Honors American History, Dual Enrollment Pacing Guide
First Nine Weeks
Unit 1: The Emergence of Modern America
Moving West (August 7- August 22)
Mrs. M. Mann
The New South & The New West
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, Chapter 26 (Kennedy & Cohen)
Son of the Morning Star (Hyde & Sanders)
Native Americans
Populism
TEST #1 - Tuesday, August 26
Industry & Labor (August 25- September 9)
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, Chapter 23
Industry Comes of Age, Chapter 24
Industrialists
The Gilded Age
Political Machines
Labor Unions
TEST #2 - Tuesday, September 9
Immigration, Urbanization & Early Reform (September 10- September 24)
Old v. New Immigration
America Moves to the City, Chapter 25
Progressivism & the Republican Roosevelt, Chapter 28
Progressivism
New Year’s Day, 1907 (Hyde & Sanders)
DE QUIZ #1 (Chapters 23-25)
TEST #3 - Wednesday, September 24
Imperialism - WWI (September 25- October 10)
Spanish American War
Empire & Expansion, Chapter 27
Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, Chapter 29
International Causes of WWI
DE QUIZ #2 (Chapters 26-29)
First Nine Weeks EXAM (October 6-10)
DE EXAM on Unit 1
Second Nine Weeks
Unit Two: World Wars and the New Deal (1917-1945)
The Great War (October 13- October 21)
The War to End War, Chapter 30
Molly Maguires, (Hyde & Sanders)
TEST #4- Tuesday, October 21
The Roaring Twenties: Economic Boom & Crash (October 22- October 31)
American Life in the Roaring Twenties, Chapter 31
The Roaring Twenties, (Hyde & Sanders)
The Politics of Boom & Bust, Chapter 32
DE QUIZ #3 (Chapters 30-32)
The Great Depression & New Deal (November 3- November 13)
Hoover & the Great Depression
The Great Depression & New Deal, Chapter 33
TEST #5- Thursday, November 13
World War Two (November 14- December 19)
FDR & the Shadow of War, Chapter 34
America in WWII, Chapter 35
First Battles-Pearl Harbor
The Home Front
Pearl Harbor – Victory
DE QUIZ #4 (Chapters 33-35)
TEST #6- Friday, December 12
First Semester EXAM (December 16-19)
DE EXAM on Unit Two