High School U.S. History TEKS Standards

analyze the political, economic, and social effects of Reconstruction on the South and on the nation and explain why Reconstruction came to an end.

explain the causes and effects of the rise of industrialization, including the expansion of railroads, growth of corporations, and the development of labor unions.

analyze the Progressive movement, including the reforms of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft, and the impact of the movement on the political, economic, and social life of the nation.

identify the causes of World War II, including the rise of Fascism and Nazism and the Japanese invasion of China, and describe the major effects of the war on the United States.

explain the causes and effects of the Cold War, including the containment policy, the Korean War, McCarthyism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the space race.

trace the civil rights movement from the postwar period through the 1970s, including the landmark legislation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

describe the economic effects of World War II, including the growth of the middle class, suburbanization, and the rise of the consumer economy.