IDDLE SCHOOL American History - Hillsdale College

GRADES 6?8 | 1492?PRESENT

6-8 GRADES

American History Hillsdale College K-12 Curriculum

COMPLETE LESSON PLANS

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MIDDLE SCHOOL

American History

6th-8th Grade

OVERVIEW

8 units | 45?50-minute classes

Unit 1 | The British Colonies of North America

LESSON 1 The Lands, Waters, and Peoples of America LESSON 2 1492?1630 Exploration and Settlement LESSON 3 1630?1732 The Colonies in Profile LESSON 4 1607?1763 Major Events in the Colonies

28?32 classes

Unit 2 | The American Founding

LESSON 1 1763?1776 Self?Government or Tyranny

LESSON 2

1776

The Declaration of Independence

LESSON 3 LESSON 4

1776?1783 1783?1789

The War of Independence The United States Constitution

32?36 classes

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Unit 3 | The Early Republic

LESSON 1 1789?1801 The New Government LESSON 2 1801?1815 Prospects, Uncertainties, and War LESSON 3 1815?1829 The American Way LESSON 4 1829?1848 Manifest Destiny

Unit 4 | The American Civil War

LESSON 1 1848?1854 The Expansion of Slavery LESSON 2 1854?1861 Toward Civil War LESSON 3 1861?1865 The Civil War LESSON 4 1865?1877 Reconstruction

Unit 5 | The Turn of the Century

LESSON 1 1877?1901 The Gilded Age LESSON 2 1901?1914 The Progressive Era LESSON 3 1914?1919 The Great War

Unit 6 | The Interwar Years & World War II

LESSON 1 LESSON 2 LESSON 3

1919?1929 1929?1939 1939?1945

The Roaring Twenties The Great Depression World War II

Middle School | American History 30?34 classes

29?33 classes

19-22 classes 27?31 classes

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Unit 7 | Post-War America

LESSON 1 LESSON 2 LESSON 3

1945?1953 The Start of the Cold War 1953?1964 The American Dream 1964?1974 Tumult: Foreign and Domestic

Unit 8 | Recent American History

Middle School | American History 21-24 classes

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