1. Eighth Grade Social Studies Tentative Course Outline

2. Review of events leading to civil war
8th Grade September
Review of events leading to civil war
  Revolution
  Constitution
  Public Nation
  Expansion
 Relocation
 Industrialization
 Reformation
 Division

3. September-October
A dividing nation
Slavery
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Dred Scott
 New Republican Party
 Harper’s Ferry

4. September - October
The Civil War part one
The shape
 Fort Sumter
 Choosing sides
The Struggle
 Strategies
 Technology - Monitor v. 
 Merrimack

5. October 
Understanding midterm 
elections
 Current Events - political

6. Emancipation Proclamation
October – November
Understanding midterm 
elections
 Current Events - political
The Civil War part two
  Freedom?
  Emancipation Proclamation
  54th Massachusetts Reg.
 Difficulties of war

7. November/ December
The end of the Civil War
 Gettysburg Address
 Appomattox Court House
Reconstruction
 Reunion
 Changes in the South

8. January
The Wild West
 Plains Indians
 Miners and Railroads
 Ranchers and Cowhands
 Farming
Industry post Civil War
 Railroads
 Inventions and Big Business
 The American Worker
Era of the Cities
 Immigration
 City Life
 Educational and cultural reform

9. January/February
Progressive Era
 Regulating business
 Power to the voters.
 Trust busting
 Women’s rights
Suffrage
Temperance
 Fighting for Equality
 African Americans
 Mexican Americans
 Native Americans
 Asian Americans

10. February/March
Becoming a World Power
 Pacific Trade
 Purchase of Alaska
 Annex of Hawaii
 Relations with China
 Spanish American War
 Latin America
.World War I (Feb/March)
 Europe and the causes
 U.S. Involvement
 Winning
 Peace

11. April
Roaring Twenties
 Prosperity
 New technology, new ways of 
 life
 Trouble brewing
Depression
 Economy Crashes
 The New Deal
 Survival

12. The spread of Communism Dividing Europe
  May/June
World War II
 Dictatorship
 Home Front
 Allies Advance
 Victory
The Cold War
  The spread of Communism
 Dividing Europe