Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework for U.S. History -- Grades 5-12

From the Massachusetts Department of Education

1. Early America and Americans (Beginnings to 1650)

a. The setting: geography and resources of the Western hemisphere

b.Native Americans: differing economics and politics; peace and war

• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  

c. Major European societies, rivalries; 15th and 16th century explorations
• Joint-Stock Companies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2b.asp
  
• Europeans Explore
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2.asp
  
• A Path to India
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2b.asp
  
• Later Explorers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2f.asp
  
• The Wars of Religion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Philip vs. Elizabeth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4c.asp
  
• The Spanish Armada
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4d.asp
  
• Discovery! The New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1a.asp
  

d. African geography, societies, politics; backgrounds of the slave trade
• Africa
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/7.asp
  
• Kingdom of Ghana
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/7a.asp
  
• Mali: A Cultural Center
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/7b.asp
  
• West African Society at the Point of European Contact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6a.asp
  
• Later Explorers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2f.asp
  

e. First encounters between Americans and Europeans; the consequences
• The Fateful Journey of Christopher Columbus
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2c.asp
  
• The Effects of Exploration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2e.asp
  
• Later Explorers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2f.asp
  
• The Algonkian Tribes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1c.asp
  
• The Iroquois Tribes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1d.asp
  
• Britain in the New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2.asp
  

f. Early English settlements and daily life in Massachusetts
• Britain in the New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2.asp
  
• The New England Colonies AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3.asp
  
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Preachers and Pedagogues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1d.asp
  

2. Settlements, Colonies, and Emerging American Identity (1600 to 1763)

a. Political, religious, and economic motives of European colonizers
• The New England Colonies AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3.asp
  
• The Middle Colonies AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/4.asp
  
• The Southern Colonies AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/5.asp
  
• New France
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8a.asp
  
• The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2a.asp
  
• New World Conquest
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2d.asp
  
• Later Explorers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2f.asp
  
• Settlers Arrive: The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1b.asp
  

b. Coexistence and conflict between Europeans and Native Americans
• William Bradford and the First Thanksgiving
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3b.asp
  
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  

c. Massachusetts town government, religion, and schooling in colonial times
• Massachusetts Bay -- 'The City Upon a Hill'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3c.asp
  
• Puritan Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3d.asp
  
• The Ideas of Benjamin Franklin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/4d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  

d. Colonial era labor and the advent of North American slavery
• Life in the Plantation South
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/5e.asp
  
• African Americans in the British New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• 'The Middle Passage'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6b.asp
  
• The Growth of Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6c.asp
  
• Slave Life on the Farm and in the Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6d.asp
  
• The Impact of Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12a.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• The Effects of Exploration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2e.asp
  

e. Family life across classes, races, and regions of colonial America
• A New African-American Culture
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6g.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  

f. Intellectual and religious heritage of Anglo-American colonials
• Massachusetts Bay -- 'The City Upon a Hill'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3c.asp
  
• Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3e.asp
  
• Reaching to Connecticut
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3f.asp
  
• The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7a.asp
  

g. Growing social and political divergence from England
• The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7.asp
  
• Smuggling
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7d.asp
  
• New France
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8a.asp
  

3. The American Revolution: Creating a New Nation (1750 to 1815)

a. Events and interests behind the American Revolution
• George Washington's Background and Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8c.asp
  
• The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8d.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• Stamp Act Congress
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10a.asp
  
• Sons and Daughters of Liberty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10b.asp
  
• Committees of Correspondence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10c.asp
  
• First Continental Congress
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10d.asp
  

b. First battles in Massachusetts; the Declaration of Independence
• E Pluribus Unum
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Thomas Paine's Common Sense
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10f.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10g.asp
  
• The American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• Lexington and Concord
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11c.asp
  
• Bunker Hill
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11d.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• Revolutionary Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1e.asp
  

c. Leaders, turning points, and deciding factors of the Revolutionary War
• George Washington's Background and Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8c.asp
  
• The American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• The Revolution on the Home Front
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11e.asp
  
• Washington at Valley Forge
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11f.asp
  
• The Battle of Saratoga
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11g.asp
  
• The French Alliance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11h.asp
  
• The War Experience: Soldiers, Officers, and Civilians
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1b.asp
  
• George Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5.asp
  
• Growing up in Colonial Virginia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5a.asp
  
• The Force of Personality and Military Command
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5b.asp
  

d. The Anglo-American political heritage: Greco-Roman history, Magna Carta, evolution of Parliament, Mayflower Compact, the English Revolution, colonial governments, and ideas of the Enlightenment era
• Democracy Is Born
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5b.asp
  
• The Roman Republic
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/6a.asp
  
• The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3a.asp
  
• The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7a.asp
  
• What Is a Democracy?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1c.asp
  
• Democratic Values -- Liberty, Equality, Justice
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1d.asp
  
• Foundations of American Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2.asp
  
• The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2a.asp
  
• The Glorious Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7e.asp
  
• On Human Nature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10b.asp
  

e. Leading Founders, founding documents and debates: Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison; state constitutions, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Constitution, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights
• Independence and the Articles of Confederation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2b.asp
  
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  
• The Founders and Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3a.asp
  
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  
• Political Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12c.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  

f. The Constitution: the federal system at its origins; union; separation of powers; the three-fifths compromise
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  
• The Founders and Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3a.asp
  
• Tipping the Scales Toward National Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3b.asp
  
• Federal-State Relations Today: Back to States' Rights?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3c.asp
  
• Congress: The People's Branch? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/6.asp
  
• The Presidency: The Leadership Branch? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/7.asp
  
• The Judicial Branch AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/9.asp
  
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  
• State and Local Governments AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  

g. The early Republic: Washington as a founding statesman; The birth of party politics
• George Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5.asp
  
• The First Administration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5c.asp
  
• Farewell Address
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5d.asp
  
• Hamilton's Financial Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6b.asp
  
• Growing Opposition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6c.asp
  
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7.asp
  
• Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8.asp
  
• The Election of 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8a.asp
  
• Jeffersonian Ideology
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8b.asp
  

h. Expansion and conflict: the Louisiana Purchase; War of 1812
• Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8c.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Social Change and National Development
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10.asp
  

4. Expansion, Reform, and Economic Growth (1800 to 1861)

a. Evolution of the Supreme Court; John Marshall; Marbury v. Madison
• A Federalist Stronghold: John Marshall's Supreme Court
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8e.asp
  

b. Industrialization in New England; invention and enterprise
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• The Rise of American Industry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2.asp
  
• The Canal Era
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2a.asp
  
• Early American Railroads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2b.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• The Industrial Revolution: 18th century Britain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3a.asp
  
• Advances in Science and Industry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3b.asp
  
• The Social Costs of Industrialization
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3c.asp
  

c. The Northern economic system: capital, industry, labor, trade
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• The Rise of American Industry
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2.asp
  
• The Canal Era
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2a.asp
  
• Early American Railroads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2b.asp
  
• Free(?) African-Americans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4d.asp
  

d. The Southern economic system: land, agriculture, slavery, trade
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• The Crowning of King Cotton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4a.asp
  

e. Jacksonian Democracy and pre-Civil War reformers: popular politics, abolitionism, women's rights, and schooling
• Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3c.asp
  
• Prison and Asylum Reform
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3d.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  
• Growing Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3c.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  

f. The emergence of distinctly American religion, art, and literature
• Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10c.asp
  
• Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10d.asp
  
• Early National Arts and Cultural Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10f.asp
  
• An Explosion of New Thought
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3.asp
  
• Religious Revival
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3a.asp
  
• Experiments with Utopia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3b.asp
  
• Hudson River School Artists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3e.asp
  
• Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3f.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  
• Edgar Allan Poe: The Sad Life and Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4.asp
  
• Hawthorne and Melville AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/5.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• 'Dime' Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11b.asp
  

g. New immigrants; migration patterns; nativist hostility
• The Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11b.asp
  
• Irish and German Immigration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2f.asp
  

h. Westward migration; Indian removals; war against Mexico
• Native American Resistance in the Trans-Appalachian West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9d.asp
  
• Jacksonian Democracy and Modern America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11f.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• Manifest Destiny AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6.asp
  

5. The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)

a. Slave life; families, religion, and resistance in the American South
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• The Peculiar Institution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  

b. A nation divided; the failed attempts at compromise over slavery
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  
• The Southern Argument for Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4f.asp
  
• An Uneasy Peace AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/7.asp
  
• 'Bloody Kansas' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/8.asp
  
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• The Dred Scott Decision
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9a.asp
  
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9b.asp
  
• John Brown's Raid
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9c.asp
  
• The Election of 1860
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9d.asp
  

c. Abraham Lincoln: beliefs, election; secession and war
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• Fort Sumter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10a.asp
  
• Sacred Beliefs
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10d.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  

d. Scenes of war: battlefield, farm, factory, home, and hospital
• A House Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10.asp
  
• The Northern Homefront
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11c.asp
  
• The Southern Homefront
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11d.asp
  

e. Massachusetts soldiers; Fort Wagner, the Wilderness
• Of Generals and Soldiers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10f.asp
  

f. Leaders, deciding factors, turning points, and human toll of the Civil War
• Of Generals and Soldiers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10f.asp
  
• Gettysburg: High Watermark of the Confederacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10g.asp
  
• Northern Plans to End the War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10h.asp
  
• The Road to Appomattox
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10i.asp
  
• The War Behind the Lines
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11.asp
  
• Wartime Diplomacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11b.asp
  
• The Southern Homefront
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11d.asp
  

g. Emancipation Proclamation; the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
• The Emancipation Proclamation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11a.asp
  
• Radical Reconstruction
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12b.asp
  

h. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural, and assassination
• The Election of 1864
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11e.asp
  
• The Assassination of the President
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11f.asp
  

i. Reconstruction: aims, obstacles, and phases
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  

6. The Advent of Modern America (1865 to 1920)

a. Changes and constraints for African-Americans; Plessy v. Ferguson
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7d.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

b. Industrial expansion; inventions, resources, government supports
• The Gilded Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1.asp
  
• Binding the Nation by Rail
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1a.asp
  
• The Print Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4e.asp
  

c. Modern business: corporation, banking, stock exchange; the Gospel of Wealth
• The New Tycoons: John D. Rockefeller
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1b.asp
  
• The New Tycoons: Andrew Carnegie
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1c.asp
  
• The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1d.asp
  
• New Attitudes Toward Wealth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1e.asp
  

d. Organizing 19th century labor: aims, strikes, and obstacles
• Organized Labor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/2.asp
  
• Upton Sinclair and the Novel of Social Outrage
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12a.asp
  

e. New immigration and internal demographic shifts; African-American migration to the North and West; life in growing American cities
• From the Countryside to the City AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• New Dimensions in Everyday Life AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4.asp
  
• The Mining Boom
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6a.asp
  
• Interesting Incidentals AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2a.asp
  
• Anzia Yezierska and Bread Givers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2b.asp
  

f. Settlements and diversity: the West, Southwest, Pacific coast, Alaska
• Closing the Frontier AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/5.asp
  
• Western Folkways
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6.asp
  
• The Mining Boom
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6a.asp
  
• The Ways of the Cowboy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6b.asp
  
• Life on the Farm
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6c.asp
  
• Early Stirrings
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9a.asp
  
• Native American Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3e.asp
  

g. Crises and losses on American farms; the Populist movement
• The Growth of Populism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6d.asp
  

h. The United States as world power; the Spanish-American War
• Seeking Empire AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9.asp
  

i. Progressivism: results and limits; Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7.asp
  
• Roots of the Movement
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7a.asp
  
• Muckrakers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7b.asp
  
• Progressives in the White House AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/8.asp
  

7. The United States and Two World Wars (1914 to 1945)

a. World War I: causes and stages; American economic, military, political roles
• America in the First World War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• Farewell to Isolation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10a.asp
  
• Over There
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10b.asp
  
• The War to End All Wars
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6.asp
  
• The Assassination and Its Aftermath
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6a.asp
  
• Welcoming the War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6b.asp
  
• Life in the Trenches
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6c.asp
  
• The Treaty of Versailles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6f.asp
  

b. The war and the peace: short and long term consequences for 20th century America
• Over There
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10b.asp
  
• Over Here
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10c.asp
  
• The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10d.asp
  
• Old Values vs. New Values
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12.asp
  
• The Red Scare
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12a.asp
  
• Domestic and International Politics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12e.asp
  
• Life in the Trenches
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6c.asp
  
• The Treaty of Versailles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6f.asp
  

c. Campaign for women's suffrage; the 19th Amendment
• Women's Suffrage at Last
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7c.asp
  

d. Jazz Age: optimism, new industries, mass consumption and entertainment; arts and letters; the Lost Generation; the Harlem Renaissance
• The Decade That Roared AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• Books and Movies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12d.asp
  
• The New Landscape: Americans Feel the Pain AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1.asp
  
• Theodore Dreiser and An American Tragedy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2c.asp
  
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Literature in Exile: The Lost Generation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• The Diverse World of the Modern Short Story
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10.asp
  

e. The underside of the 1920s: race conflict, nativism, urban and farm poverty
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7d.asp
  
• W. E. B. DuBois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7e.asp
  
• The Decade That Roared
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• The Fight Against 'Demon Rum'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11b.asp
  
• Intolerance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12c.asp
  

f. Causes of the Great Depression, domestic and international
• The Great Depression AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  

g. Massachusetts in the Depression: joblessness, poverty, relief, family life

h. American artists, writers, and popular culture of the 'thirties and 'forties

• Social and Cultural Effects of the Depression
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1e.asp
  
• Putting People Back to Work
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/2b.asp
  

ttp://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2e.asp
• Truth or Dare: Taming the American West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3.asp
  
• Steinbeck and the Social Conscience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3b.asp
  
• Grapes of Wrath
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3c.asp
  
• Of Mice and Men
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/3d.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10b.asp
  

i. FDR's New Deal; business regulation; Social Security; protests Left and Right
• The New Deal AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/2.asp
  
• Tipping the Scales Toward National Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3b.asp
  

j. Labor's advances; the Wagner Act, NLRB; the CIO and UAW

k. American isolationism; Axis aggression and conquest in Asia and Europe

• The Road to Pearl Harbor
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• 1930s Isolationism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3a.asp
  
• Reactions to a Troubled World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3b.asp
  
• War Breaks Out
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3c.asp
  
• The Arsenal of Democracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3d.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• Hitler's Rise to Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7a.asp
  
• Under Nazi Rule
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7b.asp
  
• Mussolini's Italy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7c.asp
  
• Franco's Spain and the Spanish Civil War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7d.asp
  
• World War II
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8.asp
  
• Blitzkrieg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8a.asp
  
• The Course of the War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8b.asp
  

l. From Pearl Harbor to victory; the course and human costs of World War II
• Pearl Harbor
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3e.asp
  
• America in the Second World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4.asp
  
• The Vietnam War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• Years of Escalation: 1965-68
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8b.asp
  
• The Tet Offensive
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8c.asp
  
• The Antiwar Movement
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8d.asp
  
• Years of Withdrawal
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8e.asp
  

8. The Contemporary United States (1945 to the Present)

a. Postwar America: prosperity, new suburbs, education, optimism
• Domestic Challenges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5f.asp
  

b. Continuity and dislocation in the Massachusetts economy since 1945; cases of poverty and its causes

c. Widespread ruin and the Cold War call forth new American foreign policies

• Postwar Challenges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• The Cold War Erupts
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5a.asp
  
• The United Nations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5b.asp
  
• Containment and the Marshall Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5c.asp
  
• The Berlin Airlift and NATO
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5d.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• The Marshall Plan and Economic Miracles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10a.asp
  
• The Treaty of Rome and the Idea of Community
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10b.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  

d. The 'fifties: advent of television; domestic anti-communism; war in Korea; rising demands for desegregation; Brown v. Board of Education
• The Korean War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5e.asp
  
• The 1950s: Happy Days AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6.asp
  
• A New Civil Rights Movement
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• Separate No Longer?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7a.asp
  
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7b.asp
  
• Showdown in Little Rock
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7c.asp
  
• Gains and Pains
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7e.asp
  
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7f.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• A Separate Peace
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9a.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• The Loner: J.D. Salinger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9c.asp
  
• Adolescent Agony: The Catcher in the Rye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9d.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  
• Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12a.asp
  
• Richard Wright: Native Son
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12b.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

e. The 'sixties and 'seventies: assassinations, trauma; civil rights struggles and laws; war in Vietnam; moon landing; the women's movement: advances and limits
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• Politics from Camelot to Watergate AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9h.asp
  
• James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12c.asp
  

f. The 'eighties and 'nineties': racial tensions and culture wars; effects of technological change and the global economy on American business and labor

g. The end of the Cold War; new world disorders and American responses

• The Reagan Years
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12.asp
  
• Foreign and Domestic Entanglements
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12c.asp
  
• The End of the Cold War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12e.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  

h. Waves of newcomers to the American promise; debates over immigration

i. Renewed disputes over government's role in the economy, culture, and schools

• Foreign and Domestic Entanglements
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12c.asp
  

j. Promises and questions from science, technology, medicine, and mass culture
• Life in the 1980s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12d.asp
  
• Toward a New Millennium
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  
• The End of the American Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13e.asp