Lesson 1: The Struggle and the Vision 1607 – 1787
Jamestown, Virginia Charter, Major English Documents, Colonial Government, Colonial Grievances, Civil Disobedience, Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, Treaty of Paris, Articles of Confederation, Constitutional Convention, Federalist and Anti-Federalist, Ratification, Electoral College, Bill of Rights, Major Personalities

Lesson 2: The Early Years 1787 –1820
Washington’s Precedents, Hamilton’s Monetary System, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, Elastic clause, XYZ, Alien and Sedition Acts, Nullification, 12th Amendment, Marbury v Madison, Lousiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, Embargo, Madison, War of 1812, Protective Tariff, Sectional Economics, Missouri Compromise, Flordia, Monroe Doctrine

Lesson 3: Expansion and Dissention 1824 - 1860
Corrupt Bargain, Political Conventions, Nullification, Force Act, National Bank, Indian Removal, Second Great Awakening, Abolitionist, Temperance, Seneca Falls, Manifest Destiny, Texas Statehood, Mexican American War, Compromise of 1850, Japan Trade Agreement, Transcontinental Railroad Debate - Gadsden Purchase, Kansas Nebraska Act – Bleeding Kansas, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Republican Party, Personalities of the Period

Lesson 4: The Civil War and Reconstruction 1860 – 1876
Election, Session, Fort Sumter, Battle Strategy, Transcontinental Telegraph, Emancipation, Gettysburg, Sherman’s March, Surrender, Domestic Legislation, Union Ticket, Assassination, 13th Amendment, Freedman’s Bureau, 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction, Alaska, Impeachment, 15th Amendment, Spoils System, Election 1876,

Lesson 5: The Second Industrial Revolution: Westerners, Capitalists, and Workers in the Gilded Age
Demography, Transcontinental Railroad, Settlement of the West, Indian Wars, 2nd Industrial Revolution, Capitalists and Inventors, Reorganization of Business, Social Darwinism / Gospel of Wealth, Mark Twain, Working Conditions, Child Labor, Labor Movement, The Grange, Economic Issues, Major Personalities

Lesson 6: Politics in the Gilded Age
Garfield Assassination, Political Machines, Pendleton Act, Political Philosophy, Dawes Act, Interstate Commerce Act, Protective Tariff, Hard and Soft Money, Populist, Pullman Strike, Modern Navy, International Markets, Yellow Journalism, Spanish American War, Territorial Gains, Philippine Insurrection, Cuba, Yellow Fever, Chinese Exclusion, Open Door, Boxer Rebellion, McKinley Assassinated, Major Personalities

Lesson 7: The Progressive Era Begins 1900 -1920 (TR through Wilson.)
Social Science / Pragmatism / Government, Muckrakers, Political Reforms, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments, NAACP, Trust Busting, Consumer Protection, Big Stick Diplomacy, Roosevelt Corollary, Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Dollar Diplomacy, Progressive Party, Federal Reserve System, Labor, Brandeis, Watchful Waiting, Neutrality, WW I, Sedition Act, Fourteen Points, Senate Rejects the Treaty, Major Personalities

Lesson 8 : Boom and Bust 1920 - 1929
Economics, consumerism, automobile, Ford, Demographics, Lost Generation, Harlem Renaissance, New Woman, Volstead Act - Consequences; Medical Advances, Scopes Trial, Red Scare, Immigration Quotas, Political Scandal and Isolation; The Crash, Hoover's Programs, Tariff War, Bank Crisis, Bonus Army, Personalities.

Lesson 9: FDR 1932 – 1945, Truman 1945
New Deal, Rise of Dictators, Japanese Aggression, War in Europe, U.S. Policies, Peacetime Conscription, December 7, 1941, Declaration of War, Japanese Internment, Pacific Strategy, Europe Strategy, Mobilization of Resources, Women, Minorities, Labor Unions, Agreements at Yalta, D-Day, Holocaust, FDR Dies, Truman, Potsdam Conference, Truman’s Decision, Japanese Surrender, United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt

Lesson 10: After the War: Truman – Eisenhower 1945 - 1960
GI Bill, Integration of the Military, Suburbia, Baby Boom, Taft-Hartley, “Fair Deal,” Cold War, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, OAS, Korean War, MacArthur, McCarthy; Eisenhower, Checkers, Space Race, Brown v Board of Education, Rosa Parks, M. L. King Jr., Civil Rights Protests

Lesson 11: Turbulent Years: Kennedy – Johnson 1960 - 1968
Kennedy, Civil Rights Promises, Thurgood Marshall, Peace Corps, Race for Space, Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Domino Theory, Vietman, Assassination, Civil Rights Act, War on Poverty, Medicare, King Assassination, Riots, Tonkin Gulf, escalation, Dis-information, War Protests

Lesson 12: Nixon, Carter, Reagan 1968 - 1989
Nixon Doctrine, Moon Landing, Recognition of China, ABM, Vietnamization, Agnew, Watergate, Ford, Nixon Pardon, Arms Reduction, Carter, Panama Canal, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostages, Equal Rights Amendment, Inflation, Regan, “Supply Side” Economics, Stagflation, Trade Deficit, Gramm-Rudman, Grenada, Iran Contra, Détente