IB-History of Americas Syllabus

Henri Naylor

Unit One: Causes of Civil War

Duration: 1st2nd 6 weeks

IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:

  • United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77
  • Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistance
  • Origins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and South
  • Abolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impact
  • Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debates
  • Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leaders
  • Reconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansion
  • African Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws

Notes Included in this Unit:

  • Origins of Slavery
  • Background to Civil War
  • Westward Expansion
  • Growing Section Strife
  • Events Leading to Civil War

Unit Two: Civil War thru the End of Reconstruction

Duration: 3rd 6 weeks

IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:

  • United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77
  • Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistance
  • Origins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and South
  • Abolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impact
  • Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debates
  • Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leaders
  • Reconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansion
  • African Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws

Notes Included in this Unit:

  • Course of Civil War
  • Reconstruction

Unit Three: Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs 1880-1913

Duration: Last 3 wks. of the 4th Six Wks through 3rd wk of 5th Six Wks

IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:

  • Emergence of the Americas is Global Affairs 1880-1929
  • United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasons
  • Social Darwinism
  • Spanish-American War: causes and effects (1898)
  • United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasons
  • United States’ foreign policies: Big Stick, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, applications and impact on the region

Notes Included in this Unit:

  • Emergence of US Power in Global Affairs(1880-1913)
  • US Foreign Policy: 1900-1913
  • Wilson & Moral Diplomacy

Unit Three: Civil Rights

Duration: 6th 6 weeks

IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:

  • The Development of Modern Nations 1865-1929
  • Development and impact of ideological currents including Progressivism and Social Darwinism
  • Social, economic and legal conditions of African Americans between 1865 and 1929; Harlem Renaissance; the search for civil rights and the ideas, aims and tactics of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, and Marcus Garvey
  • Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas
  • African Americans and the Civil Rights Movement: origins, tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending of the segregation in the South (1955-65)
  • Role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights Movement; the rise of radical African American activism (1965-68): Black Panthers; Black Muslims; Black Power and Malcolm X
  • Role of the governments in civil rights movements in the Americas

Notes Included in this Unit:

  • US Civil Rights Movement