High school US history (Florida)
This course follows the history of the United States from the causes of the Civil War to the present. Explore why Reconstruction collapsed, how industry and immigration remade American cities, what two world wars and the Cold War cost, how the Great Depression redefined what government does, and how movements from suffrage to civil rights forced the country to widen who counted as equal.
9 units111 videos15 hours
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Unit 1: Foundations
Thinking like a historian
Democratic ideals
The Declaration of Independence ✓ Check-ins13:13
The Articles of Confederation ✓ Check-ins5:14
Democratic ideals of US government ✓ Check-ins9:04
Democratic ideals in the Declaration of Independence ✓ Check-ins7:53
What was the Articles of Confederation? ✓ Check-ins5:20
The Constitutional Convention ✓ Check-ins10:16
Democratic ideals in the Preamble to the US Constitution ✓ Check-ins3:12
Founding arguments
- The Constitutional Convention ✓ Check-ins10:16
The impact of constitutional compromises on us today ✓ Check-ins8:26
Federalist No. 10 (part 1) ✓ Check-ins9:57
Federalist No. 10 (part 2) ✓ Check-ins6:06
Anti-Federalists and Brutus No. 1 ✓ Check-ins9:03
Social consequences of revolutionary ideals ✓ Check-ins8:00
Political principles in the U.S. Constitution
Separation of powers and checks and balances ✓ Check-ins3:59
Multiple points of influence due to separation of powers and checks and balances ✓ Check-ins4:28
Federalism in the United States ✓ Check-ins6:04
Article IV of the Constitution: States, Citizenship, New States ✓ Check-ins13:59
Due process and the right to privacy ✓ Check-ins6:05
Unit 2: Civil War and Reconstruction
The Cotton Kingdom
Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War
Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter ✓ Check-ins10:44
Strategy of the Civil War ✓ Check-ins11:03
Early phases of Civil War and Antietam ✓ Check-ins10:17
Significance of the battle of Antietam ✓ Check-ins7:21
The battle of Gettysburg ✓ Check-ins12:17
Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg, O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death ✓ Check-ins6:22
The Gettysburg Address | Setting and context ✓ Check-ins9:55
The Gettysburg Address | Full text and analysis ✓ Check-ins11:50
The end of the Civil War and aftermath
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Amendments
Unit 3: Industrialization and the Gilded Age
Jim Crow and the New South
The development of the American West
The Gilded Age
Unit 4: Imperialism, Progressivism, and World War I
The age of empire
The Progressive Era
World War I
Zimmermann Telegram ✓ Check-ins4:10
Blockades, u-boats and sinking of the Lusitania ✓ Check-ins12:04
United States enters World War I ✓ Check-ins7:05
World War I: Homefront ✓ Check-ins6:45
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points ✓ Check-ins16:36
Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles ✓ Check-ins10:10
More detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany ✓ Check-ins6:20
Unit 5: 1920s and the Great Depression
Unit 6: World War II
The beginning of WWII
World War II
Unit 7: Cold War and postwar America
The origins of the Cold War
The presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
The Vietnam War
Unit 8: Modern Era
America in the 1970s
America in the new millennium
Unit 9: Citizenship and historical thinking today
Citizenship
What is citizenship? ✓ Check-ins2:19
Citizenship in early America, 1789-1830s ✓ Check-ins4:14
Citizenship in early America, 1840s-1870s ✓ Check-ins5:35
The Dred Scott case and citizenship ✓ Check-ins7:48
The 19th Amendment and citizenship ✓ Check-ins4:21
Citizenship in the US territories and District of Columbia ✓ Check-ins6:12
Citizenship and voting rights of indigenous people ✓ Check-ins5:00
Levels of government
Civic engagement and reform
Political participation and media literacy
Digital literacy
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