American History & Civics Ladder · High school · Grade 8–12

U.S. History II: 1865 to 2000

The Gilded Age and the West, empire and the Progressive Era, two world wars, the Depression and the New Deal, the Cold War, the civil rights movement and the last decades of the century. Covers AP U.S. History Periods 6 to 9.

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Unit 1 The West and the Gilded Age (1865 to 1898)

9 topics

The railroads and the West, wars on the Plains and the policy of assimilation, big business, workers and unions, new immigrants and cities, politics and the Populists, Jim Crow and the debates of the age. AP Period 6.

  1. The Transcontinental Railroad
  2. Wars on the Plains
  3. Assimilation and the Dawes Act
  4. Big Business and Industry
  5. Workers and Unions
  6. New Immigrants and Growing Cities
  7. Gilded Age Politics and the Populists
  8. Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
  9. Ideas of the Gilded Age

Unit 2 Empire and the Progressive Era (1890 to 1920)

9 topics

The U.S. as a world power, the Progressive reformers and presidents, new amendments, women's suffrage, the Great Migration and the First World War. AP Period 7.

  1. Becoming a World Power
  2. The Open Door, the Big Stick and the Canal
  3. Muckrakers and Reformers
  4. The Progressive Presidents
  5. Progressive Amendments and Direct Democracy
  6. Winning Women's Suffrage
  7. The NAACP and the Great Migration
  8. The United States Enters the Great War
  9. The War at Home and the Peace

Unit 3 The 1920s and the Great Depression (1920 to 1941)

8 topics

A new mass culture and its conflicts, the Crash, life in the Depression, the New Deal and its critics, and the road to war. AP Period 7.

  1. The Twenties
  2. Conflicts of the Twenties
  3. The Crash of 1929
  4. Life in the Great Depression
  5. The New Deal
  6. The New Deal and the Supreme Court
  7. Judging the New Deal
  8. The Road to War

Unit 4 World War II (1941 to 1945)

6 topics

Pearl Harbor, the home front, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the war in Europe and the Holocaust, the war in the Pacific and the atomic bombs, and planning the peace. AP Period 7.

  1. Pearl Harbor
  2. The Home Front
  3. The Incarceration of Japanese Americans
  4. The War in Europe and the Holocaust
  5. The War in the Pacific
  6. Planning the Peace

Unit 5 The Cold War (1945 to 1991)

9 topics

Containment, the Red Scare, Korea, the 1950s, Kennedy and Cuba, Vietnam, the Great Society, Nixon and Watergate, and the end of the Cold War. AP Periods 8 and 9.

  1. Containment
  2. The Second Red Scare
  3. The Korean War
  4. The 1950s
  5. Kennedy, Cuba and the Space Race
  6. The Vietnam War
  7. The Great Society
  8. Nixon, Detente and Watergate
  9. The End of the Cold War

Unit 6 The Civil Rights Movement (1940s to 1970s)

7 topics

Early victories, Brown v. Board, Montgomery, sit-ins and freedom rides, the great civil rights laws, the debates within the movement, and other movements for equal rights. AP Period 8.

  1. Early Victories
  2. Brown v. Board of Education
  3. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
  4. Sit-ins, Freedom Rides and the March on Washington
  5. The Civil Rights Laws
  6. Debates Within the Movement
  7. Other Movements for Equal Rights

Unit 7 The Last Decades of the Century (1970s to 2000)

6 topics

The 1970s, the conservative resurgence, a world after the Cold War, the technology revolution and the politics of the 1990s, told as dated facts with each side's view. AP Period 9.

  1. The 1970s
  2. The Conservative Resurgence
  3. A World After the Cold War
  4. Computers, the Internet and a Global Economy
  5. Politics of the 1990s
  6. The Nine Periods: Putting It Together
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