Grade 8
Grade 8 United States History Before 1900
12 units and 55 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 8 student works through in United States History Before 1900 — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 8 United States History Before 1900
OHM School · Grade 8
United States History Before 1900
12 units · 55 lessons
It opens with Colonial America and closes with Industrial America.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 12
Colonial America
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1The Thirteen Colonies Revisited
- 2Colonial Society and Conflict
- 3Enlightenment Ideas in the Colonies
- 4Self-Government in the Colonies
Unit 2 of 12
The American Revolution
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Analyzing Revolutionary Causes
- 2The Declaration of Independence
- 3Winning Independence
- 4The Revolution's Outcomes
- 5The Articles of Confederation
Unit 3 of 12
The U.S. Constitution
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Compromises of the Constitutional Convention
- 2Principles of the Constitution
- 3Federalists and Anti-Federalists
- 4Enumerated and Implied Powers
- 5The Bill of Rights
- 6How Citizens Participate
Unit 4 of 12
The New Nation
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Washington's Presidency
- 2Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Economy
- 3Ideals and Culture of the New Nation
- 4Foreign Policy in the Early Republic
- 5The Monroe Doctrine
Unit 5 of 12
The Northeast, 1800-1850
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1The Industrial Revolution in New England
- 2The Transportation Revolution
- 3Immigration and Growing Cities
- 4Reform Movements
Unit 6 of 12
The South, 1800-1850
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Cotton and the Plantation Economy
- 2Life Under Slavery
- 3Resistance and Free Black Communities
Unit 7 of 12
Westward Expansion
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration
- 2Jacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal
- 3Motivations and Methods of Expansion
- 4Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
- 5California and the Gold Rush
- 6Impact on Native Nations and Enslaved People
Unit 8 of 12
Abolition and Women's Rights
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1The Abolitionist Movement
- 2Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman
- 3The Seneca Falls Convention
Unit 9 of 12
Causes of the Civil War
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
- 2Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, and John Brown
- 3Slavery and Sectional Division
- 4The Election of 1860 and Secession
Unit 10 of 12
The Civil War
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1North and South at War
- 2Major Battles and Turning Points
- 3The Emancipation Proclamation
- 4Soldiers and the Home Front
- 5The Gettysburg Address
- 6Consequences of the War
Unit 11 of 12
Reconstruction
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Plans for Reconstruction
- 2The Reconstruction Amendments
- 3Black Political Life and the Freedmen's Bureau
- 4The End of Reconstruction
Unit 12 of 12
Industrial America
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Railroads and Big Business
- 2Inventions That Changed Daily Life
- 3New Immigrants and Growing Cities
- 4Workers and Labor Unions
- 5The West and Native Nations After 1865
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered12 units and 55 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of United States History Before 1900 in Grade 8, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 8 student would work through today.
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