The United States since 1877. This course of study includes units on industrialization, the development of the west, the progressive era, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War and recent American history. Significant economic and social developments are placed in their historical context.
Prerequisites
Reading proficiency as established by District Policy
Student Learning Outcomes
- Apply theories of interdisciplinary social sciences to historical events and actors.
- Trace the development of the Age of Industry.
- Analyze the Western United States from 1865 to
- Describe the politics of the Gilded Age.
- Analyze Manifest Destiny as it relates to the Spanish-American War and Pacific acquisitions.
- Describe the Progressive Era.
- Analyze America’s entry into World War I.
- Compare and contrast the roaring twenties and the depression.
- Summarize America’s entry into World War II.
- Describe the Early Cold War era.
- Describe the later Cold War era.
- Describe the Reagan Era and the Post-Cold War era.