United States History First Nine Weeks Syllabus
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Thursday, March 20, 2008
The American Vision, Textbook
Tuesday, January 22
Orientation/First day for students/What is history?
Competency Goal 1: The New Nation (1789 � 1820) � The learner will
identify, investigate, and assess the effectiveness of the institutions of
the emerging republic.
1.01 Identify the major domestic issues and conflicts experienced
by the nation during the Federalist Period.
1.02 Analyze the political freedoms available to the following
groups prior to 1820: women, wage earners, landless farmers, Native
Americans, African Americans, and other ethnic groups.
1.03 Assess commercial and diplomatic relationship with Britain, France,
and other nations.
Wednesday, January 23 - Thursday, January 24
The Administrations of George Washington and John Adams(pp. 210 � 220)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
George Washington Bill of Rights
Pinckney & Jay Treaties Neutrality Proclamation
Whiskey Rebellion Farewell Address
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions Cabinet
Thomas Jefferson John Adams
Alien & Sedition Acts XYZ Affair
Election of 1796 Judiciary Act of 1789
Alexander Hamilton Federalist party
Democratic-Republican party Convention of 1800
Midnight Judges Treaty of Greenville, 1795
Friday, January 25
Jeffersonian Democracy (pp. 221 � 225)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Revolution of 1800 Lewis & Clark expedition
impressment Sacajawea
Embargo Act Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v. Madison
Monday, january 28
�Mr. Madison�s War (pp. 228 � 232)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
War Hawks Old Ironsides
Dolley Madison James Madison
Hartford Convention Battle of New Orleans
Fort McHenry Stalemate
Treaty of Ghent Tecumseh
Report cards issued on Monday, January 28
Competency Goal 2: Expansion and Reform (1801 � 1850) � The learner
will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism, and
sectionalism.
2.01 Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission
of new states to the Union.
2.02 Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected
in art, literature, and language.
2.03 Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to
sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04 Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to
sectionalism and nationalism.
2.05 Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06 Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other
social movements and issues.
Tuesday, January 29
Era of Good Feelings (pp. 240 � 244)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
James Monroe The American System
nationalism Henry Clay & John Calhoun
John Marshall Monroe Doctrine
McCulloch v. Maryland Missouri Compromise
Adams-Onis Treaty
Wednesday, January 30
Start of the Industrial Revolution (pp. 245 � 250; 251 � 253)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Eli Whitney �Necessary Evil�
Erie Canal Know Nothings
cotton gin textiles
Samuel F.B. Morse Interchangeable parts
Samuel Slater & Moses Brown �Iron Horse�
Robert Fulton Nativism
John Deere Cyrus McCormick
Laissez-faire Nat Turner
Assignment, "That was then! This is Now!, due on Wednesday, January 30
Thursday, January 31
�A corrupt bargain� (pp. 258 � 260)
People, Places, Events, and Terms
Election of 1824 a corrupt bargain
John Q. Adams Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson suffrage
Friday, February 1/Monday, February 4
Jacksonian Democracy (pp. 260; 266 � 272)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Revolution of 1828 the Bank War
Trail of Tears the Nullification Crisis
spoils system John C. Calhoun
Era of the Common Man Peggy Eaton Affair
South Carolina Exposition & Protest Tariff of Abomination
Election of 1832 Whig party
Worcheser v Georgia Pet banks
Sequoyah
Tuesday, February 5
Test! The New Republic
(Flash cards and notebook due)
Wednesday, February 6 - Thursday, February 7 - Friday, February 8
Reform Movements in the 1800s (pp. 253 � 256; 273 � 282; 284 � 288)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Horace Mann Second Great Awakening
temperance Transcendentalists
Underground Railroad Abolitionists
Seneca Falls convention Frederick Douglass
Dorothea Dix Sojourner Truth
Neoclassical architecture Noah Webster
Henry David Thoreau Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne Hudson River School
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edgar Allen Poe
James Fennimore Cooper Alex de Tocqueville
William Lloyd Garrison Charles G. Finney
Rehabilitation Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott David Walker
Grime sisters
Utopian communities � Brook Farm, Oneida, New Harmony
Monday, February 11 - Tuesday, February 12 - Wednesday, February 13
Manifest Destiny (pp. 294 � 297; 300 � 304; 306 � 311)
People, Places, Events, & Term
Manifest Destiny Fifty Four Forty or Fight
�Remember the Alamo" James K. Polk
John Louis O�Sullivan Election of 1844
Mexican War 49ers
Gadsden Purchase Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Stephen Austin Oregon Trail
Annexation Wilmot Proviso
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young & Mormons
Thursday, February 14
Test! Jacksonian Democracy, Reform, and Manifest Destiny
(Flash cards and notebooks due)
Competency Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1848 � 1877) � The
learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effects of th
war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
3.01 Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War
to the outbreak of the Civil War.
3.02 Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.
3.03 Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and
assess the significance to the outcome of the conflict.
3.04 Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on
the nation and identify the reasons why Reconstruction came to an end.
3.05 Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction
proved to be a test of the supremacy of the national government.
Friday, February 15/Tuesday, February 19
The Road from Sectionalism to Secession and Civil War
(pp. 320 � 324; 326 � 338; 340 � 345)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Compromise of 1850 Election of 1860
Lincoln-Douglas debates Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fort Sumter Uncle Tom�s Cabin
Secession John Brown & Harper�s Ferry
Henry Clay Summer � Brooks incident
Bleeding Kansas Popular sovereignty
Freeport Doctrine Fugitive Slave Act
Republican party Confederate States of America
CAPs Day on Monday, February 18 - No School for Students
Wednesday, February 20 - Thursday, February 21
The Civil War, 1861 � 1865 (pp. 350 � 373; 376 � 380)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Jefferson Davis William T. Sherman
Bull Run 54th Massachusetts
Vicksburg Appomattox Court House
Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee
Antietam U.S. Grant
Gettysburg Merrimac & Monitor
Anaconda Plan Emancipation Proclamation
Copperheads Writ of Habeas Corpus
George McClellan Thomas �Stonewall� Jackson
John Wilkes Booth Gettysburg Address
Election of 1864
Interim reports issued on Wednesday, February 20
Friday, February 22/Monday, February 25 - Tuesday, February 26
Reconstruction (pp. 386 � 389; 391 � 395; 398 � 407)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Andrew Johnson Election of 1876
Presidential Plan v. Congressional Plan
Radical Republicans the Freedmen�s Bureau
13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments Redeemers
Solid South Impeachment
New South Civil Rights Act of 1866
Sharecroppers & tenant farmers Compromise of 1877
Carpetbaggers & scalawags KKK
Thaddeus Stevens Tenure of Office Act
Jim Crow laws
Project due on Tuesday, February 26
Thursday, February 28
Test! Sectionalism, Secession, Civil War, & Reconstruction
(Flash cards and notebook due)
Competency Goal 4: The Great West and the Rise of the Debtor (1860s � 1896) �
The learner will evaluate the great westward movement and assess the impact
of the agricultural revolution on the nation.
4.01 Compare and contrast the different groups of people who migrated to the
West and describe the problems they experienced.
4.02 Evaluate the impact that settlement in the West had upon different
groups of people and the environment.
4.03 Describe the causes and effects of the financial difficulties that
plagued the American farmer and trace the rise and decline of Populism.4.04
Describe the innovations in agricultural, technology and business practices
and assess their impact on the West.
Wednesday, February 27
The West (pp. 414 � 423; 425 � 430; 442 - 446)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Homestead Act A Century of Dishonor
Wounded Knee Dawes Act
cowtown barbed wire
Nat Love long drive
Exodusters Assimilation
Promontory Point, Utah Reservations
Sodhouse Steel plow
Windmill Battle of Little Bighorn
Morrill Land Grant of 1862 Oklahoma Land Rush
Comstock Lode Buffalo soldiers
Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce Transcontinental railroad
Sand Creek Massacre
Friday, February 29
Farmers Organize (pp. 500 � 507)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
initiative, recall, & referendum subsidies
Free Silverites Goldbugs
William Jennings Bryan Mary Elizabeth Lease
Populist party The Wonderful World of Oz
Front Porch campaign William McKinley
Cross of Gold speech Omaha Platform
Greenbacks Interstate Commerce Act
National Farmers Alliance & Colored Farmers Alliance
After school matinee - The Wizard of Oz (Monday, March 3)
Competency Goal 5: Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900) � The learner
will describe innovations in technology and business practices and assess
their impact on economic, political, and social life in America.
5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on
urban life.
5.02 Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and
wielded political and economic power.
5.03 Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.
5.04 Describe the changing role of government in economic and political
affairs.
Monday, March 3
Rise of Industry (pp. 436 � 440; 445 � 451)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Thomas A. Edison The Gospel of Wealth
Drake�s Folly horizontal integration
vertical integration corporation
monopoly mail-order catalog
Horatio Alger Andrew Carnegie
Philanthropists Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Bessemer John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company Chain store
Social Darwinism J. P. Morgan
U.S. Steel George Westinghouse
Trust Gilded Age
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Tuesday, March 4
Workers Organize (pp. 454 � 459)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Knights of Labor American Federation of
Labor strike
yellow dog contract
Pullman strike Eugene Debs
Arbitration Injunction
Homestead Steel strike Union
Haymarket Riot Samuel Gompers
Collective bargaining Sherman Antitrust Act
Negotiation The Great Strike (1877)
Wednesday, March 5
Coming to America (p. 464 � 468)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Ellis Island Chinese Exclusion Act
�melting pot� theory Gentlemen's Agreement
Jacob Riis Gentlemen's Agreement
Immigration Know-Nothing party
Nativism Statue of Liberty
Culture shock Culture pluralism
Jane Addams Settlement houses
sweatshops
Thursday, March 6
Test! The West & Populism
(Flash cards and notebooks due)
Friday, March 7
Growth of Cities
People, Places, Events, & Terms
Thomas Nast Tammany Hall
"El" Train Boss Tweed
Urbanization Political machine
Dumbbell tenements Ghetto
Elevator Thomas Edison
Electric trolleys Alexander Graham Bell
Monday, March 10
Era of Good Stealings (pp. 476 � 486; 492 � 497)
People, Places, Events, & Terms
U.S. Grant James Garfield
Mugwumps, Stalwarts, & Halfbreeds Patronage
Pendleton Act Gilded Age
Credit Mobilier scandal
Graft Secret ballot
After school matinee - American Tail (Monday, March 10)
Tuesday, March 11
Test! The Gilded Age
(Flash cards and notebooks due)
Competency Goal 6: The emergence of the United States in World Affairs
(1890 � 1914) � The learner will analyze causes and effects of the United
States emergence as a world power.
6.01 Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an
increasingly active role in world affairs.
6.02 Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and
political involvement and influence.
6.03 Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government
impacted the affairs of other countries.
Wednesday, March 12 - Thursday, March 13 - Friday, March 14
Imperialism (pp. 520 �541)
People, Places, Terms, & Events
imperialism Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar diplomacy Remember the Maine
Big Stick diplomacy Rough Riders
Open Door Policy Panama Canal
Alfred Mahan Yellow journalism
Protectorate Queen Liliuokalani
World policeman Treaty of Paris (1898)
Spheres of influence Josiah Strong
Frederick Jackson Turner Pancho Villa raids
Seward�s Folly Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst Commodore George Dewey
Platt Amendment �Splendid Little War�
Monday, March 17 - Tuesday, March 18
Review for midterm exams
(After school review sessions available)
Alternative assessment due on Imperialism due - Monday, March 17
(Flash cards and notebooks due)
Wednesday, March 19 - Thursday, March 20
USH midterm exams
Friday, March 21
Holiday - No school
Monday, March 24
Workday for teachers - No school for students!
Syllabus is subject to change!
