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UNIT 1 Great American West 2 Gilded Age and 3 Growing Global Interaction 4 Boom and Bust
Progressivism
Topic(s) Exploration and Growth Transformation and Conflict Conflict and Expansion Prosperity and Depression
The events of the Civil War were still During the Gilded Age (the era of All issues of American foreign policy In this unit, students will examine the
fresh in the minds of Americans as Reconstruction to the end of the 19th in the 20th century have their origins inter war years including the various
hundreds of thousands migrated century), the United in the emergence of the United impacts of World War I and its
West. The American West was a States underwent an economic States as a major world power in the prosperity to the Great Depression
place where the untamed wilderness transformation that involved the Spanish-American War at the end of and New Deal leading up to World
could be mapped, given order, and maturing of the industrial economy, the 19th century and in the War II. The various policies of the
then made useful, but settlers were the rapid expansion of big business, involvement of the United States in 1920s including intolerance to
unprepared to deal with the the development of large-scale World War I. Students will trace the immigrants and communists,
landscape and hardships that agriculture, and the rise of national causes to both the Spanish American isolationism, and laissez faire
followed. To encourage westward labor unions and pronounced War and World War One while economics to the various social
development, the government industrial conflict.. analyzing the debates over trends including fundamentalism,
implemented policies to encourage With the turn of the century, America expansion and neutrality. prohibition, flappers and the Harlem
Units 1 - 7
settlement and help farmers, underwent a reform movement called Renaissance will reveal many of the
labourers, miners, and ranchers in Progressivism. Progressives were a generalizations for the American
claiming the West. Because they had diverse group, often with various History 2 course.
already occupied the land for agendas, but all reformers focused
centuries, Native Americans and on a set of problems arising from
Mexicans each had their own ideas rapid industrialization, urbanization,
Outcome(s) of land ownership and often came waves of immigration, and business
into conflict with Western settlers. and political corruption.
found itself involved in WWII as well as the Cold War. A following World War II was dominated by a foreign policy from 1977 through the present.
focus will be placed on social, economic and political preoccupation with the Cold War and social change in Connections to earlier major themes will provide the
the United States. The post war economic boom framework to understand recent events. While
changes that the nation experienced as a result of these
produced changes in education, consumer culture, the studying more recent events and movements there is
military and ideological conflicts. space race and the rise of suburbia. The Civil Rights often difficulties to fully see the lasting impact of
and feminist movements also became great reforms in these recent events.
Outcome(s) American History. Students will also analyze how the
U.S. governments anti-communist strategy of
containment in Asia confronted very different
circumstances and would involve the United States in
the bloody, costly conflicts of Korea and South
Vietnam.