CMS American History 2 Grade Social Studies Scope and Sequence Chart
UNIT 1 Great American West 2 Gilded Age and
Topic(s) Exploration and Growth
International Affairs, Exploration,
War, Conflict and Compromise,
Concept(s) Freedom, Progress
The events of the Civil War were still
fresh in the minds of Americans as
hundreds of thousands migrated
West. The American West was a
place where the untamed wilderness
could be mapped, given order, and
then made useful, but settlers were
unprepared to deal with the
landscape and hardships that
followed. To encourage westward
development, the government
implemented policies to encourage
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settlement and help farmers,
labourers, miners, and ranchers in
claiming the West. Because they had
already occupied the land for
centuries, Native Americans and
Mexicans each had their own ideas
Outcome(s) of land ownership and often came
into conflict with Western settlers.
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3 Growing Global Interaction
Progressivism
Transformation and Conflict
International Affairs, Exploration,
War, Conflict and Compromise,
Freedom, Progress
During the Gilded Age (the era of
Reconstruction to the end of the 19th
century), the United
States underwent an economic
transformation that involved the
maturing of the industrial economy,
the rapid expansion of big business,
the development of large-scale
agriculture, and the rise of national
labor unions and pronounced
industrial conflict..
With the turn of the century, America
underwent a reform movement called
Progressivism. Progressives were a
diverse group, often with various
agendas, but all reformers focused
on a set of problems arising from
rapid industrialization, urbanization,
waves of immigration, and business
and political corruption.
4 Boom and Bust
Conflict and Expansion Prosperity and Depression
International Affairs, Exploration, International Affairs, Exploration,
War, Conflict and Compromise, War, Conflict and Compromise,
Freedom, Progress Freedom, Progress
All issues of American foreign policy In this unit, students will examine the
in the 20th century have their origins inter war years including the various
in the emergence of the United impacts of World War I and its
States as a major world power in the prosperity to the Great Depression
Spanish-American War at the end of and New Deal leading up to World
the 19th century and in the War II. The various policies of the
involvement of the United States in 1920s including intolerance to
World War I. Students will trace the immigrants and communists,
causes to both the Spanish American isolationism, and laissez faire
War and World War One while economics to the various social
analyzing the debates over trends including fundamentalism,
expansion and neutrality. prohibition, flappers and the Harlem
Renaissance will reveal many of the
generalizations for the American
History 2 course.
 UNIT 5 A World in Conflct 6 Social Change 7 Modern Global America

Topic(s) Politics and

Conflict and Expansion Conflict, Government, and Civil Rights
Economics
International Affairs, Exploration, War, Conflict and International Affairs, Exploration, War, Conflict and International Affairs, Exploration, War, Conflict and
Concept(s) Compromise, Freedom, Progress Compromise, Freedom, Progress Compromise, Freedom, Progress
During this unit, students will understand how the U.S. In this unit, students will understand how the era This unit provides an overview of domestic and
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found itself involved in WWII as well as the Cold War. A
focus will be placed on social, economic and political
changes that the nation experienced as a result of these
military and ideological conflicts.
Outcome(s)
following World War II was dominated by a foreign policy from 1977 through the present.
preoccupation with the Cold War and social change in Connections to earlier major themes will provide the
the United States. The post war economic boom framework to understand recent events. While
produced changes in education, consumer culture, the studying more recent events and movements there is
space race and the rise of suburbia. The Civil Rights often difficulties to fully see the lasting impact of
and feminist movements also became great reforms in these recent events.
American History. Students will also analyze how the
U.S. governments anti-communist strategy of
containment in Asia confronted very different
circumstances and would involve the United States in
the bloody, costly conflicts of Korea and South
Vietnam.