This course follows the Texas U.S. History pathway from Reconstruction’s aftermath to the present, organizing the story of modern America into clear units built around major turning points, recurring TEKS skills, and strong day-to-day classroom structure.
Students trace how the United States changed politically, economically, socially, and culturally from 1877 to the present while practicing source analysis, historical writing, maps, charts, claims, civic discourse, and long-term chronological thinking.
Begin with foundational review and historical skills, then move through industrialization, imperialism, progressivism, World War I, the 1920s, the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, and the modern United States.
Students establish the full course timeline, review founding principles during Celebrate Freedom Week, identify the major eras from 1877 to the present, and begin working with claims, evidence, timelines, maps, and source evaluation.
Covers industrialization, railroads, labor unions, farmers, entrepreneurship, big business, Indian policy, urbanization, immigration, women, minorities, and political machines in the post-Reconstruction era.
Focuses on the Spanish-American War, overseas expansion, yellow journalism, debates over empire, the Open Door Policy, Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy, and the growing role of the United States in world affairs.
Examines reform movements aimed at government corruption, business regulation, public health, labor conditions, women’s rights, voting reform, and social justice through the work of activists, muckrakers, and national leaders.
Traces the causes of World War I, American neutrality, entry into the war, wartime mobilization, propaganda, civil liberties issues, the experiences of soldiers and civilians, and the debate over Wilson’s peace plan and the Treaty of Versailles.
Focuses on immigration, nativism, the Red Scare, Prohibition, race relations, eugenics, the changing role of women, the Scopes Trial, and major individuals such as Henry Ford, Marcus Garvey, and Charles Lindbergh.
Students examine the causes of the Depression, its social and economic effects, New Deal programs, New Deal opposition, and the long-term impact of federal agencies and government expansion.
Covers causes of U.S. entry, wartime leadership, major military events, the Holocaust, Japanese American internment, atomic weapons, the home front, and the contributions of diverse military units and leaders.
Includes containment, the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, McCarthyism, HUAC, the arms and space races, Korea, Vietnam, the Domino Theory, and public responses to the Vietnam War.
Traces the civil rights movement from its earlier roots through the 20th century, including Jim Crow, Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, women’s rights, political organizations, and major legislation.
Explores détente, Nixon, Reagan, the conservative resurgence, the Middle East, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Iran-Contra Affair, the War on Drugs, and the AIDS epidemic.
Covers the end of the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, 9/11, the War on Terror, third parties in modern elections, immigration, health care, education, multinational corporations, and the modern economy.
Rather than isolating these into one small corner, the course repeatedly embeds migration, environment, trade, constitutional issues, citizenship, arts and culture, science and technology, source evaluation, claim-writing, civil discourse, charts, maps, and simulations across the year.