The following units will be covered in the first quarter:
PEARSON ONLINE TEXTU.S. History (1890-Present)
Quarter 1
Unit 1.1
Unit Title: American Ideals: Founding Documents Review
Essential Questions:
1. How do the major principles underlying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights reflect current American ideals?
2. What are the major sections of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights?
Unit 1.2
Unit Title: Progressivism
Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did Progressive reforms expand democracy and remedy corrupt political practices in American society?
2. How did Progressives attempt to regulate corporate interests and offer protection to both workers and consumers?
3. How important were women and African Americans in the Progressive movement, and to what extent did Progressives meet their demands?
Unit 1.3
Unit Title: The United States Emerges as a Global Power
Essential Questions:
1. How did democracy, civil liberties, and public opinion influence Wilson’s evolving foreign policy from 1914 to 1920?
2. What were positive and negative consequences of the U.S. becoming a global power?
Unit 1.4
Unit Title: The 1920s
Essential Questions:
1. Why did the U.S. break with the tradition of an “open door” immigration policy in the 1920s?
2. How did American domestic policy during the 1920s protect or neglect minority groups?
3. Why did racial and cultural tensions divide American society so deeply in the 1920s while most Americans enjoyed major technological and economic advances?
Quarter 2, Unit 1 of 3
The Great Depression
Essential Questions
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
2. What were the roles of local, state, and federal governments in attempting to end the Great Depression?
3. How did the Great Depression affect various sectors of American society differently?
Quarter 2, Unit 2 of 3
The New Deal
Essential Questions
1. How effective were the New Deal attempts to combat the problems of the Great Depression?
2. Which alternative programs pushed by the political right and left might have hastened the end of the Great Depression?
3. How does the legacy of the New Deal affect the way in which we live today?
Quarter 2, Unit 3 of 3
World War II
Essential Questions
1. How did the Allies' victory in World War II bring about changes in the global power structure?
2. What was the response of the U.S. and its allies to the Holocaust as a war crime against humanity?
3. How did the mobilization of economic and military resources affect postwar American society?
4. What were the effects on postwar world politics of America's decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war in the Pacific?
Quarter 1
Unit 1.1
Unit Title: American Ideals: Founding Documents Review
Essential Questions:
1. How do the major principles underlying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights reflect current American ideals?
2. What are the major sections of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights?
Unit 1.2
Unit Title: Progressivism
Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did Progressive reforms expand democracy and remedy corrupt political practices in American society?
2. How did Progressives attempt to regulate corporate interests and offer protection to both workers and consumers?
3. How important were women and African Americans in the Progressive movement, and to what extent did Progressives meet their demands?
Unit 1.3
Unit Title: The United States Emerges as a Global Power
Essential Questions:
1. How did democracy, civil liberties, and public opinion influence Wilson’s evolving foreign policy from 1914 to 1920?
2. What were positive and negative consequences of the U.S. becoming a global power?
Unit 1.4
Unit Title: The 1920s
Essential Questions:
1. Why did the U.S. break with the tradition of an “open door” immigration policy in the 1920s?
2. How did American domestic policy during the 1920s protect or neglect minority groups?
3. Why did racial and cultural tensions divide American society so deeply in the 1920s while most Americans enjoyed major technological and economic advances?
Quarter 2, Unit 1 of 3
The Great Depression
Essential Questions
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
2. What were the roles of local, state, and federal governments in attempting to end the Great Depression?
3. How did the Great Depression affect various sectors of American society differently?
Quarter 2, Unit 2 of 3
The New Deal
Essential Questions
1. How effective were the New Deal attempts to combat the problems of the Great Depression?
2. Which alternative programs pushed by the political right and left might have hastened the end of the Great Depression?
3. How does the legacy of the New Deal affect the way in which we live today?
Quarter 2, Unit 3 of 3
World War II
Essential Questions
1. How did the Allies' victory in World War II bring about changes in the global power structure?
2. What was the response of the U.S. and its allies to the Holocaust as a war crime against humanity?
3. How did the mobilization of economic and military resources affect postwar American society?
4. What were the effects on postwar world politics of America's decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war in the Pacific?
PEARSON ONLINE TEXTBOOK World History 2
Quarter 1
Unit 1.1
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Causes and Consequences-Political Revolution
Essential Questions:
1. What were the principal similarities and differences between the political revolutions in Europe and those in the Americas of the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
2. How did revolutions and revolutionary ideologies contribute to both political and social transformations in Europe and in the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
3. In the broad context of world history, how did the revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries change fundamental ideas about the exercise of political power and authority in states?
Unit 1.2
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Causes and Consequences-The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Essential Questions:
1. What global patterns of change, both positive and negative, contributed to the early industrial and energy revolution in Britain?
2. What particular conditions or advantages help explain why Britain led the way in developing new energy sources and industries?
3. Why did industrialization in Britain have both positive and negative social consequences?
4. Why did Britain and other countries abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Unit 1.3
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Transformations in Eurasian Societies, 1750-1870
Essential Questions:
1. How did the rapid growth of both global population and the world economy relate to the expansion of European power in the world in the 19th century?
2. How did European countries, Japan, and the United States succeed in conquering and colonizing new territories in Africa and Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
3. How did India, China, and Japan change under the impact of global trade and European power?
4. In what various ways did African peoples respond to European invasions in the late 19th century, and why were they unable to prevent colonization of most of the continent?
Quarter 2, Unit 1 of 3
Reform, Revolution, and Social Change, 1900-1914
Essential Questions
1. What factors contributed to the concentration of industrial power in a few parts of the world in the early 20th century?
2. What factors and ideologies motivated people to engage in various reform and revolutionary movements in the early 20th century?
3. How were the origins and consequences of the early twentieth-century revolutions in Russia, Mexico, and China similar and different?
Quarter 2, Unit 2 of 3
Causes and Consequences of World War I
Essential Questions
1. In what ways did the outbreak of World War I demonstrate that nationalism could be both a unifying and a divisive force?
2. To what extent was World War I both a "global war" and a "total war" in its scope and effects?
3. How did Communist revolutionary forces succeed in taking control of Russia and bringing down the tsarist empire?
4. Why have historians argued that the Treaty of Versailles "satisfied no one and settled nothing"?
Quarter 2, Unit 3 of 3
Search for Peace and Stability
Essential Questions
1. How did the political map of the world change in the 1920s and 1930s, and what significance did this have for international relations?
2. What factors motivated the rise of nationalist movements against European colonial role in the interwar decades?
Quarter 1
Unit 1.1
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Causes and Consequences-Political Revolution
Essential Questions:
1. What were the principal similarities and differences between the political revolutions in Europe and those in the Americas of the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
2. How did revolutions and revolutionary ideologies contribute to both political and social transformations in Europe and in the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
3. In the broad context of world history, how did the revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries change fundamental ideas about the exercise of political power and authority in states?
Unit 1.2
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Causes and Consequences-The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Essential Questions:
1. What global patterns of change, both positive and negative, contributed to the early industrial and energy revolution in Britain?
2. What particular conditions or advantages help explain why Britain led the way in developing new energy sources and industries?
3. Why did industrialization in Britain have both positive and negative social consequences?
4. Why did Britain and other countries abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Unit 1.3
Unit Title: Age of Revolution: Transformations in Eurasian Societies, 1750-1870
Essential Questions:
1. How did the rapid growth of both global population and the world economy relate to the expansion of European power in the world in the 19th century?
2. How did European countries, Japan, and the United States succeed in conquering and colonizing new territories in Africa and Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
3. How did India, China, and Japan change under the impact of global trade and European power?
4. In what various ways did African peoples respond to European invasions in the late 19th century, and why were they unable to prevent colonization of most of the continent?
Quarter 2, Unit 1 of 3
Reform, Revolution, and Social Change, 1900-1914
Essential Questions
1. What factors contributed to the concentration of industrial power in a few parts of the world in the early 20th century?
2. What factors and ideologies motivated people to engage in various reform and revolutionary movements in the early 20th century?
3. How were the origins and consequences of the early twentieth-century revolutions in Russia, Mexico, and China similar and different?
Quarter 2, Unit 2 of 3
Causes and Consequences of World War I
Essential Questions
1. In what ways did the outbreak of World War I demonstrate that nationalism could be both a unifying and a divisive force?
2. To what extent was World War I both a "global war" and a "total war" in its scope and effects?
3. How did Communist revolutionary forces succeed in taking control of Russia and bringing down the tsarist empire?
4. Why have historians argued that the Treaty of Versailles "satisfied no one and settled nothing"?
Quarter 2, Unit 3 of 3
Search for Peace and Stability
Essential Questions
1. How did the political map of the world change in the 1920s and 1930s, and what significance did this have for international relations?
2. What factors motivated the rise of nationalist movements against European colonial role in the interwar decades?