U.S. History MS Course

Exploros U.S. History MS is a complete middle school curriculum, containing 10 units with approximately 15 5E model lessons per unit. The course is intended for live classroom instruction in device-enabled middle school classrooms.

Students use social media skills to actively engage in learning broadly about United States History from early European explorations through 1877.

Exploration and Colonization
European exploration of the Americas, geography of the early colonies, Spanish and English colonization, Jamestown, The Great Awakening, slave life

Westward Expansion
Oregon Trail, Texas and Mexico, Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush

American Revolution
The French and Indian War, taxation in the colonies, Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War

Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution, economies of the North and South, attitudes towards immigrants, slaves and freedmen

Constitution
Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, principles of American government, Bill of Rights, amendments, citizen's responsibilities

Reform and Culture
Reform Movements, abolitionism, Underground Railroad, women's rights, 19th-century arts and literature

Early Republic
Economic system, early foreign policy, Marbury vs. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine

Civil War
Conflicts over slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Dred Scott case, Lincoln's values, Civil War leaders and battles, Emancipation Proclamation

Age of Jackson
Jacksonian democracy, states' rights, Cherokee relations

Reconstruction
Early Reconstruction, Lincoln's assassination, Johnson's impeachment, sharecropping, the "New South," cattle, mining, railroads, failed promises for Native Americans