Week 1
Lesson 1
Life for Life for Blacks before the Civil War
Enslaved Blacks life, resistance, abolitionist movement, Compromise of 1850
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Lead up to Civil War
Bleeding Kansas, formation of Republican Party, Election of 1856, Dred Scott case
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Country Splits in Two
Election of 1860, South Secedes, Lincoln becomes President, War begins
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Country during Civil War
Causes of the war, Lincoln's policies, North and South during the War
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Civil War
Major events of the war, Foreign relations during the war
 Week 6
Lesson 6
End of Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation, Election of 1864, Final phase of war, Lincoln's assassination, effects of war
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Start of Reconstruction
13th and 14th Amendments, Andrew Johnson as President, Reconstruction governments, rise of Radical Republicans
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Reconstruction Governments
15th Amendment, Types of governments, Impeachment and Johnson, Election of 1868
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Development of Solid South
Force Acts, Election of 1872, Corruption with Grant's administration, South unifies, Depression of 1873
 Week 10
Lesson 10
End of Reconstruction
Election of 1876, Hayes administration, Southern whites evade 14th and 15th Amendments, sharecropping and agriculture
 Week 11
Lesson 11
New South
Farmers and inflation, start of grange, south grows and develops
 Week 12
Lesson 12
The Last Frontier
Migration to great plains, Election of 1880