Eighth Grade Units of Study
United States History: Pre-Columbian to the 21st Century
- Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
- Britain in the New World
- The New England Colonies
- The Middle Colonies
- The Southern Colonies
- African Americans in the British New World
- The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
- America's Place in the Global Struggle
- The Events Leading to Independence
- E Pluribus Unum
- The American Revolution
- Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
- When Does the Revolution End?
- The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
- The War Experience: Soldiers, Officers, and Civilians
- The Loyalists
- Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
- Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
- Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
- Revolutionary Achievement: Yeomen and Artisans
- The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Making Rules
- Drafting the Constitution
- Ratifying the Constitution
- George Washington
- Unsettled Domestic Issues
- Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s
- Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?
- The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812
- Social Change and National Development
- Politics and the New Nation
- The Age of Jackson
- The Rise of American Industry
- An Explosion of New Thought
- The Peculiar Institution
- Abolitionist Sentiment Grows
- Manifest Destiny
- An Uneasy Peace
- "Bloody Kansas"
- From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict
- A House Divided
- The War Behind the Lines
- Reconstruction
- The Gilded Age
- Organized Labor
- From the Countryside to the City
- New Dimensions in Everyday Life
- Closing the Frontier
- Western Folkways
- Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
- Progressives in the White House
- Seeking Empire
- America in the First World War
- The Decade That Roared
- Old Values vs. New Values
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal
- The Road to Pearl Harbor
- America in the Second World War
- Postwar Challenges
- The 1950s: Happy Days
- A New Civil Rights Movement
- The Vietnam War
- Politics from Camelot to Watergate
- Shaping a New America
- A Time of Malaise
- The Reagan Years
- Toward a New Millennium