Unit 1- American Beginnings to 1783: Three
Worlds Collide, Colonization, and the War for
Independence
Unit 2 - A New Nation 1781-1816: U.S.
Constitution, Jeffersonian democracy, and the
war of 1812
Unit 3- Expansion and Reform 1812-1860:
Nationalism and Sectionalism, Jacksonian
democracy, Reform and Western Expansion
Unit 4- Civil War and Reconstruction 1846-
1877: Union in Crisis, the Civil War and
Reconstruction
Unit 5- Industrialization of the United States
1865-1914: Industrialization, Immigration and
Urbanization, The South and the West
Transformed, Issues of the Gilded Age (Populist
Movement etc) (Chapter 17 will be included in
this unit)
Unit 6- Emergence of the Modern United States
1890-1920: The Progressive Era (end of 1 st
Semester), An Emerging World Power and
World War I and its effects
Unit 7- Prosperity and Depression 1919-1941:
The Twenties (Politics and the Roaring Life of
the 1920’s), The Great Depression and the New
Unit 8- World War II and Postwar America
1931-1960: The Coming of War, WWII, The
Cold War and 1950’s (Postwar Confidence and
Anxiety)
Unit 9- Challenges and Change 1945-1980:
Civil Rights Movement, The Kennedy and The
Johnson Years, The Vietnam War Era and An
Era of Protest and Social Change, A Crisis in
Confidence (Age of Limits: Nixon- Carter)
Unit 10- Changing and Enduring Issues 1980-
Today: The Conservation Resurgence and Into
and New Century.