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Chapter 1: The First Americans |
Lesson 1: Migration to the Americas |
Lesson 2: Cities and Empires |
Lesson 3: North American Peoples |
Chapter 2: Exploring the Americas |
Lesson 1: A Changing World |
Lesson 2: Early Exploration |
Lesson 3: Spain in America |
Lesson 4: Competing for Colonies |
Chapter 3: Colonial America |
Lesson 1: Roanoke and Jamestown |
Lesson 2: The New England Colonies |
Lesson 3: The Middle Colonies |
Lesson 4: The Southern Colonies |
Chapter 4: Life in the American Colonies |
Lesson 1: Colonial Economy |
Lesson 2: Colonial Government |
Lesson 3: Culture and Society |
Lesson 4: Rivalry in North America |
Chapter 5: The Spirit of Independence |
Lesson 1: No Taxation Without Representation |
Lesson 2: Uniting the Colonists |
Lesson 3: A Call to Arms |
Lesson 4: Declaring Independence |
Chapter 6: The American Revolution |
Lesson 1: The War for Independence |
Lesson 2: The War Continues |
Lesson 3: Battlegrounds Shift |
Lesson 4: The Final Years |
Chapter 7: A More Perfect Union |
Lesson 1: The Articles of Confederation |
Lesson 2: Forging a New Constitution |
Lesson 3: A New Plan of Government |
Chapter 8: The Constitution |
Lesson 1: Principles of the Constitution |
Lesson 2: Government and the People |
Chapter 9: The Federalist Era |
Lesson 1: The First President |
Lesson 2: Early Challenges |
Lesson 3: The First Political Parties |
Chapter 10: The Jefferson Era |
Lesson 1: A New Party in Power |
Lesson 2: The Louisiana Purchase |
Lesson 3: A Time of Conflict |
Lesson 4: The War of 1812 |
Chapter 11: Growth and Expansion |
Lesson 1: A Growing Economy |
Lesson 2: Moving West |
Lesson 3: Unity and Sectionalism |
Chapter 12: The Jackson Era |
Lesson 1: Jacksonian Democracy |
Lesson 2: Conflicts Over Land |
Lesson 3: Jackson and the Bank |
Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny |
Lesson 1: The Oregon Country |
Lesson 2: Statehood for Florida and Texas |
Lesson 3: War With Mexico |
Lesson 4: California and Utah |
Chapter 14: North and South |
Lesson 1: The Industrial North |
Lesson 2: People of the North |
Lesson 3: Southern Cotton Kingdom |
Lesson 4: People of the South |
Chapter 15: The Spirit of Reform |
Lesson 1: Social Reform |
Lesson 2: The Abolitionists |
Lesson 3: The Women’s Movement |
Chapter 16:Toward Civil War |
Lesson 1: The Search for Compromise |
Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery |
Lesson 3: Secession and War |
Chapter 17: The Civil War |
Lesson 1: The Two Sides |
Lesson 2: Early Years of the War |
Lesson 3: Life During the Civil War |
Lesson 4: The Strain of War |
Lesson 5: The War’s Final Stages |
Chapter 18: The Reconstruction Era |
Lesson 1: Planning Reconstruction |
Lesson 2: The Radicals Take Control |
Lesson 3: The South During Reconstruction |
Lesson 4: The Post-Reconstruction Era |