US History syllabus, dot point by dot point

Analyze the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, including how the war's purpose shifted to ending slavery and the role of African American soldiers (GSE SSUSH9, Domain 2).

Identify the legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction, including the Freedmen's Bureau, the Reconstruction Acts, and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments (GSE SSUSH10, Domain 2).

Evaluate key events, issues, and individuals of the Civil War, including the election of 1860 and secession, the advantages of each side, major turning points such as Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg, and leaders such as Lincoln, Grant, and Lee (GSE SSUSH9, Domain 2).

Analyze the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, including the Compromise of 1877, Black Codes, segregation, disfranchisement, and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision (GSE SSUSH10, Domain 2).

Evaluate how industry, big business, and labor affected the lives of Americans after the Civil War, including the growth of railroads, the rise of corporations, and the early labor movement (GSE SSUSH11, Domain 3).

Evaluate how westward expansion fulfilled Manifest Destiny and affected the Plains Indians, including the transcontinental railroad, the Homestead Act, the Dawes Act, and conflicts such as Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee (GSE SSUSH12, Domain 3).

Analyze the causes of the American Revolution, including the French and Indian War and the 1763 Proclamation, British taxation policies and 'no taxation without representation,' and the role of propaganda such as Common Sense (GSE SSUSH3, Domain 1).

Compare and contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the seventeenth century, including mercantilism, trans-Atlantic trade, and the regional differences among the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies (GSE SSUSH1, Domain 1).

Describe early English colonial society and the development of its governance, including cultural diversity, the Middle Passage and the growth of the African population, methods of self-government during salutary neglect, and the Great Awakening (GSE SSUSH2, Domain 1).

Analyze the role of Enlightenment ideas, especially John Locke's theory of natural rights and government by consent, in shaping revolutionary thought and the Declaration of Independence (GSE SSUSH3 and SSUSH4, Domain 1).

Analyze the ideological, military, social, and diplomatic aspects of the American Revolution, including key turning points such as Saratoga, the French alliance, the surrender at Yorktown, and the war's social impact on women, African Americans, and Native Americans (GSE SSUSH4, Domain 1).

Evaluate the impact of growing sectionalism and the failure of compromise, including the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the abolitionist movement (GSE SSUSH8, Domain 2).

Analyze the impact of territorial expansion and population growth in the early decades of the new nation, including the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the Monroe Doctrine (GSE SSUSH6, Domain 1).

Explain the ratification debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists and the significance of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution (GSE SSUSH5, Domain 1).

Explain the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the major debates and compromises of the Constitutional Convention (the Great Compromise and Three-Fifths Compromise), and the structure of the new government with its separation of powers and checks and balances (GSE SSUSH5, Domain 1).

Analyze the impact of the growth of the cotton industry and the expansion of slavery, including the cotton gin, the spread of plantation slavery, and the differing economies of North and South (GSE SSUSH7, Domain 2).

Analyze the challenges faced by the first presidents and how they responded, including Washington's precedents and Farewell Address, the rise of political parties, and key events such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the Alien and Sedition Acts (GSE SSUSH6, Domain 1).

Analyze the causes and consequences of American imperialism, including the Spanish-American War, the acquisition of overseas territories, yellow journalism, and the Panama Canal (GSE SSUSH14, Domain 4).

Analyze the impact of immigration and urbanization, including the new immigration from southern and eastern Europe, the growth of cities, nativism, and political machines (GSE SSUSH11 and SSUSH12, Domain 3).

Evaluate how the growth of big business, technological change, and mechanization impacted the lives of Americans, including entrepreneurs such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, vertical and horizontal integration, trusts, and the free enterprise system (GSE SSUSH12, Domain 3).

Evaluate efforts to reform society and politics in the Progressive Era, including muckrakers, trust-busting, consumer-protection laws, and the role of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (GSE SSUSH13, Domain 3).

Analyze the women's suffrage movement and related Progressive social reforms, including the Nineteenth Amendment, the role of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, and the founding of the NAACP (GSE SSUSH13 and SSUSH17, Domain 3).

Analyze the origins and impact of US involvement in World War I, including the causes of US entry, the home front and the Great Migration, the Treaty of Versailles, and the rejection of the League of Nations (GSE SSUSH15, Domain 4).

Analyze the social and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, including Prohibition, nativism and immigration restriction, the revived Ku Klux Klan, and the debate between modernism and traditionalism (GSE SSUSH16, Domain 4).

Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash, bank failures, overproduction, the Dust Bowl, and the human impact of unemployment and poverty (GSE SSUSH17, Domain 4).

Evaluate Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a response to the Great Depression, including relief, recovery, and reform programs, Social Security, and the expanded role of the federal government (GSE SSUSH18, Domain 4).

Analyze how the rise of big business, consumer culture, and mass media transformed American life in the 1920s, including the automobile, credit, radio and movies, and the Harlem Renaissance (GSE SSUSH16, Domain 4).

Examine the origins of World War II and US entry, including the aggression of the Axis powers, the move from neutrality to Lend-Lease, and the attack on Pearl Harbor (GSE SSUSH19, Domain 4).

Examine the major developments and domestic impact of World War II, including key turning points, the Holocaust, the home front and the role of women, Japanese American internment, and the atomic bomb (GSE SSUSH19, Domain 4).