Theme #1: Presidents Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – None Unit #2: – George Washington & Thomas Jefferson Unit #3: – Abraham Lincoln Unit #4: – Theodore Roosevelt Unit #5: – John F. Kennedy & George W. Bush

THEME #2 – WAR & CONFLICTS Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Virginia 1608 Unit #2: American Revolution & War of 1812 (Mexican-American War) Unit #3: – American Civil War Unit #4: – Spanish American War (World War I) Unit #5: World War II, Vietnam War, (Gulf War, Iraq War)

THEME 3 – AFRICAN AMERICANS Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Slave Trade Unit #2: – Plantation Unit #3: – Fredrick Douglas Unit #4: – KKK (Marcus Garvey 1920s) Unit #5: –Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, Barack Obama

Theme #4 – Great American Minds Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Benjamin Franklin Unit #2: – Eli Whitney Unit #3: – Thomas Edison (1879 invents the light bulb) Unit #4: – Henry Ford (1890s), Wright Brothers 1903, John D. Rockefeller Unit #5: – Bill Gates

Theme #5 – Women in American History Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Pocahontas, Anne Hutchinson Unit #2: – Abigail Adams, Betsy Ross Unit #3: – Harriet Tubman Unit #4: – Susan B. Anthony Unit #5: – Orpah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton

Theme #6 – Great Historical Events Unit #1: 1492 to 1775 – Columbus & 1 st Thanksgiving Unit #2: – Signing of Declaration of Independence Unit #3: – Robert E. Lee Surrenders Unit #4: – NONE Unit #5: – Atomic Bomb & September 11