# Grade 10 Curriculum Map

## Unit 1 · Foundations and Founding
- Week 1: **History, Memory, and the American Story** — How should historians construct a national history when evidence, memory, and identity do not always agree?
- Week 2: **Indigenous Nations, Atlantic Encounters, and Colonization** — Why did colonization produce cooperation, exchange, dispossession, and violence at the same time?
- Week 3: **Revolution, Independence, and Competing Liberties** — When colonists claimed natural rights, who was included, who was excluded, and why?
- Week 4: **Constitution, Federalism, and the Early Republic** — How did the Constitution attempt to balance liberty, order, popular rule, and competing interests?

## Unit 2 · Expansion, Sectionalism, and Civil War
- Week 5: **Democracy, Markets, and Reform** — How did expanding democracy and markets create both opportunity and inequality?
- Week 6: **Expansion, Removal, and the Mexican-American War** — Can territorial expansion be separated from questions of sovereignty, race, war, and law?
- Week 7: **Slavery, Abolition, and Sectional Crisis** — Why did repeated political compromises fail to resolve the conflict over slavery?
- Week 8: **Civil War, Emancipation, and Union** — How and why did a war to preserve the Union become a war for emancipation?

## Unit 3 · Reconstruction and Industrial America
- Week 9: **Reconstruction and the Meaning of Freedom** — Why did Reconstruction achieve constitutional transformation but fail to secure lasting equal protection?
- Week 10: **Westward Expansion, Native Sovereignty, and the New South** — How did federal expansion after the Civil War reshape land, citizenship, labor, and sovereignty?
- Week 11: **Industrial Capitalism, Labor, and Immigration** — How did industrialization change the meaning of work, opportunity, and government responsibility?
- Week 12: **Gilded Age Politics, Jim Crow, and Populism** — Why did democratic institutions coexist with corruption, disfranchisement, segregation, and concentrated power?
- Week 13: **Progressive Reform and the Modern State** — When does reform expand democracy, and when can reform create new forms of control?

## Unit 4 · The United States and the World
- Week 14: **American Expansion and the Spanish-American War** — Did overseas expansion protect American interests, extend republican ideals, or create an empire?
- Week 15: **World War I and the Home Front** — How did total war expand federal power and redefine citizenship, dissent, and America’s world role?
- Week 16: **The 1920s: Mass Culture, Prosperity, and Conflict** — Was the prosperity and cultural change of the 1920s broadly shared?
- Week 17: **The Great Depression and the Crisis of Confidence** — Why did an economic downturn become a prolonged social and political crisis?
- Week 18: **The New Deal and the Changing Federal Government** — How did the New Deal redefine the relationship among citizens, markets, states, and the federal government?

## Unit 5 · World War II and the Early Cold War
- Week 19: **World War II: From Neutrality to Global War** — Why did the United States move from neutrality to full participation in World War II?
- Week 20: **World War II: Mobilization, Holocaust, and Victory** — How should a democracy evaluate military necessity, human rights, and civilian costs in total war?
- Week 21: **Cold War Origins and the Containment State** — Why did the wartime alliance between the United States and Soviet Union become a global rivalry?
- Week 22: **Postwar Prosperity, Suburbia, and Unequal Opportunity** — Who benefited from postwar prosperity, and how did public policy shape access to the American Dream?
- Week 23: **Brown, Montgomery, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement** — How did litigation, grassroots organizing, direct action, and federal authority interact in the struggle against segregation?

## Unit 6 · Rights, Reform, and Conflict
- Week 24: **The Civil Rights Revolution, 1960–1968** — Why did nonviolent protest, federal law, and grassroots organizing achieve major change while leaving inequality unresolved?
- Week 25: **Great Society, Immigration Reform, and Expanding Rights** — How did federal reform expand opportunity, and why did debates over cost, authority, and effectiveness intensify?
- Week 26: **Vietnam: Containment, Escalation, and Protest** — Why did the United States escalate in Vietnam, and why did public support collapse?
- Week 27: **Watergate, Economic Change, and Environmental Politics** — How did crisis in the 1970s change public trust in government and confidence in economic growth?
- Week 28: **Conservatism, Reagan, and the End of the Cold War** — Why did modern conservatism gain power, and what caused the Cold War to end?

## Unit 7 · Contemporary United States
- Week 29: **Globalization, Technology, and the New Immigration** — How did globalization and digital technology redistribute opportunity, risk, and political power?
- Week 30: **Post-Cold War Politics and the 1990s** — Why did the end of the Cold War not produce political consensus?
- Week 31: **September 11 and the War on Terror** — How should a constitutional democracy respond to terrorism while protecting rights, evidence standards, and public trust?
- Week 32: **The Financial Crisis, Recovery, and Political Realignment** — Why did financial risk become a national crisis, and why did recovery produce continuing political anger?
- Week 33: **Contemporary America: Institutions, Movements, and Historical Distance** — How can students study very recent events responsibly when evidence is abundant, contested, and still developing?

## Unit 8 · Constitutional and Civic Synthesis
- Week 34: **The Constitution in Practice: Federalism and the Courts** — How has constitutional meaning changed through amendment, legislation, court decisions, executive action, and civic pressure?
- Week 35: **Elections, Media, Public Policy, and Civic Participation** — How can citizens influence public policy without sacrificing accuracy, pluralism, or constitutional rights?
- Week 36: **Civic Capstone and Historical Synthesis** — What does responsible citizenship require from people who disagree about history, policy, and national identity?