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Unit One - Exploration and Colonization
Unit Two - Revolutionary Ideas and Events
Unit Three - Constitutional Era
Unit Four - Early National Period and Westward
Expansion
Unit Five - Expansion and Sectionalism
Unit Six - Civil
War and Reconstruction
Unit Seven - American Growth
Unit Eight - Isolation to Imperialism
Unit Nine - Global
Depression and Totalitarianism
Unit Eleven - World War II Domestic
Issues
Unit Thirteen - Civil Rights
Unit Fourteen - Modern U.S.
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Unit One Exploration and Colonization
VUS.2-1 - Characteristics of early exploration and settlements in the
VUS.2-2 - Exploration and settlement let to conflict,
violence and slavery
VUS.3-1 - Economic characteristics of the Colonial period
VUS.3-2 - Social characteristics of the colonies
VUS.3-3 - The development of indentured servitude and slavery
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Unit Two Revolutionary Ideas and Events
VUS.4a-1 - The ideas of John Locke
VUS.4a-2 - Thomas Paine and Common Sense
VUS.4a-3 - The Declaration of
VUS.4b-1 - Anglo-French rivalry leading to conflict with
the colonies
VUS.4b-2 - The beginning of the American Revolution
VUS.4b-3 - Differences among the Colonists: Patriots, Loyalists, Neutrals
VUS.4c- Factors leading to colonial victory
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Unit Three Constitutional Era
VUS.5a - The Articles of Confederation
VUS.5b-1 - Major compromises of the Constitution
VUS.5b-2 - Key leaders of the Constitutional Convention
VUS.5c - Federalists v. Anti-Federalists
VUS.5d -
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Unit Four Early National Period and Westward Expansion
VUS.6a-1 - Essential Understandings
VUS.6a-2 - Political developments in the Early National
Period
VUS.6a-3 - Judicial Review; Marbury v.
VUS.6a-4 - Expansion
resulting from the
VUS.6a-5 - Expansion
resulting from the War of 1812
VUS.6a-6 - The
VUS.6a-7 - The westward movement and economic development
VUS.6a-8 - American migration into
VUS.6a-9 - Manifest Destiny and the impact of westward
migration on the American Indians
VUS.6b-1 - The Age of Andrew Jackson
VUS.6b-2 - Bank of the
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Unit SixÑSectionalism and Expansion
VUS.6c-1 - Economic divisions
VUS.6c-2 - Essential understandings
VUS.6c-3 - The growing division over slavery and states'
rights
VUS.6c-4 - Compromise in new states - Slavery or Freedom???
VUS.6c-5 - Views of Slavery - North v. South
VUS.6c-6 - Women's suffrage movement
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Unit Six - Civil War and Reconstruction
VUS.7a-1 - Essential Understanding
VUS.7a-2 - Major events; Emancipation
Proclamation/Antietam,
VUS.7a-3 - Key Leaders; Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Douglass
VUS.7b - Emancipation Proclamation and the
VUS.7c-1 - Political effects of the war and Reconstruction
VUS.7c-2 - Economic and social impact of the war and
Reconstruction
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Unit Seven - American Growth
VUS.8a-1 - Post-Civil War westward movement
VUS.8a-2 - Immigrants flock to
VUS.8a-3 - Immigrants and the growth of cities
VUS.8b - Inventions/innovations; industrial leaders;
reasons for economic transformation
VUS.8c - Discrimination and segregation against African
Americans and their responses
VUS.8d-1 - Essential understandings; impact of the
Progressive Movement
VUS.8d-2 - Reforming problems created by industrialization
VUS.8d-3 - Accomplishments of the Progressive Movement
VUS.8d-4 - Impact of labor unions
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Unit Eight - Isolation to Imperialism
VUS.9a-1 - Creation of international markets
VUS.9a-2 - Changing policies of the
VUS.9b-1 -
VUS.9b-2 -
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Unit Nine - The Great Depression
VUS.9c-1 - Causes of the Great Depression
VUS.9c-2 - Impact of the Great Depression
VUS.9c-3 -
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Unit Ten - World War II
VUS.10a-1 - WWII; The war in
VUS.10a-2 - WWII; The war in
VUS.10b-1 - WWII; Allied and Axis
strategies in the
VUS.10b-2 - WWII; Allied and Axis
strategies in the Pacific
VUS.10b-3 - WWII; Major battles and
turning points in
VUS.10b-4 - WWII; Major battles and
turning points in Europe /
VUS.10b-5 - WWII; Major battles and
turning points in
VUS.10b-6 - WWII; Major battles and
turning points in the Pacific / Midway, Iwo Jima, and
VUS.10b-7 - WWII; Major battles and
turning points in the Pacific / atomic bomb
VUS.10c - The role of all-minority military units /
Tuskeegee Airmen and Nisei regiments
VUS.10d - WWII; The Geneva Convention
VUS.10e - WWII; Analyzing the Holocaust
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Unit Eleven -World War II Domestic Issues
VUS.10c - Minorities in War
VUS.11a - Mobilizing economic, human, and military
resources
VUS.11b - Contributions of women and minorities to the
war effort
VUS.11c - The internment of Japanese Americans
VUS.11d - The role of media and communications in the war effort
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Unit Twelve - The Cold War
VUS.12a - Outcomes of World War II
VUS.12b-1 - Essential Understanding #1
VUS.12b-2 - Essential Understanding #2
VUS.12b-3 - Origins of the Cold War /
Truman Doctrine, NATO,
VUS.12b-4 - Origins of the Cold War /
Communist takeover of
VUS.12b-5 - The Korean War
VUS.12b-6 - The Vietnam War, pt. I
VUS.12b-7 - The Vietnam War, pt. II
VUS.12b-8 -
VUS.12b-9 - Cuban Missile Crisis
VUS.12b-10 - Impact of the Cold War at
home
VUS.12c-1 - "Ask not what your country
can do for you . . ."
VUS.12c-2 - American Military Forces
During the Cold War
VUS.12c-3 - Veterans: WWII vs.
VUS.12d - Internal Problems of the
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Unit Thirteen - Civil Rights
VUS.13a-1 - Brown v. Bd. of Education
VUS.13a-2 - Brown v. Bd. of
Education:
VUS.13b - NAACP; 1963 March on
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Unit Fourteen - Modern U.S.
VUS.14a - Effects of Increased Population of Women in the
labor force
VUS.14b - The Changing Patterns of Immigration Affect the
Diversity of the
VUS.14c-1 - The American Space Program
was a triumph of American Technological Prowess.
VUS.14c-2 - Influence of the Media on contemporary American culture