American History II picks up where American History I left off in the narrative of American history: after the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this course, students will learn the history of America as a nation and as a world leader from roughly 1865-present. This course will begin with a refresher on the Civil War and Reconstruction and those themes and move through the conclusion of the Cold War into the turn of the 21st Century and the Modern Era. Students in this course will be asked to learn concepts in history ranging from dates, vocabulary, historical figures, geographic locations, and more. They will then need to use this information to form ideas, defend them, and draw logical inferences based on the given information.

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Getting Acclimated to the Class (Days 1 & 2)

Unit 0: Thinking Like a Historian & Historical Thinking Skills (HTS)

Unit 1: Migration, Industrialization, and Urbanization during the Gilded Age

Unit 2: The Progressive Era: Progress and Progressivism

Unit 3: The Great War: Imperialism and WWI

Unit 4: the Roaring 20’s, Great Depression, and the New Deal

Unit 5: WWII

Unit 6: The Cold War

Unit 7: Liberalism and Civil Rights

Unit 8: Conservatism, Terror and Hope