Indiana

Early National Development: 1775 to 1877

• USH.1.1 Read key documents from the Founding Era and analyze major ideas about government, individual rights, and the general welfare embedded in these documents.

  • Source analysis: the Federalist Papers (CG-B.5)
  • Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence (US-B.2)
  • The Constitutional Convention (US-C.1)

• USH.1.2 Identify and tell the significance of controversies pertaining to slavery, abolitionism, and social reform movements.

  • Antebellum reform movements (US-D.1)
  • Source analysis: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (US-D.2)
  • The growth of sectionalism (US-E.1)
  • Causes of the Civil War: compromises (US-E.2)
  • The Civil War: part I (US-E.)
  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • Radical Reconstruction (US-F.)

Development of the Industrial United States: 1870 to 1900

• USH.2.1 Explain the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

  • Industry in the Gilded Age (US-G.1)
  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)
  • Labor in the Gilded Age (US-G.4)

• USH.2.2 Analyze the factors associated with the development of the West and how these factors affected the lives of those who settled there, including Buffalo Soldiers, the Irish, and the Chinese. (E)

• USH.2.3 Articulate the causes and consequences of Indian wars in the West, and explain how the lives of Native Americans changed with the development of the West. (E)

• USH.2.4 Summarize the impact industrialization and immigration had on social movements of the era, including the contributions of specific individuals and groups.

  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)

• USH.2.5 Analyze the development of "separate but equal" policies culminating in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case. Explain the historical significance of the denial of African American rights in the South and the effects of these policies in future years. (E)

  • The Jim Crow system (US-G.3)

• USH.2.6 Describe and assess the contribution of Benjamin Harrison to national policies on environmental protection, business regulation, immigration, and civil rights.

Emergence of the Modern United States: 1897 to 1920

• USH.3.1 Explain the debates surrounding America's entrance into global imperialism.

  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)

• USH.3.2 Explain the origins, goals, achievements, and limitations of the Progressive Movement in addressing political, economic, and social reform. (E)

  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
  • Progressive Era reform movements (US-H.)

• USH.3.3 Explain the constitutional significance of the following landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court: Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), Muller v. Oregon (1908), Schenck v. United States (1919), and Abrams v. United States (1919).

• USH.3.4 Explain the importance of social and cultural movements within the Progressive Era, including significant individuals/groups such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP, muckrakers, and Upton Sinclair, and including movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, Women's Suffrage, labor movements, and socialist movement. (E)

  • Labor in the Gilded Age (US-G.4)
  • Progressive Era reform movements (US-H.)

• USH.3.5 Analyze the reasons why the United States became involved in World War I. (E)

  • World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)

• USH.3.6 Describe the experiences of migrants from Europe, Asia, and the southern United States as they encountered and interacted with their new communities.

  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)

Modern United States in Prosperity and Depression: 1920s and 1930s

• USH.4.1 Identify new cultural movements of the 1920s, including the emergence of women in the public sphere and the workplace. (E)

• USH.4.2 Assess the causes of the resurgence of social movements, reform movements, and vigilante groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Scare, and Prohibition.

  • Prohibition (US-J.1)
  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)

• USH.4.3 Identify technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban Americans.

• USH.4.4 Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and its social and cultural impacts. (E)

  • Causes of the Great Depression (US-K.1)

• USH.4.5 Assess the economic impact of the Great Depression on all Americans.

• USH.4.6 Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the First New Deal, including the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Act.

  • Identify New Deal agencies (US-K.2)

• USH.4.7 Explain the long-term effects of the Second New Deal, including its effects on agriculture, labor, social welfare, and banking. (E)

  • Identify New Deal agencies (US-K.2)

The United States and World War II: 1939 to 1945

• USH.5.1 Identify and explain key events from Versailles to Pearl Harbor that resulted in the United States' entry into World War II. (E)

  • Causes of World War II (US-L.1)
  • World War II: U.S. entry (US-L.)

• USH.5.2 Identify key leaders and events from World War II, and explain the significance of each.

• USH.5.3 Describe Hitler's "final solution" policy, and explain the Allied responses to the Holocaust and war crimes. (E)

• USH.5.4 Explain the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and women during World War II. (E)

  • Japanese American internment (US-L.2)

• USH.5.5 Summarize the efforts the national government made to regulate production, labor, and prices during the war, and evaluate the success or failure of these efforts.

• USH.5.6 Explain the role of World War II as a catalyst for social change.

• USH.5.7 Explain the origins of the Cold War. (E)

  • Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)

Post War United States: 1945 to 1960

• USH.6.1 Describe the challenges involved with the enforcement of desegregation directives in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). (E)

  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

• USH.6.2 Discuss key economic and social changes in post-World War II American life, including the Second Red Scare and its effects on American culture.

United States in Troubled Times: 1960 to 1980

• USH.7.1 Explain the efforts of groups of African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women to assert their social and civic rights in the years following World War II. (E)

  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

• USH.7.2 Evaluate various methods and philosophies (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panthers, and Malcolm X) to bring about social justice during the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)
  • Source analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail (US-O.)

• USH.7.3 Assess the social and economic programs of the Kennedy-Johnson era, including policies and legal rulings.

  • The presidency of John F. Kennedy (US-N.1)

• USH.7.4 Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impacted the lives of Americans during the period 1960 to 1980.

• USH.7.5 Identify and analyze the significance of key decisions of the Warren Court.

• USH.7.6 Identify the problems confronting different minorities during this period of economic and social change, and describe the solutions to these problems. (E)

• USH.7.7 Explain and analyze changing relations between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1980. (E)

  • Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)
  • The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (US-M.)
  • The presidency of Richard Nixon (US-P.)
  • The presidency of Jimmy Carter (US-P.)

• USH.7.8 Explain and analyze U.S. foreign policy with regard to Africa, the Middle East, and China during the 1960s and 1970s.

  • The presidency of Richard Nixon (US-P.)
  • The presidency of Jimmy Carter (US-P.)

• USH.7.9 Explain the constitutional, political, and cultural significance of the Watergate Scandal and the United States Supreme Court decision of United States v. Nixon.

United States: 1980 to 2001

• USH.8.1 Explain the significance of social, economic, and political issues during the period 1980 to the present and how these issues affected individuals and organizations. (E)

  • The presidency of Ronald Reagan: domestic policy and legacy (US-P.)
  • The Gulf War (US-P.)

• USH.8.2 Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impact the lives of Americans today, including NASA and space programs, identification of DNA, the Internet, global climate change, and U.S. energy policy.

• USH.8.3 Explain how and why the Cold War came to an end and identify new obstacles to U.S. leadership in the world. (E)

• USH.8.4 Explain the background and effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on U.S. foreign and domestic policy. (E)

• USH.8.5 Analyze the impact of globalization on U.S. culture and U.S. economic, political, and foreign policy, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

• USH.8.6 Explain the causes and consequences of deindustrialization in the United States after 1970.

Post 9/11 United States

• USH.9.1 Explain the origins of legislation which began to unravel the work of the New Deal and the Great Society, including reforms in the areas of welfare, public housing, Social Security, and labor. (E)

  • The presidency of Ronald Reagan: domestic policy and legacy (US-P.)

• USH.9.2 Assess the decisions of the John Roberts Court, especially those which addressed the contests among individual citizens, workers, and corporations.

• USH.9.3 Reflect on the role of media and social media in the democratic process. (E)

  • Media literacy: credibility (CG-I.)

Historical Thinking

• USH.10.1 Cultivate historical thinking, including the ability to evaluate competing explanations for historical change.

  • Identify primary and secondary sources (US-Q.1)
  • Identify facts and opinions (US-Q.2)
  • Read and create timelines (US-Q.3)

• USH.10.2 Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past; discover possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.

  • Identify primary and secondary sources (US-Q.1)

• USH.10.3 Analyze multiple, unexpected, and complex causes and effects of events in the past.

• USH.10.4 Assess competing historical interpretations of a particular historical moment, event, or change.

  • Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence (US-B.2)
  • Source analysis: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? (US-D.2)
  • Source analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail (US-O.)

• USH.10.5 Develop arguments, defended with historical evidence, which explain historical change.