Dates
Units
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August 18 – Aug 20
Course Introduction - Syllabus & Contract
“Why Study History?” (Peter N. Stearns)
Reading and assigned questions for Chapter 1
Get Parent signature
Begin ID’s
NOTE: Reading indicated is to
prepare for the next day’s class.
Aug 23- Aug 27
Chapter 1: The Meeting of
Cultures
Aug 30 – Sept 3
Chapter 2: Transplantations
and Borderlands
America Before Columbus
Europe Looks Westward
Arrival of the English
DBQ expectations and sample
FRQ expectations and sample
Reading and assigned study questions
Interactive Map
ESPRM
Complete tutorial quiz
DBQ
The Early Chesapeake
The Growth of New England
The Restoration Colonies
Borderlands and Middle Grounds
The Evolution of the British Empire
Complete tutorial quiz
ESPRM
Interactive Map
Reading and assigned study questions
Notebook Check
September 6 – Labor Day – No
School
September 7 – Sept 10
Chapter 3: Society and Culture
in Provincial America
Sept 13-17
Chapter 4: The Empire in
Transition
September 20 – 24
Chapter 5: The American
Revolution
The Colonial Population
The Colonial Economics
Patterns of Society
Awakenings and Enlightenment
IDs for 1-3 due
Complete tutorial quiz
ESPRM/13 Colonies
Interactive Map
Reading and assigned study questions
Test Ch’s 1-3
Loosening Ties
The Struggle for the Continent
The New Imperialism
Stirrings of Revolt
Cooperation and War
Begin IDs
Complete tutorial quiz
ESPRM
Interactive Map
Reading and assigned study questions
The States United
The War for Independence
War and Society
The Creation of State Governments
The Search for a National Government
IDs
September 27 – Oct 1
Chapter 6: The Constitution
and the New Republic
October 4 – 8
Chapter 7: Jeffersonian Era
October 11 - 15
Chapter 8: Varieties of
American Nationalism
October 18 – 22
Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
October 25 – 29
Chapter 10: America’s
Economic Revolution
November 1 - 5
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery,
and the Old South
Complete tutorial quiz
ESPRM
Interactive Map
Reading and assigned study questions
Test Ch’s 4-5
Notebook Check
ID’s 4-5 due
Framing a New Government
Federalists and Republicans
Establishing National Sovereignty
The Downfall of the Federalists
Reading and assigned study questions
ID’s
Tutorial Quiz
ESPRM
Interactive Map
The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
Stirrings of Industrialism
Jefferson the President
Doubling the National Domain
Expansion and War
The War of 1812
FRQ – in class
ESPRM
Reading and assigned study questions
Interactive Map
Complete tutorial quizzes
Test Ch’s 6-7
Reading
ID’s due 6 - 7
A Growing Economy
Expanding Westward
The “Era of Good Feelings”
Sectionalism and Nationalism
The Revival of Opposition
In class DBQ
The Rise of Mass Politics
“Our Federal Union”
The Removal of Indians
Jackson and the Bank War
The Changing Face of American Politics
The Changing American Population
Transportation, Communications, and Technology
Commerce and Industry
Men and Women at Work
Patterns of Industrial Society
The Agricultural North
The Cotton Economy
White Society in the South
Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution”
The Culture of Slavery
Test Ch’s 8-11
November 8 – 12
Chapter 12: Antebellum
Culture and Reform
November 15 – 23
Chapter 13: The Impending
The Romantic Impulse
Remaking Society
The Crusade Against Slavery
Looking Westward
Expansion and War
Crisis
November 24 – 26 Thanksgiving
November 29 – December 3
Chapter 14: The Civil War
December 6 – 10
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and
the New South
December 13 - 17
Chapter 16: The Conquest of
the Far West
December 20 – 31 Winter Break
January 3-7
Chapter 17: Industrial
Supremacy
January 10-13
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
January 17 – MLK Day – No
School
January 18-21
Chapter 19: From Stalemate to
Crisis
January 24 – 28
Chapter 20: The Imperial
Republic
January 31 – Feb 4
Chapter 21: The Rise of
Progressivism
February 7-11
Chapter 22: The Battle for
National Reform
February 14 - 18
Chapter 23: America and the
Great War
February 21 – 25
Chapter 24: “The New Era”
The Sectional Debate
The Crises of the 1850s
The Secession Crisis
The Mobilization of the North
The Mobilization of the South
Strategy and Diplomacy
The Course of the Battle
Test
The Problems of Peacemaking
Radical Reconstruction
The South in Reconstruction
The Grant Administration
The Abandonment of Reconstruction
The New South
The Societies of the Far West
The Changing Western Economy
The Romance of the West
The Dispersal of the Tribes
The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
Test
Sources of Industrial Growth
Capitalism and Its Critics
Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The Urbanization of America
The Urban Landscape
Strains of Urban Life
The Rise of Mass Consumption
Leisure in the Consumer Society
High Culture in the Age of the City
The Politics of Equilibrium
The Agrarian Revolt
The Crisis of the 1890s
“A Cross of Gold”
Stirrings of Imperialism
War with Spain
The Republic as Empire
The Progressive Impulse
Women and Reform
The Assault on the Parties
Sources of Progressive Reform
Crusade for Social Order and Reform
T. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
The Troubled Succession
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
The “Big Stick”: America and the World
The Road to War
”War without Stint”
The War and American Society
The Search for Social Unity
The Search for a New World Order
A Society in Turmoil
The New Economy
The New Culture
Feb 28 – Mar 4
Chapter 25: The Great
Depression
March 7 – 11
Chapter 26: The New Deal
March 14 – 18
Chapter 27: The Global Crisis
March 21 – 25
Chapter 28: America in a
World at War
March 28 – Apr 1
Chapter 29: The Cold War
April 4 – 8
Chapter 30: The Affluent
Society
April 11 – 15
Chapter 31/32: The Ordeal of
Liberalism and The Crisis of
Authority
April 18 – 22
Apr. 25- 29
May
A Conflict of Cultures
Republican Government
The Coming of the Great Depression
The American People in Hard Times
The Depression and American Culture
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Launching the New Deal
The New Deal in Transition
The New Deal in Disarray
Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
The Diplomacy of the New Era
Isolationism and Internationalism
From Neutrality to Intervention
War on Two Fronts
The American People in Wartime
The Defeat of the Axis
Origins of the Cold War
The Collapse of the Peace
American Society in Politics After the War
The Korean War
The Crusade Against Subversion
“The Economic Miracle”
The Explosion of Science and Technology
People of Plenty
The “Other America”
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
Eisenhower Republicanism
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Spring Break
In class review – Begin independent research on individual from history
Continued
Continued
May __ -AP Exam/
May __-EOC
May
May 17
May 20-24
May 30 – Memorial Day – No
School
June 1 – Final Exams
June 2 – Final Exams
Research individual from history
Papers due – begin presentations
Finish presentations
Last Day 4th 9 weeks