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UNIT 1

Geography and Pre-Colonial North America

  • Discovering the geography of The United States and North Carolina

  1. Introduction to Historical Thinking and Pre-Colonial America

    1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

    2. Bias and perspective in History

    3. North Carolina Geography

      1. Mountain Region

      2. Piedmont Region

      3. Coastal Plain Region

      4. Tidewater Region

               D.  North Carolina Native American Tribes

  1. Cherokee

  2. Catawba

  3. Tuscarora

  4. Algonquian

    II. European Exploration and Colonization

      A. Christopher Columbus

      B. Columbian Exchange

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UNIT 2

The Colonial Era

  • Colonial Life and N.C. as a colony

  1. Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth

  2. 13 Colonies

  3. The Carolina Colony

    1. North Carolina

    2. South Carolina

  4. 3 colonial regions

    1. New England Region

    2. Middle Region

    3. Southern Region

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UNIT 3

The American Revolution

  1. Road to Revolution and Events of the War

    1. Causes of War

      1. Results of the French and Indian War

      2. Tax Acts

        1. Sugar Act

        2. Townshend Act

        3. Stamp Act

        4. Tea Act

        5. Intolerable Acts

          3. Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Edenton Tea Party

      B. Major Battles

  1. Battle of Lexington and Concord (Shot Heard Around the World)

  2. Battle of Bunker Hill

  3. Battle of Trenton

  4. Battle of Yorktown

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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UNIT 4

A New Nation and Government

  1. Founding of American Government

    1. Constitutional Convention

    2. Founding Documents

      1. Declaration of Independence

      2. Articles of Confederation

      3. Constitution

      4. Bill of Rights

  II.       American Government

  1. 3 Branches of the American Government

    1. Legislative (Congress - House of Representatives and Senate)

    2. Executive (President and Vice President)

    3. Judicial (Supreme Court)

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UNIT 5

Early 19th Century

  1. Manifest Destiny

    1. The idea that U.S.A. is destined to control the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

    2. Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark

      1. Land purchased from France, west of the Mississippi River

  II. War of 1812

  1. United States vs. Britain

  2. Battle of New Orleans

III. Westward Expansion

  1. Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Sante Fe Trail

  2. California Gold Rush

IV. Indian Removal

  1. Indian Removal Act

  2. Jackson’s Letter to the Cherokee

  3. Trail of Tears

V. Expansion of Slavery and Plantation life

  1. Inventions

  1. Cotton Gin, Steamboat, and Railroads

VI. Mexican-American War

  1. War with Mexico over Land, U.S.A. wins land in Southwest (notably Texas and California)

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Unit 6

A Nation Divided and Civil War

  1. Causes of the Civil War

    1. Mexican American War

    2. S.A.S.S.E.

      1. Slavery

      2. Abolition

      3. State vs. Federal Government Rights

      4. Sectionalism

      5. Election of Lincoln

 II.  Advantages of Each Side

  1. United States of America (Union / the North)

  1. Larger Population, Manufacturing Economy

     B.   Confederate States of America (Confederacy / the South)

  1. Experienced Military Leaders

III. Battles of the Civil War

  1. Fort Sumter

  2. Bull Run

  3. Antietam

  4. Gettysburg

  5. Surrender at Bennett Place and Appomattox Courthouse

IV.  Civil War Leaders

  1. Lincoln (Union)

  2. Grant (Union)

  3. Davis (Confederacy)

  4. Lee (Confederacy)

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UNIT 7 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

  1. Reconstruction

    1. Reconstruction Amendments

      1. Amendment 13 (Freedom)

      2. Amendment 14 (Citizenship)

      3. Amendment 15 (The Right to Vote)

               B. Reconstruction and African Americans

  1. Rise of White Supremacy Groups (KKK)

  2. Poll Taxes

  3. Literacy Tests

    C. Sharecropping, Tenant Farming and Carpetbaggers

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UNIT 8

Industrialization and Immigration

  1. Industrial Revolution

    1. Going from an agricultural (farming) economy to a manufacturing (factories) economy

    2. Monopolies

    3. Sherman Anti-Trust Laws

    4. Business Tycoons

      1. Carnegie

      2. Rockefeller

      3. Vanderbilt

      4. Ford

      5. JP Morgan

               E.  New Technology

  1. Telephones

  2. Radio

  3. Automobile

  4. Airplane

               F.   Child Labor

 II.       Immigration

  1. Ellis Island vs. Angel Island

  2. Red Scare

  1. Fear of Communism

    C.  Urbanization

  1. Growing Cities  

      D.   Muckrakers

  1. Upton Sinclair

  2. Jacob Riis

  3. Lewis Hine

  4. Ida Tarbell

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UNIT 9

WWI and the Roaring 20s

  1. World War I

    1. Sinking of the Lusitania

    2. Causes of WWI

      1. Militarism

      2. Alliances

      3. Imperialism

      4. Nationalism

      5. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

                C.   Treaty of Versailles

  II.     Roaring 20’s

  1. Social Movements

  1. Women’s Rights Movement

  2. Harlem Renaissance

  3. Prohibition

                B.   Purchasing on Credit

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UNIT 10

The Great Depression and the New Deal

  1. Great Depression

    1. Causes of the Great Depression

      1. Stock Market Crash

      2. Bank Failure

      3. Reduction

      4. Economic Policy with Europe

      5. Drought

                B.   The Dust Bowl

 II.       The New Deal

  1. Creation of major federal government programs to put people back to work

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UNIT 11

WW2

  • World War II

  1. Neutrality Acts

  2. Major Leaders in WWII

    1. Eisenhower, Truman, Stalin, Churchill (Allied Powers)

    2. Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini (Axis Powers)

  3. The Holocaust

  4. Pearl Harbor

  5. Atomic Bomb

    1. Should it have been dropped or not?

  6. League of Nations

    1. Why does the League fail?

  7. United Nations

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UNIT 12

The Cold War

  1. Cold War

    1. Democracy vs. Communism

    2. The Race to Space

      1. Soviet Union first in Space (Sputnik 1)

      2. United States first to put man on the Moon

              C.   McCarthyism

  1. The Red Scare

     D.   Korean War

              E.   Cuban Missile Crisis

              F.    Vietnam War

              G.    Fall of the Iron Curtain

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UNIT 13

The Civil Rights Movement

  1. Civil Rights Movement

    1. Death of Emmett Till

    2. Brown vs. the Board of Education

    3. Desegregation

    4. Little Rock Nine

    5. Martin Luther King Jr.

      1. Peaceful Protests

     F.   Malcom X

1. Spoke about Violently Protesting

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