1. Analyze various types of maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams related to U.S. history (G1A-M2)

2. Explain how physical features and climate affected migration, settlement patterns, and land use in the United States through 1877 (G-1B-M1)

3. Identify and describe significant physical features that have influenced U.S. historical events (e.g., Ohio River Valley in the American Revolution) (G-1B-M2)

4. Explain ways in which goals, cultures, interests, inventions, and technological advances have affected perceptions and uses of places or regions in the United States (G-1B-M4)

5. Explain patterns of rural/urban migration and the positive and negative consequences of urban development in the United States (G-1C-M3)

6. Identify selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the United States and explain the political, cultural, and economic reasons for immigration (G-1C-M4)

7. Compare the interdependence of Great Britain and the American colonies to the global economy today (G-1C-M6)

8. Explain how cooperation and conflict affected the changing political boundaries of the United States to 1877 (e.g., Missouri Compromise) (G-1C-M7)

9. Explain how the different physical environments in the American North and South led to different economic activities (G-1D-M2)

10. Explain and evaluate the major purposes of government (C-1A-M1)

11. Explain the meaning of the term federalism (C-1A-M2)

12. Distinguish between various forms of government (e.g., monarchy, totalitarian) and describe their characteristics and organization (C-1A-M2)

13. Explain how separation of powers limits government and describe the U.S. government system of checks and balances (C-1A-M3)

14. Identify the powers of the U.S. federal government and the powers it shares with state governments according to the U.S. Constitution (C-1A-M3)

15. Identify the structure and powers of the three branches of the federal government, the limits of those powers, and key positions within each branch (C-1A-M5)

16. Identify qualifications and terms of office for elected officials at the national level (C-1A-M6)

17. Identify current government leaders at the national level (C-1A-M6)

18. Describe the powers/responsibilities and limits of power for government officials at the national level (C-1A-M6)

19. Explain how a bill becomes law at the federal level (C-1A-M7)

20. Examine a given law or court ruling and evaluate it based on given criteria (e.g., Dred Scott decision) (C-1A-M7)

21. Evaluate a type of tax in an historical context (e.g., Stamp Act, Tea Tax) (C-1A-M1)

22. Identify problems the United States faced after the American Revolution that led to the writing of the U.S. Constitution (C-1B-M1)

23. Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the U.S. Constitution (C-1B-M1)

24. Identify the roles of the Continental Congress and the Great Compromise in forming the American constitutional government and the federal union (C-1B-M1)

25. Identify the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (C-1B-M1)

26. Explain how historical English documents, such as the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, influenced American democracy (C-1B-M1)

27. Explain how ancient governments influenced American democracy and culture (C-1B-M1)

28. Describe historical experiences and factors that defined, influenced, and helped shape American political culture (C-1B-M2)

29. Define and explain the ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence (C-1B-M3)

30. Explain the principles of government embodied in the U.S. Constitution (C-1B-M3)

31. Analyze methods used to institute change or resolve social conflict in U.S. history (e.g., War of 1812, states’ rights theory) (C-1B-M4)

32. Explain how changes are made in a democratic society (C-1B-M5)

33. Describe the role of political parties in the American political system (C-1B-M6)

34. Describe political divisions of the world (nation-states) (C-1C-M1)

35. Explain various processes/strategies nations use to interact (C-1C-M1)

36. Explain how U.S. foreign policy is formed and carried out (C-1C-M2)

37. Identify types of foreign policy issues with reference to current and historical examples (e.g., Middle East conflicts) (C-1C-M3)

38. Identify the qualifications or requirements for U.S. citizenship, including naturalization (C-1D-M1)

39. Explain the importance of various rights and responsibilities of citizenship to the individual or to society at large (e.g., Bill of Rights) (C-1D-M2)

40. Explain issues involving rights and responsibilities of individuals in American society (e.g., rights of individuals with disabilities, responsibility to pay taxes) (C-1D-M3)

41. Use economic concepts (e.g., supply and demand, interdependence) to explain Mercantilism and describe its role in British colonization and the conflict between the thirteen American colonies and Great Britain (E-1A-M9)

42. Identify U.S. exports and imports that contributed to the U.S economic interdependence with Europe and other parts of the world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (E-1B-M6)

43. Construct a timeline of key events and key figures in U.S. history from 1763 to 1877 (H-1A-M1)

44. Interpret a timeline to identify cause-and-effect relationships among events in U.S. history (H-1A-M1)

45. Explain the point of view of key historical figures and groups in U.S. history (H-1A-M2)

46. Explain the causes, effects, or impact of a given historical event in U.S. history (H-1A-M3)

47. Explain how a given historical figure influenced or changed the course of U.S. history (H-1A-M3)

48. Compare and contrast two primary sources related to the same event in U.S. history (H-1A-M4)

49. Propose and defend an alternative course of action to a given issue or problem in U.S. history (H-1A-M5)

50. Conduct historical research using a variety of resources, and evaluate those resources for reliability and bias, to answer historical questions related to U.S. history (H-1A-M6)

51. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolutionary War (H-1B-M6)

52. Compare and contrast the strategies and motivations of the Patriots, Loyalists, and British during the American Revolution (H-1B-M6)

53. Explain the role of key figures in the American Revolution (H-1B-M6)

54. Explain how the American Revolution affected the politics, society, and economy of the new nation (H-1B-M7)

55. Describe the issues involved in the creation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution (H-1B-M8)

56. Explain the significance of the Bill of Rights and its specific guarantees (H-1B-M8)

57. Describe major events and issues involving early presidencies (H-1B-M8)

58. Explain Napoleon’s reasons for selling the Louisiana territory to the United States and the impact of that acquisition (H-1B-M9)

59. Explain President Madison’s reason for declaring war in 1812, the sectional divisions over the war, and the consequences of the Native American alliance with the British (H-1B-M9)

60. Describe provisions of the Monroe Doctrine and its influence on U.S. foreign relations (H-1B-M9)

61. Explain westward movement of the United States, the changes it created, and its effects on relations with Native Americans (H-1B-M9)

62. Explain Manifest Destiny and its economic, political, social, and religious roots (H-1B-M9)

63. Describe diplomatic and political developments that led to the resolution of conflicts with Britain, Spain, and Russia from 1815 to 1850 (H-1B-M9)

64. Identify the causes, course, and consequences of the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War (H-1B-M9)

65. Describe Jacksonian Democracy, the influence of Jackson on the U.S. political system, and Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy (H-1B-M10)

66. Identify major technological developments related to land, water, and transportation and explain how they transformed the economy, created international markets, and affected the environment (H-1B-M10)

67. Analyze national policies on a protective tariff, a national bank, federally funded improvements (e.g., roads, canals, railroads), and educational and prison reforms (H-1B-M10)

68. Compare ways of life in northern and southern states and identify factors that caused rapid urbanization and the growth of slavery (H-1B-M10)

69. Identify the causes and explain the effects of new waves of immigration prior to the Civil War (H-1B-M10)

70. Explain the importance of the Second Great Awakening, the ideas of its principal leaders, and how it affected public education, temperance, women’s suffrage, and abolition (H-1B-M11)

71. Describe fundamental beliefs of abolitionists and compare positions of those who favored gradual versus immediate emancipation (H-1B-M11)

72. Identify the major antebellum reform movements, their leaders, and the movements’ effects on the United States (H-1B-M11)

73. Describe the economic, social, and cultural differences between the North and South, including the advantages and disadvantages each had at the outbreak of the Civil War (H-1B-M12)

74. Explain the impact of the compromises on the issue of slavery and the Dred Scott decision on increasing tensions between the North and South (H-1B-M12)

75. Explain the immediate and long-term causes of the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War (H-1B-M12)

76. Describe the course of the Civil War, including major turning points and the war’s immediate and long-term impact on the North and the South (H-1B-M12)

77. Explain the purpose, significance, and results of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (H-1B-M12)

78. Describe provisions of the Thirteenth Amendment and Lincoln’s reasons for advancing it, as well as the purpose and significance of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (H-1B-M12)

79. Describe, compare, and evaluate various reconstruction plans of the post-Civil War South (H-1B-M13)

80. Explain the growing conflict between Andrew Johnson and Congress, and the reasons for and consequences of his impeachment and trial (H-1B-M13)

81. Describe the successes and failures of Reconstruction, as well as its impact on the South (H-1B-M13)

82. Explain how the presidential election of 1876 led to the Compromise of 1877 and brought about an end to Reconstruction in the South (H-1B-M13)

OBJECTIVES:

-to identify the crop that saved Jamestown

-to explain how the colonists received political rights

-to explain why the Pilgrims and the Puritans came to America

-to describe how the Connecticut, Rhode Isand, and New Hampshire colonies began

-to explain why the Middle Colonies had the most diverse populations in colonial America

-to identify America's first town planner

-to understand why the Southern Comonies were established

-to compare and contrast France's colony in North America with the English colonies