Download AMERICAN STUDIES I ADVANCED This is a brief overview of what

AMERICAN STUDIES I ADVANCED
This is a brief overview of what we will be covering in American Studies I this year.
UNIT
TITLE
1
Age of Exploration
2
The European Colonies
3
The Colonies Take Shape
4
Causes of the American
Revolution
5
The American Revolution
6
The New Government
7
The New Nation
8
Nationalism and Sectionalism
9
Religion and Reform
10
Manifest Destiny
11
The Union in Peril
12
The Civil War
13
Reconstruction
OVERVIEW
Native Americans, European explorers and Europe’s
relationship with Africa
3 main colonial powers (France, Spain and England) and their
colonies, The Salem Witchcraft Trials, other immigrants, and
life in the colonies
The 13 Colonies, the Great Awakening, European and Native
American relations, the French and Indian War, Pontiac’s
Rebellion
British and American relations, acts and legal actions, acts of
aggression, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party the
Midnight Ride, Lexington and Concord, declaring independence
The Declaration of Independence, The Continental Congress,
British and American allies, battles, British surrender, aftermath
of the war
The Articles of Confederation, Shay’s Rebellion, the
Constitutional Convention, plans and compromises, the Bill of
Rights, the U. S. Constitution, branches and functions of
government
Washington’s Presidency, Adams’ Presidency, The Jacksonian
Era, U. S. foreign policy, the Louisiana Purchase, The War of
1812,
The Industrial Revolution, important people and inventions,
differences between the North and South, the cotton industry,
the Monroe Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise, the Jacksonian
Era, the Nullification Crisis
The Second Great Awakening, the Women’s Rights Movement,
the Penitentiary Movement, the Temperance Movement, mental
health reform, the slavery debate, the Abolitionist Movement
Trails west, Texas, the Mexican – American War, the California
Gold Rush
Popular Sovereignty, the Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, the Underground Railroad, “Bleeding Kansas”, the Dred
Scott case, Harpers’ Ferry, the Election on 1850, Southern
secession, Fort Sumter
The Union and the Confederacy, advantages and disadvantages
of the North and South, strategies of the North and South, battles
and the development of the war, African-Americans and the war,
Emancipation Proclamation, life during the war, aftermath of the
war, the 13th Amendment, Lincoln’s assassination
Three main problems of Reconstruction, various plans for
Reconstruction, Carpetbaggers, the 14th and 15th Amendments,
changes to the Southern economy, the Ku Klux Klan, the
Compromise of 1877, the end of Reconstruction, successes and
failures of Reconstruction