U.S. History

IXL offers dozens of U.S. History skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.

IXL offers dozens of U.S. History skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.

A. The Thirteen Colonies

  1. •
    New! The Southern Colonies
  2. •
    New! The Middle Colonies
  3. •
    New! The New England Colonies

B. The American Revolution

  1. 1
    The French and Indian War
  2. •
    New! The Revolutionary War: part I
  3. 2
    Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence

C. The early republic

  1. 1
    The Constitutional Convention
  2. •
    Coming soon: The presidency of George Washington
  3. 2
    The War of 1812

D. The antebellum period

  1. •
    Coming soon: Indian removal and the Trail of Tears
  2. 1
    Antebellum reform movements
  3. •
    Coming soon: Abolitionism
  4. 2
    Source analysis: What to the slave is the Fourth of July?

E. The sectional crisis and the Civil War

  1. 1
    The growth of sectionalism
  2. 2
    Causes of the Civil War: compromises
  3. •
    New! The Civil War: part I

F. Reconstruction

  1. 1
    Presidential Reconstruction
  2. •
    Coming soon: Radical Reconstruction

G. The Gilded Age

  1. 1
    Industry in the Gilded Age
  2. 2
    Cities in the Gilded Age
  3. 3
    The Jim Crow system
  4. 4
    Labor in the Gilded Age

H. The Progressive Era and American empire

  1. 1
    The rise of U.S. imperialism
  2. 2
    The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
  3. •
    Coming soon: Progressive Era reform movements

I. World War I

  1. 1
    World War I: causes and U.S. entry
  2. 2
    World War I: the home front and battlefront

J. The 1920s

  1. 1
    Prohibition
  2. 2
    Source analysis: the Great Migration

K. The Great Depression

  1. 1
    Causes of the Great Depression
  2. 2
    Identify New Deal agencies
  3. 3
    Source analysis: fireside chats

L. World War II

  1. 1
    Causes of World War II
  2. •
    Coming soon: World War II: U.S. entry
  3. •
    Coming soon: World War II: the European front
  4. 2
    Japanese American internment

M. Post-World War II

  1. 1
    Introduction to the Cold War
  2. •
    Coming soon: The presidency of Dwight Eisenhower

N. The 1960s

  1. 1
    The presidency of John F. Kennedy
  2. •
    Coming soon: The Vietnam War

O. Civil rights

  1. 1
    Civil rights movement: school desegregation
  2. •
    Coming soon: Source analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail

P. The 1970s to the present

  1. •
    Coming soon: The presidency of Richard Nixon
  2. •
    Coming soon: The presidency of Jimmy Carter
  3. •
    Coming soon: The presidency of Ronald Reagan: domestic policy
  4. •
    Coming soon: The Gulf War

Q. Social studies skills

  1. 1
    Identify primary and secondary sources
  2. 2
    Identify facts and opinions
  3. 3
    Read and create timelines