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From British Arrival through British Departure

Grade 7

• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
• Britain in the New World
• The New England Colonies
• The Middle Colonies
• The Southern Colonies
• African Americans in the British New World
• The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
• America's Place in the Global Struggle
• The Events Leading to Independence
• E Pluribus Unum
• The American Revolution
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution

The Creation of a New Nation

Grade 8

• When Does the Revolution End?
• Making Rules
• Drafting the Constitution
• Ratifying the Constitution
• George Washington
• Unsettled Domestic Issues
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s
• Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?
• The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812
• Claiming Victory from Defeat
• Social Change and National Development
• Politics and the New Nation

Jackson through Reconstruction

Grade 11

• The Age of Jackson
• The Rise of American Industry
• An Explosion of New Thought
• The Peculiar Institution
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
• Manifest Destiny
• An Uneasy Peace
• Bloody Kansas
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
• A House Divided
• The War Behind the Lines
• Reconstruction

The Gilded Age to the Depression

Grade 11

• The Gilded Age
• Organized Labor
• From the Countryside to the City
• New Dimensions in Everyday Life
• Closing the Frontier
• Western Folkways
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
• Progressives in the White House
• Seeking Empire
• America in the First World War
• The Decade That Roared
• Old Values vs. New Values

From the Depression to the New Millennium

Grade 12

• The Great Depression
• The New Deal
• The Road to Pearl Harbor
• America in the Second World War
• Postwar Challenges
• The 1950s: Happy Days
• A New Civil Rights Movement
• The Vietnam War
• Politics from Camelot to Watergate
• Shaping a New America
• A Time of Malaise
• The Reagan Years
• Toward a New Millennium

American Government

Grade 12

• The Nature of Government
• Foundations of American Government
• Federalism
• American Political Attitudes and Participation
• How Do Citizens Connect With Their Government?
• Congress: The People's Branch?
• The Presidency: The Leadership Branch?
• The Bureaucracy: The Real Government
• The Judicial Branch
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
• Policy Making: Political Interactions
• State and Local Governments
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems

Early Modern Europe

Grade 11 or 12

• The Renaissance
• Europeans Explore
• The Protestant Reformation
• The Wars of Religion
• The Sun King Reigns in France
• Absolutism in the East
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs
• Life in Early Modern Europe
• The Scientific Revolution
• The Age of Reason
• Revolution in France
• The Age of Napoleon

Modern European History (1815–present)

Grade 11

• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon
• Nationalism and Unification
• Industrialization and Industrial Society
• The New Imperialism
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern
• The War to End All Wars
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism
• World War II
• Europe Divided
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe
• European Society During the Cold War
• Europe Reunited

Ancient Civilizations

Grade 6 or 7

• How Do We Know?
• Prehistoric Times
• Ancient Egypt
• The Early Middle East
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Africa
• South Asia: India and Beyond
• China
• Japan: An Island Nation
• Central and South American Empires

Culture and Geography

Grade 9

• What Is Geography?
• The Middle East and North Africa
• South Asia
• China
• Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Rim

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