Unit 1: America Before and After the Civil War

• Origins of American Democracy
• The American Constitution
• The Young United States
• The Louisiana Purchase Era
• The War of 1812
• Domestic Politics
• Growing Sectional Tensions
• The American Civil War Begins
• Union Versus Confederacy
• The New South

Unit 2: The American Nation

• Immigration and Industrialization
• Urban America
• Integration, Urban Politics, and the Gilded Age
• Big Business
• American Innovations
• Social Darwinism, the Social Gospel, and Populism
• The Progressive Era

Unit 3: American Beliefs and Values

• American Religious Episodes
• Faith in Action
• Multicultural West Coast
• Religious Pluralism

Unit 4: America on the Global Stage

• The Open Door Policy and the Boxer Rebellion
• The Spanish-American War
• The Panama Canal and the Roosevelt Corollary
• American Dollar Diplomacy
• American Moral Diplomacy
• A Great War Begins
• America Enters the Great War
• Peace and Power in 1919

Unit 5: American Prosperity and Popular Culture

• Entering the 1920s
• American Consumerism
• Racism and the First Red Scare
• Crime and Corruption
• Sisterhood and Suffrage
• American Culture in the 1920s
• Media and the Motion Picture

Unit 6: Crash Recovery

• The Economic Edge
• The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
• A New Deal for America
• Opposing Forces
• The Second New Deal
• The Roosevelt Revival

Unit 7: America and World War 2

• World War Once More
• War and Peace

Unit 8: America the Superpower

• Origins of the Cold War
• Post-World War Two American Society

Unit 9: Turbulent Times

• Entering the 1960's
• Decade of Turmoil

Unit 10: Progress and Challenges

• Rising for Rights
• National Harships

Unit 11: American Millenium

• As the World Turned
• Twentieth Century Twilight
• TUSA 2.0