XHSC 0933L High School United States History: 1910 to 1929

Credits: .5

Examines the social, economic and political development of the United States during the Progressive Era, World War One, and the 1920s. Traces the rise and fall of national, social and political reforms. Explains the country’s vacillation between isolationism and international involvement. Investigates American business expansion in the 1920s and illuminates the sources and the relief of tension during the Jazz Age.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Discuss the causes, characteristics and impact of social, political, military and economic developments in the U.S. during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Reconstruct, interpret and represent the chronology of significant events, developments and narratives in the Unites States during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Compare and contrast American institutions and ideas in the first three decades of the twentieth century with those of other eras and other states.
Use historical documents, narratives and other data to explain historical cause and effect, patterns of change, and patterns of continuity in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Explain a U.S. twentieth century issue, problem, or phenomenon from varied perspectives or opposed points of view.
Link historical United States decisions and developments in the early twentieth century to present national and international events and conditions.
Explain how diverse contemporary perspectives affect historical interpretation of this period.

Content Outline

1900-1913: The Challenges and Opportunities that Faced Minority and Majority Groups of Americans After the Turn of the Century
- The immigrant experience, then and now
- The transformation of work, production, and labor by new inventions, new methods of production and new sources of power
- U.S. expansionism and foreign imperialism
- The concerns, successes and limitations of progressivism
1913-1917: How, and at What Cost, the United States Became a World Power
- Causes of World War I
- The advent and effects of total war
- Wilsonian democracy and the end of U.S. neutrality
- The role of the U.S. in World War I
- Emergence of the U.S. as a world power
- Roots of the Second World War
1919-1929: Changes that Generated Roaring Tension in the Roaring Twenties
- The causes and effects American Business Expansion
- Republicans in command: Support for big business
- Sources and relief of tension in the Roaring Twenties
- Warning signs of the Great Depression