American History Readings Worksheets for High School

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Readings with Questions for High School, Grades 9-12

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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.

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1. Early America 1. The First Americans 2. Mound Builders and Pueblos 3. Native-American Cultures 4. The First Europeans 5. Early Settlements - Module 6. Jamestown 7. Massachusetts 8. New Netherland and Maryland 9. Colonial-Indian Relations 10. Second Generation of British Colonies - Module 11. Settlers, Slaves, and Servants - Module 12. The Enduring Mystery of the Anasazi - Module		2. The Colonial Period 1. New Peoples - Module 2. New England - Module 3. The Middle Colonies 4. The Southern Colonies - Module 5. Society, Schools, and Culture 6. Emergence of Colonial Government 7. The French and Indian War 8. An Exceptional Nation? 9. The Witches of Salem - Module

3. Road to Independence 1. A New Colonial System 2. The Stamp Act - Module 3. Taxation without Representation - Module 4. The Townshend Acts - Module 5. Samuel Adams - Module 6. The Boston "Tea Party" - Module 7. The Coercive Acts - Module 8. The Revolution Begins - Module 9. Common Sense and Independence 10. Defeats and Victories 11. Franco-American Alliance - Module 12. The British Move South - Module 13. Victory and Independence - Module 14. The Significance of the American Revolution - Module		4. Formation of a National Government 1. State Constitutions - Module 2. The Articles of Confederation - Module 3. The Problem of Expansion - Module 4. Constitutional Convention - Module 5. Debate and Compromise 6. Ratification and the Bill of Rights 7. President Washington - Module 8. Hamilton vs. Jefferson - Module 9. Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy - Module 10. Adams and Jefferson - Module 11. Louisiana and Britain - Module 12. The War of 1812 - Module 13. The Second Great Awakening

5. Westward Expansion and Regional Differences 1. Building Unity - Module 2. Extension of Slavery 3. Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine 4. Factionalism and Political Parties 5. Nullification Crisis 6. The Bank Fight 7. Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings 8. Stirrings of Reform 9. Women's Rights 10. Westward 11. The Frontier, "The West," and the American Experience		6. Sectional Conflict 1. Two Americas 2. Lands of Promise 3. Slavery and Sectionalism 4. The Abolitionists 5. Texas and War with Mexico 6. The Compromise of 1850 7. A Divided Nation 8. Lincoln, Douglas, and Brown 9. The 1860 Election

7. The Civil War and Reconstruction 1. Secession and Civil War 2. Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate 3. Gettysburg to Appomattox 4. With Malice toward None 5. Radical Reconstruction 6. The End of Reconstruction 7. The Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics		8. Growth and Transformation 1. Technology and Change 2. Carnegie and the Era of Steel 3. Corporations and Cities 4. Railroads, Regulations, and the Tariff 5. Revolution in Agriculture 6. The Divided South 7. The Last Frontier 8. The Plight of the Native Americans 9. Ambivalent Empire 10. The Canal and the Americas 11. United States and Asia 12. J.P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

9. Discontent and Reform 1. Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism 2. The Struggles of Labor 3. The Reform Impulse 4. Roosevelt's Reforms 5. Taft and Wilson 6. A Nation of Nations		10. War, Prosperity, and Depression 1. War and Neutral Rights 2. United States Enters World War I 3. The League of Nations 4. Postwar Unrest 5. The Booming 1920s 6. Tensions over Immigration 7. Clash of Cultures 8. The Great Depression

11. The New Deal and World War II 1. Roosevelt and the New Deal 2. The First New Deal: Banking and Finance 3. The First New Deal: Unemployment 4. The First New Deal: Agriculture 5. The First New Deal: Industry and Labor 6. The Second New Deal 7. A New Coalition 8. War and Uneasy Neutrality 9. Japan, Pearl Harbor, and War 10. Mobilization for Total War 11. The War in North Africa and Europe 12. The War in the Pacific 13. The Politics of War 14. War, Victory, and the Bomb 15. The Rise of Industrial Unions		12. Postwar America 1. Consensus and Change 2. Cold War Aims 3. Harry Truman's Leadership 4. Origins of the Cold War 5. Containment 6. The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East 7. Eisenhower and the Cold War 8. The Cold War at Home 9. The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960 10. The Fair Deal 11. Eisenhower's Approach 12. The Culture of the 1950s 13. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 14. Desegregation

13. Decades of Change: 1960-1980 1. The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1980 2. The Women's Movement 3. The Latino Movement 4. The Native-American Movement 5. The Counterculture 6. Environmentalism 7. Kennedy and the Resurgence of Big Government Liberalism 8. Kennedy and the Cold War 9. The Space Program 10. Death of a President 11. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society 12. The War in Vietnam 13. The Election of 1968 14. Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War 15. Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats 16. The Ford Interlude 17. The Carter Years		14. The New Conservatism and a New World Order 1. A Society in Transition 2. Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan 3. The Economy in the 1980s 4. Foreign Affairs 5. U.S.-Soviet Relations 6. The Presidency of George H.W. Bush 7. Budgets and Deficits 8. End to the Cold War 9. The Gulf War 10. Panama and NAFTA 11. Third-party and Independent Candidates

		15. Bridge to the 21st Century 1. 1992 Presidential Election 2. A New Presidency 3. Launching a New Domestic Policy 4. The American Economy in the 1990s 5. The Election of 1996 and the Political Aftermath 6. American Foreign Relations in the Clinton Years 7. Intimations of Terrorism 8. The Presidential Election of 2000 and the War on Terror 9. 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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