U.S. History Curriculum and Lesson Plans: UNIT 0-1 (1491-1607)

$15.00

This is a 64-page downloadable PDF of ALL the materials in Units 0-1 of my Foundations of U.S. History online course.

All content is ORIGINAL and only available within these resources.

This download includes:

3 sets of video lecture notes and answer keys for the following videos:

“Why do we study history?”
“The Five C’s of Historical Thinking”
“1491: Debunking Myths of the Americas Before Columbus”

3 activities with answer keys (when applicable):

“DBQ Activity: Contemporary Debates on U.S. History Education”
“Comparing Spanish Accounts of Indigenous Interactions”
“Multiple-Choice Practice Activity”

2 unit overviews with summary, main idea, and key questions:

“Introduction to U.S. History”
“Introduction to Unit 1: 1491-1607”

2 quizzes with answer keys:

Module 1 Quiz: The Work of Modern Historians
Module 2 Quiz: Indigenous Civilizations of North America

1 project:

Unit 1 Project: Indigenous Land Research & Acknowledgement

This purchase is intended for ONE person and is not to be shared beyond your own students/classroom.

(Teachers: You do NOT need to purchase a license each year depending on your class size. Once you purchase this resource it is yours forever as long as you do not share it with other teachers. They should purchase their own to use with their students. Thanks so much for supporting my work, expertise, and original material. - Emily)

U.S. History Curriculum and Lesson Plans: UNIT 2 (1607-1754)

$25.00

This is a 99-page downloadable PDF of ALL the materials in Unit 2 of my Foundations of U.S. History online course.

All content is ORIGINAL and only available within these resources.

This download includes:

5 sets of video lecture notes and answer keys for the following videos:

“Jamestown”
“Puritans”
“Colonial Rebels”
“1676”
“American Slavery”

5 activities with answer keys (when applicable):

Fact Checking Disney’s Pocahontas
DBQ Activity: Evaluating Religious Freedom in the Colonies
Evaluating the Salem Witch Trials
DBQ Activity: Change & Conflict in the Colonial Era
Biography: Who was Benjamin Lay?

1 unit overview with summary, main idea, and key questions:

“Introduction to Unit 2: 1607-1754”

3 quizzes with answer keys:

Module 3 Quiz: Comparing Colonies
Module 4 Quiz: Colonial Conflict
Module 5 Quiz: Colonial Slavery

1 project:

Unit 2 Project: Build Your Own Early American Colony

1 test:

Unit 2 Exam (14 stimulus-based multiple choice with explanations; 3 short answer prompts with sample responses)

This purchase is intended for ONE person and is not to be shared beyond your own students/classroom.

(Teachers: You do NOT need to purchase a license each year depending on your class size. Once you purchase this resource it is yours forever as long as you do not share it with other teachers. They should purchase their own to use with their students. Thanks so much for supporting my work, expertise, and original material. - Emily)

U.S. History Curriculum and Lesson Plans: UNIT 3 (1754-1800)

$25.00

This is a 95-page downloadable PDF of ALL the materials in Unit 3 of my Foundations of U.S. History online course.

All content is ORIGINAL and only available within these resources.

This download includes:

6 sets of video lecture notes and answer keys for the following videos:

“Road to Revolution”
“American Revolution”
“Constitutional Debates”
“The Washington & Adams Presidencies”
“Black American Revolutionaries”
“Sally Hemings”

6 activities with answer keys (when applicable):

Contextualizing Common Sense
What would YOU do in the Battles of Lexington, Saratoga, and Yorktown?
Comparing Shays’ vs. the Whiskey Rebellion
Biography: Who was The Public Universal Friend?
The Founders’ Views on Slavery

1 unit overview with summary, main idea, and key questions:

Introduction to Unit 2: 1754-1800

3 quizzes with answer keys:

Module 6 Quiz: The American Revolution
Module 7 Quiz: The Early Constitutional Era
Module 8 Quiz: Diversity in the Revolutionary Era

1 project:

Unit 3 Project: Celebrating Unsung Heroes of the Revolution

1 test:

Unit 3 Test (16 stimulus-based multiple choice with answers and explanations; 3 short answer prompts with sample responses)

This purchase is intended for ONE person and is not to be shared beyond your own students/classroom.

(Teachers: You do NOT need to purchase a license each year depending on your class size. Once you purchase this resource it is yours forever as long as you do not share it with other teachers. They should purchase their own to use with their students. Thanks so much for supporting my work, expertise, and original material. - Emily)

U.S. History Curriculum and Lesson Plans: UNIT 4 (1800-1848)

$25.00

This is a 75-page downloadable PDF of ALL the materials in Unit 4 of my Foundations of U.S. History online course.

All content is ORIGINAL and only available within these resources.

This download includes

5 sets of video lecture notes and answer keys for the following videos:

“Jeffersonian Democracy”
“The War of 1812”
“The Significance of the War of 1812”
“Jacksonian Democracy”
“Birth of the Women’s Movement”

5 activities with answer keys (when applicable):

Visualizing Marshall Court Decisions
Biography: Sacagawea
Outlining the Market Revolution
President Jackson Gallery Walk
Female Reformers’ Dinner Party

1 unit overview with summary, main idea, and key questions:

Introduction to Unit 3: 1800-1848

3 quizzes with answer keys:

Module 9 Quiz: Jeffersonian Democracy
Module 10 Quiz: The War of 1812
Module 11 Quiz: The Jacksonian Era

1 project:

Unit 4 Project: The Rise of a Distinct American Culture

1 test:

Unit 4 Test (17 stimulus-based multiple choice with answers and explanations; 1 essay prompt with sample response)

This purchase is intended for ONE person and is not to be shared beyond your own students/classroom.

(Teachers: You do NOT need to purchase a license each year depending on your class size. Once you purchase this resource it is yours forever as long as you do not share it with other teachers. They should purchase their own to use with their students. Thanks so much for supporting my work, expertise, and original material. - Emily)

U.S. History Curriculum and Lesson Plans: UNIT 5 (1846-1877)

$30.00

This is a 116-page downloadable PDF of ALL the materials in Units 0-1 of my Foundations of U.S. History online course.

All content is ORIGINAL and only available within these resources.

This download includes:

10 sets of video lecture notes and answer keys for the following videos:

“The Mexican-American War”
“The Fight Over Slavery”
“Frederick Douglass & John Brown”
“Sojourner Truth”
“Abraham Lincoln”
“The Confederacy”
“The Civil War”
“Civil War Ends”
“Reconstruction”
“the Rise of Jim Crow”

9 activities with answer keys (when applicable):

Document Analysis: Mexican-American Rights
Comparing 1850s Events
Museum Search: The Underground Railroad
Quantifying the 1860 Election
Re-Imagining the “Cornerstone Speech”
What would YOU do at the Battles of Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and Appomattox?
Reporting on Reconstruction
Jim Crow State-by-State

1 unit overview with summary, main idea, and key questions:

Introduction to Unit 5: 1846-1877

5 quizzes with answer keys:

Module 12 Quiz: Sectionalism
Module 13 Quiz: Antebellum Reformers
Module 14 Quiz: Secession
Module 15 Quiz: The Civil War
Module 16 Quiz: Reconstruction

2 projects:

Unit 5 Project: Design a Historic Monument
Final Course Project: A Thematic Evaluation of Change & Continuity from 1491-1877

1 test:

Unit 3 Test (14 stimulus-based multiple choice with answers and explanations; 3 short answer prompts with sample responses)

This purchase is intended for ONE person and is not to be shared beyond your own students/classroom.

(Teachers: You do NOT need to purchase a license each year depending on your class size. Once you purchase this resource it is yours forever as long as you do not share it with other teachers. They should purchase their own to use with their students. Thanks so much for supporting my work, expertise, and original material. - Emily)