American History Syllabus
First Semester
Unit 1: Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet (3 Days)
Unit 2: Chapter 2 & 3: American Colonies Emerge & The Colonies come of Age (8 Days)
Unit 3: Chapter 4: War for Independence (10 Days)
Unit 4: Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation & U.S. Constitution (15 Days)
Unit 5: Chapter 6 & 7: Launching the New Nation & Balancing Nationalism & Sectionalism (10 Days)
Unit 6: Chapter 8: Reforming American Society (4 Days)
Unit 7: Chapter 9 & 10: Expanding Markets & Moving West/The Union in Peril (10 Days)
Unit 8: Chapter 11 & 12: Civil War & Reconstruction (15 Days)
Unit 9: Chapter 13: Changes on the Western Frontier (3 Days)
Unit 10: Chapter 14 & 15 & 16: Gilded Age---Industrial Age & Immigration & Urbanization & Life at the turn of the 20th Century (12 Days)
Unit 11: Chapter 17 & 18: Progressive Era & America claims an Empire (8 Days)
Second Semester
Unit 12: Chapter 19: World War I (10 Days)
Unit 13: Chapter 20 & 21: Politics & Life of the Roaring Twenties (10 Days)
Unit 14: Chapter 22 & 23: Great Depression & New Deal (10 Days)
Unit 15: Chapter 24 & 25: World War II (14 Days)
Unit 16: Chapter 26 & 27: Cold War & The 1950s (12 Days)
Unit 17: Chapter 28 & 29: New Frontier/Great Society/Civil Rights (10 Days)
Unit 18: Chapter 30 & 31: Vietnam War & 1960s Social Change (12 Days)
Unit 19: Chapter 32 & 33 & 34: Nixon & The 1970s to the Present (4 Days)