 | | | | | | United States History | | Course Description: This one-year course presents historical and contemporary views of people, places, events and dates from multiple perspectives. Students will examine how the development of the United States of America has been impacted by many influences including its resources, documents, ideals, relationships with other nations and its peoples whose many cultures have enriched the country. Upon completion of the course, students will have developed the knowledge and skills needed to satisfy the Minnesota Academic Standards in U.S. History.
Standards:
· Demonstrate knowledge of indigenous cultures in North America prior to and during western exploration.
· Understand how European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the colonies and the factors that shaped colonial North America.
· Understand the economic development of the English colonies in North America and the exploitation of enslaved Africans.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution.
· Understand the foundation of the American government and nation.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the early republic and how territorial expansion affected foreign relations.
· Understand how explosive growth (economic, demographic, geographic) and technological innovation transformed American society.
· Understand sources, characteristics, and effects of antebellum reform movements.
· Understand the extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the long- and short-term causes of the Civil War.
· Understand the course, character, and outcome of the Civil War.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the consequences of Civil War and
Reconstruction.
· Analyze the process of Westward Expansion in the late 19th Century.
· Describe and analyze the linked processes of industrialization and urbanization after 1870.
· Demonstrate knowledge of the causes and consequences of immigration to the United States from 1870 to the first World War.
· Understand the origins of racial segregation.
· Describe how industrialization changed the nature of work and the origins and role of labor unions in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.
· Understand the changing dynamics of national politics in the late 19th Century.
· Understand the causes and consequences of American expansionism and the Spanish-American War.
· Analyze the wide range of reform efforts known as Progressivism between 1890 and the first World War.
· Understand the causes and consequences of World War I.
· Understand how the United States changed politically, culturally, and economically from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression.
· Understand the origins and impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940.
· Understand the origins of World War II, the course of the war, and the impact of the war on American society.
· Understand the social and economic changes in the United States, 1945-1960.
· Understand the Cold War, its causes, consequences and its military conflicts.
· Understand the key domestic political issues and debates in the postwar era to 1972.
· Understand the changes in legal definitions of individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s and the social movements that prompted them.
· Understand the evolution of foreign and domestic policy in the last three decades of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century.
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