1. Mr. O’Rourke U.S. Comprehensive History 2017-2018 School Year
Welcome Back to School!
Mr. O’Rourke
U.S. Comprehensive History School Year

2. Contact me at:
My phone extension is:
72127

3. Grading Policies Assessments – 33.3% Classwork/Homework – 33.3%
Participation – 33.4%

4. Class Requirements
Textbook – Students will receive a textbook this year.
Binders – 1 inch binders are preferred. History binders can be shared with another subjected if cleared by the teachers. Binders should have two dividers:
1) Classwork/Homework
2) Notes
Pen or pencil
Student Laptop

5. What we’ll be learning:
Launching the Nation
Washington Leads a New Nation
Hamilton and National Finances
Challenges for the New Nation
John Adams’s Presidency
The New Republic,
Jefferson Becomes President
The Louisiana Purchase
The Coming of War
The War of 1812

6. What we’ll be learning:
A New National Identity,
American Foreign Policy
Nationalism and Sectionalism
American Culture
The Age of Jackson,
Jacksonian Democracy
Jackson’s Administration
Indian Removal
Expanding West
Trails to the West
Texas Revolution
Mexican-American War
California Gold Rush

7. What we’ll be learning:
The Nation Expands,
The North
The Industrial Revolution in America
Changes in Working Life
The Transportation Revolution
Technological Advances
The South
Growth of the Cotton Industry
Southern Society
The Slave System

8. What we’ll be learning:
New Movements In America,
Immigration and Urban Challenges
American Arts
Reforming Society
Movement to End Slavery
Women’s Rights
A Divided Nation,
The Debate over Slavery
Trouble in Kansas
Political Decisions
The Nation Divides

9. What we’ll be learning:
The Civil War,
The War Begins
The War in the East
The War in the West
Daily Life during the War
The Tide of War Turns
Reconstruction
Rebuilding the South