US History study guides
LA-LEAP · Louisiana LEAP · aligned to LDOE.
- LEAP US History Module 1 Reconstruction, the West, and the Gilded Age: a complete overview of rebuilding the South, westward expansion, industrialization, immigration, labor, Populism, and Jim Crow
A deep-dive guide to Module 1 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: Reconstruction and the New South, westward expansion and the Plains Indians, Gilded Age industrialization and big business, immigration and urbanization, labor and the Populist movement, and Louisiana's role in the rise of Jim Crow, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 2 (Western Expansion to Progressivism) - LEAP US History Module 2 The Progressive Era and Imperialism: a complete overview of Progressive reform, woman suffrage, the Progressive presidents, and the rise of American empire
A deep-dive guide to Module 2 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: the goals and methods of Progressive reform, the women's suffrage movement and the Nineteenth Amendment, the Progressive presidencies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, and early twentieth century foreign policy, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standards 2 and 3 - LEAP US History Module 3 World War I and the Twenties: a complete overview of the Great War, American entry, the peace, the Roaring Twenties, and the decade's cultural conflicts
A deep-dive guide to Module 3 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: the causes of World War I and American entry, the American role and the home front, the Treaty of Versailles and the return to isolationism, the prosperity and mass culture of the Roaring Twenties, the decade's cultural conflicts, and the Harlem Renaissance, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standards 3 and 4 - LEAP US History Module 4 The Great Depression and World War II: a complete overview of the economic collapse, the New Deal, the road to war, and the Allied victory
A deep-dive guide to Module 4 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: the causes and effects of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the expansion of government, the road from isolationism to World War II, the American role in the Allied victory, the home front, and the Holocaust and the atomic bomb, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 4 (Becoming a World Power through World War II) - LEAP US History Module 5 The Cold War and Civil Rights: a complete overview of the superpower rivalry, Cold War conflicts, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and the era of social change
A deep-dive guide to Module 5 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: the origins of the Cold War and containment, Cold War conflicts and the Red Scare, the civil rights movement and its landmark laws, the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement, and the era of social change, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 5 (Cold War Era) - LEAP US History Module 6 The Modern Age: a complete overview of the conservative resurgence, the end of the Cold War, globalization, September 11, and the contemporary United States
A deep-dive guide to Module 6 of the Louisiana LEAP US History test: the conservative resurgence under Reagan, the end of the Cold War, the technology and globalization economy, September 11 and the war on terror, and the contemporary United States with the enduring themes of American history, with the source-based item patterns LEAP repeats.
📖 18 min readLouisiana Student Standards for Social Studies, US History Standard 6 (The Modern Age)