Week 1: The World before Columbus: 1492 - 1650 A) Indigenous America before Columbus Class Introduction B) The Columbian Exchange; Early European Colonization in North America C) HW: 1st Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due D) Map Assignment Due  Reading: The American Pageant 11 – 23, 27 – 39                Week 2: The Colonial World Flourishes: 1650 – 1754 A) European competition in the Americas; Colonial Society & Latin America B) The English in Virginia and Massachusetts C) HW: 2nd Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due  D) Movie Review Due   Reading: The American Pageant 44 – 61, 84 – 105   Week 3: The Peak of British America: 1754 - 1774 A) New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies B) Colonial Economic Development: Mercantilism vs. Free Trade; The Boston Tea Party C) HW: 3rd Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due Reading: The American Pageant 107 – 127 Week 4: The American Revolution: 1774 - 1783 A) The Shot Heard Round the World  B)  Imperial Escalation and Colonial Confrontation; The Conflict Goes Global & Independence C) HW: 4th Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due Reading: The American Pageant 128 – 132, 138 – 157   Week 5: The Young American Republic: 1783 -1815 A) The Articles of Confederation & Constitution B) Jeffersonian Democracy; The War of 1812 C) HW: 5th Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due Reading: The American Pageant 161 – 180, 184 – 186, 188 – 199, 203 – 205, 210 – 224, Week 6: America Goes West: Manifest Destiny & Expansion 1815 - 1848 A) Jacksonian Democracy   B) Compromise & the Republics of Texas and California; The Mexican - American War C) HW: 6th Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due Reading: The American Pageant 239 – 245, 249 – 257, 262 – 265, 273 – 275, 371 – 379 Week 7: Crisis, the American Civil War & Reconstruction Era 1848 – 1877 A) Society & Antebellum America; Sectional Polarization & the election of 1860 B) Goals, strategies, resources of the Union & Confederacy C) Radical Reconstruction and Resistance; The 1877 Election and the end of Reconstruction D) HW: 7th Canvas Discussion Post & Question Response Due Reading: The American Pageant 342 – 350, 385 – 395, 414 – 423, 438 – 439, 445 – 465,473 – 491 Week 8: Mid-Term Exam March 20th - Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil A) Review & Historical Identification Assignment Due March 20th B) Mid-Term Exam @ 10:00PM   Week 9: The American West & the Gilded Age 1877-1900  A) The American West & The Indian Wars  B) Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise  C) Technology, Politics, and laissez-faire   Reading: The American Pageant 579 – 582, 584 – 596, 496 – 509, 512 – 513, 544 – 552         Week 10: The Progressive Era & the Great War (World War I) 1898 - 1919 A) Roots of expansion, 1877-1898 B) Progressivism in National Politics: the Progressive Presidents C) The Great War, Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles, 1914- 1919 Reading: The American Pageant 649 – 662, 675 – 677, 682 – 688, 693 – 702 Week 11: The Roaring 20's & Great Depression 1920-1939 A) Republican Ascendancy and Prosperity B) The Stock Market Crash of 1929 C) Causes and Effects of the Great Depression D) Roosevelt and the New Deal    Reading: The American Pageant 732 – 735 & 746 – 761   Week 12: World War II & the Cold War 1939 - 1950   A) American Isolationism and Pearl Harbor   B) Fighting and Winning the War at Home and Overseas   C) The rise of Superpowers and NATO   Reading: The American Pageant 786 – 787 & 790 – 800    Week 13: Middle America & Civil Rights Movement 1950- 1965   A) Postwar Affluence and Social Change   B) Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis   C) The Civil Rights Movement    Reading: The American Pageant 826 – 830, 842 – 850, 859 – 864, 880 – 883   Week 14: The Optimism and Anguish of the 60's 1965-1973   A) The Vietnam War   B) A House Divided; Identity Politics    C) The Silent Majority   Reading: The American Pageant 886 – 887, 889 – 895, 900 – 903  Week 15: America in a Changing World 1973-1991  A) Globalization and Stagnation of the 1970’s  B) Regan and the Booming 80’s  C) The End of the Cold War  Reading: The American Pageant 938 – 947, 951 – 954, 968 – 974, 978 – 979, 985 – 988 Week 16: The United States as a Global Superpower 1991 - 2018 A) The Information Revolution & Economic Polarization in an Integrated World B) The War on Terror and a Changing C) Wednesday, 12/8: Final Exam @ 3:00PM Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil! Research Essay Due @ 4:30PM 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

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