US History Curriculum: Pre-Columbian–Civil War | Full Semester

Enhance your history teaching resources with our comprehensive curriculum, which includes engaging PowerPoint presentations, interactive Google Slides, and thought-provoking student questions, all complemented with primary source activities. Covering crucial American History topics such as Native American cultures, European exploration, British America, the American Revolution, the American Constitution, the founding of the new republic, sectional crisis, and the American Civil War, this package ensures a deep and thorough understanding of the United States' past.

This curriculum provides student guided notes with relevant questions, all integrated with primary sources to facilitate an immersive learning experience. Ideal for history teachers seeking to enrich their classroom resources and engage their students in an in-depth exploration of American history.

This bundle is more than enough to cover a full semester (and even more). Files are editable so you are able to change anything you deem necessary, and add or subtract slides.

The time period goes from Native American cultures (before and after the arrival of the Spanish) to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

PowerPoints in this bundle include:

• Indigenous America
• Colliding Cultures
• British America
• Colonial Society
• American Revolution
• The Constitution
• 1790s under George Washington and John Adams
• Jeffersonian Republicanism
• War of 1812
• Market Revolution
• Democracy in America
• Age of Jackson
• Religion and Reform
• Cotton Revolution
• Manifest Destiny
• Sectional Crisis
• American Civil War
• Reconstruction

These presentations touch on all of the above topics and adds more detail. Students will understand how how the United States became the way it is today. This curriculum works with traditional American history textbooks.

How to use these presentation:

• Present the PowerPoint (or Google Slides) in the classroom
• If using Google Slides, click the link provided and copy the slides into your Google Docs (very easy)
• Present the Google Slides via Zoom
• Present and discuss – while presenting, get students involved and create discussion questions that get students thinking like a historian and comparing historical events to current events
• Print presentation with notes and let students read the slides (and notes)
• Alternatively: have students view the slides, and they present the material in groups

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