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1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence. (CST: 5 questions)
Sub standards
11.1.1 Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded. Founding: 1.1.4 European Societies of the 1400s 1.3.1 Jamestown 1.3.2 Puritans 1.3.3 Middle Colonies 1.4.3 Enlightenment and the Great Awakening Pg. 10-12 Pg. 21-23 Pg. 24-26 Pg. 26-28 Pg. 34-36

What the student should be able to do: Explain the historical forces behind the English Civil War, Glorious Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution that cumulates in the enlightenment What the student should be able to answer: Essential Question What democratic ideas for our nation came from the enlightenment? 11.1.2 Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights. Revolution: 2.1.1 Colonies Resist 2.1.2 Rising Tensions in Mass. 2.1.3 Road to Revolution 2.1.4 Declaration of Independence Confederation: 2.3.1 Confederation 2.3.2 New Government 2.3.3 Ratifying Constitution Pg 46-47 Pg. 48-49 Pg. 50-51 Pg. 52-53 Pg. 66-67 Pg. 68-69 Pg. 69-71

What the student should be able to do: Identify the basic natural rights given to man under the social contract and explain at what point man has the right to abolish or reform the government. Identify and list the reasons for altering and finally abolishing the Articles of Confederation. Identify who the Federalists and Anti-Federalists were and what their major concerns for the new government were. List the first ten amendments to the Constitution and relate instances and circumstances where they may apply. What the student should be able to answer: Essential Question According to John Locke, what are our natural rights? What were the major arguments, pro and con over the ratification of the Constitution? Why did the founding fathers feel it necessary to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution?

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Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization. What the student should be able to do: Assess the impact of the Whiskey Rebellion, Hamiltonian economics, and Marbury v Madison on the institution of Federal power and states rights. Analyze the complex issues of states rights, expansion of slavery, nullification, and economic differences on the nations drifting to disunion. What the student should be able to answer: Essential Question What were major tests of the strength of the Federal government during the critical period of 1789-1800? What urgent issues created the crisis leading to the Civil War? New Nation: 2.4.1 Washington 2.4.3 Adams 3.1.1 Jefferson 3.1.2 Madison 3.1.3 Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy 3.2.2 Nationalism and Sectionalism Pg. 74-76 Pg. 77-79 Pg. 112-114 Pg. 114 Pg. 116-117 Pg. 122

11.1.4

Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power. Civil War and Reconstruction: 4.1.1 Differences Between North and South Pg. 156-158 4.1.3 New Parties Pg. 161-162 4.1.4 Succession Pg. 162-165 4.2.2 Politics of War Pg. 171-173 4.3.3 War Changes the Nation Pg. 181-182 4.4.1 Policies of Reconstruction Pg. 184-186 4.4.2 Reconstructing Society Pg. 186-188 4.4.3 Collapse of Reconstruction Pg. 188-189 What the student should be able to do: Explain how the legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction solved the problems of governmental unity, but left the problems of civil rights for minorities unanswered. Relate the sequence of events that led to the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the US as a world power. What the student should be able to answer: Essential Question What were the major problems facing both the North and the South after the Civil War. How did the industrial transformation of the US lead it to abandon its isolationism and turn outward at the end of the nineteenth century?

Curriculum Objective 1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of major ideals that influenced the founding of the United States (e.g., democracy as a way of life). 2. The colonial experience will be briefly reviewed and will focus on: a. The shaping of the American character (i.e., self-reliance, independence) as affected by the interaction of the physical environment and contract with native Americans upon the European traditions of the early colonists. b. The development of democratic ideals (i.e., political and legal equality). c. The decision of the American people to separate themselves from Britain through revolution. 3. The efforts of the American people to establish their own unique national identity, a government first under the Articles of Confederation and finally under the Constitution of 1787 will be examined. Focus will be on the fundamental features of the Constitution including: The Great Compromise, federalism, checks and balances, separation of powers, and the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Slavery issues should be addressed. 4. The territorial expansion of the U.S. will focus on the concept of manifest destiny and its Role in acquiring the Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Oregon, the War with Mexico and the Acquisition of the American Southwest. 5. The development of American Democracy will be traced from the decline of the Federalists to the rise of the Era of Jacksonian Democracy, and the Common Man. Special attention will be given to the reform movements of the period including suffrage, abolition, and public education as well as immigration (Irish, Germans), Xenophobia, and Anti- Catholicism. 6. The growth of an American national consciousness in the early 1800s will be briefly studied. Emphasis will be placed upon economic development including the beginnings of industry and improvements in transportation. 7. The growth of sectional differencesNorth, South, and a focus on contrasting social traditions and conflicting political and economic interests (tariffs, land policy, banking, states rights and the status of new states). The breakdown of the political process of compromise, which produced the Civil War, will be examined. (The development of an African American culture within the confines of slavery) 8. The student will describe the central issues that faced the United States during the 19 century (sectionalism, Civil War, Reconstruction, Industrialization). 9. The study of the Reconstruction era (1865- 1877) will focus on the treatment of the defeated South after the Civil War, the effects of Radical Reconstruction policies upon the South and, especially, upon the freedmen, and the recovery of political power and social domination of the South by conservative southern whites by 1877, the rise of Jim Crow, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
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GOAL: Students will examine and understand the significance of the sources and evolving traditions of democratic ideals in the context in which this nation was founded.
Essential Concepts Democratic Ideas Origins of American Revolution Natural Rights Federal & State Government Sectional Differences Reconstruction Essential Vocabulary checks and balances egalitarianism enlightenment federal vs. state authority federalism nullification patriot ratification republic