Edison School District

Developing a desire for lifelong learning

Þ individualism.

Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

Þ Describe the development of the       agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.

Þ Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social,      religious, economic, and cultural           development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and        preserve it.

Þ Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and       conditions prior to the Civil War.

Þ Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.

Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

Þ Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president.

Þ Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the     concept of Manifest Destiny  and the territorial acquisitions.

Þ Describe the role of pioneer women and the new status that western women achieved.

Þ Examine the importance of the great rivers and the struggle over water rights.

Þ Discuss Mexican settlements and their locations, cultural traditions, attitudes toward slavery, land-grant system, and economies.

Þ Describe the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War. Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Þ Describe the leaders of the movement.

Þ Discuss the abolition of slavery in early state constitutions.

Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in the banning of slavery in new states north of

Þ the Ohio River.

Þ Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California’s admission to the union as a free state under the          Compromise of 1850.

Þ Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri            Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the          Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott v.       Sandford decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Þ Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and       economic opportunities.

Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

Þ Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as      emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.

Þ Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists.

Þ Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and      secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine.

Þ Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence.

Þ Study the views and lives of leaders and soldiers on both sides of the war.

Þ Describe critical developments and events in the war, including the major battles, geographical advantages and obstacles and technological advances.

Þ Explain how the war affected            combatants, civilians, the physical         environment, and future warfare.

Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

Þ List the original aims of Reconstruction and describe its effects on the political and social structures of different        regions.

Þ Identify the push-pull factors in the movement of former slaves to the cities in the North and to the West and their differing              experiences in those regions

Þ Understand the effects of the        Freedmen’s Bureau and the restrictions placed on the rights and opportunities of freedmen, including racial segregation and “Jim Crow” laws.

Þ Trace the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and describe the Klan’s effects.

Þ Understand the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and analyze their connection to Reconstruction.

Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the        Industrial Revolution.

Þ Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.

Þ Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.

Þ Explain how states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies.

Þ Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry.

Þ Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization.

Þ Discuss child labor, working conditions, and laissez-faire policies toward big business and examine the labor movement.

Þ Identify the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy.

Þ Identify the characteristics and impact of Grangerism & Populism.

Þ Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the quality of life.