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Back to School BVMS James Garritson 8th History
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Ch 01 Changing Ideas and a Changing World

01.1 Europe Looks Out on the World

01.2 Early Exploration

01.3 Trade and Economic Change

01.4 Competing for Colonies

01.5 The Enlightenment

01.5a Analyzing Sources: Changing Ideas and a Changing World


Ch 02 Colonial America

02.1 Roanoke and Jamestown

02.2 The New England Colonies

02.3 The Middle Colonies

02.4 The Southern Colonies

02.5 An American Identity Grows

02.5a America's Literature: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

02.5b Analyzing Sources: Colonial America


Ch 03 The Spirit of Independence

03.1 Rivalry in North America

03.2 No Taxation Without Representation

03.3 Uniting the Colonists

03.4 A Call to Arms

03.4a America's Literature: Paul Revere's Ride

03.5 Declaring Independence

03.5a Points of View: Should the Colonies Declare Their Independence From Great Britain?

03.5b Analyzing Sources: The Spirit of Independence

03.5c Feature The Declaration of Independence


Ch 04 The American Revolution

04.1 The War for Independence

04.2 The War Continues

04.3 Battlegrounds Shift

04.4 The Final Years


Ch 05 A More Perfect Union

05.1 The Articles of Confederation

05.2 Forging a New Constitution

05.2a Points of View: Should the Constitution Be Ratified?

05.3 A New Plan of Government

05.3a Analyzing Sources: A More Perfect Union


Ch 06 The Constitution

06.1 Principles of the Constitution

06.2 Government and the People

06.2a Analyzing Sources: The Constitution

06.2b Feature: The Constitution of the United States


Ch 07 The Federalist Era

07.1 The First President

07.2 Early Challenges

07.3 The First Political Parties

07.3a Analyzing Sources: The Federalist Era


Ch 08 The Jefferson Era

08.1 A New Party in Power

08.2 The Louisiana Purchase

08.2a America's Literature: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

08.3 A Time of Conflict

08.4 The War of 1812

08.4a Analyzing Sources: The Jefferson Era


Ch 09 Growth and Expansion

09.1 A Growing Economy

09.2 Moving West

09.3 Unity and Sectionalism

09.3a America's Literature: The Last of the Mohicans

09.3b Analyzing Sources: Growth and Expansion


Ch 10 The Jackson Era

10.1 Jacksonian Democracy

10.2 Conflicts Over Land

10.3 Jackson and the Bank

10.3a Analyzing Sources: The Jackson Era


Ch 11 Manifest Destiny

11.1 The Oregon Country

11.2 Statehood for Florida and Texas

11.2a Points of View: Was Manifest Destiny Justified?

11.3 War With Mexico

11.4 California and Utah

11.4a Analyzing Sources: Manifest Destiny


Ch 12 North and South

12.1 The Industrial North

12.2 People of the North

12.3 Southern Cotton Kingdom

12.4 People of the South

12.4a Analyzing Sources: North and South


Ch 13 The Spirit of Reform

13.1 The Search for Compromise

13.2 Challenges to Slavery

13.3 Secession and War

13.3a Analyzing Sources: The Spirit of Reform


Ch 14 Toward Civil War

14.1 The Search for Compromise

14.1a America's Literature: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

14.2 Challenges to Slavery

14.3 Secession and War

14.3a Points of View: Did the South Have the Right to Secede?

14.3b Analyzing Sources: Toward Civil War


Ch 15 The Civil War

15.1 The Two Sides

15.2 Early Years of the War

15.3 Life During the Civil War

15.4 The Strain of War

15.5 The War’s Final Stages

15.5a Analyzing Sources: The Civil War


Ch 16 The Reconstruction Era

16.1 Planning Reconstruction

16.2 The Radicals Take Control

16.3 The South During Reconstruction

16.4 The Post-Reconstruction Era

16.4a Analyzing Sources: The Reconstruction Era


Ch 17 Opening the West

17.1 Mining and Railroads in the West

17.2 Ranchers and Farmers

17.3 Native American Struggles

17.3a America's Literature: American Indian Stories

17.4 Farmers—A New Political Force

17.4a Analyzing Sources: Opening the West


Ch 18 The Industrial Age


Ch 19 A Changing Society


Ch 20 Supplemental Lesson

20.0 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement


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