Tennessee Secondary Social Studies Framework for United States History

COURSE: United States History 3405

Review

Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)

• Europeans Explore AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2.asp
  
• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  
• African Americans in the British New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• The Colonial Era to 1789 AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1.asp
  

• 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
  
• 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
  
• America's Place in the Global Struggle AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8.asp
  
• The Colonial Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2a.asp
  
• Quest for an 'American Identity' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2.asp
  
• The Effects of Exploration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2e.asp
  

• The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Independence and the Articles of Confederation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2b.asp
  
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2d.asp
  
• Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  
• The Founders and Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3a.asp
  
• The Evolution of the Presidency
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/7a.asp
  
• The Development of the Bureaucracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/8a.asp
  
• The Creation of the Federal Courts
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/9a.asp
  

• Growing Pains AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3.asp
  
• The Age of Jackson AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1.asp
  
• The Rise of American Industry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2.asp
  
• An Explosion of New Thought AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3.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
  
• Manifest Destiny AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6.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 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
  

• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• A House Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10.asp
  
• The War Behind the Lines AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11.asp
  
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  
• Tipping the Scales Toward National Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3b.asp
  

Content Emphasis

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900)

Understand how the rise of big business, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people.
• The Gilded Age AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1.asp
  
• Organized Labor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/2.asp
  
• From the Countryside to the City
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• The Glamour of American Cities
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3a.asp
  
• The Underside of Urban Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3b.asp
  
• Corruption Runs Wild
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3d.asp
  
• Artistic and Literary Trends
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3f.asp
  
• New Dimensions in Everyday Life AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4.asp
  

Understand the advent of massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
• The Rush of Immigrants
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3c.asp
  
• Religious Revival: The 'Social Gospel'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3e.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• The Evolution of Women's Spheres AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10.asp
  
• America -- Land of Opportunity? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/2.asp
  

Explore the rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes.
• Organized Labor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/2.asp
  

Examine federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War.
• Closing the Frontier AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/5.asp
  

Evaluate how the Progressives and other reform movements addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption.
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7.asp
  
• Progressives in the White House AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/8.asp
  

Describe the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I.
• America in the First World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• The Treaty of Versailles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6f.asp
  

Understand the cultural and economic changes that characterized the 1920's.
• The Decade That Roared AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• Old Values vs. New Values AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.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
  
• Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/10c.asp
  
• Dada and Surrealism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/9d.asp
  

Describe the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society.
• The Great Depression AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1.asp
  

Examine and evaluate how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed federalism, and initiated the welfare state.
• 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
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  

Explain the origins and course of World War II, including the character of the war at home as well as abroad.
• The Road to Pearl Harbor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• America in the Second World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• World War II AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8.asp
  

Understand the economic boom and social transformation of postwar America.
• The 1950s: Happy Days AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• The Marshall Plan and Economic Miracles
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10a.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Let There Be Light: The South Awakens AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/8.asp
  

Appraise the causes and events of the Cold War, Korean and Vietnam conflicts in terms of domestic and foreign policies.
• Postwar Challenges AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• 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
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  

Understand the African-American struggle for equality and the extension of civil liberties.
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• Racism and Judgment in To Kill a Mockingbird
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9b.asp
  
• Keeping It Real: African American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12.asp
  

Explore major United States foreign policy initiatives during the transition to the post-Cold War era.
• Foreign and Domestic Entanglements
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12c.asp
  
• The End of the Cold War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12e.asp
  
• Operation Desert Storm
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13a.asp
  

Explain the changing domestic scene during the transition to the post-Cold War era.
• A Time of Malaise AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/11.asp
  
• Total Request Live: 'Pop' Lit -- Instant Hit AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/11.asp
  

Examine contemporary American culture and the impact of continuing reform movements, immigration, and technological advances.
• Life in the 1980s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12d.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  
• Philip Roth: Odd Man In
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9e.asp
  
• American Voices at the Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13.asp