What we Cover

Unit 1—Early American History

·         Chapter 1—Beginnings of America

1.       The First Americans

2.       Exploration

3.       Colonization

·         Chapter 2—Forming a New Nation

1.       Revolution

2.       Government and Growth

·         Chapter 3—Developing a National Identity

1.       Sectionalism

2.       Reform

3.       Expansion

·         Chapter 4—The Union in Crisis

1.       Issues Divide the Nation

2.       The Civil War

3.       Reconstruction

Unit 2—Becoming a World Power

·         Chapter 5—Industrialism

1.       The American West

2.       Industrial Revolution

3.       American Life by 1900

·         Chapter 6—The Progressives

1.       Progressive Movement

2.       Women’s Movement

3.       Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal

4.       Taft and Wilson

·         Chapters 7-8—World Power and World War

1.       Imperialism and the Spanish-American War

2.       Theodore Roosevelt and “Big Stick Diplomacy”

3.       Events of World War I

4.       Impacts of World War I

Unit 3—Modernizing America

·         Chapters 9-10—Post WWI Prosperity and Culture

1.       Postwar Ideology

2.       Economic Boom and Corruption

3.       Cultural Changes of the 1920’s

·         Chapters 11-12—The Great Depression and the New Deal

1.       Causes of the Great Depression

2.       Impacts and Politics of the Great Depression

3.       Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal