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FIRST QUARTER

  • ORIENTATION AND HISTORIOGRAPHY - 2 Classes
  • COLONIAL BEGINNINGS, 1492-1770 - 5 Classes

1. “New World Beginnings, 33,000 BCE - 1769 CE"
2. “The Planting of English America, 1500-1733"
3. “Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700"
4. “American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692"
5. “Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775" 

  • AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1754-1783 - 4 Classes

6. “The Duel for North America, 1608-1763"
7. “The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775"
8. “America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783" 

  • THE INFANT REPUBLIC, 1776-1824 - 5 Classes

9. “The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790"
10. “Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800"
11. “The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812"
12. “The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824"

  • THE RISE OF AMERICA, 1800-1844 - 6 Classes

13. “The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840"
14. “Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860"
15. “The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860"
16. “The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860"
17. “Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848"

SECOND QUARTER

  • EMERGING DISUNION AND CIVIL WAR, 1845-1865 - 4 Classes

18. “Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854"
19. “Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861"
20. “Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865"
21. “The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865"

  • RECONSTRUCTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WEST AND SOUTH, 1865-1892 - 4 Classes

22. “The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877"
23. “Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896"
26. “The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896"

  • INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION, 1877-1920 - 4 Classes

24. “Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900"
25. “America Moves to the City, 1865-1900"

  • POLITICS: THE GILDED AGE TO THE PROGRESSIVES, 1877-1920 - 4 Classes

23. “Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896"
26. “The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896"
28. “Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912"
29. “Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916"

  • AMERICA COMES OF AGE, 1865-1920 - 4 Classes

27. “Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909"
30. “The War to End War, 1917-1918"

THIRD QUARTER

  • BOOM AND BUST, 1920-1941 - 5 Classes

31. “American Life in the “Roaring Twenties, 1919-1932”
32. “The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932"
33. “The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939"

  • DIPLOMACY AND WAR, 1920-1945 - 5 Classes

34. “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941"
35. “America in World War II, 1941-1945"

  • TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER, 1943-1960 - 4 Classes

36. “The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952"
37. “The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1969"

  • CAMELOT TO CARTER, 1961-1980 - 4 Classes

38. “The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968"
39. “The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980" 

  • REAGAN AND THE MARCH TO THE PRESENT, 1981-Present - 6 Classes

40. “The Resurgence of Conservativism, 1980-1992"
41. “America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era”
42. “The American People Face a New Century”

FOURTH QUARTER

  • REVIEW FOR AP EXAMINATION
  • ORAL HISTORY/CONTEMPORARY ISSUES PROJECT

 

 

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