UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED	
Reconstruction	•	Understanding conflict between State and Federal governments
•	Understanding political alignment
•	Understanding conflict in Congress
•	Understanding new roles of Freedmen
•	Supreme Court cases
•	Segregation	•	Objectives test
•	Thematic Essay	
Westward Expansion	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Manifest Destiny
•	Reasons for expansion
•	Destruction of Native American culture
•	Government policies toward settlement
•	Government policies toward Native Americans	•	Objective test
	
Industrial Age	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Resources that allowed for growth
•	The concept of monopoly
•	Government involvement in business
•	Origins of labor unions	•	Objective test
	
Immigration	Students should have an understanding of:
•	“Old” and “New” immigration
•	Conditions in homelands that leads to immigration
•	Government response
•	Patterns of settlement
•	Effects on industry	•	Objective test
•	DBQ	
Progressive Era	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Government reform/policy
•	How writers can affect public opinion
•	Women’s suffrage
•	Constitutional change

	•	Objective test	
American Imperialism	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Scarcity of resources and its effect on governments
•	Imperialism
•	Foreign policy
•	Conflict between isolationism v. expansionism
•	U.S. relations with Latin America and the Far East	•	Objective test
•	Thematic Essay	
World War I	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Reasons for U.S. involvement
•	Conflict over U.S. involvement
•	Foreign policy
•	Treaty of Versailles and its long-term effect 
•	League of Nations
•	Causes of W.W.I	•	Objective test
	
1920’s	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Reasons for economic boom
•	Farmers’ struggles
•	Struggles of minorities
•	Prohibition and its effect on society
•	Stock market fluctuations and its effects
•	Culture of the 1920’s	•	Objective test	
Great Depression	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Overproduction and its effects
•	Causes of the Depression
•	Stock market crash and its effects
•	Government policy - Federal vs. Local
•	New Deal Policy	•	Objective test	
World War II	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Causes of W.W.II
•	Reasons for U.S. involvement
•	The Holocaust
•	Formation of the United Nations
•	Alliances and how they form
	•	Objective test
	
Cold War	Students should have an understanding of:
•	Development of a containment policy
•	U.S. aid to foreign nations
•	The Red Scare
•	U.S. domestic policy (McCarthyism)
•	Arms Race
•	Foreign conflicts
i.e. Vietnam, Korea, Latin America
•	NATO vs. Warsaw Pact	•	Objective test
•	DBQ