U.S. History

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

B. The American Revolution

  1. 1
    The French and Indian War
  2. 2
    The Revolutionary War: part I
  3. 3
    The Revolutionary War: part II
  4. 4
    Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence

C. The early republic

  1. 1
    The Constitutional Convention
  2. 2
    The presidency of George Washington
  3. 3
    The War of 1812

D. The antebellum period

  1. 1
    Indian removal and the Trail of Tears
  2. 2
    Antebellum reform movements
  3. 3
    The abolition movement
  4. 4
    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. 3
    The Civil War: part I
  4. 4
    The Civil War: part II

F. Reconstruction

  1. 1
    Presidential Reconstruction
  2. 2
    Radical Reconstruction
  3. •
    New! The end of Reconstruction

G. The Gilded Age

  1. 1
    Industry in the Gilded Age
  2. 2
    Labor in the Gilded Age
  3. 3
    Immigration after the Civil War
  4. 4
    Cities in the Gilded Age
  5. 5
    The Jim Crow system

H. The Progressive Era and American empire

  1. 1
    The rise of U.S. imperialism
  2. 2
    The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
  3. 3
    Politics in the Progressive Era
  4. 4
    Progressive Era reform movements
  5. •
    New! Women's suffrage

I. World War I

  1. 1
    World War I: causes and U.S. entry
  2. 2
    World War I: the home front and battlefront
  3. 3
    World War I: the end of the war

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
    Life during the Great Depression
  3. 3
    The New Deal: part I
  4. 4
    Identify New Deal agencies
  5. 5
    Source analysis: fireside chats

M. Post-World War II

  1. 1
    Introduction to the Cold War
  2. 2
    The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

N. The 1960s

  1. 1
    The presidency of John F. Kennedy
  2. 2
    The Vietnam War

O. Civil rights

  1. 1
    Civil rights movement: school desegregation
  2. 2
    Civil rights movement: nonviolent direct action
  3. 3
    Source analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail

P. The 1970s to the present

  1. 1
    The presidency of Richard Nixon
  2. 2
    The presidency of Jimmy Carter
  3. 3
    The presidency of Ronald Reagan: domestic policy and legacy
  4. 4
    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