Achieve Language Academy 7th Grade United States History Year at a Glance

First Trimester Historical Concepts and Ideas, Pre-Colonization to Revolution

● Pre-Unit, What is a historian?

○ I can define what a historian is and what they do.
○ I can identify the tools and strategies historians use to study the past.
○ I can explain what a primary and secondary source is
● Unit 1: Pre-Colonization-​ ​(~11,000 BCE to 1492)
○ I can describe the societies and people that existed in the Americas before
Europeans arrived. - 5.4.4.15.1
● Unit 2: Colonial Americas- (1585-1763)
○ I can identify why Europeans settled in the Americas. - 5.4.4.16.1
○ I can describe the relationship between Europeans and American Indians
during the colonization period - 5.4.4.16.2
○ I can identify the roles of Europeans and West Africans during the Atlantic
slave trade. - 5.4.4.16.3
○ I can compare and contrast life within the English, French and Spanish
colonies in North America - 5.4.4.16.4
● Unit 3: Revolutionary America- (1754-1776)
○ I can identify major conflicts between the colonies and England and describe
how they led to the American Revolution. - 5.4.4.17.1
○ I can describe the governments the British colonies created and explain how it
relates to the American Revolution. - 5.4.4.17.2
○ I can identify the major events of the American Revolution and how they led to
a new and independent nation. - 5.4.4.17.3
○ I can compare and contrast the impact of the American Revolution on different
groups within the 13 colonies that made up the new United States. - 5.4.4.17.4
Second Trimester A New Nation to Industrial Revolution

● Unit 4: A New Nation (1754-1800)

○ I can describe the purposes of the founding documents of the United States of
America
○ I can explain the rules of democracy that were set forth in the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. - 5.4.4.17.5
○ I can describe the successes and failures of the Articles of Confederation. -
5.4.4.17.6
○ I can describe the issues that were talked about at the Constitutional Convention.
- 5.4.4.17.7
● Unit 5: Expansion and Reform (1792-1861)
○ I can compare and contrast American Indian tribes’ interactions with the United
States government and westward settlers. - 7.4.2.4.1
○ I can describe the processes that led to the expansion of the United States. -
7.4.4.18.1
○ I can identify new technologies that changed the United States' economy and how
they affected different areas of the country. - 7.4.4.18.2
○ I can describe ways that enslaved people and people in free black
communities resisted slavery and transferred, developed and maintained their
cultural didentities. - 5.4.4.16.5
○ I can identify the cause and effect of reform movements (including abolition and
women's rights) leading up to the Civil War. - 7.4.4.18.3
● Unit 6: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
○ I can cite the main ideas of the debate over slavery; explain how they resulted in
compromises, and led to war - 7.4.4.19.1
○ I can outline the major political and military events of the Civil War - 7.4.4.19.2
○ Describe the effects of the Civil War on Americans in the north, south and west,
including liberated African-Americans, women, former slaveholders and indigenous
peoples. - 7.4.4.19.3
● Unit 7: Industrial Revolution, Progressivism, Cultural Exchange, World War
○ I can explain the impact of the United States Industrial Revolution on the economy.
- ​7.4.4.20.1
○ I can examine how the Industrial Revolution affected immigration, migration, and
laws in the United States. - 7.4.4.20.2
○ I can compare and contrast reform movements at the turn of the 20th century. -
7.4.4.20.3
○ I can exm the effects of racism on American society in the 19th century. -
7.4.4.20.4
○ I can describe how suffragists worked to get the right to vote; I can identify the 19th
Amendment. - 7.4.4.20.5
○ I can evaluate the changing role of the United States in the Western Hemisphere
and the world in the late 19th century. - 7.4.4.20.6
○ I can outline the causes, strategies, and important figures and events of World War
1. - 7.4.4.20.7
○ I can identify the consequences of World War I. - 7.4.4.20.8
Third Trimester The Great Depression to Present

● Unit 8: The Great Depression and World War 2

○ I can identify the causes of the Great Depression. - 7.4.4.21.1
○ I can describe the impact of the Great Depression on United States society; I
can describe how the government worked to get the US out of the Great
Depression . - 7.4.4.21.2
○ I can outline how the United States mobilized its economic and military
resources during World War II; I can describe the impact of the war on the
people in the United States. - 7.4.4.21.3
○ I can outline the causes World War II and the strategies used by the United
States to end the war.- 7.4.4.21.4
○ I can outline the events that led to the Holocaust, and the effect it had on
Jewish European communites.
● Unit 9: Post War America: Tensions at Home and Abroad
○ I can identify the choices made by the United States government during the
Cold War. - 7.4.4.22.1
○ I can analyze how the Cold War affected the people of the United States. -
7.4.4.22.2
○ I can compare and contrast the different ways the United States was involved
in global issues. - 7.4.4.22.3
○ I can explain how the United States economy grew after World War 2. -
7.4.4.22.4
○ I can describe the actions the United States government did at home during
the Cold War. - 7.4.4.22.5
● Unit 10: The Fight For Civil Rights
○ I can compare and contrast the goals of the Civil Rights Movement, the
American Indian Movement, and the Women's Rights Movement. - 7.4.4.22.6
● Unit 11: America in a New Global Age
○ I can describe how new technologies have changed how the world and people
work. - 7.4.4.23.1
○ I can examine the relationship between the United States and other countries
in the 21st century. - 7.4.4.23.2
Active Benchmarks​: These benchmarks will be blended in every unit and have no particular
function other than for enhancement of every of benchmark

7.4.1.2.1​ Pose questions about a topic in United States history, gather and organize a variety
of primary and secondary sources related to the questions, analyze sources for credibility and
bias; suggest possible answers and write a thesis statement; use sources to draw conclusions
and support the thesis; present supported findings, and cite sources.

5.4.1.1.1​ Explain the construct of an era; interpret the connections between three or more
events in an era depicted on a timeline or flowchart.

5.4.1.2.2​ Explain a historical event from multiple perspectives

5.4.2.3.1​ Analyze multiple causes and outcomes of a historical event.