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- Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
- Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754
- Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800
- Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
- Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
- Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
- Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
- Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
- Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present
- Exam Skills
Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
Topic 1.2: Native Americans Before European Contact
Topic 1.3: European Exploration in the Americas (The Myth of El Dorado)
Topic 1.4: Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest (Food and the Columbian Exchange)
Topic 1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System (The Black Legend)
Topic 1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System (The Encomienda System)
Topic 1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System (Primary Sources)
Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754
Topic 2.2: European Colonization
Topic 2.3: The Regions of British Colonies (New England Town Meetings)
Topic 2.4: Transatlantic Trade (Joint Stock Companies)
Topic 2.4: Transatlantic Trade (Trade Between Europeans and American Indian Communities)
Topic 2.7: Colonial Society and Culture
Topic 2.7: Colonial Society and Culture (The First and Second Great Awakenings)
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800
Topic 3.3: Taxation without Representation
Topic 3.4: Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
Topic 3.5: The American Revolution
Topic 3.6: The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals (Art and Short-Answer Questions)
Topic 3.7: The Articles of Confederation
Topic 3.8: The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification
Topic 3.10: Shaping a New Republic
Topic 3.11: Developing an American Identity (As American as Apple Pie)
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
Topic 4.2: The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson (The Louisiana Purchase)
Topic 4.3: Politics and Regional Interests (The American System)
Topic 4.4: American on the World Stage
Topic 4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization (Poetry and Song)
Topic 4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization (Quantitative Analysis)
Topic 4.6: Market Revolution: Society and Culture
Topic 4.7: Expanding Democracy (Andrew Jackson)
Topic 4.9: The Development of an American Culture
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
Topic 5.2: Mormon Settlements in the West
Topic 5.3: The Mexican-American War
Topic 5.4: The Compromise of 1850
Topic 5.5: Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Topic 5.6: Failure to Compromise
Topic 5.7: Election of 1860 and Secession
Topic 5.8: Military Conflict in the Civil War (Civil War Pregame Show)
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
Topic 6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development (The Frontier Thesis)
Topic 6.5: Technological Innovation
Topic 6.6: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism (The Haymarket Affair)
Topic 6.6: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism (DBQ)
Topic 6.7: Labor in the Gilded Age
Topic 6.8: Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age (The Chinese Exclusion Act)
Topic 6.9: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age (Social Darwinism)
Topic 6.10: Development of the Middle Class
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
Topic 7.3: The Spanish-American War
Topic 7.7: 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology (Images Analysis)
Topic 7.8: 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies (The Scopes Trial)
Topic 7.9: The Great Depression
Topic 7.11: Interwar Foreign Policy
Topic 7:12: World War II: Mobilization
Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present
Topic 9.2: Reagan and Conservatism
Topic 9.3: The End of the Cold War
Topic 9.4: A Changing Economy (Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s)
Exam Skills
Skills Practice: Homework Workload
Skills Practice: Real World Connections
Skills Practice: Point of View
Skills Practice: Bloom’s Taxonomy
Exam Skills: Mastering the Multiple-Choice Section
Exam Skills: Multiple-Choice Question Strategy
Exam Skills: Multiple-Choice Questions
Exam Skills: Mastering the Short-Answer Question
Exam Skills: Short-Answer Questions
Exam Skills: Analyzing a DBQ Prompt
Exam Skills: How to Earn a Thesis Point
Exam Skills: Mastering the Document-Based Question
Exam Skills: DBQ Analysis and Reasoning Points
Exam Skills: Evidence Points on the DBQ
Exam Skills: Evidence Points on the DBQ
Exam Skills: The Contextualization Point
Exam Skills: Vocabulary on the DBQ
Exam Skills: Sourcing Points on the DBQ
Exam Skills: Evidence Points on the LEQ
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