US History
A full-year United States history course from Indigenous societies and colonization through the present, emphasizing evidence, causation, continuity, and civic meaning.
5 units and 20 lessons, for Grade 10 to Grade 11. Free on Slate.
Unit 1: Colonial America and the Founding
Study Indigenous societies, colonization, revolution, and constitutional beginnings.
- Indigenous America Before 1492 (10 min)
- Colonial Regions (10 min)
- The American Revolution (25 min)
- Constitution and Early Republic (10 min)
Unit 2: Expansion, Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Trace territorial growth, reform movements, sectional crisis, war, and Reconstruction.
- Westward Expansion (10 min)
- Antebellum Reform Movements (10 min)
- Sectional Crisis and Civil War (10 min)
- Reconstruction (10 min)
Unit 3: Industrialization, Immigration, and Reform
Analyze economic transformation, inequality, migration, urbanization, and Progressive reform.
- Industrialization and the Gilded Age (10 min)
- Labor, Farmers, and Populism (10 min)
- The Progressive Era (10 min)
- Imperialism and World War I (10 min)
Unit 4: Depression, World War II, and the Cold War
Study crisis, reform, global war, and superpower rivalry.
- The 1920s and Great Depression (10 min)
- The New Deal (10 min)
- World War II (10 min)
- Cold War America (10 min)
Unit 5: Civil Rights and Contemporary America
Trace social movements, political realignment, globalization, and present-day debates.
- The Civil Rights Movement (10 min)
- Rights Movements Beyond the 1960s (10 min)
- Late Twentieth-Century Politics (10 min)
- US History Capstone (10 min)