Social studies Ages 14-18 ● Media ready

US history

The United States of America is a nation with a rich history and a noble goal: government of the people, by the people, for the people. Its citizens' struggle to achieve that goal is a dramatic story stretching over hundreds of years.

12 units 79 lessons 100 videos 6 on CDN

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Unit 2 Worlds collide (1491–1607)

1 Indigenous America Free 1 video(s) ● 2 Origins of European exploration Free 1 video(s) ● 3 The Columbian Exchange Free 2 video(s) ● 4 Spanish colonization 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) ● 5 Unit overview 🔒 Pro 5 The Modern Era (1980–present): Unit test 🔒 Pro

Unit 3 Colonial America (1607–1754)

1 French and Dutch colonization 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Humble beginnings of English colonization 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 3 The Virginia Company and Jamestown 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 4 The New England colonies in the North 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 5 The Southern and Middle colonies 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 6 Origins of slavery in the English colonies 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Developing a national identity 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 8 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 4 The Revolutionary Era (1754–1800)

1 The Seven Year's War 🔒 Pro 2 Growing discontent 🔒 Pro 3 The American Revolution 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Creating a nation 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 5 Social consequences of revolutionary ideals 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 6 Shaping a new republic 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 5 The Early Republic (1800–1848)

1 The Jeffersonian republic 🔒 Pro 2 Foreign policy in the early 1800s 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 The Market Revolution 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 4 The age of Jackson 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 5 Developing an American identity 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 6 Developing an American culture 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Reform movements 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 8 Manifest destiny 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 9 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 6 The Civil War Era (1844–1877)

1 The Cotton Kingdom 🔒 Pro 2 The Mexican-American War 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 The Fugitive Slave Act 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 4 Bleeding Kansas 🔒 Pro 5 National crisis 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 6 The Civil War 🔒 Pro 10 video(s) 7 The end of the Civil War 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 8 Reconstruction 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 9 Failure of Reconstruction 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 10 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 7 The Gilded Age (1865–1898)

1 The Gilded Age 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 2 Politics of the Gilded Age 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 Capitalism and labor in the Gilded Age 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Jim Crow and the "New South" 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 5 The American West 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 6 Building the American West 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 8 The rise to world power (1890–1945)

1 The age of empire 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 The Progressive Era 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 The United States in World War I 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 1920s America 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 5 Politics in the 1920s 🔒 Pro 6 Culture in the 1920s 🔒 Pro 8 The Great Depression 🔒 Pro 9 The beginning of World War II 🔒 Pro 10 World War II 🔒 Pro 11 The Atomic Age 🔒 Pro 12 American identity 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 13 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 9 The Postwar Era (1945–1980)

1 The Cold War begins 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Postwar society 🔒 Pro 3 The Korean War 🔒 Pro 4 1950s America 🔒 Pro 5 The Civil Rights Movement begins 🔒 Pro 6 The Civil Rights Movement continues 🔒 Pro 8 The Cuban Missile Crisis 🔒 Pro 9 The Vietnam War 🔒 Pro 10 1960s America 🔒 Pro 11 1970s America 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 12 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 10 The Modern Era (1980–present)

1 1980s America 🔒 Pro 2 1990s America 🔒 Pro 3 The new millennium 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Unit overview 🔒 Pro

Unit 11 Teacher resources

1 Writing Coach assignments 🔒 Pro 2 Unit overviews 🔒 Pro

Unit 12 Surveys of history

1 United States history overview 🔒 Pro 7 video(s)

Unit 13 Primary documents

1 Thinking like a historian 🔒 Pro 2 Primary documents 🔒 Pro