Age of Revolution 1850-1930
Modern Age
Unit 0 1 week 1850
Unit 1 1850 – 1859 A Rural Nation
Unit 2 1860 – 1865 Industrial Revolution
Unit 3 1865 – 1869 Bridging the World
Unit 4 1870 – 1879 Social Reform
Semester Project
Unit 5 1880 – 1889 Urban Nation
Semester Test
Unit 6 1890 – 1899 Imperialism
Unit 7 1900 – 1909 Age of Optimism
Unit 8 1910 – 1919 WWI/The War
to end all Wars
Unit 9 1920-1930 Roaring 20’s
Semester Project
Semester Test
Unit Highlights
1850 Summary & Orientation
Manifest Destiny, from sea to shining sea
Period Literature, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Famous Folks, John Brown
Civil War
Confederate States of America
Navajo (Long Walk)
Golden Age of the Cowboy
Charles Dickens
Suez Canal opens in Egypt
Transcontinental Railroad
Impressionism in Art
German Empire Established
Harvey Girls Civilize the West
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Boxer Rebellion
Alaska Gold Rush
Ragtime and Scott Joplin
Golden Age of the Railroad
Wright Brothers, Mother Jones
Panama Canal Began
War Time Poetry, Yeats, McCrae, Brooke
Blues, W. C. Handy
President Woodrow Wilson
Harlem Renaissance
Albert Einstein
League of Nations, World Court, World Wide Depression
Civic lessons in every unit:
Bill of Rights and Me, Amendments, Supreme Court Cases,
Constitutional Scavenger Hunt and more
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