U.S. History HS Course

Exploros U.S. History HS is a high school curriculum, containing 12 units with approximately 85 5E model lessons per unit. The course is intended for live classroom instruction in device-enabled high school classrooms.

Students use social media skills to actively engage in learning broadly about United States History from 1878 through contemporary America.

Foundations of U.S. History
General review of the democratic process and the major eras of U.S. history

World War II
Pearl Harbor, U.S. patriotism and the home front, the Holocaust, WWII weaponry, internment, war-time economics, aftermath of World War II

Gilded Age
The Homestead Act, Cattle Kingdom, Transcontinental Railroad, Dawes Act

Early Cold War
Soviet aggression, economic impact, Korean War, postwar posterity, Kennedy’s foreign policy

Progressive Era
Melting Pot, urbanization, Temperance Movement, women and labor reform, women's suffrage, muckrakers and reform leaders

Vietnam and the 1960s
Origins of the war, course of the war, the anti-war movement, election of 1968, end of the war

Rise of a World Power
Spanish-American War, Expansionism and the Panama Canal, World War I

Civil Rights Movements
Historical Development, LBJ’s Great Society, The Civil Rights Movement, The Women’s Movement, Rights for Other Minorities, Landmark Supreme Court Decisions, Counterculture

Roaring Twenties
Progressive Thought, Prohibition, Popular Culture, Labor Tensions

1970s – End of the Cold War
Energy and the Middle East, Reagan’s presidency, shifting demographics, cultural diffusion, end of the Cold War

The Great Depression
Causes of the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Life and Politics of the Great Depression, Changing Role of Government

1990s – 21st Century
The Gulf Wars, trade and domestic issues under Clinton, Clinton’s foreign policy, 9/11/2001, Bush’s presidency, technology revolution, US demographics