September
Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet
 North American
Societies Around the
15 th Century

Assessment
Chapter 2: The American
Colonies Emerge
 Spain’s Empire in the
Americas
February
Chapter 7: Balancing
Nationalism & Sectionalism
 Regional Economies
 Nationalism (The Era of Good Feeling)
 The Age of Jackson
 States’ Rights
 Assessment
Chapter 8: Reforming American
Society
 Religious Reform
 Slavery and Abolition
 Women & Reform

Workplace Reform
 Assessment
October
Chapter 2: The American
Colonies Emerge (con’t)

English Settlement at
Jamestown


Puritan New England
Settlement of the
Middle & Southern

Colonies
1 st Quarter Writing
Prompt

Assessment
Chapter 3: The Colonies Come of
Age
 England and it’s
Colonies
 Agricultural South
 Commercial North
 French & Indian War
 Assessment: Learning
Menu
March
*Standardized State Testing*
Chapter 9: Era of Expansion
 Market Revolution
 Manifest Destiny

Expansion in Texas

The War with Mexico
 3 rd Quarter Writing
Prompt

Assessment: Learning
Contract
November
Chapter 4: War for
Independence

The Stirrings of
Rebellion

Ideas Help Start a
Revolution
 Declaration of
Independence

American Revolution
 Assessment: Quarterly

Exam 1
2 nd Quarter Writing
Prompt
April
Chapter 10: The Union in Peril

Politics of Slavery

Protest & Violence
 Birth of the Republican
Party

Slavery & Secession
(Dred Scott Case)
 Assessment: Research
Paper
 3 rd Quarter
Examination
Chapter 11: The Civil War
 Attack at Ft. Sumter
*Spring Break*
December
Chapter 5: Shaping a New
Nation

Articles of
Confederation


The U.S. Constitution
Assessment
Chapter 6: Launching the New
Nation
 Washington as
President
 Assessment: Quiz
May
Chapter 11: The Union in Peril
(con’t)
 Politics of War
 Social Life During War
Time
 North Takes Over
 Legacy of the Civil War
 4 th Quarter Writing
Prompt
 Assessment
Chapter 12: The Era of
Reconstruction

Politics of
Reconstruction
January
Chapter 6: Launching the New
Nation (con’t)

Foreign Affairs of
Washington/ Adams

Jefferson and the
Louisiana Purchase
 The War of 1812
 Assessment: Mid-Term
Examination
June
Chapter 12: The Era of
Reconstruction (con’t)
 Reconstructing Society
 Collapse of
Reconstruction
 Legacy of
Reconstruction
Final Exam Preparation

Assessment: Final
Examination