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Chapter 20:

Chapter 12 Standards

8.5.3 Outline the major treaties with American Indian nations during the administrations of the first four presidents and the varying outcomes of those treaties. 8.8 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced. 8.8.1 Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president (e.g., the spoils system, veto of the National Bank, policy of Indian removal, opposition to the Supreme Court). 8.8.2 Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., the Lewis and Clark expedition, accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees' "Trail of Tears," settlement of the Great Plains) and the territorial acquisitions that spanned numerous decades. 8.10.3 Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine. 8.12.2 Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.

Terms:

Self-made man (p. 187) Jacksonian democracy (p. 188) The Kitchen Cabinet (p. 189) Civil servant (p. 189) Tariff (p. 190) Secede (p. 190) Bank of the United States (p. 191) Indian Removal Act (p. 192) Five Civilized Tribes (p. 192) Trial of Tears (pp. 193, 439-440)

Essential Questions:

1. How was Andrew Jackson’s election and presidency viewed by the rich and well-born? By the common people? By Native Americans? By supporters of states’ rights? (8.8.1) 2. Why was Andrew Jackson opposed to a National Bank? (8.8.1) 3. What was the spoils system? Why did Jackson favor it, and why was he criticized for doing so? (8.8.1) 4. How did Jacksonian democracy give more governmental power to the common people? (8.8.1) 5. Why did many Americans, including Jackson, believe that Native Americans needed to be removed from their lands? How did Jackson respond to the 1831 Supreme Court ruling that Indians had a right their lands? (8.8.2) 6. What was the nullification crisis? How did it demonstrate the growing split between the North and South? (8.10.3) 7. What were the details and outcomes of the treaties negotiated between the first four presidents and Indian nations? (See also Investigating History, p. 439.) (8.5.3, 8.12.2) 8. What events and ideas connected to Andrew Jackson led to patterns of change in the United States? How did things stay the same?

Timeline:

Inauguration of Andrew Jackson Nullification crisis Battle over the National Bank Indian Removal Act Trail of Tears

Chapter 11

Content Standards: 8.3, 8.3.4, 8.3.5, 8.4, 8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.9.5, 8.10.3

8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it. 8.3.4. Understand how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt). 8.3.5. Know the significance of domestic resistance movements and ways in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays' Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebel-lion). 8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation. 8.4.1. Describe the country's physical landscapes, political divisions, and territorial expansion during the terms of the first four presidents. 8.4.2. Explain the policy significance of famous speeches (e.g., Washington's Farewell Address, Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address, John Q. Adams's Fourth of July 1821 Address). 8.9.5. Analyze the significance of the States' Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay's role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858). 8.10.3. Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine.

Terms:

executive departments (p146) || Twelth Amendment (p. 158) the Alien and Sedition Acts (p. 155) ||
 * inauguration (p. 146) || John Adams (p.155) ||
 * Alexander Hamilton (p. 149)
 * the French Revolution (p. 147) || Election of 1800 (p.157) ||

Essential Questions

1. How did the American political system change during the early years of the nation's history? (8.3) 2. How did the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton give rise to two opposing political parties and two plans for what was best for America? 8.3.4, 8.4.1) 3. What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebelion and the way the government responded to it? (8.3.5) 4. How did Washington's Farewell Address help set America's future direction? (8.4.2) 5. What was the significance of Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address? (See Investigating History, page 436) (8.4.2) 6. What is the significance of the idea of states' rights? *8.9.5) 7. What is the significance of the term nullify; and where did it come from? (8.10.3) 8. What were some of the hopes and ideals expressed by Americans in the early years of the nation's history? (8.4)

Timeline

Whiskey Rebellion French Revolution || Washington's Farewell Address Election of 1800 Twelfth Amendment ||
 * Election of George Washington

Chapter 10

Content Standards

8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.

8.2.3 Evaluate the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states (later addressed by the addition of the Bill of Rights), and the status of American Indian nations under the commerce clause.

8.2.5. Understand the significance of Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom as a forerunner of the First Amendment and the origins, purpose, and differing views of the founding fathers on the issue of the separation of church and state.

8.2.6 Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.

8.3.7. Understand the functions and responsibilities of a free press.

Terms:

• Ratification (p. 133) • Bill of rights (p. 133) • Separation of church and state (pp. 135, 435) • Self-incrimination (p. 139)

Essential Questions

1. How did the addition of the Bill of Rights resolve the concerns of some of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention? (8.2.3) 2. What fundamental freedoms are guaranteed by each amendment in the Bill of Rights? How do these amendments protect people from government excesses? (8.2, 8.2.6) 3. Where did the idea of the separation of church and state come from, and how did it influence the U.S. Constitution (8.2.5) 4. What is the role of a free press in America? What are the responsibilities of a free press? (8.3.7)

Timeline:

Ratification of Constitution Official addition of Bill of Rights to Constitution

Chapter 9 Content Standards: 8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.

8.2.3 Evaluate the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states (later addressed by the addition of the Bill of Rights), and the status of American Indian nations under the commerce clause.

8.2.6 Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.

8.2.7 Describe the principles of federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, the nature and purpose of majority rule, and the ways in which the American idea of constitutionalism preserves individual rights. 8.3.3 3. Enumerate the advantages of a common market among the states as foreseen in and protected by the Constitution's clauses on interstate commerce, common coinage, and full-faith and credit.

8.3.6 Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interest groups).

Terms: the Preamble (p. 120) popular sovereignty (p. 120) legislative branch (p. 121) bicameral (p. 1210 bill (p. 121) \veto (p.122) executive branch (p. 123) impeach (p. 124) judicial branch (p. 124) amendment (p. 127) federal system (p. 128) interstate commerce (p. 128) political partiew (p.130) interest groups (p. 130)

Essential Questions: 1. What powers does the national government have under the Constitution? Which powers belong to the states? Which powers are shared? (8.2.6) 2. What is the significance of the following terms: federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and b alances and individual rights (8.2.7) 3. How did the Constitution encourage the development of a common market among American states? What are the advantages to a common market? (8.3.3) 4. How did the Constitution view Native American tribes? (8.2.3) 5. What are the roles of individual citizens, elections, political parties and interest groups in the political process? (8.3.6)

Time line: Beginning of the Constitutional Convention Conclusion of the Constitutional Convention Ratification of the Constitution

Chapter 8

Content Standards: 8.1 8.1.4 8.2 8.2.2 8.2.3 8.2.4

Chapter 7

Content Standards:

8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

8.1.3 Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.

Terms:

Thomas Paine’s The Crisis (p. 92) Trenton (pl 92) Saratoga (p. 94) Valley Forge (p. 94) Guerilla troops (p. 96) Lord Cornwallis (p. 96) Yorktown (p. 96) Treaty of Paris ( p. 100)

Essential Questions:

1. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Continental Army? What were the strengths of th British? 2. What military strategies did each side use during the war? 3. What factors led to American victory over the British? 4. Why were the results of the Revolutionary War so important to the development of American democracy? 8.1) 5. How did the American Revolution affect other countries, especially France? (8.1.3)

Timeline

Washington’s defeat in New York Saratoga Valley Forge Yorktown Treaty of Paris

Remember you only have to do Cornell Notes for the first (introduction) and last (summary) sections of the chapter.

Chapter 6 Content Standards

8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

8.1.2 Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights. (e.g. key phrases such as "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights").

Cornell notes only need to be done for the introduction and summary sections of the chapter.

Terms: George Washington (p. 80) Continental Army (p. 80) Bunker Hill (P 81) Ticonderoga (p 81) Olive Branch Petition (p. 82) Thomas Jefferson ( p. 83) Declaration of Independence (p. 83) King George III (p. 83)

Essential Questions 1. Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" and what did it mean to Patriots? To Loyalists? 2. What political philosophy is expressed by the Declaration of Independence? (8.1.2) 3. What is the significance of each of the pharses from the Declaration of Independence: all men are created equal unalienable rights consent of the governed right of the people to alter or abolish it Why were these pharases important to the developmehnt of American democracy? (8.1.2) 4. According to the Declaration, what is the purpose of government?

Time line: Battle of Bunker Hill Olive Branch Petition Common Sense Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Chapter 5 Content Standards

8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

Terms: Patriots (p63) Loyalists (p63) French and Indian War (p. 65) Proclamation of 1763 (p. 66) Stamp Act (p. 67) Quartering Act (p. 68) Townshend Acts (p. 68) Boston Massacre (p. 68) Boston Tea Party (p. 70) Tea Act (p. 71) Intolerable Acts (p. 72) First Continental Congress (p. 73) Lexington and Concord (p. 74)

Cornell notes on the first and last sections only.

Essential Questions 1. What were some of the major events that led Americans toward r4volution? 2. What was life like for the English colonists before the Royal Proclamation of 1763? After? 3. What were some of the important British mistakes and misunderstandings about the Americans after the French and Indian War? 4. How did the events that happened during America’s colonial and revolutionary period influence the shape of American democracy? 5. How did Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense influence American colonial thinking about British rule?

Timeline:

French and Indian War Royal Proclamation of 1763 Stamp Act and Quartering Act Townshend Acts Boston Tea Party Lexington and Concord

Chapter 4 (Due 10/21)

Content Standards

8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy. 8.1.1 Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of the revolutionary fervor. 8.2.1 Discuss the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact. 8.6.5 Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots.

Terms

Economy (p.50) Magna Carta (p. 52) Parliament (p. 52) English Bill of Rights (p.52) Petition (p.52) Blue laws (p.53) Social class (p. 54) The Middle Passage (p. 55) First Great Awakening (pp. 56, 429)

Essential Questions:

1. Considering various parts of colonial life – cities and farms, citizen’s rights, crime and punishment, social class, education, and African American life 00 how does each compare with life in America today? 2. How did the religious revival called the First Great Awakening help pave the way for the American Revolution? (8.1.1) 3. In what ways were the English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta important to the development of democracy in America? (8.2.1) 4. What made the colonists decide to provide education to at least some of their children? What was it like to attend America’s earliest schools? (8.6.5)

Timeline

Magna Carta English Bill of Rights Salem witch trials First Great Awakening

Chapter 3 Due Friday 10/10

Content Standards 8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relative their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy. 8.2.1 Discuss the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact. 8.7.2 Trace the origins and development of slavery

Terms

1. Indentured servant (p.35) 2. Cash crops (p. 38) 3. Assembly (p. 38) 4. Democratic (p. 38) 5. Puritans (p. 39) 6. Mayflower Compact (pp. 39, 428) 7. Slave trade (p. 40) 8. Fundamental Orders (p. 41) 9. William Penn (p.43) 10. James Oglethorpe (p. 46)

Essential Questions

1. How were the New England, Middle, and Southerncolonies different from each other? How were they similar? 2. What events, ideas, and social patterns from the colonial period helped to shape American democracy? (8.1 ) 3. In what way was the Mayflower Compact important to the development of democracy in America? 8.2.1 4. How and why did the practice of slavery begin and grow in colonial America? (8.7.2)

Timeline

First slaves in Virginia Mayflower voyage across Atlantic Rhode Island settled William Penn’s Great Law Election of the first New York assembly

Chapter 2: Due Wednesday 10/1

California Content Standard: 8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

Terms:

1. New World 2. Christopher Columbus 3. The Columbian Exchange 4. Slavery 5. Conquistadors 6. Spanish borderlands 7. New France 8. Trappers 9. Jamestown 10. Pocahontas 11. New Netherland 12. New Amsterdam

Essential Questions:

1. How did European nations compete to claim lands and riches in the New World? 2. What changes did the arrival of Europeans bring to Native American life? 3. How did early European explorers and settlers influence the formation of America as a nation? (8.1)

Time Line:

• Columbus’s arrival in the New World • Cortes’s arrival in the New World • Carter’s arrival in the New World • Jamestown • New Amsterdam • New Netherland