1st Semester

Unit 1: Colonial America, (Ch. 1-5)
A. Discovery and Settlement of the New World
B. America and the British Empire
C. Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Unit 2: American Revolution and Independance, (Ch. 6-8)
A. Colonial Wars
B. Road to Revolution
C. The American Revolution
Unit 3: Forging a New Nation, (Ch. 9- begin 12)
A. The Constitution and New Republic
B. The Age of Jefferson
C. The Growth of Nationalism
Unit 6: Civil War and Reconstruction, (Ch. 18-22)
A. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis
B. The 1850's: Decade of Crisis
C. Civil War
D. Reconstruction to 1877
2nd Semester

Unit 7: Gilded Age and Populist Reform, (Ch 23-26)
A. New South and the Last West
B. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
C. Urban Society
D. Intellectual and Cultural Movments
E. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age
Unit 8: Expansion and Reform, (Ch. 27-29)
A. Imperialism
B. Modern American Foreign Policy
C. Progressivism
Unit 10: America is Challenged, (Ch. 34-36)
A. The Great Depression and The New Deal
B. Diplomacy in the 1930's
C. The Second World War
Unit 11: The Cold War and Beyond, (Ch. 37-42)
A. Truman and the Cold War
B. Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
C. The Stormy Sixties
D. Stalemate in the Seventies
E. Resurgence of Conservativeism: 1980s
Unit 4: Jacksonian America, (Ch. 12-13 & 17)
A. War of 1812 and Era of Good Feelings
B. Age of Jackson
C. Manifest Destiny
Unit 5: Market Revolution, Reform, & Slavery (Ch. 14-16)
A. National Economic Expansion
B. Reform
C. Creation of American Culture
D. Slavery and The South
Unit 9: The Beginning of Modern America, (Ch. 30-33)
A. World War I
B. The Roaring Twenties
C. The Politics of Boom and Bust