US History

Course Outcomes: 9th grade, 1st semester

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First Americans /Pre-History (Ch. 1.1-1.3) 
  • Migration of people to America 
  • How agriculture changed human society 
  • Native American values
    • land use
    • religion
    • social organizations 
  

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European Exploration (Ch. 1.4 – 2.1) 
  • Impact of the Crusades
  • Portugal’s role in exploration
  • Purpose of Columbus’s voyage
  • Patterns of Spanish Colonization
  • Impact of Smallpox 
Renaissance
Reformation
Henry the Navigator
Colombian Exchange
Cortez
Aztecs

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English Colonization - Jamestown (Ch. 2.2)
  • How Jamestown became profitable
  • Labor in the early colonies
  • Reasons for settling in New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies 
Cash crop

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English Colonization – Developing American Ways of Life (Ch. 2.3, 2.4, 3)
  • Characteristics of New England (2.3 & 3.3)
    • Motivations for settlement 
  • Characteristics of the Middle Colonies (2.4 & 3.3)
    • Motivations for settlement
    • Relations with Native Americans 
  • Characteristics of the Southern Colonies (3.2)
    • Slavery and agriculture
    • Development of African American/Slave culture 
  • Relations with England (3.1)
    • Navigation Acts
    • Results of Salutary Neglect 
  • French and Indian War (3.4)
    • Reasons for French colonization
    • French relations with Native Americans
    • Results 
Puritans
Enlightenment
Great Awakening
William Penn
Middle Passage
Plantation
Mercantilism
Favorable balance of Trade
Parliament
Proclamation of 1763

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American Revolution (Ch. 3.4 & 4)
  • Causes of the war 
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord 
  • Main points of documents
    • Common Sense
    • Declaration of Independence 
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each side
  • Major battles
    • Bunker Hill
    • Trenton
    • Saratoga
    • Yorktown 
Sugar Act
Boston Massacre
Loyalists
Minutemen
Continental Congress

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Shaping a New Nation (Ch. 5.1)
  • Tenets of the Articles of Confederation
  • Supreme power debate (states vs. central government) 
Republic
tariff 
Northwest Ordinance

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Constitution (Ch. 5.2 – 5.3)
  • Compromises of the Constitutional Convention
    • central government vs. strong states
    • large states vs. small states
    • North vs. South
  • Separation of powers
    • legislative branch
    • executive branch
    • judicial branch
  • Conflicts over ratification 
James Madison 
Federalists
Anti-federalists
Electoral College
Bill of Rights

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Launching the New Nation and The Age of Jefferson (Ch. 6)
  • Differences between Hamilton and Jefferson
  • Tenets of the first political parties
    • Federalists
    • Republicans
  • The Supreme Court is strengthened
  • Events and motives surrounding the Louisiana Purchase
  • Causes of the War of 1812 
National bank
Judicial Review
Marbury vs. Madison
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lewis and Clark