U.S. History Course Outline

FIRST SEMESTER:

Unit 1:  The American Revolution  (Chapter 4)

Unit II:  A New Nation:  Shaping and Launching the New Nation (Chapters 5&6)

Unit III:  Antebellum America:  Nationalism/Sectionalism, Reforming the American Society, the Manifest 
Destiny, War with Mexico and the Union in Peril (Chapters 7-10)

Unit IV:  Civil War and Reconstruction:  (Chapters 11&12)

SECOND SEMESTER:

Unit V:  Migration and Industrialization:  The Western Frontier, The New Industrial Age and Immigrants 
and Urbanization (Chapters 13-15)

Unit VI:  Modern America Emerges:  The Progressive Era, America Claims an Empire (Chapters 17&18)

Unit VII:  World War One:  (Chapter 19)

Unit VIII:  The 1920s and the Great Depression:  The Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, The New Deal 
(Chapters 20-23)

Unit IX:  World War Two and Its Aftermath:  United States in World War II, Cold War Conflicts, Post War 
Booms (Chapter 24.4, Chapters 25-26)

Unit X:  Living with Great Turmoil:  The New Frontier and Civil Rights (Chapters 28-29)