Semester Unit Outline (Sample Draft)

Course: American History II

Unit # / The Unit Title / List All Clarifying Objectives That Can Be Covered In This Unit / The Conceptual Lens
1  / How The West Was Lost And The Rest Was Won
(Passing of the American western frontier, the industrial buildup of America and the scramble to become a world power) / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.3.1, USH.H.3.2, USH.H.3.3, USH.H.3.4, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.3, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.7.1, USH.H. 7.3, USH.H.8.2, USH.H.8.3, USH.H.8.4 / Urbanization and Acquisition
2  / What Goes Up Must Come Down
(The era from Harding to Hoover. The desired focus will be on the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover to show how their economic and political decisions or indecisions really hurt the American economy long term and snowballed the U.S. toward a great economic depression. Also, focuses on how the lifestyles of those who benefited from economic decisions of the government as well as those who were hurt by them helped lead the nation into the Great Depression of the 1930s.) / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.3.2, USH.H.3.3, USH.H.3.4, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.5.2, USH.H.7.1, USH.H. 7.3, USH.H.8.2, USH.H.8.3, USH.H.8.4 / Leadership and Excess
3  / Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave!
(The successful industrial buildup in America encourages increased international interdependence and sets the stage for the U.S. to eventually have to enter a war they wanted to watch from the side lines, on two occasions –WWI &WWII.) / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.3.2, USH.H.3.3, USH.H.3.4, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.3, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.5.1, USH.H.5.2, USH.H.7.1, USH.H. 7.3, USH.H.8.2, USH.H.8.3, USH.H.8.4 / Cooperation and Consequence
4  / Living on the Edge
(Origins of the Cold War up through the Counter Culture era) / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.3, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.5.2, USH.H.6.1, USH.H.6.2, USH.H.7.1, USH.H.7.2, USH.H. 7.3, USH.H.8.3, USH.H.8.4 / Power and Change
5  / Second Class Citizen in a First Class Nation: Two Americas Collide
1950s – 1970s / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.3.2, USH.H.3.3, USH.H.3.4, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.3, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.5.1, USH.H.5.2, USH.H.7.1, USH.H. 7.3, USH.H.8.2, USH.H.8.3, USH.H.8.4 / Chaos and Accomplishment
6  / An Era of Lies, Limits and Legacies
1968 – 1980
(Nixon & Watergate, Ford and Carter Administrations, Environmental Activism) / USH.H.2.1, USH.H.2.2, USH.H.3.2, , USH.H.3.4, USH.H.4.1, USH.H.4.2, USH.H.4.3, USH.H.4.4, USH.H.5.1, USH.H.5.2, USH.H.6.1, USH.H.7.1 / Protocol and Legacy