Course+Overview

=Course Overview=

Course Calendar : Semester One (All dates are estimates) Unit One: Trans-Atlantic Encounters, Colonial History & Road to Independence Aug 18 ~ Sept 10 Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Chapter 2: The Planting of English America Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution Chapter 6: The Duel for North America Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire

Unit Two: Post-Independence, the Critical Period and the Growth of Nationalism Sept 17 – Oct 22 (10th Grade students will be responsible for all assignments missed due to China Alive) Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State October Holiday October 1 - 11 Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the upsurge of Nationalism

Unit Three The Age of Jackson, Antebellum America, Territorial Expansion Oct 26 – Nov 22 Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle

Unit Four Civil War and Reconstruction Nov. 26 - Dec. 10 Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War Finals: December 11– December 18; Winter Break:

Semester Two Unit Five Rise of Industry and Labor Jan 10 – Jan 28 Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age Chapter 25: America Moves to the City Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

Unit Six Populists, Progressives, Imperialism, WWI, 1920’s, 1930’s Feb 10- Mar 18 Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad Chapter 30: The War to End War Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal Spring Break March 19 - 28

Unit Seven World War II, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s Mar 29- May4 Chapter 34: FDR and the Shadow of War Chapter 35: America in World War II Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism