CP US History/US History
Curriculum Map
Month:
Unit Topic
AugustSeptember
Historic
Documents
Essential Understanding
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September
Industrialization
and
Progressivism
(1877-1920)
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October
Foreign Affairs
from Imperialism
to Post-War I
(1898-1930)
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Explain grievances listed in the
Declaration of Independence in terms
of a relationship to Enlightenment
ideas of natural rights and the social
contract
Show how the Northwest Ordinance,
in providing government for the
Northwest Territory, established a
precedent for government the United
States
Explain a provision of the Constitution
of the United States in terms of how it
reflects Enlightenment thinking
Compare the arguments of the
Federalists and Anti-Federalists on a
common topic related to the
ramification of the Constitution of the
United States and hypothesize why
the winning argument was more
persuasive
Cite evidence for historical
precedents to the rights incorporated
in the Bill of Rights
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Explain how the rise of corporations,
heavy industry, technology, and
mechanized farming transformed the
American economy from agrarian to
urban industrial
Explain how a rapidly growing
workforce organized themselves
despite unregulated working
conditions, laissez faire governmental
policy, and violence against them
Show how immigration, internal
migration, and urbanized transformed
American society
Demonstrate how, after the end of
Reconstruction, old political structures
re-emerged and racial segregation
became institutionalized
Explain how the Progressives
attempted to address the problems of
industrial capitalism, urbanization,
and political corruption
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Show how the United States emerged
as a world power through overseas
expansion, the Spanish-American
War, and World War I
Explain how the United States moved
away from efforts to maintain peace
through the Treaty of Versailles and
League of Nations toward isolationism
after World War I
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Performance
Assessments
Quiz
Declaration of
Independence
Essay
Constitution
Poster
Mid-Term Exam
Content
Statements
5,6,7,8,9
Progressive
Presidents Info
Sheet
Mid-Term Exam
Final Exam
10,11,12,13,14
Quiz
Imperialism
Timeline
Final Exam
15.16
Month:
Unit Topic
November
Prosperity,
Depression, and
the New Deal
(1919-1941)
Essential Understanding
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December
From Isolation to
World War II
(1930-1945)
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January
The Cold War
(1945-1991)
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Demonstrate how the Red Scare,
racial intolerance, and anti-immigrant
sentiment led to social unrest in the
1920s
Explain how a raised standard of
living, combined with innovations in
communication, transportation, and
industry, resulted in social change
and unrest
Show how the Harlem Renaissance,
African-American migration women’s
suffrage, and Prohibition all
contributed to social change
Explain the causes of the Great
Depression (monetary policy, stock
market speculation, and increased
consumer debt) and how the role of
the federal government increase as a
result of the Great Depression
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Explain how the United States
attempted to refrain from
interventionist policies in the Western
Hemisphere and maintain an
isolationist policy in Europe and Asia
in the 1930s
Demonstrate how the United States’
mobilization of its economic and
military resources for World War II
significantly changed American
society
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Explain how the use of atomic
weapons changed the nature of
warfare, altered the balance of power,
and started the atomic age
Explain how the United States
adopted a policy of containment in
response to the spread of
communism
Show how the Second Red Scare and
McCarthyism was a reflection of
American Cold War fears
Demonstrate how the Cold War and
conflicts in Korea and Vietnam
influenced domestic and international
politics
Explain how the collapse of
communist governments in Eastern
Europe brought an end to the Cold
War
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Performance
Assessments
Quiz
Alphabet Soup
Poster
Harlem
Renaissance
Web Search
Mid-Term Exam
Content
Statements
17,18,19,20
Quiz
WW II
Geopolitics
Project
Heroism Essay
Final Exam
21,22
Quiz
WDSTF
PowerPoint
Cold War
Geography
Mid Term Exam
23,24,25,26,27
Month:
Unit Topic
February
Social
Transformation in
the United States
(1945-1994)
Essential Understanding
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March-April
United States
and the PostCold War World
(1991 to present)
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April-May
Historical
Thinking and
Skills
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Show how the United States
experienced a struggle for racial and
gender equality and the extension of
civil rights
Explain how the postwar economic
boom changed American society
Demonstrate how the population
movement from the cities to the
suburbs, the Rust Belt to the Sun
Belt, and increased immigration had
social and political effects
Show how political debates have
focused on the extent of the role that
government plays in the economy,
environmental protection, social
welfare, and national security
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Performance
Assessments
Quiz
Civil Rights
Timeline
Civil Rights
Leader Resume
Final Exam
Demonstrate how improved global
communications, international trade,
transnational business organizations,
overseas competition, and the shift to
service from manufacturing has
impacted the American economy
Explain how the United States has
faced new political, national security,
and economic changes in the postCold War world and following the
September 11, 2001 attacks
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Quiz
Mid Term Exam
32,33
Analyze a historical decision and
predict possible consequences and
alternatives course
Analyze and evaluate the credibility of
primary and secondary sources
Develop a thesis and use evidence to
support or refute a position
Identify examples of multiple
causation and long and short term
causal relationships with respect to
historical events
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Thesis Paper
20% Projects
1,2,3,4
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Content
Statements
28,29,30,31