Course Focus

American History Course Focus

We will...

• Create a timeline to explain and analyze time periods in American history.
  
• Compare and contrast conflicts, events, political ideas, social, and economic issues in American history.
• Be able to analyze and critique events from various points of view involved.
• Work to relate our studies to the real-world and how the effect us all.
• Debate various historical issues from a specific point of view.
• Interpret facts and ideas from both primary and secondary resources.
  
• Evaluate how American history may have been different if different courses of action had taken place in various events.
• Conduct research on a variety of topics and analyze the validity of the sources we use (opinion, propaganda, etc.).
• Interpret political cartoons during various time periods and pertaining to a variety of issues and topics.
• Analyze data from maps, tables, charts, and graphs and seek to identify trends and reasons behind the trend(s).
• Analyze and summarize historical speeches.
• Create presentations using technology to enhance the presentation.
• Analyze causes of industrialization and its impact on business and workers in the US.
• Learn about big business in the late 1800s.
• Explore migration to the United States as well as movement westward will be discussed, analyzed, and evaluated.
• Analyze the urbanization increase and rural decrease.
• Evaluate Indian land policies, Dawes Act, Chinese Exclusion Act.
• Discuss and debate social changes and the impact of media.
• Explore the progressive movement's goals and results (16-19th Amendments).
• Look at the labor unions, share-croppers, farm labor, etc.
  
• Evaluate the causes and consequences of World War I and US involvement (Treaty of Versailles, Wilson's Fourteen Points, League of Nations).
  
• Analyze women's suffrage, prohibition, the roaring 20's.
• Identify the various causes of the Great Depression like the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and analyze its tremendous impact on our country.
• Debate the positive or negative impact that the New Deal legislation had on our country with the expanding role of government.
• Describe the causes of World War II and the events that led to the US involvement.
• Explore the Cold War, Red Scare, United Nations and American life in the 50s.
• Evaluate the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Space Race.
• Analyze the Civil Rights movement, major issues, and key figures in the fight for equal rights.
• Debate the impact of Watergate and issues that were important in the 70s.
• Evaluate the Reagan era and the end of the Cold War.
• Discover the 90s technological explosion, Bill Clinton era, NAFTA, Election of 2000, September 11th of 2001, terrorism, the conflicts in the Middle East, energy issues, and the future.
  

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