Newnan High School
History and Social Studies Department

 

 

U.S. History Scope and Sequence

Newnan High School

1st Nine Weeks

Colonial America/Road to Revolution (5 days) (Chap. 3 & 4)

Southern Colonies

New England

Middle Colonies

 

Revolution/Constitution (5 days) (Chap. 5 & 6)

Declaration of Independence

The War

The Confederation

A New Constitution

 

Federalist Era (5 days) (Chap. 7)

Organizing the Government

Foreign Affairs under Washington

President John Adams

 

The Age of Jefferson and Nationalism (5 days) (Chap. 8-9)

The Changing Political Scene

The War of 1812

The Era of Good Feelings

Monroe and Foreign Affairs

 

Sectionalism and the Age of Jackson (5 days) (Chap. 10-11)

Growth in the North

Growth in the South and West

Jacksonian Democracy

Political Controversies

 

The Spirit of Reform and Manifest Destiny  (5 days) (Chap. 12-13)

Struggle for Rights

The Thirst for New Lands

War with Mexico

Global Interests

 

Compromise, Conflict, and the Civil War  (5 days) (Chap. 14-15)

Dispute over Slavery

Drifting toward War

The War on the Battlefield

Ending the War

 

Reconstruction and the Movement West  (5 days) (Chap. 16-17)

After Slavery

Reconstructing the South

People of the Plains

 

Review and Testing (5 days)

 

2nd Nine Weeks

Industry, Populism, and the Gilded Age (5 days) (Chap. 18-21)

Industrialization

Unions

Populism

 

Imperialism and the Progressive Era (5 days) (Chap. 22-24)

Spanish American War

Progressivism

Square Deal

Taft Presidency

 

World War I and Normalcy (5 days) (Chap. 25-26)

America Enters the War

After the War

The "Roaring Twenties"

 

The Depression and the New Deal (5 days) (Chap. 27-28)

The Stock Market Crashes

The Depression Worsens

Roosevelt Takes Charge

The Impact of the New Deal

 

World War II and the Cold War (5 days) (Chap. 29-30)

World Affairs, 1933-1939

The United States at War

War on the Home Front

Cold War America

 

Search for Stability and Civil Rights (5 days) (Chap. 31-32)

The Eisenhower Years

An Affluent Society

Foreign Policy

The Impact of Civil Rights

 

Vietnam through Watergate (5 days) (Chap. 33-34)

War in Vietnam

Kennedy's New Frontiers

The Great Society

The Watergate Scandal

 

Conservative Revolution and Toward a New Century (5 days) (Chap. 35-36)

Crisis of Confidence

A Conservative Shift

America in a Changing World

 

Review and Testing (5 days)

 

 

 

 Contact Information
Telephone
770.254.2880
FAX
770.254.2797
Postal address
190 Lagrange Street, Newnan, Georgia 30263
Electronic mail
Department Chair: stephen.quesinberry@cowetaschools.net






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