US History Course Description and Objectives
Course Description:
Welcome to U.S History and a new year at MCHS! U.S. History is all about how the interactions of the past affect the issues of today. Together we will discover how we as a country came from an idea to one of the world’s most powerful countries. Through the use of a multitude of social studies disciplines, such as psychology, geography, sociology, and historical inquiry we will create a mental image of how this country was founded and what it took to get to where we are today.
Text: Holt American Anthem:Modern American History
Course Expectation:
U.S. History is all about how the interactions of the past affect the issues of today. As a class it is my intention to discover how we as a country came from an idea to one of the world’s most powerful nations. Through the use of a multitude of social studies disciplines, such as psychology, geography, sociology, and historical inquiry we will create a mental image of how this country was founded and what it took to get to where we are today.
Course Objectives:
Semester 1
Semester 2
Welcome to U.S History and a new year at MCHS! U.S. History is all about how the interactions of the past affect the issues of today. Together we will discover how we as a country came from an idea to one of the world’s most powerful countries. Through the use of a multitude of social studies disciplines, such as psychology, geography, sociology, and historical inquiry we will create a mental image of how this country was founded and what it took to get to where we are today.
Text: Holt American Anthem:Modern American History
Course Expectation:
U.S. History is all about how the interactions of the past affect the issues of today. As a class it is my intention to discover how we as a country came from an idea to one of the world’s most powerful nations. Through the use of a multitude of social studies disciplines, such as psychology, geography, sociology, and historical inquiry we will create a mental image of how this country was founded and what it took to get to where we are today.
Course Objectives:
Semester 1
- Students will analyze the diverse cultures that lived in, colonized, and ruled the Americas over a span of many centuries
- Outline and discuss the causes and effects of the conflict that the new nation faced when defining the role and size of the federal government.
- Identify and describe the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening and the nation's continued expansion West.
- Analyze the causes and effects of the Civil War, including postwar efforts to reconstruct the Southern States
- Outline the causes and effects of the Second Industrial Revolution, continued immigration, and the nations unrelenting expansion west
- Explain aspects of the Progressive movement, such as the fight for women's suffrage, the goals of the Christian Temperance movement, the struggle to improve urban living conditions, ending child labor, as well as improving working conditions and how these changed America.
- Summarize the causes and effects of the United States' transformation into a world power through intervention acts of imperialism in Latin America as well as trade policies in Asia
- Describe the events and ideas that pushed the United States into World War I and the efforts the nation took to help the Allies win the war
- Understand the dangers and changes the nation faced as the US transitions from war to peace, socially, politically, and economically after WWI.
- Analyze the rapid and radical change that American society and culture underwent in the 1920s discussing such topics as prohibition, the transformation of the African American community due to urbanization, and the emergence of popular culture
Semester 2
- Describe the impact of the economic boom in the 1920s and the causes and effects of the stock market crash
- Outline and discuss the causes and effects of President Roosevelt's New Deal program as the country contends with the deepest economic depression it has ever known
- Analyze and describe the events that led to the outbreak of World War II
- Describe and discuss the events of World War II along with the effect these events had on the lives of Americans
- Identify the causes and effects of the Cold War as well as focus on key events and military philosophies that almost led America and the Soviet Union into a global conflict
- Analyze the economic growth and prosperity the nation experienced after World War II, as well as the Cold War arms race with the Soviet Union
- Outline and discuss the domestic policies of both President John Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson in the New Frontier and Great Society and the overall affect they had on America
- Outline the struggles that African Americans faced in fighting against discrimination and attaining civil liberties
- Explain the causes and resolution of the Vietnam War
- Explain how the African American civil rights movement inspired women, Native Americans, and Latinos to fight against social, political, and economic inequality
- Analyze Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter and their respective successes and failures in office
- Describe the changes, events, and ideas that arose during the Reagan and Bush years
- Summarize the presidencies of Clinton and Bush as they faced challenges at home and abroad