11th Grade

Semester 2 Project(s)

Course Focus: An American Earthling

This course meets every day, for 2nd & 3rd periods (9:24am-11:08am) in room 225.

Student One Pager Historical Perspectives and Beliefs Project

Timeline - SOME of the events we will cover

1st Semester 

1492- Columbus and his men arrive in the Bahamas. 

1607 - Jamestown is founded

1609-1890's- American Indian Wars 

1619 - First slave ship arrives with African slaves onboard. 

1622 - Tensions with local Indigenous population lead to Jamestown massacre. 

1692-1693 - Salem Witch Trials 

1750-1850 - First industrial revolution 

1756-1763 - "Seven Years War" 

1775-1783 - Revolutionary War 

1787 - US Constitution is signed 

1791 - Bill of Rights ratified 

1812 - War of 1812 

1830-1850 - Trail of Tears 

1845 - Manifest Destiny becomes a common ideology of westward settlers 

1846-1848 - Mexican-American War 

1850-1914 - Second Industrial Revolution 

1861-1865 - Civil War 

1863 - Emancipation Proclamation is signed by Lincoln 

1864 - Sand Creek Massacre 

1864 - The Long Walk 

1865 - Founding of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) 

1869-1960 - Indian Boarding Schools active 

1870 - 15th Amendment grants people of color the right to vote 

1900-1939 - Height of segregation 

1914-1918 - WWI 


2nd Semester 

1920 - 19th Amendments grants women the right to vote 

1920-1933 - Alcohols is outlawed (Roaring 20's) 

1924 - The Snyder Act classifies Native Americans as US citizens for the first time 

1940 - Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

1939-1945 - WWII  

1941 - Pearl Harbor Attached 

1945 - Japanese internment camps in CA 

1955 - Rosa Parks arrested 

1955-1975 - Race to Space 

1957 - Little Rock 9 

1964 - Civil Rights Act 

1965 - Voting Rights Act