7th grade Social Studies
10 units matched to the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards.
Focus areas
- Theme: United States Studies
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Industry, reform and the right to vote
- The world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War and civil rights
Units
Unit 1
Reconstruction
Reconstruction from 1865 to 1877 as a bridge to high school US history: the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, Black officeholders, the violence that opposed them and how gains were later rolled back.
Benchmark: 7.4.18.1; 7.4.18.2 · Reconstruction, and how racism and segregation followed it
Unit 2
Industrial America
Industry, railroads and inventors after the Civil War, big business and monopolies, new immigrants and growing cities, child labor and unions, farmers' movements, and federal Indian policy on the Plains.
Benchmark: 7.4.22.1; 7.3.15.1 · the Industrial Revolution and the movement of people and goods
Unit 3
Factories & Reformers
The Industrial Revolution in the North, canals, roads and railroads, immigration, public schools, and the abolition and women's rights movements before 1861.
Benchmark: 7.4.20.1; 7.5.24.1 · reformers and the campaign for women's right to vote
Unit 4
Rights & Amendments
What the first ten amendments protect, the Reconstruction Amendments, and why rights come with limits and responsibilities.
Benchmark: 7.1.3.1 · the Bill of Rights and the protections it gives
Unit 5
World War I
The causes of World War I, why the United States entered in 1917, trench warfare, limits on civil liberties at home, and the debate over the peace and the League of Nations.
Benchmark: 7.4.21.2; 7.2.7.1 · the changing role of the United States in the world, and the costs of decisions made in wartime
Unit 6
Depression & New Deal
The causes of the crash and the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, how families and farmers coped, and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and its lasting programs.
Benchmark: 7.4.20.2; 7.2.8.1 · questions about the Great Depression from historical sources, and how scarce goods were shared
Unit 7
World War II
The road to war and the rise of fascism, the US entry after Pearl Harbor, D-Day and the Pacific, the Holocaust, the home front including the forced removal of Japanese Americans, and the war's results.
Benchmark: 7.4.18.3; 7.2.7.1 · connections between World War II, fascism and the Holocaust, and decisions made in wartime
Unit 8
The Cold War
The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, containment from the Truman Doctrine to Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the space race and the end of the Cold War, from more than one perspective.
Benchmark: 7.4.19.2; 7.4.21.3 · different perspectives on the Cold War, and technological change since the mid-20th century
Unit 9
Civil Rights
The Long Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act, its leaders and methods, and the movements it inspired, including the women's movement and the American Indian Movement, founded in Minneapolis in 1968.
Benchmark: 7.4.18.4; 7.5.25.2; 7.5.24.1 · the Long Civil Rights Movement, the American Indian Movement and the women's rights movement, and groups that fought injustice
Unit 10
The Civil War
Practices the causes of the Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy, key battles and leaders, emancipation, and the war's impact on different groups of people, including Minnesota's soldiers.
Benchmark: 7.4.18.1 · the Civil War and its impact on different groups
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