1st Quarter

• Rules and procedures
• Community building
• Why study history?
• Personal Timeline

• U.S. Political and Physical map project
• Early explorers
• Eight (8) cultural regions of Native Americans
• European Colonization

• First English Colonies
• 13 Colonies Map
• Colonial Regions
• Colonial life and government
• The Triangular Trade
• The Middle Passage

2nd Quarter

• French/ Indian War
• Independence Simulation
• Acts and events leading up to the Revolutionary War
• 2nd Continental Congress Debate
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Revolutionary War

• The Articles of Confederation
• The Roots of Democracy
• The Constitutional Convention
• The Constitution
• The Bill of Rights

• Beginning of political parties
• Jefferson and Hamilton
• Foreign policy and the 1st 5 presidents

3rd Quarter

• The 1st 3 presidents
• The Louisiana Purchase
• Lewis and Clark
• The War of 1812
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Jacksonian Democracy
• The Trail of Tears
• U.S. Land Acquisition Map
• Texas Independence
• Mexican/ American War
• Mexicano Contribution to America
• Life of the Trail
• The California Gold Rush
• Native Americans and the Closing of the Frontier

• Slave life and culture
• African Contributions to America
• Abolitionism and the Reform Movements

4th Quarter

• Geographic and economic differences between the North and the South
• Events and issues leading up to the Civil War
• The Civil War
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction

• The Industrial Revolution
• Inventions
• An Age of Big Business
• Industrial Workers and Unions
• American Immigration