The purpose of this test is to identify your weaknesses and strengths in t US History topics.

• Que el estudiante comience a conocer y a valorar su propia historia y la de su comunidad para empezar a ubicarse en un pasado compartido. • Que los estudiantes se sientan partícipes de los primeros eventos y ceremonias como un modo de iniciación en los principales episodios de nuestra historia. • Que los estudiantes puedan reconocer algunos cambios y permanencias a través del tiempo. • Que los estudiantes se acerquen al uso de distintas herramientas de recolección de información. • Que los estudiantes se inicien en el conocimiento y respeto por los valores democráticos de la libertad y la justicia. • Que los estudiantes puedan reconocer los símbolos patrios como identificación de su cultura.

We will learn what was happening in the world prior to 1492.

Chapter Outline 2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest 2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World 2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy 2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange

By the mid-seventeenth century, the geopolitical map of North America had become a patchwork of imperial designs and ambitions as the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English reinforced their claims to parts of the land. The rise of colonial societies in the Americas brought Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans together for the first time, highlighting the radical social, cultural, and religious differences that hampered their ability to understand each other.

Objective: Identify areas of academic opportunity and work toward excellence.

4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies 4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire 4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution 4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment 4.5 Wars for Empire

5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and 5.2 Indian War 5.3 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty 5.4 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest 5.5 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity

On this section you will find all the bonus works and resources.

6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences 6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution 6.3 War in the South 6.4 Identity during the American Revolution

7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic 7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change? 7.3 Debating Democracy 7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution

8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans 8.2 The New American Republic 8.3 Partisan Politics 8.4 The United States Goes Back to War

9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast 9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic 9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution 9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions

10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson 10.2 The Rise of American Democracy 10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War 10.4 Indian Removal 10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority

11.1 Lewis and Clark 11.2 The Missouri Crisis 11.3 Independence for Texas 11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 11.5 Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West

The United States was transformed from an agrarian to an increasingly industrial and urbanized society. Although this transformation created new economic opportunities, it also created societal problems that were addressed by a variety of reform efforts

The objective of this lesson is provide students with a practical understanding of the principles and procedures of U.S. government.

15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War 15.2 Early Mobilization and War 15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War 15.4 The Union Triumphant

1. Explain how the discovery of gold and silver affected the west. summarize how the railroad was extended and helped develop the east. 2. Explain the conflicts between the settlers and the natives. 3. Explain the Dawes Act in 1887. 4. Discuss the myth of the Wild West. 5. Summarize the results of the Oklahoma land race.