Unit 1 - Interactions North America, 1491-1607
1.1 Context: European Encounters in the Americas
1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact
1.3 European Exploration in the Americas
1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
1.6 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
1.7 Causation in Period 1
Unit 2 – Colonial Society, 1607-1754
2.1 Context: European Colonization
2.2 European Colonization
2.3 The Regions of the British Colonies
2.4 Transatlantic Trade
2.5 Interactions between Native Americans and Europeans
2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies
2.7 Colonial Society and Culture
2.8 Comparison in Period 2
Unit 3 – Conflict & American Independence, 1754-1800
3.1 Context: the Revolutionary Period
3.2 The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War)
3.3 Taxation without Representation
3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
3.5 The American Revolution
3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
3.7 The Articles of Confederation
3.8 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification
3.9 The Constitution
3.10 Shaping a New Republic
3.11 Developing an American Identity
3.12 Movement in the Early Republic
3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3
Unit 4 – American Expansion, 1800-1848
4.1 Context of Early American Democracy
4.2 The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
4.3 Politics and Regional Interests
4.4 America on the World Stage
4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization
4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture
4.7 Expanding Democracy
4.8 Jackson and Federal Power
4.9 The Development of an American Culture
4.10 The Second Great Awakening
4.11 An Age of Reform
4.12 African Americans in the Early Republic
4.13 The Society of the South in the Early Republic
4.14 Causation in Period 4
Unit 5 – Civil War & Reconstruction, 1848-1877
5.1 Contextualizing Period 5
5.2 Manifest Destiny
5.3 The Mexican–American War
5.4 The Compromise of 1850
5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
5.6 Failure of Compromise
5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession
5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War
5.9 Government Policies during the Civil War
5.10 Reconstruction
5.11 Failure of Reconstruction
5.12 Comparison in Period 5, 1844-1877
Unit 6 – Industrialization & the Gilded Age, 1865-1898
6.1 Context of Industrialization and the Gilded Age
6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development
6.3 Westward Expansion Social and Cultural Development
6.4 The "New South"
6.5 Technological Innovation
6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age
6.8 Immigration and Migration
6.9 Responses to Immigration
6.10 Development of the Middle Class
6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age
6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government
6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age
6.14 Continuity and Change in Period 6
Unit 7 – Conflict in the Early 20th Century, 1890-1945
7.1 Context: America in the World
7.2 Imperialism: Debates
7.3 The Spanish-American War
7.3 The Spanish-American War
7.4 The Progressives
7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy
7.6 World War I: Home Front
7.7 1920s: Innovations
7.8 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies
7.9 The Great Depression
7.10 The New Deal
7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy
7.12 World War II: Mobilization
7.13 World War II: Military
7.14 Postwar Diplomacy
7.15 Comparison in Period 7
Unit 8 – The Postwar Period & Cold War, 1945-1980
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8.1 Context: U.S. as a Global Leader
8.2 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
8.3 The Red Scare
8.4 Economy after 1945
8.5 Culture after 1945
8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
8.7 America as a World Power
8.8 The Vietnam War
8.9 The Great Society
8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
8.11 The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
8.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s
8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources
8.14 Society in Transition
8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8
Unit 9 – Entering Into the 21st Century, 1980-Present
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9.1 Context: Present Day America
9.2 Reagan and Conservatism
9.3 The End of the Cold War
9.4 A Changing Economy
9.5 Migration and Immigration
9.6 Challenges of the 21st Century
9.7 Causation in Period 9