Unit 1: Early Colonization and Growth of Colonies

• Unit Overview

• Inquiry Map

• Unit 1 Glossary

Cluster 1: North America's Indigenous Societies before 1500

• Lesson 1: How Do We Know What the United States Was Like 600 Years Ago?

• Lesson 2: Indigenous North America Through Artifact Investigation

• Lesson 3: North American Regions and Diverse Indigenous Societies before 1500

Cluster 2: European Nations and Their "New World" Colonies

• Lesson 4: Analyzing Maps and Their Views of the Land

• Lesson 5: Motives of European Nations in North America

• Lesson 6: Comparing an Early English, French and Spanish Settlement

Cluster 3: Britain's North American Colonies before 1750

• Lessons 7-8: Thirteen Colonies of British North America

• Lessons 9-10: A Meeting of Worlds: Cooperation and Conflict Between Indigenous & British Peoples

• Lesson 11: Pocahontas—A Case Study

• Lesson 12: Labor in British North America

• Lesson 13: Sugar: How One Product Shaped the Colonies

Cluster 4: Slavery and the Struggle for Freedom in the Americas

• Lesson 14: The Maafa, or the Great Disaster: The Middle Passage

• Lesson 15: European Beliefs and the Origins of Slavery

• Lesson 16: Race, Slavery, and Laws

• Lesson 17: Preserving Knowledge: The Creation of an African Diaspora

• Lesson 18: The Stono Uprising: Resisting Enslavement

• Lesson 19: Introducing the Abolitionists

Cluster 5: The British American Colonies in 1750 (Inquiry Cycle)

• Lessons 20-21: Inquiry: Did Most People in the British Colonies Believe They Were American in 1750?

Summative Assessment: Early Colonization and Growth of Colonies

• Teacher Guidance

• Student Instructions

Unit 2: The American Revolution and Principles of United States Government

• Unit Overview

• Inquiry Map

• Unit 2 Glossary

Cluster 1: The Colonies Before the Revolution

• Lesson 1: Who Governed the Colonies? 

• Lesson 2: Perspectives on the French and Indian War

• Lesson 3: Outcomes of the French and Indian War

• Lesson 4: Taxes and Representation: The Sugar and Stamp Acts

• Lesson 5: Boston Erupts! People and Perspectives in Conflict 

• Lesson 6:  Dueling Dialogues from the Pre-Revolutionary Years

Cluster 2: The American Revolution and its Aftermath

• Lesson 7: The Start of the American Revolution: Perspectives on Lexington and Concord

• Lesson 8: Choosing Sides: Loyalist, Patriot, or Neutral?

• Lesson 9: The Declaration of Independence, Simplified

• Lesson 10: Revolutionary Ideas: Elizabeth Freeman and the Power of Words

• Lesson 11: Inquiry Cycle: Cooperating for Independence — The Role of Delegates to Congress

• Lesson 12: Inquiry Cycle: Cooperating for Independence — Contributions Across Society

• Lesson 13: Inquiry Cycle: Cooperating for Independence — A Patriotic Dialogue

Cluster 3: Building the Nation's New Government

• Lesson 16: Creating a Constitution

• Lesson 17: Who Wasn’t In the Room When the Constitution Was Written? (And What Might They Have Wanted to Say?)

• Lesson 18: The Big Ideas Behind the U.S. Constitution

• Lesson 19: The Harshest Compromise of All: The Constitution and Slavery

• Lesson 20: Amending the Constitution: The Bill of Rights

• Lesson 21: Putting It Together: The Constitution & the Bill of Rights

Summative Assessment: Crafting Conversations: Perspectives in Dialogue

• Teacher Guidance

• Complete Materials

Unit 3: The Growth of the Republic

• Unit Overview

• Inquiry Map

• Unit 3 Glossary

Cluster 1: Foreign Policy Decisions of the Early Republic

Foreign Policy Decisions

• Lesson 1: How Do Values and Interests Shape a Nation? 

• Lesson 2: Foreign Policy Decisions in the Northwest Territory

• Lesson 3: Foreign Policy Advice for Presidents of the Early Republic 

• Lesson 4: The United States and the Haitian Revolution

• Lesson 5: Analyzing Artifacts from the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Lesson 6: Foreign Policy Decisions in the Louisiana Territory

Indigenous Resistance in the Early Republic (Inquiry Cycle)

• Lessons 7-9: How Did Indigenous Nations Take Action to Protect Their Sovereignty and What Motivated Their Choices?

U.S. Responses to Indigenous Resistance

• Lesson 10: The Mashpee Wampanoag Fight for Sovereignty (1834 - Present)

• Literacy Block: Shawnee Sovereignty after Tecumseh

• Lesson 11: Perspectives on the Indian Removal Act

• Lesson 12: The Trail of Tears and the Resilience of the Cherokee Nation

• Literacy Block: Indian Removal Stories of Other Indigenous Nations 

• Lesson 13: Pausing For Practice: Curating Evidence to Support a Claim

Cluster 2: Slavery in the Early Republic

• Lesson 14: Cotton, Slavery, and the Economics of Expansion

• Lesson 15: The Cotton Gin, Cotton Mills, and Northern Connections to Slavery

• Lesson 16: The  Cotton Economy, Slavery and Wealth

• Lesson 17: Enslavement and Resistance

• Lesson 18: Perspectives of the Enslaved 

• Lesson 19: Resistance to Enslavement

• Literacy Block: Music as Resistance

• Literacy Block: Slave Rebellions

The Economy and Workers of the Early Republic

• Lesson 20: Building the Early Republic: The Civic Value of  Education

• Lesson 21: The Economy and Workers of the Early Republic

• Lesson 22: Researching and Analyzing the Industries and Work of the Early Republic

• Lesson 23: Expert Convention: Economy of the Early Republic

• Lesson 24: Webbing the Economic Ecosystem of the Early Republic

Summative Assessment: The Growth of the Republic

• Teacher Guidance

• Complete Materials

Unit 4: Slavery, the Legacy of the Civil War, and the Struggle for Civil Rights for All

• Unit Overview

• Inquiry Map

• Unit 4 Glossary

Cluster 1: The Abolitionist Movement

• Lesson 1: North and South: Union and Division before the Civil War

• Lessons 2-4: Inquiry Cycle: How Did the Abolitionist Movement Work to Create a “More Perfect Union?"

Cluster 2: The Civil War

• Lesson 5: The Republican Party and Slavery

• Lesson 6: Election and Secession: The Start of the Civil War

• Lesson 7: African Americans and the Civil War

• Lesson 8: The Union’s Goals Shift

• Lesson 9: The Gettysburg Address: Toward a “More Perfect Union?”

Progress and Backlash after the Civil War

• Lesson 10: The Promise of the Union’s Victory

• Lesson 11: Expanding and Protecting African American Civil Rights

• Lesson 12: Economic Freedom and the Realities of Sharecropping

• Lesson 13: The Jim Crow Era: Is Separate Really Equal?

• Lesson 14: Support and Unity in the Black Community during the Jim Crow South

• Lesson 15: The NAACP: Organizing Black Resistance

Cluster 4: The Making of the Civil Rights Movement

• Lesson 16: The Civil Rights Movement: Why the 1950s?

• Lesson 17: Key Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement

• Lesson 18: The Children’s March

• Lesson 19: Casting a Vote

• Lesson 20: Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement

Summative Assessment

• Teacher Guidance

• Complete Materials