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United States History: 1877 to the Present

Grade 11 · 541 pages · 63 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year survey of United States history from the close of Reconstruction to the present day, built around recurring questions of federal power, economic opportunity, citizenship, and America's role abroad. Students read primary and secondary sources, build a chronological and causal knowledge base, and practice constructing evidence-based historical arguments in writing. The course is delivered through an adaptive learning app with a parent-facilitator, so each unit opens with a gated diagnostic of prerequisite knowledge and closes with both an immediate and a delayed assessment. Emphasis throughout is on connecting causes across eras rather than memorizing isolated events.

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United States History: 1877 to the Present

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Unit 1: Industrial America and the Gilded Age9 lessons
  1. 1.The distinguishing features of a trust versus a monopoly
  2. 2.The gap between the Sherman Antitrust Act's text and its actual enforcement in the Gilded Age
  3. 3.The robber baron vs. captain of industry interpretive framework applied to the same historical actor
  4. 4.The mixed and group-dependent effects of industrialization on wages, immigration, and urban living conditions
  5. 5.The pattern of government intervention favoring employers in Gilded Age labor disputes
  6. 6.The builder-versus-destroyer historical debate over Gilded Age big business, evaluated across a mixed document set
  7. 7.The chronological sequence of major Gilded Age economic and labor events, 1877-1900
  8. 8.The role of government policy (tariffs, land grants, court injunctions) in enabling industrial growth, against a purely self-made narrative
  9. 9.The transferability of the builder/destroyer interpretive framework to market concentration in an unstudied historical or contemporary context
Unit 2: The Progressive Response9 lessons
  1. 10.Muckraking journalism as a documentary genre exposing specific industrial/urban conditions
  2. 11.The causal relationship between a specific documented industrial/economic abuse and a specific Progressive-era regulatory response
  3. 12.The legal distinction in antitrust law between firm size and anticompetitive practice
  4. 13.The dual character of Progressive-era reform legislation as simultaneously protective and controlling
  5. 14.The internal contradictions and shared underlying motives (social control, efficiency, moral order) within the Progressive coalition
  6. 15.The conservation-versus-preservation distinction in Progressive-era federal land policy
  7. 16.The multi-decade organizational campaign (state campaigns, NAWSA strategy, wartime leverage) leading to constitutional ratification
  8. 17.The general procedure of matching a documented abuse's specific mechanism to a reform's specific legal provision
  9. 18.The recurring, generalizable tension between market freedom and government regulatory authority as a pattern across historical periods, not a fact specific to 1900-1916
Unit 3: World War II and the Reordering of Society9 lessons
  1. 19.The transition from New Deal relief spending to wartime deficit spending as the mechanism that ended the Depression
  2. 20.Categories of home-front wartime measures (economic mobilization, social control, civil liberties restriction)
  3. 21.The legal/political justification mechanisms behind Japanese American incarceration versus military segregation
  4. 22.The persuasive intent embedded in a specific piece of wartime government propaganda
  5. 23.Corroboration of an unseen primary source against previously studied unit evidence on the home front
  6. 24.An argument evaluating U.S. fidelity to its stated WWII war aims using home-front and incarceration/segregation evidence
  7. 25.The generalizable legal pattern of 'military necessity' reasoning as applied beyond the Japanese American incarceration case
  8. 26.The chronological sequence of events from U.S. neutrality to the Pearl Harbor attack
  9. 27.The Double V campaign's dual-victory framing and its logic
Unit 4: The Sixties: Vietnam, Rights, and Backlash8 lessons
  1. 28.The chronological sequence of Great Society legislation and Vietnam escalation, 1963-1972
  2. 29.The mechanism differences between Great Society programs and New Deal agencies
  3. 30.The four-part social movement mechanics frame applied to post-1965 civil rights organizing
  4. 31.The shared organizing/media/legal-strategy structure across the women's liberation and environmental movements
  5. 32.The applicability and limits of the movement-mechanics frame when applied to the anti-war student movement
  6. 33.Evidence of a credibility gap between official statements and battlefield reality in Vietnam-era primary sources
  7. 34.The relative causal weight of Vietnam versus domestic unrest in damaging public trust in government, 1963-1972
  8. 35.The containment doctrine as applied to the strategic logic of Vietnam intervention
Unit 5: Conservative Resurgence and the End of the Cold War10 lessons
  1. 36.Stagflation as a crisis of the Keynesian policy consensus
  2. 37.Supply-side and monetarist economic policy versus Keynesian demand management
  3. 38.The continuity and change in the regulation-vs-market argument across 100+ years of U.S. history
  4. 39.The composition of the New Right political coalition
  5. 40.Social movement mechanics (organizing, media strategy, backlash) applied to the New Right
  6. 41.Continuity and change in containment doctrine from Truman/Kennan through Vietnam to the Reagan Doctrine
  7. 42.Competing historical explanations for the Soviet collapse (internal weakness vs. external/U.S. pressure)
  8. 43.A defensible causal argument about the primary cause of Soviet collapse, structured to rebut the counter-argument
  9. 44.Transfer of the regulation-vs-market and engagement-vs-restraint frameworks to an unstudied case
  10. 45.Single-cause claims about Soviet collapse versus multi-causal historical explanation
Unit 6: Globalization and a Post-Cold War World10 lessons
  1. 46.The shift from containment to a post-Cold War foreign policy without a single organizing rival
  2. 47.Competing candidate organizing logics for post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy
  3. 48.Humanitarian intervention decisions in the 1990s
  4. 49.The inconsistency of humanitarian intervention criteria across 1990s cases
  5. 50.The domestic wage and employment effects of trade liberalization in the 1990s-2000s
  6. 51.The regulation-vs-market thread as a transferable analytic framework
  7. 52.September 11th and the war on terror as a turning point in U.S. foreign policy organization
  8. 53.Post-Cold War foreign policy patterns as competing frameworks for evaluating new cases
  9. 54.The tech and information economy's economic effects in the 1990s
  10. 55.A data-supported argument about globalization's domestic economic effects
Unit 7: The Twenty-First Century: Security, Recession, and Renewed Movements8 lessons
  1. 56.Post-9/11 security legislation and institutions
  2. 57.The causal chain of the 2008 financial crisis
  3. 58.Deregulatory reasoning across the Gilded Age and pre-2008 periods
  4. 59.Post-2008 regulatory expansion (Dodd-Frank, consumer protection agencies)
  5. 60.Organizing tactics of a contemporary social movement
  6. 61.Prediction of policy response in an unfamiliar liberty-security scenario
  7. 62.A course-long synthesis argument linking a contemporary issue to prior units
  8. 63.Framing and omission in a contemporary immigration-debate source

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