Unit VI : More Progress, More Problems - Expansion and Industrialization
After completing Unit 8.4, students will have studied how Presidents speeches influence policy and how their actions helped to define the office. Moreover, student will have explored how often these actions contradict the Constitution. In Unit 8.6 Westward Expansion, students will begin with President Andrew Jackson, whose actions and policies led to tremendous progress in the country but at a large cost to some groups. Students explore how technological, ideological, and economic progress lead to the expanding of the country. Students discuss the effects of westward expansion, including the benefits of growth and the costs to American Indian civilizations. Did ideological progress mean the rejection of the Constitution? Did technological advances mean the advancement of slavery? Did the growth of land mean occupation and genocide of Native American tribes? Does progress help everyone? The unit culminates with Cornerstone 3, westward expansion and students taking a position on reparations for Native Americans forced off their land.
BIG Ideas
- The United States expanded geographically, socially, politically, and economically through conflicts and compromises.
- Thousands of people followed trails through the Western part of the country to gain land, new opportunity, and fortune.
- Different groups of people including the poor, African-Americans, enslaved Africans, Native Americans, Mexicans, women, and land speculators benefited and some did not.
- The agricultural South, supported by the cotton industry, and the industrial North, supported by
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TEXT TO HELP ANSWER THE LEARNING EXPECTATIONS
Overarching Question: Does progress help everyone?
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Disciplinary Concept & Tools-I
How can I use historical thinking to understand the world in which I live? |
Disciplinary Concept & Tools-II
Are historical events ever inevitable? |
Social Studies Content Standards:
EXPECTATION: Using historical thinking and processing skills, have students demonstrate an understanding of the political, social, and cultural aspects of Africa Eurasia and American empires and societies as well as the impact of the interaction between cultures prior to 1300.
Indicators and Objectives: 1.A.1 (a-d); 1.B.1 (a-e); 1.C.1 (a-c); 1.C.2 (a-c); 1.D.1 (a-c); 1.D.2 (a-b); 1.E.1 (a-e)
1.A.1 Describe the reasons to study history and the importance of keeping an active, inquiring, multi-perspective attitude.
1.B.1 Describe the beliefs of and impacts of select world religions on world history prior to 1300.
Historical Thinking Skills:
• Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues as well as large-scale or long-term developments that transcend regional and temporal boundaries. (U1LC, U1LD), R7
• Use timelines, bar graphs, pie graphs, charts, and historical maps to evaluate historical data and recognize historical trends. (U1LB, U1LE), R25 R26, R27 R28
• Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on the text, multiple texts, and/or prior knowledge. (U1LE), R11
• Use geographic tools to locate places and describe the human and physical characteristics in the region. (U1LE), R31, xxvi-xxxiii.
MCCR Standards:
RH.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
RH.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
RH.9-10.7: Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
W.9-10.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
EXPECTATION: Using historical thinking and processing skills, have students demonstrate an understanding of the political, social, and cultural aspects of Africa Eurasia and American empires and societies as well as the impact of the interaction between cultures prior to 1300.
Indicators and Objectives: 1.A.1 (a-d); 1.B.1 (a-e); 1.C.1 (a-c); 1.C.2 (a-c); 1.D.1 (a-c); 1.D.2 (a-b); 1.E.1 (a-e)
1.A.1 Describe the reasons to study history and the importance of keeping an active, inquiring, multi-perspective attitude.
1.B.1 Describe the beliefs of and impacts of select world religions on world history prior to 1300.
Historical Thinking Skills:
• Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues as well as large-scale or long-term developments that transcend regional and temporal boundaries. (U1LC, U1LD), R7
• Use timelines, bar graphs, pie graphs, charts, and historical maps to evaluate historical data and recognize historical trends. (U1LB, U1LE), R25 R26, R27 R28
• Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on the text, multiple texts, and/or prior knowledge. (U1LE), R11
• Use geographic tools to locate places and describe the human and physical characteristics in the region. (U1LE), R31, xxvi-xxxiii.
MCCR Standards:
RH.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
RH.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
RH.9-10.7: Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
W.9-10.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
DC Content Power Standards
8.9.2: Describe 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, and opposition to the Supreme Court).8.6.3: Identify on a map the changing boundaries of the United States and the relationships the country had with its neighbors (currently Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and explain how those relationships influenced westward expansion and the Mexican-American War.
8.9.5: Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears, and settlement of the Great Plains) and the territorial acquisitions that spanned numerous decades.
8.5.4: Analyze the rise of capitalism and the economic problems and conflicts that accompanied it (e.g., Jackson’s opposition to the National Bank; early decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that reinforced the sanctity of contracts).
8.7.2: Describe the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
8.9.2: Describe 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, and opposition to the Supreme Court).8.6.3: Identify on a map the changing boundaries of the United States and the relationships the country had with its neighbors (currently Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and explain how those relationships influenced westward expansion and the Mexican-American War.
8.9.5: Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears, and settlement of the Great Plains) and the territorial acquisitions that spanned numerous decades.
8.5.4: Analyze the rise of capitalism and the economic problems and conflicts that accompanied it (e.g., Jackson’s opposition to the National Bank; early decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that reinforced the sanctity of contracts).
8.7.2: Describe the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
DC Content Supporting Standards
8.2.6: Explain the nation’s blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary traditions.
8.2.6: Explain the nation’s blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary traditions.
C3 Framework Indicators and Common Core Literacy Standards
D2.Geo.8: Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
D2.His.1: Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
D2.His.5: Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.
D4.2: Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
WH.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
D2.Geo.8: Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
D2.His.1: Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
D2.His.5: Explain how and why perspectives of people have changed over time.
D4.2: Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
WH.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
