ALLEGHANY COUNTY SCHOOLS CURRICULUM GUIDE

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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5 days / Early European exploration and colonization and the cultural interactions among Europeans, Africans, and First Americans
First American Cultures
  • North American cultures
  • Central American cultures
West African Cultures
European Cultures
  • The Crusades
  • The Renaissance
  • The Age of Discovery
Spanish Exploration and Colonization
  • Caribbean exploration and colonization
  • Southwest and Southern U.S. exploration and colonization
  • Columbian Exchange and epidemics
English Exploration and Colonization
  • Elizabethan colonization
  • Jamestown and Virginia
  • Puritan New England
  • Southern Colonies
  • Middle Colonies
French and Dutch Exploration and Colonization
Introduction of Black African Slavery
  • Caribbean sugar plantations
Southern plantation economy /

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ELP 5
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ELP 5 / Characteristics of early European Exploration in the New World / Textbook Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Curriculum Framework
VA SOL Review Workbook / Videos/DVDs
Pre Test
(Interactive Achievement / Ross Works) / Vocabulary lists
Maps
Textbook work
Quizzes
Tests
SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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4 Days / The Enlightenment
  • John Locke
  • Social Contract
  • Natural Rights
  • Limited Government
  • Popular Sovereignty
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence
  • Unalienable rights
  • Consent of the governed
  • Right to alter or abolish government
  • Grievances from Common Sense
Anglo-French rivalry in North America
Ohio RiverValley and the French and Indian War
Economic and Political response to the war
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Sugar Act
  • Stamp Act
  • Townshend Duties
Organized Resistance to British rule
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Boston Massacre
  • First Continental Congress
  • Minutemen and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
Political Differences in the colonies
  • Patriots
  • Loyalists
  • Neutrals
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ELP 1
ELP 5 / The Revolutionary Period
a. analyzing how the political ideas of John Locke and those expressed in Common Sense helped shape the Declaration of Independence / Prentiss Hall
United States History
Chapter 3
VA SOL Review Workbook
Prentiss HallUnited States History Chapter 4 / Video Series; The American Revolution Vol. 1-6 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook work
Quizzes
Tests
SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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4 Days / Factors leading to colonial victory
  • Benjamin Franklin and the French Alliance
  • The leadership of George Washington
  • Foreign military intervention on America’s side
The Articles of Confederation
  • Weak national government
  • No power to tax
  • No common currency
  • State equality
  • No national executive
  • No national judiciary
Call for a National Constitutional Convention
  • Annapolis convention
  • Shays’ Rebellion
  • Philadelphia Convention
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ELP 5 / The Revolutionary Period
c. reasons for the colonial victory in the Revolutionary War
The creation and ratification of the Constitution of the U.S. and how the principles of limited government, consent of the governed, and the social contract are embodied in it
a. origins of the Constitution, including the Articles of Confederation / Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Prentiss HallUnited States History Chapter 5
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Prentiss HallUnited States History Chapter 5 / Video Series; The American Revolution Vol. 1-6
Video Series; The American Revolution Vol. 1-6 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
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SOL Review
Interactive achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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Federalists
  • Strong national government
  • Checks and balances
  • Separation of powers
  • Large territory
  • Political factions
Anti-Federalists
  • Strong state governments
  • National Bill of Rights
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c. ratification of the Constitution, Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights / Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 5 / Videos/DVDs / Vocabulary List
Maps
Textbook Work
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SOL Review

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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Virginia Declaration of Rights
  • George Mason
  • Protection of rights from government intrusion
VirginiaState for Religious Freedom
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Outlawed established church
Bill of Rights
James Madison / VUS.5 / The Revolutionary Period
d. the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in the framing of the Bill of Rights / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 5
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Videos/DVDs / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
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SOL Review Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

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9 Days / Political Developments
  • Political Parties
  • The Election of 1800
  • John Marshall’s Supreme Court Decisions
Territorial Expansion
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • OregonTerritory
  • Florida
  • Monroe Doctrine
Economic Developments
  • Western Expansion
  • American System
  • Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
  • Settlement of Texas and the Texas War of Independence
  • Mexican-American War and the American Southwest
Impact on the First Americans
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Forced Relocation
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ELP 1
ELP 5 / Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1860
a. economic, political, and geographic factors that led to territorial expansion and its impact on the First Americans / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 6
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 / Videos/DVDs
Video Series
The Alamo
Vol. 1 & 2 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
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SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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10 Days / Expansion of Democracy
  • Elimination of property requirements
  • Nominating Convention
Jacksonian Democracy
  • Presidential veto
  • Spoils system
Bank of the U.S.
  • Jackson’s opposition to the BUS
  • Panic of 1837
/ VUS.6 / Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1860
b. the Jacksonian Era and the National Bank / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 7
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Videos/DVDs / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
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Northern Economy
  • Industrial economy
  • Protective tariffs
Southern Economy
  • Agricultural economy
  • Plantation system and slavery
  • Appalachian subsistence economy
  • Importation of manufactured goods
Cultural Divisions
  • Slavery and the Abolitionists Movement
  • Slave Rebellions
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Popular Sovereignty and Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Nullification
  • Formation of the Republican Party
  • Dred Scott Decision
Women’s Suffrage Movement
  • Seneca Falls Declaration
  • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
/ VUS.6 / Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1860
c. the cultural, economic, and political issue that divided the nation, including slavery, the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, and states’ rights / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 7
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Chapter 8
Chapter 10 / Video Series

The Civil War

Vol. 1-9 / Vocabulary list
Maps
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Major Events
  • Election of 1860
  • Secession of Southern States
  • FortSumter
  • Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Gettysburg
  • Appomattox Court House
Key Leaders
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Frederick Douglass
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ELP 1
ELP 5 / Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860 to 1877
a. key leaders of the Civil War era, with emphasis on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Frederick Douglass / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series

The Civil War

Vol. 1-9 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
Tests
SOL review
Interactive Achievment Pre and Post Test

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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Emancipation Proclamation
  • Freed slaves in rebellious states
  • Made slavery an purpose of the war
  • Discouraged foreign involvement
Gettysburg Address
  • Preservation of the union
Popular Sovereignty / VUS.7 / Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860 to 1877
b. the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 11
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series;

The Civil War

Vol. 1-9

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Political Effects
  • United States is a single state, not a collection of individual states
  • Assassination of Lincoln
  • Radical Reconstruction and Military Occupation of the South
  • Republican control and the impeachment of A. Johnson
  • 13th Amendment
  • 14th Amendment
  • 15th Amendment
  • Compromise of 1877
  • “Jim Crow Era”
Economic Effects
  • Devastation of the Southern Economy
  • Northern and Midwestern Industrial Revolution
  • Transcontinental Railroad
/ VUS.7 / Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860 to 1877
c. political, social, and economic impact of the war and Reconstruction, including the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments / Prentiss Hall History United States
Chapter 12
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series;

The Civil War

Vol. 1-9
Mid Test
(Interactive Achievement / Ross Works)

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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9 Days / Westward Movement
  • Era of the American Cowboy and the Cattle Drive
  • Homestead Act of 1862
  • Opportunities for the economically disadvantaged
  • Transcontinental Railroads
  • Mechanized agricultural advancements
Immigration
  • Prior to 1871
  • 1871 – 1921
  • Reasons for immigration
  • Contributions by immigrants
  • Ellis Island, AngelIsland, and the Statue of Liberty
  • America as a “melting pot”
  • Nativism and prejudices
  • Limitations placed on immigration
Urban Growth
  • Industrial growth and factories
  • Tenements and slums
  • Public Services
New States / VUS.8
ELP 1
ELP 5 / Reshaping the Nation and the Emergence of Modern America: 1877 – 1930s
a. territorial expansion, westward movement, new immigration, urban development, new states / Prentiss Hall
United States History
Chapter 15
Va. and U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Chapter 14 / Video Series
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
Tests
SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Test

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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Modern Industrial Economy
  • Growth of cities
  • Expansion of Big Business
  • Growth of Agriculture
  • Rise of Labor Unions
  • Industrial Conflict
Inventions/Innovations
  • Corporation (limited liability)
  • Bessemer steel process
  • Light bulb and electricity
  • Telephone (Bell)
  • Airplane (Wrights)
  • Assembly Line (Ford)
Industrial Leaders
  • Andrew Carnegie (steel)
  • J. P. Morgan (finance)
  • John D. Rockefeller (oil)
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads)
Reasons for economic transformation
  • Laissez-faire capitalism
  • Land grants
  • Increased labor Supply
  • Immigration and migration
  • Natural resources
/ VUS.8 / Transformation of the American economy from a primarily agrarian to a modern industrial economy and identifying major inventions that improved life in the United States / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Va. And U.S. HistoryCurriculum Framework
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 / Video Series; The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6

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Race relations
  • Discrimination and segregation
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Lynchings
  • Plessy v Ferguson
  • Great Northward Migration
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. Dubois
  • NAACP founded
/ VUS.8 / Prejudice and Segregation with emphasis on “Jim Crow” and the responses of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 15 & 16
Va. And U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series;
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6

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Working Conditions
  • Dangerous working conditions
  • Child Labor
  • Long hours, low wages, no job security or benefits
  • Company towns
  • Employment of women
Progressive Movement Goals
  • People-controlled government
  • Guaranteed economic opportunities
  • Elimination of social injustices
Progressive Accomplishments
  • Local government – new forms
  • State government – referendum, initiative, recall
  • Direct elections of U.S. Senators – 17th Amendment
  • Child labor laws
  • Muckrakers
  • Labor Unions
  • Strikes – Haymarket, Homestead and Pullman
  • Anti-trust laws – Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts
  • Women’s Suffrage – Susan B. Anthony and 19th Amendment
/ VUS.8 / Progressive movement including child labor and antitrust laws, the use of labor unions and the success of the women’s suffrage movement / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 16 & 17
Va. And U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6

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5 Days / Creation of International Markets
  • Open Door Policy (John Hay)
  • Dollar Diplomacy (President Taft)
  • Growth in international trade (global economy)
Latin America
  • Spanish American War
  • Puerto Rico annexed
  • U.S. to intervene in Cuba
  • Panama Canal
  • Panama’s independence from Columbia
  • Treaty negotiated to build canal
Asia and The Pacific
  • Hawaiian monarchy deposed
  • Annexation of Hawaii
  • Annexation of Philippines
  • Open Door Policy – Obedience to Chinese law and fair competition
U.S. Involvement in World War I
  • WWI begins in Europe
  • America remains neutral for three years
  • U.S. enters when Germany threatens freedom of the seas and Great Britain
  • “A world safe for democracy”
  • America tips the balance of the war
  • Wilson’s Fourteen Points
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League debate in the United States
The Great Depression
  • Causes of the Great Depression
  • Overspeculation of stocks
  • Stock market crash
  • Collapse of nation’s banking system
  • Contraction of money in circulation
  • High protective tariffs – retaliatory tariffs
  • Tariff Act of 1930 – (Hawley-Smoot Act)
  • Impact of the Great Depression
  • Unemployment and homelessness
  • Collapse of financial system
  • Political unrest
  • Farm foreclosures and migration
  • New Deal
  • Government more active in problem solving
  • “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” – Roosevelt
  • Relief measures provide direct payment (WPA)
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ELP 5 / Changing policies of the United States toward Latin America and Asia and the growing influence of the United States in foreign markets
United States involvement in World War I including Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles and the national debate over treaty ratification and the League of Nations / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 18
Va. And U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 19
Va. And U.S. History Curriculum Framework
Chapter 21
Chapter 22 / Video Series
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6
Video Series
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6 / Vocabulary Lists
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
Tests
SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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10 days / American involvement in WWII
  • WWII began with invasion of Poland – 1939
  • United States remains neutral for 2 years
  • Germany overruns France and bombs Great Britain
  • Invasion of the Soviet Union
  • United States helps Great Britain (Lend Lease Act)
  • “lending a garden hose to a next door neighbor” FDR
The War in Asia
  • Japan’s domination over Asia
  • United States embargo against Japan
  • Japanese negotiation with the U.S.
  • Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
  • ‘a date that will live in infamy”
  • Congress declares war on Japan
  • Hitler declares war on U.S. honoring pact with Japan
Allied Strategy
  • “Defeat Hitler first”
  • Island hopping campaign
Axis Strategy
  • Germany to defeat Soviet Union quickly and gain control of oil
  • Force Britain out of war early
  • Following Pearl Harbor Japan invades the Philippines and Indonesia
  • Japan plans to invade Hawaii and Australia
  • Japan hopes America will accept Japanese domination
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ELP 5 / Causes and events that led to American involvement in the war, including military assistance to Britain and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor / Prentiss HallUnited States History
Chapter 23 & 24 / Video Series, The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6 / Vocabulary List
Maps
Textbook Work
Quizzes
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SOL Review
Interactive Achievement Pre and Post Tests

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History

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Major battles and major military points
  • North Africa – El Alamein
  • Soviet Union – Stalingrad
  • Liberation of Western Europe – Normandy invasion
  • MidwayIsland
  • Iwo Jima and Okinawa
  • Use of Atomic Bomb on Japan
/ VUS.10 / Major battles and turning points of the War in North Africa, Europe, the Pacific, including Midway, Stalingrad, the Normandy landing and Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb / Prentiss HallUnited States
History
Chapter 23 & 24
Va. And U.S. History Curriculum Framework / Video Series,
The Century, America’s Time
Vol. 1-6

GRADE/COURSE: Virginia and United States History