1. 7th Grade
September
Geography review
50 states and capitals
Middle Ages/Renaissance
The First Americans
Colonial America (Sept - Oct)
 Spanish Colonization
 Background to English 
Colonization
 Reformation
 Defeat of Spanish Armada

2. 7th Grade October .
The first settlements
 Roanoke
 Jamestown
The 13 Colonies
 New England
 Middle
 Southern
 Changing government and culture
 Westward to the Alleghenies

3. 7th Grade November
Conflict on the Western border 
(Nov - Dec)
Colonial Rivalries
 French
 Spanish
 Dutch

4. 7th Grade
December
French and Indian War
 Forts
 Indians
 Taxes
Revolution (Dec - Jan)
 The kickoff - events

5. 7th Grade
January
Declaring Independence
(simulation)
 Fighting
 Winning

6. 7th Grade
February
A More Perfect Union
 Coming together
Confederation of states
Constitutional Convention
 Ratifying the Original Constitution.
.The Constitution as a work in progress
 Goals
 Principles
 Citizen responsibilities

7. 7th Grade
March
The New Republic.
 launching, following and interpreting the 
Constitution
 Neutrality as a policy
 Political Party division and creation
The Jefferson Presidency
 Westward Exploration
Lewis and Clark
Fort system
Louisiana Purchase

8. 7th Grade April - May Wars and Threats from abroad Napoleonic wars
 Impressment
 The War of 1812
 Battles and fighting styles
 Treaty of Ghent
Industrial Revolution/America as a role model
 Moving west
 Monroe and Era of Good Feelings
 Copycat democracies
The age of Old Hickory
 Controversial Elections
 “To the victor belongs the spoils”
 Suffrage and voting rights round one
 Trails of tears

9. May - June
Industrial Revolution/America as a role model
 Moving west
 Monroe and Era of Good Feelings
 Copycat democracies
The age of Old Hickory
 Controversial Elections
 Suffrage and voting rights round one
 Trails of tears
Westward Ho
 Texas Independence
 Manifest Destiny
 Gold Rush
 War with Mexico