United States History, 3rd ed. Lesson Plan Overview © BJU Press
United States History, 3rd Edition
Lesson Plan Overview
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Chapter 1: Winds and Wilderness
1
Discovery and
3–9
Rediscovery
2–3
In the Wilderness
4
5
Chapter 1 Review
Chapter 1 Test
9–16
Chapter 2: Thirteen Colonies
6
New England
19–27
7
8
Middle Colonies
Southern
Colonies
28–30
30–35
9
The Emerging
American
Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 2 Test
35
10
11
Chapter 3: Colonial Life
12
The Rhythms of
Life
13
At Home
Support Materials
Bible Integration
Activity 1: Think About
It!
Activity 2: Map Study:
Explorations of the
New World
Activity 3: Read and
Heed
Activity 4: Who Am I?
Activity 5: The New
World
Activity 6: What Comes
Next?
Authority of Scripture and priesthood of
believers
“Martin Luther’s Spiritual Struggle”
“Menno Simons”
Activity 1: Providence
Praised
Activity 2: Mayflower
Compact Impact
Tyndale’s translation in England
“Christians and Business”
John Smith and 2 Thessalonians 3:10
Activity 3: Map Study:
Settlement of the
Colonies
Activity 4: Choices,
Choices
Activity 5: Colonial
Order
47–52
52–54
14
At Work
55–58
15
At Play
59–61
16
17
Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 3 Test
Activity 1: Who and
What
Activity 2: The Servant
and the Slave
Activity 3: False Alarms
Activity 4: Crossword
Puzzle
Chapter 4: Religion in the American Colonies
“Application Questions” #2
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Day(s)
18–19
Topic
Pages
Denominational
Beginnings in
America
63–71
20
Colonial Worship
72–74
21
22–23
Indian Missions
The Great
Awakening
Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 4 Test
75–76
77–82
24
25
Support Materials
Activity 1: Map Study:
Religion in the
Colonies
Activity 2: Early
Denominations and
Their Leaders
Activity 3: Colonial
Sunday
“Colonial Missions”
Activity 4: What Is
Missing?
Chapter 5: The Rising Storm (1689–1770)
26
Frontier Feuds
87–91
27
The French and
Indian War
92–96
28
The Growing Rift
96–102
29
30
Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 5 Test
Chapter 6: Independence (1770–1783)
31
The Eve of War
105–11
32
Declaring
Independence
112–15
33–34
Early Campaigns
115–23
35
War in the South
124–29
36
37
Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 6 Test
Bible Integration
“Outward Morality”
“John 8:36” and true freedom
(introduction to Unit II)
Activity 1: French and
Indian Questions
Activity 2: Map Study:
French and Indian
Wars
Activity 3: Ordering
Activity 4: Crossword
Puzzle
Activity 1: Explosive
Events
“The Heart”
“Secular or Sacred?”
“The Founding Fathers and Religion”
“Biblical Perspectives on Revolution”
“Common Sense” (comparing Paine’s
arguments with biblical principles)
Activity 2: Conflict
Conclusions
Activity 3: Map Study:
The Revolution
Activity 4: Military
Melee
Activity 5: Treaty of
Paris, 1783
“Traitors” and Prov. 24:19–20
Chapter 7: The Critical Period (1781–1789)
38–39
Government by
133–41
Activity 1: Map Study:
Confederation
Northwest Territory
40
A New Charter
141–46
Activity 2: Separate
Powers
“The Fighting Quaker” (what the Bible
has to say about war)
Constitutional principles
“Seeking God’s Help”
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Topic
41
The Struggle for
Ratification
42
43
Chapter 7 Review
Chapter 7 Test
Pages
146–50
Support Materials
Activity 3: Who Am I?
Activity 4: What’s the
Question?
“Content Questions” #5
Chapter 8: The Federalist Years (1789–1801)
44
Launching the
153–57
Activity 1: Cabinet
New
Confusion
Government
45
Emerging
158–62
Political Parties
46
Declining
162–66
Activity 2: The Second
Federalist
President of the United
Influence
States
Activity 3: False
Impressions
Activity 4: Early Political
Parties
47
Chapter 8 Review
48
Chapter 8 Test
Chapter 9: The Jeffersonian Era (1801–1825)
49
“The Revolution
171–75
of 1800”
50
Jefferson’s
Triumphs
Abroad
175–78
51
Indians and the
Northwest
Territory
The War of 1812
179–83
52
53
54
55
“The Era of Good
Feelings”
Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 9 Test
Bible Integration
“The Constitution—Religious or
Secular?”
183–88
Activity 1: Explore It
Further
Activity 2: Map Study:
Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Activity 3: Questions
and Profiles
Activity 4: Map Study:
The War of 1812
Activity 5: The Capitol
Gazette
Activity 6: Headlines!
189–90
Chapter 10: The Age of Jackson (1820–1840)
56
Crosscurrents
193–99
Activity 1: Map Study:
The Missouri
Compromise
57
The Jackson
199–207
Years
Mrs. Washington’s quote and Phil. 4:11
“Rising Above Hardship”
“Servant/Leader”
“Exodus 20:17” (Introduction to Unit III)
“Thomas Jefferson’s Religious Views”
“I Am a Real Christian”
“Politicians and the Bible”
“Jefferson’s View of Christ”
God’s hand in the Louisiana Purchase
Aaron Burr and Prov. 26:27
“War Plans” and the Lord’s direction
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Topic
58
Party Politics
59
60
Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 10 Test
Pages
207–10
Support Materials
Chapter 11: The Growth of American Society (1789–1861)
61–62
American
213–23
Activity 1: Map Study:
Technology
The Growth of
Transportation
Activity 2: Think About
It!
63
American Culture 224–31
Activity 3: Who Am I?
64
American
Religion
65
66
Chapter 11 Review
Chapter 11 Test
232–38
Activity 4: Reform and
Religion
Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny (1840–1848)
67
Across the Wide
241–47
Activity 1:
Missouri
Remembering the
Alamo!
68
Politics and
248–50
Protocol
69
War with Mexico
250–56
Activity 2: From Sea to
Shining Sea
Activity 3: MexicanAmerican Relations
Activity 4: Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo,
1848
Activity 5: Map Study:
Manifest Destiny
70
Chapter 12 Review
71
Chapter 12 Test
Chapter 13: A House Dividing (1848–1861)
72
Controversy
261–69
Activity 1: Viewpoint
73
Conflict
269–77
Activity 2: Party Lines
74
Crisis
278–82
Bible Integration
Activity 2: Time Travels
Activity 3: Presidential
Powers
Activity 4: Crossword
Puzzle
Activity 3: Fanning the
Fire
Activity 4: Crossword
Puzzle
“Menstealers”
“Sin’s Consequences”
“Slavery”
“Samuel F. B. Morse” and Christian
friendships
“Moral Education”
“Noah Webster” and II Tim. 4:7
Horace Mann and Titus 1:15
“Biblical Rights of Women”
“Utopia and the Bible”
“Deism” compared and contrasted with
Scripture
“Edwards’s Grandsons”
“Finney’s Theology”
“Edwards vs. Finney”
“Unorthodox Religion”
“Application Questions” #4
“Testimony Does Matter!”
“The Spaldings and the Whitmans”
“Morality of the Mexican War”
“The Defeated Foe”
“Application Questions” #1
“Chapter Motivation” (Prov. 13:10)
“Ignorance and Fear”
“Avenging Angel”
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Topic
75
76
Chapter 13 Review
Chapter 13 Test
Pages
Support Materials
Chapter 14: War Between the States (1861–1865)
77
War of Brothers
285–90
Activity 1: Flag Day!
Activity 2: Who Am I?
78–79
War in the East
291–97
80
War in the West
298–304
81
On the Home
304–8
Activity 3: Change in
Front
Southern Lifestyle
82
Road to
309–15
Activity 4: Battle Cry!
Appomattox
Activity 5: Terms of
Surrender
83
Chapter 14 Review
84
Chapter 14 Test
Chapter 15: Reconstruction (1865–1877)
85
Struggle over
331–36
Activity 1: Presidential
Reconstruction
Assassinations
Activity 2: Checking Up
on Reconstruction
86
Reconstruction in 336–41
the South
87
Reconstruction in 341–47
Activity 3: Jests and
the North
Jabs
Activity 4: Exposé
Activity 5: Presidential
Insights
88
A Reconstructed
347–48
Nation
89
Chapter 15 Review
90
Chapter 15 Test
Chapter 16: The Gilded Age (1877–1896)
91–92
Industry and
353–60
Activity 1: Building a
Invention
Monopoly
Activity 2: Men Who
Made a Difference
93
94–95
96
97
Reform and
Reaction
Change and
Challenge
360–68
368–78
Activity 3: Charting
America’s Growth
Activity 4: The Gilded
Age
Chapter 16 Review
Chapter 16 Test
Chapter 17: America Expands (1850–1900)
Bible Integration
“People of Prayer”
“Why the War?”
“Application Questions” #2
“Chapter Motivation” (reconciliation)
“Love Your Enemies“
“Nothing Is Lost Save Honor”
“What Should Grant Have Done?”
“Corrupt Governments”
“Romans 3:10–12” and Progressivism
(Introduction to Unit V)
“The Lord Is Still in Control”
“Good and Bad Influences”
“Who Is ‘the Fittest’?”
“H. J. Heinz” and Christian business
management
“Servants and Masters”
“The Flood of Darwinism”
“Social Gospel”
“Pursuit of Happiness”
Lk. 12:15 and “Acres of Diamonds”
“Application Questions” #4
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Day(s)
Topic
Pages
98–99
Western
Expansion
381–93
100–101
International
Expansion
393–401
102
103
Support Materials
Activity 1: Map Study:
Routes and Riches
Activity 2: Farming
Fluctuations
Activity 3: Agricultural
Assimilation
Activity 4: Cartoon
Comments
Activity 5: Time Tells All
“God’s Protecting Hand”
“Missionaries and Culture”
“My Pressure Gauge!”
Chapter 17 Review
Chapter 17 Test
Chapter 18: The Progressive Era (1900–1920)
104
Progressive
417–22
Activity 1: Progressive
Movement
Terms
Activity 2: Think About
It!
105–106
Progressive
Politics
423–32
107
Progressive
Society
432–39
108
109
Progressivism
439–42
Evaluated
Chapter 18 Review
110
Chapter 18 Test
Activity 3: Cryptograms
Activity 4: Map Study:
Roosevelt Corollary
Activity 5: Presidential
Programs
Activity 6:
Fundamentalists vs.
Progressives
Chapter 19: The Great War (1913–1920)
111
Idealism
445–51
112–113
Bible Integration
“Limitless Resources?”
“Get-Rich-Quick Schemes”
“Cultural Awareness”
Intervention
452–59
114
Isolation
460–62
115
116
Chapter 19 Review
Chapter 19 Test
Chapter 20: The Twenties (1920-1929)
Activity 1: Diary of a
Soldier
Activity 2:Postwar
Propaganda
Activity 3: Map Study:
The World at War
Activity 4: Weapons of
War
Activity 5: What’s the
Question?
“True Progress?”
Christians and reform Darwinism
“Good Heart, Wrong Method”
“Whatever Works Is Right”
“Reliance on Government”
“Nature of Man”
“God Gave Them to Me”
Modernists and the social gospel
“One Made a Difference”
“Progressivism Evaluated”
“The Inevitability of Progress”
“Content Questions” #10
“Application Questions” #3
“Moral Leadership”
“No Lies”
“Biblical View of the Home”
“Idealism Is Going to Change the
World”
“Application Questions” #3
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Day(s)
Support Materials
Bible Integration
Normalcy and
Naiveté
467–73
Activity 1: Cartoon
Capers
Activity 2: Who’s Who?
The Mind of the
Twenties
473–82
Activity 3: Positive or
Negative Influence?
Impossibility of satisfaction outside
Jesus
God’s control of history
“Jer. 17:5” and the prosperous twenties
(introduction to Unit VI)
“Normalcy” and Ps. 34:4
Source of war
“Effects of Friends”
“Silent Cal” and Prov. 25:11
“Decline in Morals”
“Morality Legislation Debate”
“Fundamentalist vs. Modernist”
“Positive Results”
“William Jennings Bryan: ‘He Kept the
Faith’”
120
From Roar to
Ruin
482–86
Activity 4: Scripture
Search
Activity 5: Make It
Right!
Activity 6: Twenties
Tangle
121
122
Chapter 20 Review
Chapter 20 Test
117
118–119
Topic
Pages
Chapter 21: The Thirties (1929-1939)
123–124 Hoover Gets the
489–95
Blame
125–126 FDR and the
495–502
New Deal
127
Worst of Times,
502–8
Best of Times
128
129
“Application Questions” #3
Activity 1: Deep
Depression
Activity 2: The ABCs of
Economic Recovery
Activity 3: Dust Bowl
Disaster
Activity 4: Forget Your
Troubles
“Government, Not God”
“Escaping One’s Cares” and I Pet. 5:7
Chapter 21 Review
Chapter 21 Test
Chapter 22: The World at War (1939–1945)
130–131 A Time of Tyrants 511–16
Activity 1: A Time of
Tyrants
132
Isolation and
517–23
Infamy
133–134 Fight for Fortress 524–27
Activity 2: Map Study:
Europe
The European Theater
135–136 War in the Pacific 527–34
Activity 3: Map Study:
The Pacific Theater
Activity 4: Who, What,
When, Where
137
Chapter 22 Review
138
Chapter 22 Test
Chapter 23: The Postwar Era (1945–1963)
“Preserve the Peace”
“Divine Intervention”
“A False Sense of Security”
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Day(s)
139–140
Topic
Pages
Cold War
539–47
141
142
Domestic Reform
Life in Postwar
America
547–54
555–60
143
144
Chapter 23 Review
Chapter 23 Test
Support Materials
“Revelation 2:5” and the challenge to
America (introduction to Unit 7)
“The UN”
“Peace on Earth”
Activity 3: Advertising
Anomalies
Activity 4: “Red and
Yellow, Black and
White”
Activity 5: Postwar
Events
Activity 6: Who Am I?
“Owe No Man Anything”
“Postwar Families”
“Civil Disobedience”
“Ecumenical Movement”
“Application Questions” #3
Chapter 24: The Shattered Society (1963–1973)
145–146 Johnson and the
563–71
Activity 1: The Johnson
Great Society
Years—Salving
Society’s Ills
Activity 2: Map Study:
War in Vietnam
147
Upheaval
572–76
Activity 3: The Bible as
a Guidebook
148
149
150
151
1968
577–79
Nixon and the
580–84
Silent Majority
Chapter 24 Review
Chapter 24 Test
Chapter 25: A Nation Adrift (1973–1980)
152
The Embattled
599–602
Presidency
153
Domestic
602–6
Difficulties
154
155
The Ineffectual
Presidency
The Rising
Conservative
Tide
156
157
Chapter 25 Review
Chapter 25 Test
Bible Integration
Activity 1: To Win or
Not to Win
Activity 2: Map Study:
The Korean War
606–11
611–16
Chapter 26: Resurgence (1981–1992)
“Chaos”
“Civil Rights”
“Helping the Poor and Needy”
“Promises, Promises”
“Christian Vietnam Veteran”
“Knowledge Without Wisdom”
“Captured Youth”
“Counterculture Creeds”
“Genuine Love”
Ungodliness of counterculture
“Application Questions” #2
“A Good Name”
Activity 1: A Woman’s
Place
Activity 2: Three Men
and the Presidency
Activity 3: The Christian
and Politics
Activity 4: A Decade of
Political Disaster
“Environmental Concerns” and
stewardship
“One Can Make a Difference”
“Human Rights”
“The Political Christian”
“Lest He Fall”
“Rules for Tongues Speaking”
“Application Questions” #3
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Day(s)
Topic
Pages
158–159
The Reagan
Revolution
619–31
160
The Bush
Presidency
632–38
161
162
Chapter 26 Review
Chapter 26 Test
Support Materials
Activity 1: Map Study:
The Reagan Doctrine
in Central America and
the Caribbean
Activity 2: The First
Four Years
Activity 3: This or That
Activity 4: Map Study:
Operation Desert
Storm
Activity 5: The Gulf War
Presidential Address
Chapter 27: New Challenges (1993–2000)
163
Early Stumbles
641–44
Activity 1: Opposition
and Support
164
“The Comeback
Kid”
The Second
Term
645–47
166
Election of 2000
652–54
167
168
Chapter 27 Review
Chapter 27 Test
165
647–52
Activity 2: Questions
and Answers
Activity 3: Dayton
Accords
Activity 4: Clinton
Foreign Policy
Activity 5: What Do You
Remember?
Activity 6: 2001
Inaugural Address
Bible Integration
“A Biblical View” of leadership
“Becoming Capitalistic”
“Campaign Strategy”
“Leadership Expectations”
“Root Problem”
“Talk Radio” and Col. 4:6
“Normalizing Sin”
“The Gay Rights Movement”
Wise Christian use of the Internet
“Columbine”
“Private vs. Public Life”
“Political Involvement”
Definition of greatness (in Epilogue)
Believers’ sure destiny (in Epilogue)