Tentative Course Calendar (subject to revision)

Unit 1: 1491–1607

(Aug. 9-19)

Content: Demographics of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa; Meso-American culture; transatlantic commerce; comparison of colonies across the Americas (religion, economies, politics, cultures); and foundations of slavery.

Unit 2: 1607–1754

(Aug. 22-Sept. 2)

Content: European colonization; American Indian resistance; economic and population patterns; formation of race and identity; and tensions with Britain.

Unit 3: 1754–1800

(Sept. 5-Sept. 30)

Content: British colonial policies; enlightenment ideas; war for independence; formation of republic and national identity; work and labor (free and unfree); and regional economic differences.

Unit 4: 1800–1848

(Oct.3-Oct. 21)

Content: Definition of democratic practices; expansion of the vote; market revolution; territorial and demographic growth; two-party system; Andrew Jackson; and role of the federal government in slavery and the economy.

Unit 5: 1844–1877

(Oct. 24-Nov. 18)

Content: Tensions over slavery; reform movements; imperialism; women and nonwhites; public education; Mexican War; public education; Civil War; and Reconstruction.

Unit 6: 1865–1898

(Nov. 20-Dec.16)

Content: Reconstruction; U.S. imperialism, industrialization, immigration, urbanization; women’s movement; and working class culture and leisure.

Unit 7: 1890–1945

(Jan. 3-Feb. 3)

Content: Progressive reform; radicalism; World War I and Russian revolution; first red scare; first great migration of African Americans; race riots; culture wars of the 1920s; Hoover and FDR in the capitalist crisis; New Deal; and World War II.

Unit 8: 1945–1980

(Feb. 6-March 3)

Content: Atomic age and the Cold War; suburban development and the affluent society; the other America; Vietnam; social movements of the long 1960s; Great Society programs; economic and political decline in the 1970s; and rise of conservatism.

Unit 9: 1980–present

(March 6-March 17)

Content: Reagan at home and abroad; growth of poverty; Bush, Sr. and end of Cold War; Clinton and the internet; race relations; NAFTA and other trade agreements; 9/11; Patriot Act; education policies of Bush, Jr. and Obama; and environmental policies.

AP Exam Review

March 27-May 8

EOC Exam Review/Course Wrap-up/American Identity

May 11-end of school year

*Instructional Plans available upon request.

Links you may find helpful:

• AP Central

• C-Span

• Khan Academy

• Internet History Sourcebook

• History Teacher