US History Units
US Map Assignment
Political Map of the United States
The American Revolution
Colonial Gazette Rubric
Colonial Gazette Example
Colonial Map Analysis
Colonial Resistance and Rebellion
Launching the New Nation
Confederation and Constitution
Outline Example
The Constitution
Bill of Rights Scenarios
Scenarios Answer Doc
Howard Zinn, "A Kind of Revolution"
Westward Expansion
Map Analysis: Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
EQ: How did the U.S. expand its territory during this time?
Section outline
Cultures Clash on the Prairie (202-208 only)
EQ: How did cultures clash on the prairie?
The Civil War
Civil War Map Analysis
Questions
Illustrated Timeline Assignment and Rubric
The Divisive Politics of Slavery
Slavery and the Civil War (notes and assignment materials)
Slavery and the Civil War PowerPoint
RLH: Was Lincoln a Racist?
10 Days that Unexpectadly Changed America: Antietam (Available on youtube)
(video guide)
10 Days: Antietam from ViewfinderNYC on Vimeo.
The Civil War Begins
EQ: How did the Civil War begin?
Benjamin Hirst Primary Document
The North Takes Charge
EQ: How did the North take charge?
Battle of Gettysburg PowerPoint
Women and the Civil War: Harriet Sigerman, No Small Courage
Mexican-Americans and the Civil War: Zaragosa Vargas, Crucible of Struggle
African Americans and the Civil War: David Williams A People's History of the Civil War
EQ for Essay: How did various groups contribute to the war effort?
Essay Rubric
Essay Frame
Sample
SAC: Were African Americans free during Reconstruction?
Video Guide for Part II of Reconstruction: American After the Civil War
Video Guide: Aftershock
Aftershock (Youtube)
Reconstruction
EQ: In what ways was Reconstruction a success? How was it a failure?
Reading Like a Historian: Were African Americans free during Reconstruction?
From the Historians: Reconstruction
The Gilded Age
The Expansion of Industry
The Age of Railroads
The New Immigrants
Big Business and Labor
Politics in the Gilded Age
Robber Barons Research Sources
Journal Entry:
Read the following article: "Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco"
What are some of the problems descibed here? How do they relate to the Gilded Age? What kind of solutions are recomended in the article? How would you deal with these problems?
Great Strikes Slideshow Assignment
Excerpt from Book on Unions: (The Great Strike of 1877, pages 107-121; The Haymarket Affair, pages 140-66; The Homestead Strike, pages 167-180; The Pullman Strike, pages 196-224)
Citation: Dray, Philip. There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America. New York, Anchor Books, 2011.
Haymarket Strike:
History.com
Kotz, Nick. "The Bomb that Shook America." The Washington Post, 2 September 1984.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Kunkle, Frederick. "Labor Day's Violent Roots: How a Worker Revolt on teh B&O; Railroad lef 100 People Dead." Washington Post, 4 September 2017.
Piper, Jessica. "The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: A Catalyst for the American Labor Movement." History Teacher, vol. 47, Nov. 2013, pp. 93-110.
The Homestead Strike
"The Strike at the Homestead Mill" PBS
"Homestead Strike" History.com
"Andrew Carnegie Claimed to Support Unions, but then Destroyed Them in his Steel Empire." History.com
Anthracite Coal Strike 1902
Antrhacite Coal Strike 1902
Citation: Dray, Philip. There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America. New York, Anchor Books, 2011.
Department of Labor article
History.com Video on Coal Strike
Newsboy Strike:
Nasaw, David. "Dirty-faced David and the Twin Goliaths." American Heritage, April/May, 1985.
Nasaw, David. Children of the City. Garden City, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985.
Nasaw, David. "Read all About It: The Story of the Newsies Two-week Strike Against Publishers Pulitzer and Hearst." New York Daily News 14 August 2017.
Stern, Liz. "Blast from the Past: Newsboy Strike of 1899." New York Historical Society.
The Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre (Howard Zinn)
Citation:
Zinn, Howard. The Politics of History. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union. New York, Doubleday, 2010.
"Militia Slaughters Strikers at Ludlow, Colorado." History.com
The Pullman Strike
Pruitt, Sarah. "How a Deadly Strike led to the Labor Day Holiday." History.com
Siegel, Rachel. "Who Started Labor Day? The Bloody and Confusing History of an American Holiday." The Washington Post.
Urofsky, Melving. "The Pullman Strike." Britannica Encyclopedia.
Video Guide: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Primary Documents: Andrew Carnegie and Herbert Spencer
Compare and Contrast: How are the opinions of these two individuals toward the wealthy and poor similar? How do they differ?
RLH: The Chinese Exclusion Act
From the Historians: The Gilded Age
The Progressive Era
Textbook Sections:
The Origins of Progressivism
Women in Public Life
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
Progressivism Under Taft
Wison's New Freedom
Progressive Era Primary Documents
Party Platforms 1912
Assignments:
History Heads
Du Bois vs. Washington
Article for Journal Entry: Should Wilson name be taken down at Princeton?
From the Historians: The Progressive Era
PowerPoint: Progressive Era Political Cartoons (Analysis Sheet)
Article Analysis: "Left Turn"
Test Prep
Upton Sinclair: "7 Things you didn't know about The Jungle"
American Imperialism
Imperialism and America
The Spanish-American War
Acquiring New Lands
America as a World Power
Additional Readings:
Expasnion in the Pacific from The American Age by Walter Lafeber
American Imperialism in Hawaii from Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer
Imperialism in Panama from The American Age by Walter Lafeber
Imperialism in Cuba and the Philippines from A People's History by Howard ZInn
Woodrow Wilson and Mexico from The American Age by Walter Lafeber
Imperialism PowerPoint
Research Paper Central Question: Why did the United States engage in Imperialism?
Pick three regions where the United States was engaged in imperialism.
Assignments:
Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists
Cartoons and Analysis Sheet (pick any eight to analyze)
Map Analysis: Imperialism
Imperialism Slideshow
From the Historians: Imperialism
Video Guide
VIDEO FOUND HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AGyXPAiSXs&t;=98s
World War I
World War I Begins
America Tips the Balance
The War at Home
Wilson Fights for Peace
Assignment:
Why did the United States enter World War I?
The Free and the Unfree by David W. Noble (was a professor of History at the University of Minesota)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (was a professor of History at Boston College)
The American Age by Walter LaFeber (Professor of American History at Cornell University)
Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 by John Milton Cooper Jr. (Professor of Hisory at the University of Wisconsin)
Standing at Armagedon by Nell Irving Painter (Professor of History at Princeton University)
Sample Essay
Essay Rubric
Reading Like a Historian: The Espionage and Sedition Acts
From the Historians WWI
Map Analysis: WWI
Schenck Background
Video Guide (skip section from minutes 41 - 59)
Video Guide (Skip to minute 58)
The Roaring 20s
Journal Entry
How do you feel about the "public charge" rule? Do you think it is fair why or why not? Do you think there should be other qualification to legally immigrate to the United States?
CNN Article
America Struggles with Postwar Issues
The Harlem Renaissance
Figures from the Harlem Renaissance
Changing Ways of LIfe and The Twenties Woman
Education and Popular Culture
Massacre of Black Wall Street
Scopes Trial: Video Guide
Harlem Renaissance Art
The Roaring Twenties (Jigsaw Material)
Analysis of Changing Life in the Twenties
1920s Slang
Radio: A Blessing or a Curse
Figures for Harlem Renaissance Poem
The Great Depression
Hardship and Suffering During the Great Depression
The Nation's Sick Economy
Hoover Struggles with the Great Depression
The New Deal Fight's the Depression
The New Deal Affects Many Groups
The Impact of the New Deal
Assignments:
Graphing the Great Depression
Directions: Plot the points on each graph. Connect the points to create line graphs. Then use the graphs to answer the questions.
Video Guide
Journal Entry: Use the following link for this Journal Entry: The Scottsboro Boys
Who were the Scottsboro Boys? What were they accused of? What happened to these young men? Who came to their defense? Why was this case important to the development of Civil Rights in the United States?
Surviving the Dustbowl (Video Link)
Viewing Guide: Surviving the Dustbowl
From the Historians: The Depression and New Deal
Women and the New Deal
History Headings
-Create a creative and appropriate heading for each of the numbered sections.
-Headings must be supported by two quotes from each section.
World War II
America Moves Toward War
Mobilizing for Defense
The War for Europe and North Africa
The War in the Pacific
The Home Front
Propaganda Examples and Analysis Worksheet
Map Analysis (The War in The Pacific)
Map Analysis (The War in Europe)
Japanese Internment Readings
From the Historians: WWII
The Cold War
Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War at Home: EQ How was the Cold War fought at home (within the United States)?
Kennedy and the Cold War: Guided Reading Assignment
Web-Quest: The Cold War (worksheet)
Guided Reading: Zinn, "A People's War?"
From the Historians: The Cold War
Video Guide: McCarthyism and Maple St.
Cold War Music List
CNN-The Cold War: "Reds"
Twilight Zone: "The Monsters are Due on Maple St."
Twilight Zone - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street from Kevin on Vimeo.
Video Guide: Cold War - Cuba
The Civil Rights Movement
Taking on Segregation
Challenges and Chages in the Movement
Diggins, Black America, the Constitution, and Civil Rights
Blum, Polarization (divisions in the movement)
Zinn, "Or Does it Explode?"
Articles for Journal Entry on Reparations
Article 1
Article 2
Violence or Non-Violence: Malcolm X and MLK
Video Guide: American Experience 1964
The Sixties S01e08 1968 Wapzet.com-1 from Sean Price on Vimeo.
Video Guide for "1968"
Webquest: CNN - The Sixties
Vietnam
Moving Toward Conflict
A Nation Divided
Video Guide: "Peace with Honor"
Howard Zinn, "The Impossible Victory: Vietnam" [excerpt]
Processing Assignment: Provide a summary of four examples of people who resisted service in Vietnam. Answer the following questions:
- Who were these individuals or groups?
- Why did they resist service in Vietnmam?
- How did they reisist?
- Would you describe these people as couragous or cowardly? Why?
Web Quest: CNN - The Seventies
America's Right Turn
Foreign Policy After the Cold War
EQ: How did the U.S. interact with other countries during this period?