United States History, 4th Edition
Lesson Plan Overview
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Chapter 1: New and Old Worlds Meet
1
Changes in the
3–8
Old World
2–3
4
Contacts in the
New World
Chapter 1 Review
8–22
Activity 1: Map Study: Explorations
of the New World
Activity 2: Think About It!
Activity 3: First Encounter
Activity 4: Chapter Review
Activity 1: Map Study: Settlement of
the Colonies
Activity 2: Read and Heed
Activity 3: Providence Praised
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English
Settlements
Made
Permanent
New England
Colonies
26–29
29–36
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9
The Middle
Colonies
36–39
10
The Southern
Colonies
Chapter 2 Review
39–42
Activity 4: Mayflower Compact
Impact
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Activity 5: Chapter Review
8
11
12
Chapter 2 Test
Chapter 3: Colonial Life
13
The Rhythms of
Life
14
At Home
Bible Integration
Section Quiz #5, #6
Thinking Critically
Living as a Christian Citizen
5
Chapter 1 Test
Chapter 2: Thirteen Colonies
6
Why the English
25–26
Came
7
Support Materials
“John Smith and 2 Thessalonians 3:10”
“The Pilgrims and Thanksgiving Day”
Deut. 6:10-15 and forgetting the Lord
“Puritan Motives”
Thinking Critically
Living as a Christian Citizen
45–49
Teacher Toolkit CD
“Danger of Childbirth”
49–52
Activity 1: Who and What
Activity 2: The Servant and the
Slave
Activity 3: False Alarms
Activity 4: Crossword Puzzle
The educational results of the
Reformation
Section Quiz #5
Section Quiz #3
15
At Work
52–57
16
At Play
57–59
17
Chapter 3 Review
18
Chapter 3 Test
Chapter 4: Religion in the American Colonies
19–20
Established
62–67 Teacher Toolkit CD
Denominations
Activity 1: Map Study: Religion in
the Colonies
Activity 2: Early Denominations and
Their Leaders
Section Quiz #5
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Outward Morality”
“Half-way Covenant”
“Anglicanism in America”
21
22
23
Non-Established
Denominations
Colonial Worship
Indian Missions
68–71
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71–73
73–75
Activity 3: Colonial Sunday
24–25
The Great
76–80 Activity 4: Religion in the Colonies
Awakening
26
Chapter 4 Review
27
Chapter 4 Test
Chapter 5: The Rising Storm (1689–1770)
28
Frontier Feuds
85–89
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29
The French and
90–95
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Indian War
Activity 1: French and Indian War
Questions
Activity 2: Map Study: French and
Indian War
30
The Growing Rift
95–102 Activity 3: Ordering
Activity 4: Crossword Puzzle
31
Chapter 5 Review
32
Chapter 5 Test
Chapter 6: Independence (1770–1783)
33
The Eve of War
105–13 Activity 1: “On the Right to Rebel
Against Governors”
34
Declaring
Independence
114–16
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35–36
Early Campaigns
116–25
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Activity 2: Map Study: The War for
Independence
Activity 3: Treaty of Paris, 1783
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Activity 4: Military Melee
37
The War in the
125–30
South
38
Chapter 6 Review
39
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 7: The Critical Period (1781–1789)
40–41
Government by
133–38 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Confederation
Activity 1: Map Study: Northwest
Territory
42
A New Charter
138–45 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 2: Separate Powers
43
The Struggle for
145–49 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Ratification
Activity 3: Federalism: States’ vs.
National Government’s Rights
and Powers
Activity 4: Who/What Am I?
44
Chapter 7 Review
45
Chapter 7 Test
Chapter 8: The Federalist Years (1789–1801)
“Religious Practices”
“Pietism”
Section Quiz #4
“Colonial Missions”
“Moravian Missions Success”
Section Quiz #5
Living as a Christian Citizen
“A Redeemed Captive”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Secular or Sacred?”
“The Founding Fathers and Religion”
“Biblical Perspectives on Revolution”
“Common Sense” (comparing Paine’s
arguments with biblical principles)
Section Quiz #5
“God’s Providence”
Living as a Christian Citizen
Section Quiz #5
Constitutional principles
Section Quiz #6
Living as a Christian Citizen
46
Launching the
New
Government
152–56
Activity 1: Cabinet Confusion
Emerging Political
156–61 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Parties
48
Declining
162–66 Activity 2: The Second President of
Federalist
the United States
Influence
Activity 3: Chapter Review
49
Chapter 8 Review
50
Chapter 8 Test
Chapter 9: The Jeffersonian Era (1801–1825)
51
“The Revolution of 171–75 Activity 1: Marbury v. Madison
1800”
47
52
Jefferson’s
Triumphs
Abroad
175–78
53
Indians and the
Northwest
Territory
The War of 1812
178–81
54
181–87
“The First ‘First Lady’”
“Rising Above Hardship”
“Servant/Leader”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Exodus 20:17”
“Thomas Jefferson’s Religious Views”
“I Am a Real Christian”
“Politicians and the Bible”
“Jefferson’s View of Religion”
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Activity 2: Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Activity 3: Map Study: Lewis and
Clark Expedition
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“Not Just Talleyrand’s Advice”
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Activity 4: Map Study: The War of
1812
“War Plans”
“The Era of Good
187–89
Feelings”
56
Chapter 9 Review
57
Chapter 9 Test
Chapter 10: The Age of Jackson (1820–1840)
58
Crosscurrents
192–99 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 1: Map Study: The
Missouri Compromise
59
The Jackson
199–205 Activity 2: Davy Crockett’s Rules
Years
for Getting Elected
60
Party Politics
206–9
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Activity 3: Time Travels
Activity 4: Crossword Puzzle
61
Chapter 10 Review
62
Chapter 10 Test
Chapter 11: The Growth of American Society (1789–1861)
63–64
American
212–21 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Technology
Activity 1: Think About It!
55
Living as a Christian Citizen
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Sin’s Consequences”
“The Bible and Slavery”
“American Slavery”
“Samuel F. B. Morse”
65
American Culture
221–28
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Activity 2: Map Study: The Growth
of Transportation
Activity 3: The Arts and the
Reformers
66
American Religion
228–34
Activity 4: Religion
67
Chapter 11 Review
68
Chapter 11 Test
Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny (1840–1848)
69
Across the Wide
239–45 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Missouri
Activity 1: Remember the Alamo!
70
Politics and
245–48 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Protocol
Activity 2: Polk’s Inaugural Address
71
War with Mexico
248–54 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 3: From Sea to Shining Sea
72
Chapter 12 Review
73
Chapter 12 Test
Chapter 13: A House Dividing (1848–1861)
74
Controversy
259–65 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 1: Viewpoints
75
Conflict
266–73 Activity 2: Party Lines
Activity 3: The Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
76
Crisis
273–78 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 4: Fanning the Fire
77
Chapter 13 Review
78
Chapter 13 Test
Chapter 14: War Between the States (1861–1865)
79
War of Brothers
281–85 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 1: Flag Day!
Activity 2: Who Am I?
80–81
War in the East
286–92 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
82
War in the West
292–98
83
On the Home
Front
Road to
Appomattox
298–303
84
85
86
Chapter 14 Review
Chapter 14 Test
304–09
Horace Mann and Titus 1:15
“Utopia and the Bible”
“Biblical Rights of Women”
Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Section Quiz critical-thinking question
“Deism”
“Edwards’s Grandsons”
“Finney’s Theology”
“Edwards vs. Finney”
Unorthodox religions
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Narcissa Whitman”
“Testimony Does Matter!”
“The Defeated Foe”
“Morality of the Mexican War”
Living as a Christian Citizen
Section Quiz critical-thinking question
“Ignorance and Fear”
“Avenging Angel”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Christ in the Camp”
“Stonewall Jackson: Soldier of the
Cross”
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Activity 3: The Gettysburg Address
Activity 4: Spiritual Emphasis in the
Southern Armies
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Activity 5: Battle Cry!
Activity 6: Chapter Review
“Why the War?”
Living as a Christian Citizen
Chapter 15: Reconstruction (1865–1877)
87
Struggle over
312–16 Activity 1: Johnson’s Proclamation
Reconstruction
of Amnesty and Reconstruction
88
Reconstruction in
316–21 Teacher’s Toolkit CD
the South
Activity 2: Freedmen’s Bureau Act
89
Years of
321–26 Activity 3: Exposé
Corruption
A Reconstructed
327–28 Activity 4: Chapter Review
Nation
91
Chapter 15 Review
92
Chapter 15 Test
Chapter 16: The Gilded Age (1877–1896)
93–94
Industry and
333–41 Activity 1: Andrew Carnegie: “The
Invention
Gospel of Wealth,” 1889
“Love Your Enemies”
“Nothing Is Lost Save Honor”
“What Should Grant Have Done?”
“Corrupt Governments”
90
95
96
97–98
99
Political Reform
and Reaction
Labor, Rural, and
Economic
Issues
Change and
Challenge
341–44
“Servants and Masters”
Activity 3: J. C. Penney’s Business
Principles
Chapter 16 Review
100
Chapter 16 Test
Chapter 17: America Expands (1850–1900)
101–
Western
361–71
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102
Expansion
Activity 1: Farming Fluctuations
103–
Indian Affairs
371–75
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104
105–
International
375–83
Activity 2: McKinley on the U.S.
106
Expansion
Acquisition of the Philippines
Activity 3: Chapter Review
107
Chapter 17 Review
108
Chapter 17 Test
Chapter 18: The Progressive Era (1900–1920)
109
Progressive
386–91
Activity 1: Progressive Terms
Movement
Activity 2: Think About It!
110–
111
Progressive
Politics
392–
401
“The Lord Is Still in Control”
“Good and Bad Influences”
“Carnegie, the Philanthropist”
H.J. Heinz and Christian business
management
Activity 2: Cleveland’s Veto of the
Texas Seed Bill
344–50
351–59
Living as a Christian Citizen
Activity 3: Presidential Programs
“The Flood of Darwinism
“Pursuit of Happiness”
“Moody’s Achilles’ Heel”
Critical Thinking #2
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Limitless Resources?”
“Get-Rich-Quick Schemes”
“God’s Protecting Hand”
th
Missions movement of the 19 century
“Missionaries and Culture”
“My Pressure Gauge!”
Section Quiz critical-thinking question
Living as a Christian Citizen
“True Progress?”
Christians and Reform Darwinism
“Good Heart, Wrong Method”
“Whatever Works Is Right”
“Nature of Man”
“Justice or Law”
112
Progressive
Society
113
Progressivism
408–9
Evaluated
Chapter 18 Review
114
402–8
Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 4: Fundamentalists vs.
Progressives
“The Inevitability of Progress”
“Progressives’ Faulty View of Man”
Making Connections #4, #5
Living as a Christian Citizen
115
Chapter 18 Test
Chapter 19: The Great War (1913–1920)
116
Idealism
413–18
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Activity 1: Wilson’s Call for U.S.
Neutrality
117–
Intervention
418–25
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118
Activity 2: Poster Propaganda
Activity 3: Loss of Freedom, Growth
of Government
119
Isolation
425–28
Activity 4: What’s the Question?
120
Chapter 19 Review
121
Chapter 19 Test
Chapter 20: The Twenties (1920-1929)
122
Normalcy and
433–40
Shortsightedness
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Activity 1: Cartoon Capers
Activity 2: Who’s Who?
Activity 3: The Philosophy of
Rugged Individualism
123–
124
Culture Wars
440–48
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Activity 4: Positive or Negative
Influence?
125
From Roar to Ruin
448–53
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Activity 5: Chapter Review
126
Chapter 20 Review
127
Chapter 20 Test
Chapter 21: The Thirties (1929-1939)
128–
Hoover Gets the
456–64
129
Blame
130–
FDR and the New 464–73
131
Deal
132
Worst of Times,
473–79
Best of Times
133
134
Chapter 21 Review
Chapter 21 Test
“God Gave Them to Me”
“Secular Humanism”
“One Made a Difference”
“Voices of Truth”
“Purpose of Bible Conferences”
“Moral Leadership”
“Idealism Is Going to Change the
World”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Normalcy”
“The Failure of Peace and the Cause of
War”
“Effects of Friends”
“A Man of Few Words”
Section Quiz critical-thinking question
“Morality Legislation Debate”
“Fundamentalist vs. Modernist”
“Positive Results
“Bryan: ‘He Kept the Faith’”
Section Quiz critical-thinking question
Living as a Christian Citizen
Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 1: Hoover’s Three Blunders
Activity 2: The NRA and How It
Operated
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Activity 3: How the AAA “Helped”
Farmers
Activity 4: Long-Term
Consequences of the New Deal
Activity 5: Chapter Review
“Government, Not God”
“Escaping One’s Cares”
Living as a Christian Citizen
Chapter 22: The World at War (1939–1945)
135–
A Time of Tyrants
482–89
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136
Activity 1: A Time of Tyrants
137
Isolation and
489–97
Activity 2: FDR’s Request for
Infamy
Declaration of War Against
Japan
138–
The Fight for
497–
Activity 3: Map Study: The
139
Fortress Europe
500
European Theater
140–
The War in the
500–8
Activity 4: Map Study: The Pacific
141
Pacific
Theater
Activity 5: Who, What, When,
Where
142
Chapter 22 Review
143
Chapter 22 Test
Chapter 23: The Postwar Era (1945–1963)
144–
Cold War
513–20
Activity 1: Map Study: The Korean
145
War
Activity 2: To Win or Not to Win
146
Domestic Reform
520–26
Activity 3: Eisenhower’s Farewell
Address to the Nation
Activity 4: Brown v. Board of
147
Life in Postwar
526–32
Education of Topeka, Kansas
America
Activity 5: Chapter Review
148
Chapter 23 Review
149
Chapter 23 Test
Chapter 24: The Shattered Society (1963–1973)
150–
Johnson and the
535–41
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151
Great Society
Activity 1: Lyndon Johnson
Proposes the “Great Society”
Activity 2: The Johnson Years—
Salving Society’s Ills
Activity 3: Map Study: War in
Vietnam
152
Upheaval
541–44
Activity 4: “What the Sixties
Wrought”
153
154
1968
544–47
“Preserve the Peace”
“Divine Intervention”
“A False Sense of Security”
“Kamikaze!”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“The UN”
“Owe No Man Anything”
“Postwar Families”
“Civil Disobedience”
“Ecumenical Movement”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Chaos”
“Helping the Poor and Needy”
“Promises, Promises”
“Christian Vietnam Veteran”
“Knowledge Without Wisdom”
“Genuine Love”
Ungodliness of Counterculture
Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 5: LBJ’s Decision Not to
Run for Reelection, 1968
Activity 6: Nixon Comments on His
Historic Trip to China
Nixon and the
547–52
Silent Majority
155
Chapter 24 Review
156
Chapter 24 Test
Chapter 25: A Nation Adrift (1973–1980)
157
The Embattled
555–57
Activity 1: Some Personal
Presidency
Observations on Watergate
158
Domestic
558–63
Activity 2: President Ford’s Call to
Difficulties
“WIN”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“A Good Name”
“Environmental Concerns”
The Christian and homosexual rights
“One Can Make a Difference”
159
The Ineffectual
563–66
Presidency
160
The Rising
567–70
Conservative
Tide
161
Chapter 25 Review
162
Chapter 25 Test
Chapter 26: Resurgence (1981–1992)
163–
The Reagan
573–83
164
Revolution
165
The Bush
Presidency
583–89
Activity 3: Three Men and the
Presidency
Activity 4: A Decade of Political
Disaster
Election of 2000
171–
172
The Bush
Administration
173
174
Election of 2008
The Obama
Administration
175
176
Chapter 27 Review
Chapter 27 Test
“The Political Christian”
Living as a Christian Citizen
Teacher’s Toolkit CD
Activity 1: Reagan: The First Four
Years
Activity 2: Map Study: The Reagan
Doctrine in Central America and
the Caribbean
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Activity 3: Presidential Address on
the Gulf War
Activity 4: Map Study: Operation
Desert Storm
Activity 5: Chapter Review
166
Chapter 26 Review
167
Chapter 26 Test
Chapter 27: New Challenges (1993–2010)
168–
The Clinton
592–99
Activity 1: Opposition and Support
169
Administration
170
“Human Rights”
599–
602
602–7
Activity 2: Q & A: Clinton’s
Presidency
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Activity 3: Clinton’s Foreign Policy
607–8
609-10
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Activity 4: George W. Bush’s
Inaugural Address
Activity 5: Barack Obama’s
Inaugural Address
“A Biblical View”
“Becoming Capitalistic”
“Campaign Strategy”
“No New Taxes”
Living as a Christian Citizen
“Leadership Expectations”
“Root Problem”
“Talk Radio”
“Christian Foundations”
“Private vs. Public Life”
“Political Involvement”
“Personal Faith Expressed Publicly in
the White House”
Living as a Christian Citizen