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Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)

  • Presidential Administrations (1789-1869)

    This module presents an overview of the significant presidential administrations between 1789-1869, that changed the policies and dynamics of the United States. Topics include Washington and Hamilton, Jefferson’s presidency, Jacksonian Democracy, and the 12th Amendment.

  • Women’s Movement

    This module is a comprehensive review of the women’s rights milestones within the United States. The timeline covers the years of the 1800s to the mid-1970s. Topics include the women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

  • Civil Reforms

    Discover the key events, terms, and policies that effected and changed the United States’ ideals of human rights. Topics touch upon, the Emancipation Proclamation, Manifest Destiny and Native American’s struggle, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and the 15th Amendment.

  • America at War (1689-1865)

    U.S. History: America at War (1689-1865) Examine the before, during, and after causes and effects of America’s most pivotal conflicts. This time line examines the French and Indian War and moves through the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and finishes up with the Civil War.

  • Economic Changes

    Develop an understanding of the economic history, progress, and ups and downs, of the United States, since the 1800s. This module reviews the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, sharecropping, and the roaring 20s and the Great Depression.

  • Teaching Systems U.S. History: Super Pack

    The complete history set provides a thematic overview of Presidential policies from 1789-1869, women’s rights, civil reforms, U.S. conflicts from 1689-1865, and economic shifts. Programs in the Series – 1 PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS (1789-1869), 2 WOMEN’s MOVEMENT, 3 CIVIL REFORMS, 4 AMERICA AT WAR (1689-1865), and 5 ECONOMIC CHANGES

  • Analyzing Writing

    This program lays the foundation in analyzing, outlining and composing for any level writer. Students will develop a writing appreciation by examining a variety of disciplines, gathering information, identifying the audience, revising and formulating a persuasive essay. Your class will evolve into skilled writers with the ability to compose for a variety of purposes. Definitions covered:· Obsolete · Exasperate · Illusory · Languid