American Studies 1
Unit 1: The Colonies:
Students will investigate the causes for early exploration and colonization in the New World. They will also determine reasons for the forced immigration of African slaves. This unit addresses the different causes for English settlement in North America and emphasizes how geography influenced economic differences among the regions of the thirteen British colonies.
Unit 2: The Road to Independence:
Students will investigate the social, political, and economic events leading to the Declaration of Independence through the American Revolution, leading to the Treaty of Paris 1783. The unit addresses the development of such fundamental American political ideals as individual rights and freedoms.
Unit 3: Confederation to Constitution:
This unit covers government under the Articles of Confederation and how the inherent weaknesses of this system of government posed serious challenges to the existence of the new nation, resulting in debate and the creation of the Constitution.
Unit 4: The New Republic:
This unit explores the problems with implementing the new constitutional form of government, and the creation of political parties. Also during the creation of the new government America’s initial foreign policy issues, and ongoing constitutional interpretations created problems and opportunities for interpreting our new form of government.
Unit 5: The Age of Jackson:
This unit will focus on the first nationally elected president and the use and misuses of political power. The beginnings of sectional conflict are also studied here.
Unit 6: Expansion: (26 Days, February 7 – March 17)
This unit will focus on the territorial expansion of the United States including Manifest Destiny, why and how it occurred, and the political problems created by that growth. Expansion let to issues of war, railroad and right of way, mining, cattle, extension of slavery, assimilating other cultures, etc.
Unit 7: Causes of the Civil War:
This unit focuses on the divisive issues that encouraged people in the U.S. to think of themselves as Northerners, Southerners, or Westerners rather than as Americans. The unit explores the economic, political, and social changes that brought about sectional differences between the North and South that ultimately led to the Civil War.
Unit 8: Civil War and Reconstruction:
This unit focuses on the conflict and outcome between the North and South and the impact it had on the United States, including analysis of key events, leaders, goals, technology, and geographical factors of the war. Students will also study the re-building of the United States after the Civil War, physically, socially and politically. Students will be expected to describe the laws created to assimilate freedmen and former Confederate soldiers into society and describe how society changed.
History of the Medieval World!
Unit 1: Geography Review/Fall of Rome/Byzantine Empire
Unit 2: Middle East
Unit 3: Africa
Unit 4: Asia
Unit 5: Mesoamerica
Unit 6: Europe
Unit 7: Renaissance/Reformation/Enlightenment
Unit 8: New World and Colonization
Unit 1: The Colonies:
Students will investigate the causes for early exploration and colonization in the New World. They will also determine reasons for the forced immigration of African slaves. This unit addresses the different causes for English settlement in North America and emphasizes how geography influenced economic differences among the regions of the thirteen British colonies.
Unit 2: The Road to Independence:
Students will investigate the social, political, and economic events leading to the Declaration of Independence through the American Revolution, leading to the Treaty of Paris 1783. The unit addresses the development of such fundamental American political ideals as individual rights and freedoms.
Unit 3: Confederation to Constitution:
This unit covers government under the Articles of Confederation and how the inherent weaknesses of this system of government posed serious challenges to the existence of the new nation, resulting in debate and the creation of the Constitution.
Unit 4: The New Republic:
This unit explores the problems with implementing the new constitutional form of government, and the creation of political parties. Also during the creation of the new government America’s initial foreign policy issues, and ongoing constitutional interpretations created problems and opportunities for interpreting our new form of government.
Unit 5: The Age of Jackson:
This unit will focus on the first nationally elected president and the use and misuses of political power. The beginnings of sectional conflict are also studied here.
Unit 6: Expansion: (26 Days, February 7 – March 17)
This unit will focus on the territorial expansion of the United States including Manifest Destiny, why and how it occurred, and the political problems created by that growth. Expansion let to issues of war, railroad and right of way, mining, cattle, extension of slavery, assimilating other cultures, etc.
Unit 7: Causes of the Civil War:
This unit focuses on the divisive issues that encouraged people in the U.S. to think of themselves as Northerners, Southerners, or Westerners rather than as Americans. The unit explores the economic, political, and social changes that brought about sectional differences between the North and South that ultimately led to the Civil War.
Unit 8: Civil War and Reconstruction:
This unit focuses on the conflict and outcome between the North and South and the impact it had on the United States, including analysis of key events, leaders, goals, technology, and geographical factors of the war. Students will also study the re-building of the United States after the Civil War, physically, socially and politically. Students will be expected to describe the laws created to assimilate freedmen and former Confederate soldiers into society and describe how society changed.
History of the Medieval World!
Unit 1: Geography Review/Fall of Rome/Byzantine Empire
Unit 2: Middle East
Unit 3: Africa
Unit 4: Asia
Unit 5: Mesoamerica
Unit 6: Europe
Unit 7: Renaissance/Reformation/Enlightenment
Unit 8: New World and Colonization