Horizontal Curriculum Map by 3-Week Block
Block
Standard(s)
1A
11.1. 11.3
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
How much power
should the
government have?
How did the US
become independent?
What is the
philosophy that lead
to the formation of
the constitution?
What forces led to the
civil war? What role
does religion play in
the development of
the United States?
COURSE:___US History_______________
Content/Materials
Early America to the Civil War
Assessments
From Test Bank
Constitution
Democracy Civil War
Independence Patriots
Loyalist Articles
Confederation
Protective tariff Alien
and Sedition Act
Nullification XYZ Affair
Two-party system
Checks and balances
Anti-Federalist
Constitution
Federalism
Bill of
Rights Amendments
Supremacy Preamble
Shay’s Rebellion
Reconstruction, free
enterprise system,
Monroe Doctrine, Trail
of Tears, Seneca Fall
Convention, Manifest
Destiny
From Test Bank
First Battle of Bull
Run, war of
attrition, Antietam,
martial law, Writ of
Habeaus Corpus,
Contraband,
Pickett’s Charge,
siege, Thirteenth
Amendment,
Industrialism,
Regulation, trusts,
pacifism,
progressivism
Segregation, Jim
Crow Law, Poll Tax
1B
11.1
11.2, 11.3
What is the rise of
industry good for the
United States?
The Civil War and
Reconstruction
Academic
Vocabulaty
Natura
1C
Block
Standard(s)
11.4
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
What role did
technological
advancement play in
economic growth?
What role did big
business play in the
development of the
US? What are some
of the negative
consequences of
Business expansion?
Of Westward
expansion
Content/Materials
Rise of Industry and the
Westward Expansion Chapter 6,
7,
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
Transcontinental
railroad, Bessemer
process, mass
production, social
darwinism,
monopoly, vertical
consolidation,
economics of scale,
trust, Sherman
Antitrust Act,
piecework, division
of labor, socialism,
collective
bargaining, scab,
Pacific Railway
Acts, Exoduster,
reservation, Battle of
Little Bighorn, long
drive, Soddie,
bonanza farm, free
silver, Interstate
commerce
Block
Standard(s)
2A
11.4, 11.5
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
Was the rise of
industry good for the
US? Why was it
called the gilded age?
Why did so many
people come to the
US from 1870 –
1915? How did
slums develop? Why
were certain groups
discriminated
against? Why did the
settlement movement
develop? What
influence did public
schools have on the
US? How did civil
rights movements
develop?
Content/Materials
Politics/ Urban Life, Civil Rights
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
Suffrage,
Progressivism,
Pacifism, Social
Darwinism, populist,
Second Great
Awakening,
Fundamentalism,
American Federation
of Labor, Haymarket
Affair, Nativism,
Chinese Exclusion
act, Tenements,
Settlement House,
political machine,
Graft, Segregation,
Jim Crow Law, Poll
Tax, Gilded age,
laissez-faire, blue
laws, steerage,
literacy, assimilation,
yellow journalism,
ragtime, plessy v.
Fergeson,
Standard(s)
2B
Block
11.4
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
Why were European
powers fighting each
other? What led to
the first world war?
What made the war
unique? Why did the
United States get
involved in the WWI?
Content/Materials
Origins of World War I
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
imperialism,
nationalism, annex,
jingoism, arbitration,
the Platt
Amendment, sphere
of influence,
concession, dollar
diplomacy, racism,
compulsory, Greet
White Fleet,
Isolationism, Mass
production,
trench warfare,
Allies, Militarism,
yellow journalism,
Spanish-American
war, Foraker Act,
muckraker,
injunction,
municipal, holding
company,
conservationist, New
Nationalism, Bull
Moose Party, Federal
Reserve System,
civil disobedience,
2C
Block
Standard(s)
11.4
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
How was fighting
WWI different?
What was the impact
of WWI?
Content/Materials
World War I
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
Militarism, Central
Powers, Allies,
stalemate, U-boat,
Zimmerman note,
American
Expeditionary force,
convoy, armistice,
Liberty Bond,
sedition, Fourteen
Points, League of
Nations, Versailles
Treaty,
Block
Standard(s)
3A
11.5
11.6
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
How did women’s
roles change during
the 1920’s? What
changes occurred
with the rise of the
mass media? What is
the impact of the Lost
Generation? What
was the impact of
prohibition? What
lead to the great
depression? How did
Americans recover?
What role should the
government play in
economic life? How
did the great
depression change the
US?
Content/Materials
The 20’s and 30’s
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
Flapper,
demographics,
barrio, mass media,
Jazz Age, Lost
Generation,
bootleggers,
speakeasy, Scopes
Trials,
fundamentalism,
Depression,
Activism,
Extremism,
Unemployment,
Welfare, Separation
of Powers, Dow
Jones Average,
Black Tuesday,
Margin Buying,
Shantytowns, Dust
Bowl, New Deal,
Agricultural
Adjustment Act,
Civilian
Conservation Corp,
National Industrial
Recovery Act, GlassSteagall Act, Works
Progress
Administration,
Social Security Act,
Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp,
Securities and
Exchange
Commision,
Tennessee Valley
Authority
Standard(s)
3B
Block
11.7
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
What lead to the
second world war?
What was the impact
of communism? How
did US alliances lead
to the Second World
War? How did WW2
end the depression?
What battles ended
the depression?
Content/Materials
WW 2
Assessments
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
Totalitarian, fascism,
Nazism, Axis
Powers,
appeasement,
blitzkrieg,
collaboration, allies,
Manchurian Incident,
puppet state,
neutrality Acts, cash
and carry, America
First Committee,
Lend-lease act,
Selective training
and services act,
Office of War
Mobilization, victory
garden, Atlantic
Charter, carpet
bombing, D-Day,
Holocaust,
concentration camp,
death camp, Bataan
Death March, Battle
of Midway,
kamikaze, Manhattan
Project, Nisei
Standard(s)
11.8
11.9
4A
3C
Block
11.10
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
What was the Impact
of the Cold War?
What is the lasting
impact of the Truman
Doctrine? What are
the lasting effects of
the Marshall Plan?
What lead to
American
Extremism? What is
the impact of
McCarthyism?
What is the impact of
the Civil Rights
Movement? What
were some of the
most important ways
that Civil Rights
moved forward in the
US? Who was
responsible for Civil
Rights moving
forward?
Content/Materials
Post War Years
Civil Rights
Assessments
Test bank
Test bank
Academic
Vocabulaty
satellite nation, iron
curtain, containment,
Marshall plan,
Warsaw pact,
HUAC, blacklist,
38th Parallel,
brinkmanship, U-2
incident, franchise,
GI Bill of Rights,
reconversion, TaftHartley Act, NASA,
National Defense
Education Act,
McCarthyism,
Montgomery bus
boycott, integration,
interracial,
nonviolent protest,
sit-in, Freedom Ride,
filibuster, cloture,
Twenty-fourth
Amendment, black
nationalism, black
power, de facto
segregation,
mandate, New
Frontier, Great
Society, Medicare,
Medicaid,
Immigration Act of
1965, Civil Rights
Act, Miranda Rule,
apportionment,
Limited Test Ban
Treaty. Peace Corp
Content/Materials
Assessments
4B
Standard(s)
What is the impact of
Vietnam? How was
fighting this war
different from other
wars? What was the
impact of Watergate
on the US? How was
the 70’s unique?
Vietnam and the 70’s
Test bank
4C
Block
Topic(s)/
Essential
Question(s)
What ends the cold
war? What was the
impact of the new
conservatives? How
did America Change
under Reagan?
Reagan to the present
Test bank
11.11
11.11
Academic
Vocabulaty
domino theory, Viet
Cong, Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution,
land mine, Agent
Orange, escalation,
Ho Chi Minh Trail,
conscientious
objector, Middle
America, deficit
spending, realpolitik,
détente, special
prosecutor, impeach,
Helsinki Accords,
incumbent,
deregulation,
amnesty, affirmative
action, Camp David
accords,
Camp David
Accords,
Whitewater,
apartheid, economic
sanctions, NAFTA,
World Trade
Organization,
multinational
corporation,
proliferation,
interned