Theme #1: Presidents

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – None

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 – George Washington & Thomas Jefferson

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – Abraham Lincoln

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – Theodore Roosevelt

• Unit #5: 1941-2006 – John F. Kennedy & George W. Bush

THEME #2 – WAR & CONFLICTS

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Virginia 1608

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 - American Revolution & War of 1812 (Mexican-American War)

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – American Civil War

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – Spanish American War (World War I)

• Unit #5: 1941-2006 - World War II, Vietnam War, (Gulf War, Iraq War)

THEME 3 – AFRICAN AMERICANS

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Slave Trade

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 – Plantation

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – Fredrick Douglas

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – KKK (Marcus Garvey 1920s)

• Unit #5: 1941-2006 –Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, Barack Obama

Theme #4 – Great American Minds

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Benjamin Franklin

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 – Eli Whitney

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – Thomas Edison (1879 invents the light bulb)

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – Henry Ford (1890s), Wright Brothers 1903, John D. Rockefeller

• Unit #5: 1941-2006 – Bill Gates

Theme #5 – Women in American History

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Pocahontas, Anne Hutchinson

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 – Abigail Adams, Betsy Ross

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – Harriet Tubman

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – Susan B. Anthony

• Unit #5: 1941-2006 – Orpah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton

Theme #6 – Great Historical Events

• Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Columbus & 1st Thanksgiving

• Unit #2: 1776-1850 – Signing of Declaration of Independence

• Unit #3: 1851-1869 – Robert E. Lee Surrenders

• Unit #4: 1870-1940 – NONE• Unit #5: 1941-2006 – Atomic Bomb &

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