1st Semester Units

US History 1st Semester

Unit Schedule

Unit 1: Industrial America

(4 Weeks) - Ch. 16 & 18

• • Capital and Labor

  • Industrialization and Innovation

  • Urbanization and Immigration

  • Populism and Socialism

  • The New South and the Color Line

  • Gender, Religion, and Culture

Unit 2: Imperialism at Home and Abroad

(4 Weeks)

• • Post-Civil War Westward Migration, the Indian Wars, and Federal Peace Policies

  • Western Economic Expansion: Railroads and Cattle

  • Resistance in the Native West

  • The Mythic American West

  • American Foreign Interventions

  • 1898 - The Spanish American War and its Aftermath

  • Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism

  • Women and Imperialism

  • The Immigration Question

Unit 3: Progressivism and World War I

(4 Weeks)

• • Mobilizing Reform: Urban Reform, Women's Movements, and Trust Busters

  • Progressive Environmentalism

  • Jim Crow & African American Life

  • Causes of WWI & the First Months

  • America Enters the War

  • The Homefront

  • The End of the War and Influenza

  • The 14 Points and the League of Nations

  • The War's Aftermath

Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties

(4 Weeks)

• • The Republican Decade

  • Culture of Consumption

  • Culture of Escape

  • The "New Woman"

  • The "New Negro"

  • Cultural Conflicts

  • Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan