January 2006

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


23

Intro's & Why we study US History

24

Civics Review (American History until 1789: The Contributions of the Individual Colonies)

25

Civics Review (American History until 1789: Coming together as a nation: F&I War and the Causes of the Revolution)

26

Quiz 1

The Second Continental Congress: The first intercontinental government

130-139

27

The Treaty of Paris of 1789

Handout


30

Experiments in Government, the absence of consensus and cooperation, and the Philadelphia Experiment

140-149

31

150-179







February  2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday






1

The New Government and Foreign policy under Washington

180-189

2

The New Government & Foreign policy during the Washington & Adams Administrations

190-196

3

TEST 1


6

1st Essay Due

The Jefferson Administration and "Manifest Destiny"

197-201

7

James Madison: The Second War for Independence, The Era of Good Feelings

202-205

8

Madison, Monroe, Marshall & John Quincy Adams

219-223

9

Quiz

The transfer of England’s Industrial Revolution to her Former Colonies.and Sectional Interests

210-218

10

The Jackson Administration

224-229


13



Democrats vs. Whigs

230-235

14

The Spirit of Manifest Destiny

280-299

15

Quiz

Completing the Revolution, 1781-1850

238-258

16

Religion and Education in Action

238-258

17

2nd Essay Due

TEST 2

Discussion: AMERICA BEFORE THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES



20

The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy, and Art and Scientific Attitudes

21

The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections

302-323

22

Quiz

Brother vs. Brother and The Politics of War

324-350

23

Military Strategy

357-364

24



27

Daily Life in the two Sections

351-356

28

Why the South Lost; The End Result

366-371







March 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday






1

Reconstruction

374-393

2

3rd Essay Due

TEST 3

If time: Reconstruction - Day 2

3

Discussion: Effects of War Between the States

Post-Reconstruction South

393-401


6

Post Civil War West

406-424

7

New Inventions, Farmers' Problems in post Civil War America,

425-431

8

The Agrarian Revolt, Democratic Victory in 1892 and 1896, and William Jennings Bryan

458-477

9

Quiz

WOZ

10

WOZ


13



The Expansion of Business and Industry, Rise and Consciousness of Labor

434-447

14

4th Essay Due

TEST 4

15

Critics of American Society, Impact of the Progressive Movement and the African American Reform Movements

480-522

16

Elections of 1904, 1908, and 1912 & The "New Manifest Destiny"

523-533

17

The Progressives

Taft, Teddy and Woodrow


20

The US in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific

552-564, 546-551

21

Wilson and Latin America

538-543, 565-573

22

Student Choice: Essay 6 or 7 Due

Test

23

WWI &the Great Crusade

576-611

24

The Unfulfilled Dream

646-665


27


28

The Growth of Nativism and Intolerance and a Return to Isolationism

616-624

29

Essay 8 Due

QUIZ

Politics in the 1920's

625-645

30

Hoover and the Great Depression

668-689

31



Roosevelt's Unfolding Program

692-727


April 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


3

Between the Wars

716-720, 732-741

4

WWII: European Theater
742-755, 775-783

5

9th Essay

WWII: Pacific Theater
756-763, 784-795

6

Test 6

Truman, Korea, Postwar America & Another Attempt at World Peace

806-821

7



Ike, I Love Lucy, Containment, and McCarthy

822-865


10

The Election of 1960, Kennedy & a New Frontier

874-891

11

We Will Overcome

904-931

12



The LBJ years and Vietnam

892-901, 934-947

13

10th Essay

Test 7

Vietnam, Kent State, Woodstock, and The Sixties Protests

948-969, 987-993


14



17


18


19


20


21



24



Backlash: The 1968 Election

972-986

25

The Nixon Presidency,Nixon's Foreign Policy, Watergate

998-1015

26

Quiz

The 1972 Election, and The un-Elected President: Gerald Ford

1016-1025

27

11th Essay

Carter Country

1026-1031/

Discussion: The Effects of Nixon and Vietnam

28

Reagan

"Let's Make America Great Again"

1034-1039, 1045-1053

May 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


1

TEST 8 MOVIE:

ROCKY IV

2

MOVIE:

ROCKY IV and the Cold War/ Discussion: Effects of the Cold War

3

The Election of 1988:

Daddy Bush and Inheriting the Reagan Mandate

1040-1044

4

Gulf War I and a changing World stage

1054-1061

5

12th Essay

The Clinton Years: 1992-2000, and a New Presidential Scandal...or three

1064-1081


8

Test 9

The Tech Boom and Impeachment,

1082-1087

9

Bush, Gore, Bush again: The Supreme Court chooses a President

10

The new role of the US on the World Stage, Gulf War II

11

MOVIE: Forrest Gump

12

MOVIE: Forrest Gump

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