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American History 1A Course of Study

This is the course of study for American History 1A - a one semester course for students in grades 7-12. If you follow the sequence below you'll be able to do 2 units  a week and finish in 14 weeks.

Unit One: The New World   

Biography: Christopher Columbus    

Unit Two: The Roanoke Colony

    
Biography: Sir Walter Raleigh  

   
Unit Three: How Jamestown was Settled 

   
Biography: John Smith   

 
Unit Four: The Starving Time  

 
Unit Five: The Great Charter of Virginia  

 
Biography: Nathaniel Bacon

    
Unit Six: The Pilgrims    

Unit Seven: The Puritans 

   
Biography: Roger Williams and the Puritans 

 
Biography: Anne Hutchinson  

   
Unit Eight: The Dutch    

Unit Nine: Settling Maryland and the Carolinas    

Biography: Lord Baltimore    

Unit Ten: The Quakers   

 
Biography: William Penn   

 
Unit Eleven: Georgia   

 
Biography: James Oglethorpe     

Unit Twelve: The Thirteen English Colonies

    
Unit Thirteen: Colonial Life  

 
Unit Fourteen: Farming and Shipping

Unit Fifteen: Servants, Slaves, and Laws 

   
Unit Sixteen: Wars with France and Spain

Unit Seventeen: The Fall of Canada 

   
Unit Eighteen: How the Colonies Were Governed

    
Unit Nineteen: The Spirit of Liberty

  
End of Semester Projects