Unit 1

Exploration, Contact, and the Columbian Exchange

Semester 1, 1 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.01 Acquire critical thinking and analytical skills. Note: This instructional objective, its associated instructional objectives, and the performance objectives in this section apply throughout the course.

Standard Reference
130501

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Develop and interpret different kinds of maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases and models.

6-12.USH1.2.1.1

Evaluate and interpret points-of-view using primary and secondary sources.

130501a

Chronologically organize significant events and people in United States history into major eras and themes to identify and explain historical relationships.

130501b

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Describe how geographic features have affected the settlement patterns or economic activities within a specific region of the United States.

Ongoing

TMA

02

Describe various settlement patterns and/or waves of migration that have shaped the United States (e.g. physical distribution, impact of customs, traditions, economic development, "melting pot" v. "salad bowl"), emphasizing their impact on existing physical and human systems.

Ongoing

TMA

03

Organize, create, or interpret data on a timeline, utilizing calendar time.

Ongoing

TMA

04

Create and utilize charts, tables, graphs, and flowcharts to organize, sequence, display, and interpret historic information.

Ongoing

TMA

05

Create and/or utilize all types of maps and map projections about geographic settings, climate, distances, directions, relative and absolute locations, patterns of spatial distribution, and other geographic information.

Ongoing

TMA

06

Create mental maps to organize data.

Ongoing

TMA

07

Locate, organize, and analyze historical data, using a variety of written, visual, and electronic sources (e.g. computer databases, census reports, standard references, maps, periodicals, documentary films, journals), distinguishing between primary and secondary sources.

Ongoing

TMA

08

Question data, assessing it for credibility and completeness, and recognizing stereotypes and biases.

Ongoing

TMA

09

Examine photographs, newspapers, cartoons, paintings, electronic media systems, and other visual sources to clarify and interpret historical information.

Ongoing

TMA

10

Read historical narratives and sources, comprehend the main idea, identify various interrelationships, and/or examine patterns of change in the succession of events or chronological structure of the narrative or source.

Ongoing

TMA

11

Differentiate between historical fact and historical interpretation or between fact and opinion.

Ongoing

TMA

12

Understand the values, beliefs, and ideas held by people in the historical past, as disclosed by their diaries, letters, speeches, literature, and art.

Ongoing

TMA

13

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships associated with historical issues, as well as compare and contrast multiple perspectives, values, events, and personalities.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

14

Analyze current events and relate them to the historical past when applicable.

Ongoing

TMA

15

Define a central issue, distinguish verifiable information, and determine an essential component of a given problem or situation.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

16

Evaluate information related to problem solving, identify alternative solutions, assess or predict probable consequences of events, and/or follow a course of action.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

17

Participate in historic and contemporary investigations, research projects, discussions, debates, surveys, interviews, individual oral reports, and cooperative presentations.

Ongoing

TMA

18

Analyze and respond to a primary source, work with others to clarify ideas, and write an essay related to a specific integrated task.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

19

Write an essay, synthesizing and integrating knowledge obtained on a subject pertinent to United States history.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

20

Examine works of art, literature, or music and analyze how they reflect the times in which they were created.

Ongoing

TMA, EOC

Instructional Objective

1305.02 Understand the cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples resulting from early European exploration and colonization.

Standard Reference
130502

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Examine the development of diverse cultures in what is now the United States.

6-12.USH1.1.5.1

Identify significant countries (and individuals) and their roles and motives in the European exploration of the Americas.

6-12.USH1.1.5.2

Describe the economic characteristics of colonialism.

6-12.USH1.3.1.1

Analyze and describe the interactions between native peoples and the European explorers.

6-12.USH1.1.5.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Discuss the various theories that explain the origins of the earliest humans in North America.

Ch. 1

EOC, TMA

02

Summarize European motives for exploration; identify routes of significant explorers and map European claims to North America.

Ch. 2

EOC

03

Analyze the development and effects of the Columbian Exchange.

Ch. 2

EOC, TMA

04

Contrast and evaluate Spanish, French, and English interactions with indigenous peoples.

Ch. 2

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.02a Illustrate how an artifact symbolizes and reflects a particular culture and/or time period.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.1.1.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Replicate an artifact or interpret a work of art that reflects the particular culture of an indigenous people or colonial European group (c. 1500-1700).

TMA

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Unit 2

The English Colonies

Semester 1, 4 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.03 Explain colonial immigration, population growth, and the consequences of each.

Standard Reference
130503

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Analyze the religious, political, and economic motives of European immigrants who came to North America.

6-12.USH1.1.2.1

Explain the motives and consequences for the involuntary immigration to North America.

6-12.USH1.1.2.2

Describe the economic characteristics of colonialism.

6-12.USH1.3.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Analyze the population growth of the English colonies.

Ch. 3, 4

TMA

02

Compare the religious, political and economic motives of voluntary immigrants to the English colonies.

Ch. 3, 4

EOC, TMA

03

Using representative colonies, contrast the early settlement of Virginia and New England.

Ch. 3, 4

EOC, TMA

04

Describe mercantilism and analyze its impact on colonial economies.

Ch. 3, 4

EOC, TMA

05

Explain the causes of indentured servitude and slavery and analyze their impact on colonial societies.

Ch. 3, 4

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.04 Identify how religious, social, political, and economic factors shaped settlement patterns in the 17^th and 18^th centuries in North America.

Standard Reference
130504

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Compare and contrast the different cultural and social influences that emerged in the North American colonies.

6-12.USH1.1.1.1

Describe the economic characteristics of colonialism.

6-12.USH1.3.1.1

Summarize the major events in the European settlement of North America from Jamestown to the end of the eighteenth century.

6-12.USH1.1.5.4

Analyze ways in which language, literature, the arts, traditions, beliefs, values and behavior patterns of diverse cultures have enriched American society.

9-12.USH2.1.1.1

Compare and contrast works or ideas from at least two cultures, historical periods, or geographical areas.

9-12.I.2.1.2

Describe the influence of religion on government, culture, artistic creation, technological development, and/or social conduct.

9-12.I.2.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Compare/contrast the social, political, and economic features of the three regions of the English colonies.

Ch. 3, 4, 5

EOC, TMA

02

Describe and analyze the consequences of the Puritan response to dissenters.

Ch. 3, 4

EOC, TMA

03

Identify colonial influences that have shaped American culture and government.

Ch. 4, 5

EOC, TMA

04

Examine the cultural diversity of colonial America.

Ch. 3, 4, 5

EOC, TMA

05

Study a piece of literature from colonial America in terms of its reflection of culture.

Ch. 5

EOC, TMA

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Unit 3

The American Revolution

Semester 1, 4 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.05 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Summarize the major events in the European settlement of North America from Jamestown to the end of the eighteenth century.

6-12.USH1.1.5.4

Analyze ways in which the physical environment affected political and economic development.

6-12.USH1.2.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the background /causes of the French and Indian War.

Ch. 5

EOC, TMA

02

Analyze the results of the French and Indian War, including Parliament’s shift from salutary neglect.

Ch. 6

EOC, TMA

03

Analyze the causes, effectiveness, and impact of the Proclamation of 1763.

Ch. 5

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.06 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Identify, in context, events and people influential in the development of historical events and/or movements and living cultures.

9-12.I.1.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Analyze the multiple causes and sources of dissent leading to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Ch. 6

EOC, TMA

02

Compare/contrast the British and colonial advantages and disadvantages at the outset of the Revolutionary War.

Ch. 6, 7

EOC, TMA

03

Examine the significance of major events of the American Revolution.

Ch. 6, 7

EOC, TMA

04

Analyze the political, social, and economic changes brought about by the American Revolution.

Ch. 7

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.06a Demonstrate the ways in which the arts and humanities reflect events.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.1.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify and analyze the point of view in a literary (or other artistic) work that depicts the growing tension between Britain and its North American colonies after 1763.

Text

TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.06b Interpret how a literary/artistic work relates to the history and/or culture from which it originated.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.3.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain how a literary work (e.g. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, poetry by Phillis Wheatley), a painting (e.g. John Trumbull’s The Death of General Warren at Bunker Hill), or a work of architecture (e.g. the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), Mt. Vernon) reflects the aesthetic, style, or themes associated with eighteenth century Western culture.

Text

TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.06c Analyze an artifact or idea and debate its meaning in the context of its societal values.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.2.2.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify and account for the differences between an artistic representation of an historical event and a first-hand (primary source) written account of the same event (e.g. the Boston Massacre, the outbreak of violence at Lexington and Concord).

TMA

02

Identify and explain the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same historical event.

TMA

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Unit 4

Confederation and Constitution

Semester 1, 3 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.07 Trace the development of constitutional democracy in the United States, such as the Mayflower Compact, colonial assemblies, Bacon’s Rebellion.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.4.1.1

Associated Instructional Objective:

Identify fundamental values and principles as expressed in basic documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.

6-12.USH1.4.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Review the development of social contract and constitutional government and explain the significance of English/colonial documents and institutions (e.g. Magna Carta, colonial charters, Mayflower Compact, philosophies of Locke and Hobbes).

Ch. 3, 5

EOC, TMA

02

Explain the democratic principles of the Declaration of Independence.

Ch. 6

EOC, TMA

03

Contrast direct democracy with representative democracy.

Constitutional Handbook

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.08 Identify fundamental values and principles as expressed in basic documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.4.1.2

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Explain how the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are distributed and shared among the three branches of national government.

6-12.USH1.4.2.1

Explain how and why powers are distributed and shared between national and state governments in the United States.

6-12.USH1.4.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Evaluate accomplishments and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

Ch. 8

TMA

02

Explain the framers’ concerns and the resulting compromises that emerged at the Constitutional Convention.

Ch. 8

EOC, TMA

03

Summarize the arguments of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the Constitution of the United States.

Ch. 8

EOC, TMA

04

Examine/explain the fundamental principles of the United States Constitution.

Constitutional Handbook
Ch. 8

EOC, TMA

05

Explain the fundamental powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches under the United States Constitution.

Ch. 8

EOC

Instructional Objective

1305.09 Evaluate issues in which fundamental values and principles are in conflict, such as between liberty and equality, individual interests and the common good, and majority rule and minority protections.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.4.1.3

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Identify fundamental values and principles as expressed in basic documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.

6-12.USH1.4.1.2

Analyze the common traits, beliefs, and characteristics that unite the United States as a nation and a society.

6-12.USH1.1.1.3

Describe ways in which citizens participated in early American public life.

6-12.USH1.4.3.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the rights and protections guaranteed to individuals in the Constitution.

Constitutional Handbook

EOC, TMA

02

Analyze how the Constitution both promotes and limits democracy.

Constitutional Handbook

EOC, TMA

03

Identify personal behaviors that contribute to strengthening a democratic republic.

Constitutional Handbook

EOC, TMA

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Unit 5

The Federal Era and the Jeffersonian Succession

Semester 1, 4Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.10 Understand the problems and actions of the presidential administrations of the Federalist era.

Standard Reference
130510

Associated Instructional Objective:

Provide and evaluate examples of social and political leadership in early American history.

6-12.USH1.4.3.1

Analyze the role of government policy in the early economic development of the United States.

6-12.USH1.3.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Assess the presidency of George Washington with regard to implementation of the Constitution and the conduct of domestic and foreign affairs.

Ch. 9

EOC, TMA

02

Analyze Hamilton’s economic policies and Jefferson’s opposition to them.

Ch. 9

EOC, TMA

03

Analyze Washington’s concerns expressed in his Farewell Address.

Ch.9

EOC

04

Explain the development and impact of the first American political party system.

Ch. 9

EOC, TMA

05

Explain the actions of the Adams’ administration regarding international problems (e.g. undeclared naval war with France, Alien and Sedition Acts) and analyze the political responses.

Ch. 9

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.11 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Explain the significance of principal policies and events in the United States’ relations with the world, such as the War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, and Mexican and Spanish American Wars.

6-12.USH1.5.1.1

Explain ways in which people responded to their physical environment in the early national history of the United States.

6-12.USH1.2.2.1

Understand the development of the Supreme Court’s power and its significance from 1789 to 1814.

130511

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Evaluate the significance of Jefferson’s election to the presidency.

Ch. 10

EOC, TMA

02

Trace the evolution of the Supreme Court’s powers during the 1790s and early 19^th century and appraise John Marshall’s precedent-setting decisions.

Ch. 10

EOC, TMA

03

Outline the causes and consequences of the Louisiana Purchase.

Ch. 10

EOC, TMA

04

Examine the political and economic causes and effects of the War of 1812; explain the reasons for, and consequences of, Native American support for Britain; and analyze the sectional divisions caused by the war.

Ch. 10

EOC, TMA

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Unit 6

The War of 1812 and the National Era

Semester 2, 2 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.12 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Explain the significance of principal policies and events in the United States’ relations with the world, such as the War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, and Mexican and Spanish American Wars.

6-12.USH1.5.1.1

Evaluate the major foreign policy positions that have characterized the United States’ relations with the world, such as isolationism and imperialism.

6-12.USH1.5.1.2

Discuss the use of the national interest as a criterion for shaping foreign policy.

6-12.USH1.5.1.3

Understand the development of the Supreme Court’s power and its significance during the early nineteenth century.

130512

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Illustrate emerging nationalism following the War of 1812 as evidenced in American culture, national symbols, politics, and foreign policy.

Ch. 10

EOC, TMA

02

Explain the purpose and evaluate the significance of the Monroe Doctrine.

Ch. 11

EOC, TMA

03

Appraise the impact of the Marshall court on national development.

Ch. 11

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.13 Explain the factors that contributed to the rise of industrialization in the 19th century.

Standard Reference
9-12.USH2.1.4.1

Associated Instructional Objective:

Describe the emergence and evolution of a market economy.

6-12.USH1.3.2.1

Explain how the development of various modes of transportation increased economic prosperity and promoted national unity.

6-12.USH1.1.4.2

Explain the consequences of scientific and technological inventions and changes on the social and economic lives of the people in the development the United States.

6-12.USH1.1.4.1

Explain ways in which people responded to their physical environment in the early national history of the United States.

6-12.USH1.2.2.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the development and assess the impact of the factory system and the transportation and market revolutions on antebellum American society.

Ch. 11

EOC, TMA

02

Explain the impact of major inventions of the 19^th century on the American economic system.

Ch. 11

EOC, TMA

03

Examine the economic and social impact of the cotton gin on the nation’s regions.

Ch. 11

EOC, TMA

04

Explore Southern commitment to the plantation system as the driving force behind the Southern way of life.

Ch. 11

TMA

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Unit 7

Jacksonian Democracy, Reform, and Expansion

Semester 2, 4 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.14 Understand the social, political, and economic changes and challenges of the Age of Jackson (1824-1840).

Standard Reference
130514

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Provide and evaluate examples of social and political leadership in early American history.

6-12.USH1.4.3.1

Explain how and why powers are distributed and shared between national and state governments in the United States.

6-12.USH1.4.2.2

Trace federal policies and treaties such as removal, reservations, and allotment throughout history that have impacted contemporary American Indians.

6-12.USH1.1.3.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Analyze the growth and limitations of democracy in "the age of the common man."

Ch. 12

EOC, TMA

02

Explain the development of the second American party system.

Ch. 12

EOC, TMA

03

Explain how tariff policy, issues of states’ rights, and debates over slavery influenced politics and sectionalism between 1820 and 1840.

Ch. 12

EOC, TMA

04

Examine Jackson’s policy toward the Native Americans and assess its significance.

Ch. 12

EOC, TMA

05

Evaluate the economic policies and decisions of the Jackson and Van Buren administrations.

Ch. 12

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.14a Interpret how a literary/artistic work relates to the history and/or culture from which it originated.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.3.2.2

Analyze the common traits, beliefs, and characteristics that unite the United States as a nation and a society.

6-12.USH1.1.1.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Assemble/collect and explain contemporary examples of art, literature, and political philosophy/expression that illustrate the values and themes of Jacksonian Democracy.

Text

TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.15 Understand the sources, character, and effects of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period.

Standard Reference
130515

Associated Instructional Objective:

Describe the economic responses to industrialization and the emergence of the American labor movement.

9-12.USH2.1.4.2

Describe the influence of religion on government, culture, artistic creation, technological development, and/or social conduct.

9-12.I.2.2.2

Explain the motives and consequences for the involuntary immigration to North America.

6-12.USH1.1.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify factors that led to antebellum reform movements (e.g. the Great Awakening, temperance, abolition, prison reform, education reform, and women’s rights).

Ch. 14

EOC, TMA

02

Characterize reform movements and evaluate their impact on American society.

Ch. 14

EOC, TMA

03

Explain the growth of the abolitionist movement and the public response in both the North and South.

Ch. 14

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.16 Describe the experiences of culturally, ethnically, and racially different groups existing as part of American society prior to the Civil War.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.2

Associated Instructional Objective:

Analyze the religious, political, and economic motives of European immigrants who came to North America.

6-12.USH1.1.2.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

List the changes in immigration and migration patterns in the United States prior to the Civil War.

Ch. 13, 14

EOC, TMA

02

Explain how immigration intensified ethnic and cultural conflict and complicated the forging of a national identity.

TMA

03

Explain the growth and impact of nativism as a response to Irish and German immigration.

Ch. 14

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.17 Explain the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861 and identify internal and external conflicts.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.5.5

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Analyze the concept of Manifest Destiny and its impact on American Indians and the development of the United States.

6-12.USH1.1.2.3

Illustrate westward migration across North America.

6-12.USH1.2.3.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explore the lure of the West and the reality of life on the frontier.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

02

Explain the economic, political, racial, and religious roots of Manifest Destiny and analyze how the concept influenced the westward expansion of the nation.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

03

Evaluate the role of the federal government, non-native settlers, and Native Americans in the development of the West.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

04

Contrast the causes and character of the rapid settlement of California, Oregon, and Utah in the late 1840s and 1850s.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

05

Map the territorial expansion and major westward trails of the United States from 1803-1853.

Ch. 13
Historical Atlas

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.17a Compare and contrast works or ideas from at least two cultures, historical periods, or geographical areas.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.2.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Compare and contrast nineteenth century and early twenty-first century images/artistic descriptions of the American West (e.g. music, paintings, descriptions from literature). Account for the similarities and differences that you note.

TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.18 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Explain the significance of principal policies and events in the United States’ relations with the world, such as the War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, and Mexican and Spanish American Wars.

6-12.USH1.5.1.1

Evaluate the major foreign policy positions that have characterized the United States’ relations with the world, such as isolationism and imperialism.

6-12.USH1.5.1.2

Discuss the use of the national interest as a criterion for shaping foreign policy.

6-12.USH1.5.1.3

Explain how and why powers are distributed and shared between national and state governments in the United States.

6-12.USH1.4.2.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the peaceful resolution of the Oregon dispute with Great Britain in 1846.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

02

Examine the causes of the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican War and evaluate the provisions and consequences of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Ch. 13

EOC, TMA

03

Assess the role of compromise in the decades prior to 1850 (e.g. Missouri Compromise, Tariff of 1833).

Ch. 15

EOC, TMA

04

Analyze how the debates over the extension of slavery strained national unity and fostered sectionalism.

Ch. 15

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.18a Relate arts and humanities disciplines to ethical and/or human issues.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.2.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the specific impact that one significant historical figure (e.g. Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe) had on the issue of slavery in American society.

Text

TMA

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Unit 8

Civil War and Reconstruction

Semester 2, 4 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.19 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objectives:

Compare the economic development of the North with the South.

6-12.USH1.3.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain why the Compromise of 1850 did not provide permanent remedy to sectional tensions.

Ch. 15

EOC, TMA

02

Explain how events after the Compromise of 1850 (e.g. the Kansas-Nebraska Act, growing free labor ideology in the North, and the Dred Scott decision) contributed to increasing sectional polarization.

Ch. 15, 16

EOC, TMA

03

Debate the causes of the Civil War and evaluate the importance of slavery as a principal cause of the conflict.

Ch. 15, 16

EOC, TMA

04

Chart the secession of the southern states and explain the process and reasons for secession.

Ch. 15,16

EOC, TMA

05

Compare the human and material resources of the Union and the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War and assess the tactical advantages of each side.

Ch. 16

EOC, TMA

06

Identify events and turning points of the war (e.g. division of loyalties within states such as Virginia and Tennessee, the draft riots, the election of 1864, battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg) and evaluate how political, military, and diplomatic leadership affected the outcome of the conflict.

Ch. 16, 17

EOC, TMA

07

Evaluate provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s reasons for issuing it, and its significance.

Ch. 17

EOC, TMA

08

Explore the role and impact of blacks on the war effort in the North and the South.

Ch. 17

EOC, TMA

09

Analyze the purpose, meaning, and significance of Gettysburg Address.

Ch. 17 p. 524

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.20 Discuss the causes and effects of various conflicts in American history such as the American Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.1.1.4

Associated Instructional Objective:

Evaluate issues in which fundamental values and principles are in conflict, such as between liberty and equality, individual interests and the common good, and majority rule and minority protections.

6-12.USH1.4.1.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Compare the human and material costs of the war in the North and South and assess the war’s impact on the nation’s social, political, and economic institutions.

Ch. 17, 18

EOC, TMA

02

Explain how Southern states restricted the freedoms of African Americans.

Ch. 18

EOC, TMA

03

Contrast the Reconstruction policies of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Congress, while assessing these policies as responses to changing events (including Lincoln’s assassination).

Ch. 17, 18

EOC, TMA

04

Explain the provisions of the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th amendments and the political forces supporting and opposing each.

Ch. 17, 18

EOC, TMA

05

Analyze how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected men’s and women’s roles and status in American society.

Ch. 18, 22

TMA

06

Assess the successes and failures of Reconstruction.

Ch. 18

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.21 Describe the role of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and national origin on the development of individual/political rights.

Standard Reference
6-12.USH1.4.4.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Explain the emergence of Jim Crow laws and analyze their impact on the lives of Americans.

Ch. 18, 21

EOC, TMA

02

Analyze and evaluate the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Ch. 21

EOC, TMA

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Unit 9

Closing the Frontier

Semester 2, 2 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.22 Evaluate the impact of western settlement on the nation’s economic, political and social development.

Standard Reference
130522

Associated Instructional Objective:

Analyze the role of government policy in the early economic development of the United States.

6-12.USH1.3.2.2

Trace federal policies and treaties such as removal, reservations, and allotment throughout history that have impacted contemporary American Indians.

6-12.USH1.1.3.1

Explain how and why events may be interpreted differently according to the points of view of participants and observers.

6-12.USH1.1.3.2

Discuss the resistance of American Indians to assimilation.

6-12.USH1.1.3.3

Analyze the concept of Manifest Destiny and its impact on American Indians and the development of the United States.

6-12.USH1.1.2.3

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Examine the challenges of building the transcontinental railroads.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

02

Identify the effects of the transcontinental railroads on the West and on the nation.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

03

Explain how major geographical and technological influences (e.g. mechanized farming, hydraulic engineering, and barbed wire) affected farming, mining, and ranching.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

04

Analyze the role of the federal government (especially in terms of land, water, and Indian policies) in the economic transformation of the West.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

05

Explain the emergence and characteristics of cooperatives, the Grange, and the Populist movement as responses to industrialization and changing markets.

Ch. 19

EOC, TMC

06

Examine diaries, journals, and other literary works to explore the daily life of women on the frontier and compare their experiences with women in the East.

Ch. 19

TMA

07

Analyze the causes and effects of the "second great removal," (e.g. the reservation system and the Dawes Act) and evaluate the legacy of federal Indian policies during the 19^th century.

Ch. 19

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.22a Compare and contrast works or ideas from at least two cultures, historical periods, or geographical areas.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.2.1.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Compare the similarities and differences in the artistic treatment of an historical event (e.g. the siege of the Alamo, The Battle of Little Big Horn), as expressed in at least two modern (post-World War II) accounts, each representing a different cultural point of view.

TMA

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Unit 10

The Gilded Age: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration

Semester 2, 4 Weeks

Instructional Objective

1305.23 Explain the factors that contributed to the rise of industrialization in the 19th century.

Standard Reference
9-12.USH2.1.4.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Evaluate the careers and contributions of prominent industrial and financial leaders of the Gilded Age (e.g. Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan).

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

02

Explain how business leaders used various types of business organizations to expand markets, limit competition, and maximize profits in the late 19^th century.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

03

Examine and illustrate the role of new technology, communication and transportation in the growth of industrialization.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.24 Describe the economic responses to industrialization and the emergence of the American labor movement.

Standard Reference
9-12.USH2.1.4.2

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Describe the problems of the American worker in the 1800s and how they attempted to bring about change.

Ch. 14

EOC, TMA

02

Trace the formation and describe the organization of labor unions of the 19^th century.

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

03

Examine the major events in the labor struggle of the late 1800s (e.g. the Haymarket event and the Homestead and Pullman strikes).

Ch. 20

EOC, TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.24a Relate arts and humanities disciplines to ethical and/or human issues.

Standard Reference
9-12.I.2.1.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Identify a nineteenth century hero or popular figure who embodies the spirit of Manifest Destiny, political compromise, or unbridled finance capitalism. Identify the moral issues and ethical questions raised by this person’s behavior/values/goals.

Text

TMA

Instructional Objective

1305.25 Identify motives for continued immigration to the United States.

Standard Reference
9-12.USH2.1.2.1

Associated Instructional Objective:

Analyze the changes in the political, social, and economic conditions of immigrant groups.

9-12.USH2.1.2.2

Illustrate westward migration across North America.

6-12.USH1.2.3.1

No.

Performance Objective

Resource Reference

Assessment Correlation

01

Account for the migratory patterns of people from farms to cities, including the migration of African Americans from the South, and explain the factors that led to the rapid growth of cities.

Ch. 21

EOC, TMA

02

Examine effects of the rapid growth of American cities during the Gilded Age (e.g. challenges of governance, public health, recreation).

Ch. 21

EOC, TMA

03

Contrast the "old" and "new" immigration in terms of its numbers, and the immigrants’ ethnicity, religion, language, place of origin, and motives for emigrating from their homelands.

Ch. 21

EOC, TMA

04

Illustrate the challenges, opportunities, and contributions of different immigrant groups.

Ch. 21

TMA