U.S. History
High school U.S. History for grades 10–12. Course A runs from Native peoples and contact through the 1920s. Course B runs from the Great Depression to the present. Every unit teaches the required content and includes ACT-style, SAT-style, and state-test-style questions. Students also practice high-level reading comprehension with informational and primary-source text.
The 1929–Present course bundle and a WWII museum project are listed below. Course A and full-curriculum bundles are not listed here because they are not live on Teachers Pay Teachers yet.
Two older unit pages go deeper on World War II and the Great Depression and New Deal.
What high-level reading skills do these U.S. History units practice?
Each unit has students do close reading of complex informational and primary-source text while they learn the required content. They cite evidence, make inferences, consider the author's purpose, and determine vocabulary in context. Teaching the required content and practicing high-level reading skills belong in the same lesson.
How do these lessons teach required content and exam-style reading together?
It has always been incredibly hard to teach required state standards while also preparing for state exams. These high school units do both at once. Students read the history they already have to teach, then answer ACT-style, SAT-style, and state-test-style questions in the same lesson, with a teacher key that explains wrong answers.
Course A, A01–A18
Colonies through the 1920s. Each unit is $7.
| Code | Resource | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| A01 | Native Peoples and Contact | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A02 | Colonial America | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A03 | Road to the Revolution | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A04 | The American Revolution | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A05 | Constitution and Articles of Confederation | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A06 | The Early Republic | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A07 | Jacksonian America | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A08 | Westward Expansion and Native Nations | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A09 | Slavery and the Sectional Crisis, 1820–1861 | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A10 | The Civil War, 1861–1865 | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A11 | Reconstruction, 1865–1877 | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A12 | Industrialization and the Gilded Age | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A13 | Immigration and Urbanization | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A14 | The West, Farmers, and Populism | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A15 | The Progressive Era | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A16 | Imperialism and the Spanish-American War | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A17 | World War I | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| A18 | The Roaring Twenties and the Harlem Renaissance | $7 | Get it on TpT |
Course B, B01–B14
The Great Depression through a present-day capstone. Each unit is $7.
| Code | Resource | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| B01 | The Great Depression and the New Deal | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B02 | World War II | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B03 | The Early Cold War and Containment | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B04 | Postwar America in the 1950s | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B05 | The Civil Rights Movement | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B06 | Cold War Crises | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B07 | The Vietnam War | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B08 | The Great Society | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B09 | Nixon and Watergate | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B10 | The Reagan Era | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B11 | 1990s Globalization | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B12 | September 11 and the War on Terror | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B13 | Contemporary America | $7 | Get it on TpT |
| B14 | Capstone Review, 1929–Present | $7 | Get it on TpT |
Bundle and project
The live Course B bundle and the WWII museum project.
| Code | Resource | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUN-US-1929 | U.S. History 1929–Present bundle | $69 | Get it on TpT |
| MUSEUM-WWII | WWII Museum Project | $5 | Get it on TpT |
Frequently asked questions
What is in each high school U.S. History unit?
Each live unit teaches required U.S. history content and includes reading comprehension passages, exam-style questions, and a teacher key that explains wrong answers as well as the correct one. Some units also include a DBQ or primary-source work. A purchase covers one teacher's own classroom.
How were these units built in light of the research?
I built these units to align with research on practice testing, feedback, background knowledge, and disciplinary reading. Each unit teaches required content and practices high-level reading skills in the same lesson.
Where can I read about the research behind these practices?
See the practice testing and feedback note and high-level reading in history class. Those notes show how the units put that research into practice.