1. Units & Time Periods Age of Reagan: The Rise of American Conservatism (1969-2001) – Nixon/Ford (1969-1977) – Carter (1977-1981) – Reagan (1981-1989) – Bush (1989-1993) – Clinton (1993-2001) – Other Important Years (OIY): Election Years 1980, 1984

2. American Origins: Settlement of North America (1492-1754) – Spanish Settlement (1492-) – French Settlement (1524-) – English Settlement (1607-) OIY: 1620, 1630

3. Birth of the Republic: American Revolutionary & Critical Period (1754-1801) – Toward Revolution (1763-1775) – American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) OIY: 1776, 1781 – Critical Period /Articles of Confederation(1781-1788) OIY: 1777, 1783, 1787 – Federalist Era (1789-1801) OIY: 1800

4. Rise of American Democracy: Jeffersonian Republicanism through Jacksonian Democracy (1801-1849) – Republican Era (1801-1829) OIY: 1812, 1815, 1820, 1824 – Age of Jackson (1829-1841) – Age of Reform (1830s & 40s) Battle Cry of Freedom: Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1850-1877) – “Manifest Destiny”/Westward Expansion (1841-1849) OIY: 1846, 1848 – Sectionalism & Secession (1850-1861) – Civil War (1861-1865) OIY: 1854, 1860, 1863 – Reconstruction (1865-1877)

5. The Gilded Age (1865-1900) – Industrialization OIY: 1862 – Labor Unions – Immigration Changes – Age of Imperialism OIY: 1898 – Farmers/Populism OIY: 1896

6. The Progressive Era & 1920s (1900-1929) – Progressive Era (1900-1920) TR, Taft, Wilson Square Deal, New Nationalism, New Freedom World War I (1914-1919), OIY: 1917 Grassroots Activism Amendments – 1920s “Return to Normalcy” First Red Scare Restrictions on Immigration Isolationism

7. Age of Roosevelt/Early Cold War (1929-1961) – Great Depression (1929-1941) – World War II (1939-1945) OIY: 1941 – Early Cold War (1945-1961) Truman Administration/Containment Eisenhower/New Look/Domino Theory 1950s, 1960s – Cold War Continues(1961-1969) – 1950s America: “Happy Days or Daze” – The Turbulent 1960s OIY: 1963, 1968