United States History Readings with Questions

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These worksheets, free to print, are designed for a comprehensive high school United States History course. There are 167 worksheets total, in chronological order, divided into fifteen sections. Each handout contains an informational text reading followed by a series of questions based on the reading. These are immensely popular with teachers, since they provide coherent, chronological informational texts without any need for a textbook. Most commonly, a teacher assigns one worksheet a night for homework (doubling up on the shorter worksheets), ensuring that students are prepared for the discussion, lecture, and extension activities the following day.

1. Early America The First Americans Mound Builders and Pueblos Native-American Cultures The First Europeans Early Settlements - Module Jamestown Colony Colonial Massachusetts New Netherland and Maryland Colonial-Indian Relations Second Generation of British Colonies - Module Settlers, Slaves, and Servants - Module The Enduring Mystery of the Anasazi - Module

2. The Colonial Period New Peoples - Module New England - Module The Middle Colonies The Southern Colonies - Module Society, Schools, and Culture Emergence of Colonial Government The French and Indian War An Exceptional Nation? The Witches of Salem - Module

3. Road to Independence A New Colonial System The Stamp Act - Module Taxation Without Representation - Module The Townshend Acts - Module Samuel Adams - Module The Boston "Tea Party" - Module The Coercive Acts - Module The Revolution Begins - Module Common Sense and Independence Defeats and Victories Franco-American Alliance - Module The British Move South - Module Victory and Independence - Module The Significance of the American Revolution - Module

4. Formation of a National Government State Constitutions - Module The Articles of Confederation - Module The Problem of Expansion - Module Constitutional Convention - Module Debate and Compromise Ratification and the Bill of Rights President Washington - Module Hamilton vs. Jefferson - Module Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy - Module Adams and Jefferson - Module Louisiana and Britain - Module The War of 1812 - Module The Second Great Awakening

5. Westward Expansion and Regional Differences Building Unity - Module Extension of Slavery Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine Factionalism and Political Parties Nullification Crisis The Bank Fight Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings Stirrings of Reform Women's Rights Westward The Frontier, "The West," and the American Experience

6. Sectional Conflict Two Americas Lands of Promise Slavery and Sectionalism The Abolitionists Texas and War with Mexico The Compromise of 1850 A Divided Nation Lincoln, Douglas, and Brown The 1860 Election

7. The Civil War and Reconstruction Secession and Civil War Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate Gettysburg to Appomattox With Malice Toward None Radical Reconstruction The End of Reconstruction Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics

8. Growth and Transformation Technology and Change Carnegie and the Era of Steel Corporations and Cities Railroads, Regulations, and the Tariff Revolution in Agriculture The Divided South The Last Frontier The Plight of the Native Americans Ambivalent Empire The Canal and the Americas United States and Asia J.P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

9. Discontent and Reform Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism The Struggles of Labor The Reform Impulse Roosevelt's Reforms Taft and Wilson A Nation of Nations

10. War, Prosperity, and Depression War and Neutral Rights United States Enters World War I The League of Nations Postwar Unrest The Booming 1920s Tensions over Immigration Clash of Cultures The Great Depression

11. New Deal and World War II Roosevelt and the New Deal The First New Deal: Banking and Finance The First New Deal: Unemployment The First New Deal: Agriculture The First New Deal: Industry and Labor The Second New Deal A New Coalition War and Uneasy Neutrality Japan, Pearl Harbor, and War Mobilization for Total War The War in North Africa and Europe The War in the Pacific The Politics of War War, Victory, and the Bomb The Rise of Industrial Unions

12. Postwar America Consensus and Change Cold War Aims Harry Truman's Leadership Origins of the Cold War Containment The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East Eisenhower and the Cold War The Cold War at Home The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960 The Fair Deal Eisenhower's Approach The Culture of the 1950s Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Desegregation

13. Decades of Change: 1960-1980 The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1980 The Women's Movement The Latino Movement The Native-American Movement The Counterculture Environmentalism Kennedy and the Resurgence of Big Government Liberalism Kennedy and the Cold War The Space Program Death of a President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society The War in Vietnam The Election of 1968 Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats The Ford Interlude The Carter Years

14. New Conservatism and a New World Order A Society in Transition Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan The Economy in the 1980s Foreign Affairs U.S.-Soviet Relations The Presidency of George H.W. Bush Budgets and Deficits End to the Cold War The Gulf War Panama and NAFTA Third-party and Independent Candidates

15. Bridge to the 21st Century 1992 Presidential Election A New Presidency Launching a New Domestic Policy The American Economy in the 1990s The Election of 1996 and the Political Aftermath American Foreign Relations in the Clinton Years Intimations of Terrorism The Presidential Election of 2000 and the War on Terror The 2004 Presidential Election

	UNIT I:		Early America	UNIT IX:	Discontent and Reform
	UNIT II:		Colonial Period	UNIT X:	War, Prosperity, and Depression
	UNIT III:		American Revolution	UNIT XI:	New Deal and World War II
	UNIT IV:		New National Government	UNIT XII:	Postwar America
	UNIT V:		Westward Expansion	UNIT XIII:	Decades of Change
	UNIT VI:		Sectional Conflict	UNIT XIV:	New Conservatism
	UNIT VII:		Civil War and Reconstruction	UNIT XV:	Into the Twenty-first Century
	UNIT VIII:		Growth and Transformation	UNIT XVI:	Polarization and Deglobalization

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