Course Outline


Unit 1: Colonization
            1.1 Reasons for Founding of the 13 Colonies
            1.2 Geographic influences on the Colonies
            1.3 Foundations of Representative Government
 
Unit 2: The American Revolution
            2.1 The Road to Revolution
            2.2 Declaring Independence
            2.3 The Revolutionary War
 
Unit 3: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
            3.1 Need for a Stronger Government
            3.2 Constitutional Convention
            3.3 The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
 
Unit 4: The Young Nation
            4.1 Political Development
            4.2 Foreign Policy
            4.3 Era of Good Feelings
 
Unit 5: Economic Growth in the United States (1800-1860)
            5.1 Industrial Revolution
            5.2 Sectionalism/ Differences between the North and South
 
Unit 6: The Age of Jackson
            6.1 Jacksonian Democracy
            6.2 Nullification Crisis
 
Unit 7: Manifest Destiny
            7.1 The Roots of Manifest Destiny
            7.2 Political, Economic, and Social motives for Manifest Destiny
            7.3 Westward Expansion
 
Unit 8: The Reform Era
            8.1 Reform Movements
            8.2 Prominent Reformers
 
Unit 9: The Civil War and Reconstruction
            9.1 Causes of the Civil War
            9.2 Civil War events and leaders
            9.3 Aftermath