Course curriculum

  • 1

    Intro to Social Studies

    • What is Social Studies

    • Why Learn Social Studies

    • How This Course Works

  • 2

    Native American History in Utah

    • Native American Tribes in Utah

    • Cultures of the Five Tribes

    • Native American Quiz 1 - Short Answer

  • 3

    Geography of Utah

    • Videos about Utah's Geography (The ones that you filmed)

    • Utah's Geographical Features

    • Latitude and Longitude of Utah

    • Latitude and Longitude Quiz

    • Utah's Location

    • Climate of Utah

    • Utah's Natural Resources

    • Utah's Landforms

    • Utah Regions

    • Put Together a Map of Utah

  • 4

    Settlement of Utah

    • Intro to Geography and Settlement

    • Peoples of Utah

    • Early Governors of Utah

    • British Immigrants in Utah

    • Chinese Immigrants in Utah

    • Jews in Utah History

    • Italians in Utah

    • Spanish Speakers in Utah

    • Yugoslavs in Utah

    • Blacks in Utah

    • Middle East and Utah

    • Greeks in Utah

    • Japanese in Utah

    • Jacob Hamblin

    • Ivy Baker Priest

    • 20th Century Leaders of Utah

  • 5

    Economy of Utah

    • Crash Course in Economics

    • Puzzle of Growth

    • Producers and Consumers

    • Barter and Trade

    • Paradox of Value

    • Economic Bubbles

    • Indiana Jones and Supply and Demand

    • Economy of Utah

  • 6

    Government of Utah

    • State Constitution

    • Native American Government in Utah

    • Deseret

    • Utah Territory

    • Utah's Statehood Timeline

    • State, County and Local Governments

  • 7

    Citizen Responsibilities

    • Rights of a Citizen

    • History of the Pledge of Allegiance

    • Electoral College Explained

    • Flag Code

    • Star Spangled Banner

  • 8

    Native Americans

    • Where did the First Americans Come From?

    • America's Great Indian Nations

  • 9

    The American Revolution

    • Other Resources

    • Ben Franklin

    • French and Indian War

    • Washington and French and Indian War

    • Stamp Act

    • Coercive Acts

    • Abigail Adams

    • Boston Massacre

    • Boston Tea Party- Schoolhouse Rock

    • TED-Ed Tea Party

    • Plot a Timeline of the Revolution

    • Paul Revere's Ride

    • Andy Griffith Teaches Paul Revere's Ride

    • Lexington and Concord

    • Washington Becomes Commander in Chief

    • George Washington Biography

    • Martha Washington

    • 10 Amazing Women of the Revolutionary War

    • Women in the American Revolution

    • Fort Ticonderoga

    • Battle of Bunker Hill

    • Rest of 1775

    • Common Sense

    • Henry Knox and the Cannons from Ticonderoga

    • Patriots and Loyalists

    • French Contribution to USA Independence

    • Timeline to Declaration of Independence

    • Quiz

    • "I only regret I have one life to give for my country"

    • Failing and Failing and Failing Again

    • Crossing the Delaware

    • 1777

    • Alexander Hamilton

    • Articles of Confederation

    • Valley Forge

    • Baron Von Steuben

    • Battle of Monmouth

    • Timeline

    • "I have not yet begun to fight!"

    • Timeline

    • James Armistead Lafayette

    • Benedict Arnold

    • Battle of the Cowpens

    • Francis Marion

    • March 15-June 11 1781

    • Yorktown

    • Treaty of Paris

    • How the Revolutionary War Changed the Way People Thought about Their Freedoms

    • Quiz

  • 10

    Constitution

    • How the War Set Up a Need for a New Government

    • "I have grown grey in your service and now find myself growing blind"

    • Making of the American Constitution

    • Magna Carta

    • Magna Carta Video

    • Iroquois Confederation

    • Quiz

    • Articles of Confederation

    • Virginia Plan

    • A More Perfect Union

    • Preamble

    • How Power Is Divided in the United States Government

    • I'm Just a Bill

    • Checks and Balances

    • Electoral College

    • First American Election

    • Ratification of the Constitution

    • Amending the Constitution

    • The Bill of Rights

    • Bill of Rights Video

    • How Rights Have Changed

    • Impact of the Constitution

  • 11

    Declaration of Independence

    • Opinions about the Declaration

    • "Give me liberty or give me death!"

    • John Dickinson Argument against Independence

    • "Remember the Ladies"

    • What You Might Not Know about the Declaration of Independence

    • Thomas Jefferson

    • The Committee to Write the Declaration of Independence

    • Concepts in the Declaration of Independence

    • Declaration of Independence

    • The Declaration of Independence

  • 12

    Explorers

    • Who Discovered America?

    • Civilizations Who Came to America

    • Why Did People Want to Explore?

    • List of Explorers and What They Did

    • Different Kinds of Explorers Maps

    • Who Was Amerigo Vespucci?

    • French Explorers: The Beginning of French Exploration and Settlement

    • Columbus: Hero or Villain

    • Selections from Columbus' Biography

    • History vs. Columbus

    • Misdirected Outrage

  • 13

    Colonies

    • American Colonization

    • New England Colonies

    • Mayflower

    • Mayflower Compact

    • Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony

    • John Winthrop's City Upon a Hill

    • Middle Colonies

    • Southern Colonies

    • Pocahontas

    • The Atlantic Slave Trade

  • 14

    Westward Expansion

    • George Washington's Farewell Address

    • Louisiana Purchase

    • Manifest Destiny Explained

    • Monroe Doctrine

    • Lewis and Clark Expedition

    • Sacajawea

    • What the Pioneer Trail Looked Like

    • Pioneers

    • California Gold Rush

    • How Westward Expansion Affected Native Americans

    • The Indian Problem

    • Trail of Tears

    • Trains

  • 15

    Civil War

    • Causes of the Civil War

    • How One Piece of Legislation Divided a Nation

    • Economics and the Civil War

    • Was the Civil War about Slavery?

    • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

    • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    • Fugitive Slave Law and Uncle Tom's Cabin

    • Abolitionists

    • Frederick Douglass

    • Lincoln Elected

    • Fort Sumter

    • Clara Barton and the Red Cross

    • Women in the Civil War

    • Women Civil War Soldiers

    • Robert E. Lee Refuses to Command Union Troops

    • Important People of the Civil War

    • Map of the Allegiances of the States

    • First Battle of Bull Run

    • General McClellan

    • Lincoln's Son Dies

    • Ironclads

    • Battle of Shiloh

    • Admiral David Farragut and Civil War at Sea

    • Second Battle of Bull Run

    • Antietam

    • Battle of Fredricksburg

    • Emancipation Proclamation

    • January-March 1863

    • Battle of Chancellorville

    • Stonewall Jackson

    • Battle of Gettysburg

    • Battle of Vicksburg

    • Draft and Civil War

    • Blacks and the Civil War

    • Battle of Chickmauga

    • Gettysburg Address

    • Battle of Chattanooga

    • General Grant and 1864

    • Sherman's March to the Sea

    • Lincoln Is Re-elected

    • 13th Amendment

    • Robert E. Lee’s Last Offense and Beginning of Retreat

    • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox

    • Lincoln Assassinated

    • End of the War

    • Other Resources

  • 16

    Reconstruction/Industrial Revolution

    • Effects of Reconstruction

    • Jim Crow Laws

    • Post Civil War Economy

    • The First Plane

    • Inventions Changing History for Better and for Worse

    • Immigrants and Industrial Revolution

    • 300 Years of Fossil Fuels

    • Emergence of Modern America

  • 17

    WWI

    • America Before the War

    • America Enters WWI

    • WWI

    • WWI Video

    • The Century

    • WWI American Impact

    • How WWI Changed the Map

  • 18

    Great Depression

    • The Great Depression

    • Understanding the Great Depression

    • Keynesian Economics and Great Depression

    • Another Viewpoint of the Great Depression

    • How FDR and WWII Helped make America into a Superpower

    • Dinner during the Great Depression

    • Education during the Great Depression

    • Frugality during the Great Depression

    • Stories from the Great Depression

    • Schemes to Get Money during Great Depression

    • Stories from Great Depression

    • Dust Bowl: Grantsville, Utah

  • 19

    WWII

    • Brief Overview of WWII

    • WWII Crash Course

    • How Did Hitler Rise to Power

    • Invasion of Poland

    • London Can Take It

    • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    • Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

    • America Declares War

    • WWII Crash Course US History

    • WWII Crash Course Home Front

    • How F.D.R. Made America into a Superpower

    • America Becomes a Superpower

  • 20

    Social Movements of the 20th Century

    • Right to Vote

    • Susan B. Anthony

    • Women's Rights

    • Timeline of Women's Suffrage

    • Suffragists

    • End Women's Suffrage

    • Women's Suffrage

    • Civil Rights Movement

    • Frederick Douglass

    • "Ain't I a woman?"

    • I Have a Dream

    • Industrial Revolution and Childhood

    • Child Labor Laws in American History

  • 21

    Today

    • The United States as a World Power

    • World Problems

    • End of the Class