Welcome to SS 7 with Ms. Hamilton Room 82

Contact info: 518-677-8527 ext. 1542

hillory.hamilton@cambridgecsd.org

In grade 7, students will examine the United States and New York State through a historical lens.  The 7th grade is year one of a two-year sequence that is arranged chronologically, beginning with the settlement of North America by Native Americans and ending with the US Civil War.  Although the course emphasizes chronological reasoning and causation, the course also integrates the skills and content from geography, politics, economy, and culture into the study of history.  

I will be incorporating local features of state history in the course, such as the Dutch in the Hudson Valley, the Germans in the Schoharie Valley, the French in the Champlain Valley, Fort Niagara, the Brooklyn Naval Yard, the Seneca Falls Convention, Underground Railroad locations, and war memorials.   

SS-7 Grading Policy

Tests = 40%

Quizzes = 25%

Classwork/ Homework = 10%

Essays/Projects = 25%

Discovering Our Past: History of the United States and New York I

• Chapter 1: The First Americans
  • Chapter Resources at a Glance *
  • Chapter Introduction*
  • Lesson 1: Migration to the Americas
  • Lesson 2: Cities and Empires
  • Lesson 3: North American Peoples
  • Chapter Wrap-up*

• Chapter 2: Exploring the Americas
• Lesson 1: A Changing World
• Lesson 2: Early Exploration
• Lesson 3: Spain in America
• Lesson 4: Competing for Colonies

• Chapter 3: Colonial America
• Lesson 1: Roanoke and Jamestown
• Lesson 2: The New England Colonies
• Lesson 3: The Middle Colonies
• Lesson 4: The Southern Colonies

• Chapter 4: Life in the American Colonies
• Lesson 1: Colonial Economy
• Lesson 2: Colonial Government
• Lesson 3: Culture and Society
• Lesson 4: Rivalry in North America

• Chapter 5: The Spirit of Independence
• Lesson 1: No Taxation Without Representation
• Lesson 2: Uniting the Colonists
• Lesson 3: A Call to Arms
• Lesson 4: Declaring Independence

• Chapter 6: The American Revolution
• Lesson 1: The War for Independence
• Lesson 2: The War Continues
• Lesson 3: Battlegrounds Shift
• Lesson 4: The Final Years

• Chapter 7: A More Perfect Union
• Lesson 1: The Articles of Confederation
• Lesson 2: Forging a New Constitution
• Lesson 3: A New Plan of Government
  

• Chapter 8: The Constitution
• Lesson 1: Principles of the Constitution
• Lesson 2: Government and the People
  

• Chapter 9: The Federalist Era
• Lesson 1: The First President
• Lesson 2: Early Challenges
• Lesson 3: The First Political Parties
  

• Chapter 10: The Jefferson Era
• Lesson 1: A New Party in Power
• Lesson 2: The Louisiana Purchase
• Lesson 3: A Time of Conflict
• Lesson 4: The War of 1812
  

• Chapter 11: Growth and Expansion
• Lesson 1: A Growing Economy
• Lesson 2: Moving West
• Lesson 3: Unity and Sectionalism
  

• Chapter 12: The Jackson Era
• Lesson 1: Jacksonian Democracy
• Lesson 2: Conflicts Over Land
• Lesson 3: Jackson and the Bank

• Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny
• Lesson 1: The Oregon Country
• Lesson 2: Statehood for Florida and Texas
• Lesson 3: War With Mexico
• Lesson 4: California and Utah
  

• Chapter 14: North and South
• Lesson 1: The Industrial North
• Lesson 2: People of the North
• Lesson 3: Southern Cotton Kingdom
• Lesson 4: People of the South
  

• Chapter 15: The Spirit of Reform
• Lesson 1: Social Reform
• Lesson 2: The Abolitionists
• Lesson 3: The Women's Movement
  

• Chapter 16: Towards Civil War
• Lesson 1: The Search for Compromise
• Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery
• Lesson 3: Secession and War
  

• Chapter 17: The Civil War
• Lesson 1: The Two Sides
• Lesson 2: Early Years of the War
• Lesson 3: Life During the Civil War
• Lesson 4: The Strain of War
• Lesson 5: The War's Final Stages
  

*  Every Chapter