Week 1: The World before Columbus: 1492 - 1650             A) Class Introduction             B) Indigenous America before Columbus             C) Mesoamerican Civilizations ​             Map Assignment             US Map Political             US Map Physical             World Map Political   Week 2: When Worlds Collide: 1492 - 1650             A) The Spanish Conquest of the Americas             B) The Columbian Exchange             C) Early European Colonization in North America             D) Map Assignment Due             Reading: The American Pageant 11 – 23   ​ HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) Ice Age Amerindians: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/first- americans/hodges-text ​ The Chumash: http://www.santaynezchumash.org/history.html ​ The Aztecs: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/MES-05-SciAm-.pdf ​ Early Chocolate: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeology- chocolate-180954243/ ​ Christopher Columbus & the Caribbean: http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/columbus- controversy (Optional) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/what- became-of-the-taino-73824867/ ​ On the Trail of Hernan Cortez: http://www.economist.com/news/christmas- specials/21636686-journey-past-most-mexicans-would- rather-forget-trail-hern-n Week 3: The Colonial World Flourishes: 1650 - 1754    A) The Atlantic World             B) European competition in the Americas             C) Colonial Society & Latin America             Reading: The American Pageant 27 – 39 HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) Failed Colonies: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/gr owth/text6/failedcolonies.pdf ​ The (Re)Discovery of Jamestown Fort: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/13/us/jamestown-fort- birthplace-of-america-in-1607-is-found.html ​ Explore the Virtual Museum of New France or Read Book Review: http://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new- france/ &http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487035094 04575300743173582892 ​ The Dutch & New Amsterdam: http://blog.nyhistory.org/new-amsterdam-become-new- york-peter-stuyvesant-gets-350-years/    Week 4: The Birth of the British Empire: 1650 - 1754             A) The English in Virginia and Massachusetts             B) Slavery and the making of the British Empire             C) Population growth and immigration             D) Movie Review Due             Reading: The American Pageant 44 – 61   ​HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) Life in the Southern Colonies: http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/01/life-in-the-southern- colonies-part-2-of-3/ ​ The Glorious Revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gl orious_revolution_01.shtml ​ The Atlantic Slave Trade (A) Slave Ship & (B) Arrival in Americas: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/africa/tortuous- history-traced-in-sunken-slave-ship-found-off-south- africa.html?_r=0 & http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/americas /olaudah_arrival.aspx ​ The Gullah of South Carolina: http://glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-slavery-and-sierra-leone- american-connection            Week 5: The Peak of British America: 1754 - 1774            A) New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies B) Colonial Development: Mercantilism vs. Free Trade            C) The French and Indian War            Reading: The American Pageant 84 – 105​  (Study Guide) Historical Identification Assignment ​ HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) The French and Indian War http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme4c.html#t The Stamp Act: The Debate http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/t ext3/stampactresponse1765.pdf  The Rights of the Colonists: Samuel Adams http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding- documents/primary-source-documents/the-rights-of-the- colonists/ The Rights of Englishmen: In the Law http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl e=5001&context=penn_law_review The Magna Carta: The Spirit of Liberty in the Middle Ages? https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and- mentor/rights-of-englishmen-in-british-america.html ​ Week 6: Crisis in the American Colonies: 1754 - 1774            A) Colonial Governance and Imperial Reform            B) Colonial Grievances & Resistance            C) The Boston Tea Party             Reading: The American Pageant 107 – 127 HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) The French and Indian War http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme4c.html#t The Stamp Act: The Debate http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/t ext3/stampactresponse1765.pdf  The Rights of the Colonists: Samuel Adams http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding- documents/primary-source-documents/the-rights-of-the- colonists/ The Rights of Englishmen: In the Law http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl e=5001&context=penn_law_review The Magna Carta: The Spirit of Liberty in the Middle Ages? https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and- mentor/rights-of-englishmen-in-british-america.html Week 7: The American Revolution: 1774 - 1783               A) The Shot Heard Round the World               B)  Imperial Escalation and Colonial Confrontation               C) The Conflict Goes Global & Independence               Reading: The American Pageant 128 – 132, 138 – 157   Causes of the American Revolution: https://www.sutori.com/story/the-causes-of-the-american- revolution-beaa  The American Revolution; How Revolutionary? http://www.aei.org/publication/how-revolutionary-was-the- american-revolution/  Did the British Win the American Revolutionary War? http://allthingsliberty.com/2015/07/how-the-british-won- the-american-revolutionary-war/  Myths of the American Revolution: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the- american-revolution-10941835  Americans and Revolutions: http://www.newsweek.com/niall-ferguson-americans-and- revolutions-68631   (Study Guide) Historical Identification Assignment Week 8: Mid-Term Exam - Bring a Scantron (886-E),                                                                           and a No.2 Pencil               A) Review               B) Mid-Term Exam               C) Historical Identification Assignment Due

Week  9: The Young American Republic: 1783 -1815 A) The Articles of Confederation & Constitution                                  B)The Federalist Era            C) Federalists vs. Republicans             Reading: The American Pageant 161 – 180, 184 – 186 ​HW Article Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy paragraph response following class. (For three sentences summarize and for two give opinion.) ​ Problems under the Articles of Confederation: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-reasons-why- americas-first-constitution-failed  A More Prefect Union: the Creation of the US Constitution: https://www.archives.gov/founding- docs/more-perfect-union Separation of Powers & Bill of Rights: http://www.history.com/topics/three-branches-of- government & http://www.history.com/topics/bill-of- rights  Ratification of the US Constitution Introduction & Debate: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/intro/ & http://teachingamericanhistory.org/fed- antifed/issues-debated/  Hamilton vs. Jefferson: http://time.com/4210440/jefferson-hamilton-excerpt/ Week 10: The Young American Republic: 1783 -1815             A) Jeffersonian Democracy             B) Jefferson and the West             C) The War of 1812             D) Image Analysis Due             Reading: The American Pageant 188 – 199, 203 – 205, 210 – 224 Jeffersonian Democracy: https://newrepublic.com/article/63628/jefferson-and- the-new-freedom &http://sageamericanhistory.net/jeffersonian/topics/Jef fersonianDem.htm   Alien and Sedition Acts: http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/winter07/ali en.cfm & http://www.history.com/topics/alien-and- sedition-acts Women’s Changing Roles as Citizens of a New Republic: http://npg.si.edu/exhibit/murray/#1 (The historian below - Carol Berkin - is the primary author of your Textbook)  After the War, Voting and Property Rights & A New Radical Idea: Republican Motherhood &http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ ReferenceDetailsWindow Marbury vs. Madison: Supreme Court and Judicial Review  Marbury v. Madison The Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark (Virtual Museum Exhibition) The Making of a Nation: Louisiana Purchase & https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana- purchase  &http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/virtualtour/  (Adobe Flash & Internet Explorer required to enter Virtual Tour) &Slaves Won The War - Haitian Revolution Week 11: America Goes West: Manifest Destiny &      Expansion   1815 - 1848                                                                                                  A)Jacksonian Democracy             B) The Transportation and Political Revolution            C) Cotton and Solidification of slavery             Reading: The American Pageant 239 – 245, 249 – 257, 262 – 265   Jacksonian Democracy https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us- history/period-4/apush-age-of-jackson/v/jacksonian- democracy-part-1 & http://americanexperience.si.edu/wp- content/uploads/2014/07/Federalism-to-Jacksonian- Democracy.pdf American Literature Disney edition of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hallow (Movie) https://archive.org/details/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow_2 01602# & The Story of Rip Van Wrinkle by Washington Irving (Recording) http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/171/american-short- fiction/3461/rip-van-winkle/ Religion in America https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html American Art Online Albany Institute Exhibition http://www.albanyinstitute.org/introduction.html Week 12: America Goes West: Manifest Destiny & Expansion  1815 - 1848             A) Compromise & the Republics of Texas and       sadasdsdCalifornia             B) The Mexican - American War             C) Primary Source Analysis Assignment Due             Reading: The American Pageant 273 – 275, 371 – 379 Texas Revolution: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Texas-Revolution California Gold Rush: http://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/gold-rush Mexican American War 1846 - 1848: Two views http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/ &http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_ an_ideal_or_a_justification.html &http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_ a_mexican_viewpoint.html Oregon Trail: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/follow-relics- oregon-trail-180960589/ Missouri Compromise: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/founding- father-missouri-compromise-1819        Week 13: The Impending Crisis: Social and Sectional Division 1848 -1861                     A) Westward Settlement and Immigration             B)  The Compromise of 1850             C) Society & Antebellum America             D) Sectional Polarization & the election of 1860             Reading: The American Pageant 342 – 350, 385 – 395, 414 – 423 Southern Culture: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory1os2xmast er/chapter/wealth-and-culture-in-the-south/ Slavery the Southern Plantation: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1857stirling.asp & http://www.ushistory.org/us/27a.asp & http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp & http://www.ushistory.org/us/27c.asp Personal Testimonies of Slavery from Freedmen and Slave Songs (Audio) http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/2718 & http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/title. html &http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfst itle.html Harriet Tubman: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhi bit/GwIC_10DOod5KA Abolitionists: http://www.history.com/topics/black- history/abolitionist-movement & https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american- odyssey/abolition.html John Brown: https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/abolitionists- john-brown Immigration: http://www.ushistory.org/us/25f.asp  & https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless- ushistory/chapter/immigration/ Week 14: The American Civil War 1861 - 1865             A) Goals, strategies, resources of the Union &       sssssssConfederacy             B) The Battles, Generals, and Men             C) The Emancipation Proclamation            Week 15: The Reconstruction Era 1865 - 1877             A) A New Nation Heals             B) Radical Reconstruction and Resistance             C) The 1877 Election and the end of fsdfsdfdsReconstruction   Week 16: Final Exam May 22nd @ 6:50PM and Research Essay Due @ 10:00PM              Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil               A) Thursday Final Exam               B) Research Essay Due