Marking Period 1

UNIT 1: INTRO TO CIVICS 
● Types of Government
● Origins of Democracy
● Becoming a Citizen
● Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

UNIT 2: REVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTION 
● Fighting and Winning the War
● Creating a Government: Trial, Error, and
Compromise
● Articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution

Marking Period 2

UNIT 3: LAW AND POLITICS 
● Article 3 of the Constitution
● The Bill of Rights
● The Political Spectrum
● Elections in America

Marking Period 3

UNIT 4: THE NEW NATION
● Washington and Adams
● Jefferson’s Presidency
● Madison and 1812
● The Era of Good Feelings

UNIT 5: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 
● The Age of Jackson
● Industrial Revolution and Reform
● Westward Expansion
● Slavery in the United States

Marking Period 4

UNIT 6: SEPARATION, DIVISION, AND RECONSTRUCTION
● The Politics of Slavery
● Causes of the Civil War
● The Civil War
● Reconstruction