By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy and the difficulties of maintaining American neutrality at the outset of World War IIdentify the key factors that led to the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in April 1917
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the challenges that the United States faced following the conclusion of World War IExplain Warren G. Harding’s landslide victory in the 1920 presidential election
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the role that the United States played at the end of World War IDescribe Woodrow Wilson’s vision for the postwar worldExplain why the United States never formally approved the Treaty of Versailles nor joined the League of Nations
American Isolationism and the European Origins of the WarThe United States Prepares for WarA New Home FrontFrom War to PeaceDemobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the steps taken by the U.S. government to secure enough men, money, food, and supplies to prosecute World War IExplain how the U.S. government attempted to sway popular opinion in favor of the war effort
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how Great Britain’s response to the destruction of a British shipment of tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 set the stage for the RevolutionDescribe the beginnings of the American Revolution
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain Loyalist and Patriot sentimentsIdentify different groups that participated in the Revolutionary War
Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its ConsequencesThe Early Years of the RevolutionWar in the SouthIdentity during the American Revolution
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the British and American strategies of 1776 through 1778Identify the key battles of the early years of the Revolution
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Outline the British southern strategy and its resultsDescribe key American victories and the end of the warIdentify the main terms of the Treaty of Paris (1783)
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the different approaches to reforming the institution of slaveryDescribe the abolitionist movement in the early to mid-nineteenth century
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the connection between evangelical Protestantism and the Second Great AwakeningDescribe the message of the transcendentalists
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify similarities and differences among utopian groups of the antebellum eraExplain how religious utopian communities differed from nonreligious ones
An Awakening of Religion and IndividualismAntebellum Communal ExperimentsReforms to Human HealthAddressing SlaveryWomen’s Rights
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the different reforms aimed at improving the health of the human bodyDescribe the various factions and concerns within the temperance movement
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the connections between abolition, reform, and antebellum feminismDescribe the ways antebellum women’s movements were both traditional and revolutionary
Fifth grade students in Michigan begin their study of American history with American Indian peoples before the arrival of European explorers and conclude with the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
