Divisive Politics of Slavery
1.
Chart the differences between the North and the South.
2. Describe the operation of the Underground Railroad and other forms of protest against
slavery.
3. Explain the political conditions that gave rise to the Republican Party and divided the Whigs.
4. Examine the conflicts that led to secession.
SECTION 2 The Civil War Begins
1.
Analyze the strengths and strategies of both sides at the beginning of the Civil War.
2. Identify the key political issues that affected the conduct of the war.
3. Categorize aspects of military and civilian life during wartime.
SECTION 3 The North Takes Charge
1.
Prioritize how decisive battles, such as Gettysburg and Vicksburg, changed the tide of the war.
2. Describe instances of total war waged by Grant and Sherman.
3. Explain how the war changed the nation and people's lives.
SECTION 4 Reconstruction and Its Effects
1.
Describe various Reconstruction plans and analyze the political consequences of the plans.
2. Assess how Reconstruction affected life in the South for white Southerners and former
slaves.
3. Explain the reasons for the end of Reconstruction.
Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier
Chapter Objective
To analyze the settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s and to examine Native
American policies, private property rights, and the Populist movement.
SECTION 1 Cultures Clash on the Prairie
1.
Contrast the cultures of Native Americans and white settlers and explain why white settlers
moved west.
2. Point out restrictions imposed by the government on Native Americans and describe the
consequences.
3. Identify the government's policy of assimilation as well as continuing conflicts between Native
Americans and settlers.
4. Trace the development of the cattle industry.
5. Differentiate between both the myth and the reality of the American cowboy and explain the
end of the open range.
SECTION 2 Settling on the Great Plains
1.
Explain the rapid settlement of the Great Plains due to homesteading.
2. Describe how early settlers survived on the plains and transformed them into profitable farm
land.
SECTION 3 Farmers and the Populist Movement
1.
Outline the problems farmers faced and their cooperative efforts to solve them.
2. Explain the rise and fall of the Populist Party.
Chapter 6: A New Industrial Age
Chapter Objective
To analyze the effects of various scientific discoveries and manufacturing innovations on the nature
of work, the American labor movement, and businesses.
SECTION 1 The Expansion of Industry
1.
Examine how the abundance of natural resources, new recovery and refining methods, and new
uses for them led to intensive industrialization.
2. Rank inventions that changed the way people lived and worked.
SECTION 2 The Age of the Railroads
1.
Assess the role of the railroads in unifying the country.
2. Categorize the positive and negative effects of railroads on the nation's economy.
3. Summarize reasons for, and outcomes of, the demand for railroad reform.
SECTION 3 Big Business and Labor
1.
Identify management and business strategies that contributed to the success of business
tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie.
2. Analyze Social Darwinism and its effects on society.
3. Summarize the emergence and growth of unions.
4. Explain the violent reactions of industry and government to union strikes.
Chapter 7: Immigrants and Urbanization
Chapter Objective
To analyze the economic, social, and political effects of immigration and to understand the
immigrant experience.
SECTION 1 The New Immigrants
1.
Identify immigrants' countries of origin. Describe the journey immigrants endured and their
experiences at United States immigration stations.
2. Examine the causes and effects of the nativists' anti-immigrant sentiments.
SECTION 2 The Challenges of Urbanization
1.
Describe the movement of immigrants to cities and the opportunities they found there.
2. Explain how cities dealt with housing, transportation, sanitation, and safety issues.
3. Summarize some of the organizations and people who offered help to urban immigrants.
SECTION 3 Politics in the Gilded Age
1.
Explain the role of political machines and political bosses.
2. Describe how some politicians' greed and fraud cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
3. Compare the measures taken by presidents Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur to reform the spoils
system.
4. Compare and contrast the positions taken by presidents Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley on
the tariff issue.
Chapter 8: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
Chapter Objective
To analyze significant turn-of-the-20th-century trends in such areas as technology, education, race
relations, and mass culture.
SECTION 1 Science and Urban Life
1.
Describe the impact of technological advances on turn-of-the-20th-century urban planning.
2. Rate turn of the century communication innovations.
SECTION 2 Education and Culture
1.
Analyze the expansion of public education at the turn-of-the-20th-century.
2. Describe the growth of higher education.
SECTION 3 Segregation and Discrimination
1.
Trace the historical underpinnings of legalized segregation and the African-American struggle
against racism in the United States.
2. Summarize turn-of-the-20th-century race relations in the North and the South.
3. Identify discrimination against minorities in the American West.
SECTION 4 The Dawn of Mass Culture
1.
Give examples of turn-of-the-20th-century leisure activities and popular sports.
2. Analyze the spread of mass culture in the United States at the turn of the 20th century.
3. Describe turn-of-the-20th-century innovations in marketing and advertising.
Chapter 9: The Progressive Era
Chapter Objective
Explain how the progressive movement managed to increase the power of government to regulate
business and to protect society from the injustices fostered by big business.
SECTION 1 The Origins of Progressivism
1.
Explain the four goals of progressivism.
2. Assess progressive efforts to clean up government.
3. Categorize progressive efforts to reform state government, protect workers, and reform
elections.
SECTION 2 Women in Public Life
1.
Describe the growing presence of women in the workforce at the turn of the 20th century.
2. Identify leaders of the woman suffrage movement.
3. Break down how woman suffrage was achieved.
SECTION 3 Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
1.
Give examples of the events of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.
2. Explain how Roosevelt used the power of the presidency to regulate business.
3. Identify laws passed to protect public health and the environment.
4. Appraise Roosevelt's stand on civil rights.
SECTION 4 Progressivism Under Taft
1.
Give examples of the events of the Taft presidency.
2. Explain the division in the Republican Party.
3. Assess the election of 1912.
SECTION 5 Wilson's New Freedom
1.
Give examples of Woodrow Wilson's background and the progressive reforms of his
presidency.
2. List the steps leading to woman suffrage.
3. Evaluate the limits of Wilson's progressivism.
Chapter 10: America Claims an Empire
Chapter Objective
To understand how individuals and events moved the United States into the role of a world power
and to recognize the effects of economic policies on U.S. diplomacy.
SECTION 1 Imperialism and America
1.
Categorize the economic and cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.
2. Describe how the United States acquired Alaska.
3. Summarize how the United States took over the Hawaiian Islands.
SECTION 2 The Spanish-American War
1.
Contrast American opinions regarding the Cuban revolt against Spain.
2. Identify events that escalated the conflict between the United States and Spain.
3. Trace the course of the Spanish-American War and its results.
SECTION 3 Acquiring New Lands
1.
Describe U.S. involvement in Puerto Rico and in Cuba.
2. Create a chart showing the causes and effects of the Philippine-American War.
3. Explain the purpose of the Open Door Policy in China.
4. Summarize the views regarding U.S. imperialism.
SECTION 4 America as a World Power
1.
Examine how Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy promoted American power around the world.
2. Describe how Woodrow Wilson's missionary diplomacy ensured U.S. dominance in Latin
America.
Chapter 11: The First World War
Chapter Objective
To understand the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917,
and the consequences of the war.
SECTION 1 World War I Begins
1.
Classify the long-term causes and the immediate circumstances that led to World War I.
2. Describe the first two years of the war.
3. Summarize U.S. public opinion about the war.
4. Explain why the United States entered the war.
SECTION 2 American Power Tips the Balance
1.
Give examples how the United States mobilized for war.
2. Point out U.S. battlefield successes.
3. Identify the new weapons and the medical problems faced in World War I.
4. Outline U.S. offensives and the end of the war.
SECTION 3 The War at Home
1.
Explain how business and government cooperated during the war.
2. Show how the government promoted the war.
3. Describe the attacks on civil liberties that occurred.
4. Summarize the social changes that affected African Americans and women.
SECTION 4 Wilson Fights for Peace
1.
Summarize Wilson's Fourteen Points.
2. Evaluate the Treaty of Versailles and international and domestic reaction to it.
3. Break down some of the consequences of the war.
Chapter 12: Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Chapter Objective
To trace the political and social changes after World War I and throughout the decade of the
1920s.
SECTION 1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
1.
Summarize the reaction in the United States to the perceived threat of communism.
2. Analyze the causes and effects of the quota system in the United States.
3. Describe some of the postwar conflicts between labor and management.
SECTION 2 The Harding Presidency
1.
Contrast Harding's policy of "normalcy" with progressive era reforms.
2. Identify scandals that plagued the Harding administration.
SECTION 3 The Business of America
1.
Summarize the impact of the automobile and other consumer goods on American life.
2. Explain how prosperity affected different groups of Americans.
3. Assess in what ways the country's prosperity was superficial.
Chapter 13: The Roaring Life of the 1920s
Chapter Objective
To understand such issues as Prohibition, the changing role of women, and the influence of the
Harlem Renaissance.
SECTION 1 Changing Ways of Life
1.
Compare and contrast how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the
values of traditional rural society.
2. Restate the controversy over the role of science and religion in American education and
society in the 1920s.
SECTION 2 The Twenties Woman
1.
Explain how the image of the flapper embodied the changing values and attitudes of young
women in the 1920s.
2. Identify the causes and results of the changing roles of women in the 1920s.
SECTION 3 Education and Popular Culture
1.
Give examples of the popular culture of the 1920s.
2. Demonstrate why the youth-dominated decade came to be called the Roaring Twenties.
SECTION 4 The Harlem Renaissance
1.
List the causes and results of the migration of African Americans to Northern cities in the
early 1900s.
2. Give examples of the prolific African-American artistic activity that became known as the
Harlem Renaissance.
Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins
Chapter Objective
To understand the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and the futility of Hoover's
actions to limit the damage.
SECTION 1 The Nation's Sick Economy
1.
Summarize the critical problems threatening the American economy in the late 1920s.
2. Describe the causes of the stock market crash and Great Depression.
3. Explain how the Great Depression affected the economy in the United States and throughout
the world.
SECTION 2 Hardship and Suffering During the Depression
1.
Describe how people struggled to survive during the Depression.
2. Explain how the Depression affected men, women, and children.
SECTION 3 Hoover Struggles with the Depression
1.
Explain Hoover's initial response to the Depression.
2. Evaluate the actions Hoover took to help the economy and the hardship suffered by
Americans.
3. Describe the Bonus Army and Hoover's actions toward it.
Chapter 15: The New Deal
Chapter Objective
To understand the impetus for FDR's New Deal legislations and the impact of these policies on the
American nation.
SECTION 1 A New Deal Fights the Depression
1.
Trace the initial steps Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.
2. Chart the New Deal work programs.
3. Identify critics of FDR's New Deal.
SECTION 2 The Second New Deal Takes Hold
1.
Describe the purpose of the Second New Deal.
2. Summarize New Deal programs for farmers.
3. Categorize the Second New Deal programs aimed at assisting young people and professionals.
SECTION 3 The New Deal Affects Many Groups
1.
Analyze the effects of the New Deal programs on women.
2. Characterize Roosevelt's attitude toward African Americans.
3. Identify the groups that formed the New Deal coalition.
4. Describe the supporter of FDR's New Deal.
SECTION 4 Culture in the 1930s
1.
Give examples of the entertainment provided by motion pictures and radio.
2. Classify some of the artists and writers of the New Deal era.
SECTION 5 The Impact of the New Deal
1.
Assess opinions about the effectiveness of the New Deal.
2. Evaluate the legacies of the New Deal.