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ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM
GRADE SEVEN
Unit Title Timeframe
The New Nation
(Thomas Jefferson)
First quarter
The Causes of the War of 1812
First quarter
War of 1812
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(Lewis and Clark Expedition)
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(American Foreign Policy))
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(More Expansion into Texas and Oregon)
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(Indian Removal Act)
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(Mexican-American War)
First quarter
Westward Expansion
(California Gold Rush)
First quarter
The Industrial Revolution
in America (The South& North)
First quarter
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM
GRADE SEVEN-continued
Unit Title Timeframe
Pre Civil War Society
Second quarter
Causes of the Civil War
Second quarter
Civil War (1861-1865)
Third quarter
Reconstruction
Third quarter
The Western Movement
Fourth quarter
The Second Industrial
Revolution
Fourth quarter
Immigration Fourth quarter
Progressivism
Fourth quarter
Imperialism
Fourth quarter
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT GUIDE
GRADE: SEVEN
Unit Title: Time Frame:
The New Nation First Quarter
Cumulative Progress Indicator Number(s): 21st
Century Theme
6.1.12. C.5.c Analyze the effectiveness of governmental policies and of actions by groups and individuals to address discrimination against new immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans.
6.1.8.a.3.bEvaluate the effectiveness of the fundamental principles of the Constitution (i.e., consent of the governed, rule of law, federalism, limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances, and individual rights)in establishing a federal government that allows for growth and change over time.
6.1.8. A.3.e Determine why the Alien and Sedition Acts were enacted and whether they undermined civil liberties.
6.1.8A.3.f Explain how political parties were formed and continue to be shaped by differing perspectives regarding the role and power of federal government.
Global Awareness
Civic Literacy
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Presidents influence the future of the United States.
The Supreme Court has the power to review laws and interrupt their constitutionality.
What effect did Thomas Jefferson‘s presidency have on the future of the United States?
Did Marbury v. Madison strength/confirm the Supreme Court powers?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Discuss major historical and contemporary conflicts over United
States constitutional principles, including judicial review in Marbury
v. Madison, slavery in the Dred Scott Decision, separate but equal in
Plessy v. Ferguson and the rights of minorities in the Indian Removal
Act.
2. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey
and American society preceding the Civil War including the early
stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political,
legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
--View Louisiana Purchase and Western expeditions (transparency)
--create a campaign slogan for each political party in the election of 1800
--Discuss the political cartoon (Party Politics in the Jefferson Era
--Vocabulary Builder Section 1 (Jefferson Era)
-- Read and discuss Biography of John Marshall
--Biography of Jefferson p.271 textbook
----define words or terms that are unfamiliar
-----Draw a hammer to show Federalists’ emphasis on manufacturing and a sheaf
3. Explain the concept of the Manifest Destiny and its relationship
to the westward movement of settlers and territorial expansion,
including the purchase of Florida (1819), the annexation of Texas
(1845), the acquisition of the Oregon Territory (1846), and
territorial acquisition resulting from the Mexican War (1846-1848)
4, Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and
settlement of the frontier, including the acquisition of new
territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana
Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold
rush
5.Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and
by different political and economic philosophies
6. Describe and distinguish among the various map projections,
including size, shape, distance, and direction
7. Compare and contrast the physical and human characteristics of
places in regions in New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
8. Describe how physical and human characteristics of regions
change over time.
of wheat to show Democratic-Republicans’ emphasis on agriculture ( to help
clarify the different political parties in the section)
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Literature:
---Letter of Recommendation:
Write a letter recommending that Thomas Jefferson should be included on
6.1.8. B.3.a Assess how conflicts and alliances among European countries and Native American groups impacted the expansion of the American colonies.
6.1.8A.4.aExplain the changes in America’s relationships with other nations by analyzing policies, treaties, tariffs, and agreements.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
American foreign policies affectrelations with countries.
Native Americans played and important role in United States history.
Why did the United States declare war on Great Britain?
How did Native Americansplay role in the outcome of the War of 1812?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe the continuing struggle to bring all groups of Americans into the mainstream of society with the liberties and equality to which all are entitled, as exemplified by individuals such as Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez
2. Discuss the background and major issues of the War of 1812 (e.g., sectional issues, role of Native Americans)
3. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
4. Explain how state and federal policies influenced various Native American tribes (e.g., homeland vs. resettlement, Black Hawk War, Trail of Tears)
Discuss the USS Constitution and how the advances in technology affected society
(p279 textbook)
--Create a conflict meter of the leading events
--create a timeline of events leading up to the War of 1812
--vocabulary builder section 3
--Tecumseh’s Speech Read and Discuss
---Create a graphic organizer to help explain the effects of the Embargo Act of
1807. (include topics such as: What it did, Why it was passed, political effects,
6.1.8. A.4.a Explain the changes in America’s relationships with other nations by analyzing policies, treaties, tariffs, and agreements.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
The War of 1812 gave the United States a sense of Nationalism, World Power, and strong sense of patriotism.
How did the outcome of War of 1812 affect the future of the United States?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Discuss the background and major issues of the War of 1812 (e.g., sectional issues, role of Native Americans)
2. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
3. Compare political interests and views regarding the War of 1812 (e.g. US responses to shipping harassment, interests of Native Americans and white settlers in the Northwest Territory).
-Biography of Dolly Madison
--Complete a cause and effect graphic organizer
--Review chapter with quick facts transparency (The Jefferson Era Visual
Summary)
--View the Nation at War and Peace time line
--p288-289 discuss and view map of America’s growth in 1820
Create a detailed timeline of events during the War. Have students draw symbols
to help them remember these events and the order that they occurred.
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Music:
Star Spangled Banner
---Have students listen to the song and then share feelings. Have students
create new lyrics to the song that describe another significant battle or event
from the War of 1812
Primary Source
--Jefferson’s Inaugural Address
----Political Cartoon of the Embargo Act
----Tecumseh’s urge to Native Americans)and William Henry Harrison’s
6.1.8. B.4.a Assess the impact of the Louisiana Purchase and western exploration on the expansion and economic development of the United States.
6.1.8. C.4.b Explain how major technological developments revolutionized land and water transportation, as well as the economy, in New Jersey and nation.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Presidential decisions impact the future of United States . How did Thomas Jefferson influence American Expansion?
How does American foreign policy and expansion change after the War of 1812?
How did Manifest Destiny effect America’s policy of expansion?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe and map American territorial expansions and the settlement of the frontier during this period
2. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
3. Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and settlement of the frontier, including the acquisition of new territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold rush
4. Discuss how meeting the needs and wants of a growing world population impacts the environment and economic growth.
5. Translate maps into appropriate spatial graphics to display geographical information
6. Describe how regions change over time.
---vocabulary builder section 1 and 2
---Biographies on Catharine Maria Sedwick
Thomas Cole
Noah Webster (Literature)
---Geography: The National Road
discuss the Erie Canal (p.303, 306-307)
connect to NJ’s canal
----Discuss nationalism
----View and explore 3 maps
US Boundary changes 1818-1819
US Roads and Canals 1850
The Missouri Compromise 1820 (
---View and discuss the political cartoon of the Monroe Doctrine
Role Play Lewis and Clark
--Discuss environmental discoveries
--Vocabulary Builder
--Map Lewis and Clark and Pike’s expedition
--Biography of Sacagawea (6.4.E.7)
--Connect Lewis and Clark to trail today (National Park System)
--analyze Lewis’s letter p. 276 textbook
--Political cartoon on Louisiana Purchase
---to help students follow the sequence of events, create timeline of events that
led up to the Louisiana Purchase
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Journalism/Photography:
----Have students view 3 photos regarding the journey west
----Have students describe the different types of terrain and transportation
that would have been used.
----September 17, 1804 Great Plains letter by Meriwether Lewis (Primary
More Expansion into Texas and Oregon First Quarter
Cumulative Progress Indicator Number(s): 21st
Century Theme
6.1.8.A.3.a Examine the ideals found in the Declaration of Independence, and assess the extent to which they were fulfilled for women, African Americans, and Native Americans during this time period.
6.1.8. B.4.aAssess the impact of the Louisiana Purchase and western exploration on the expansion and economic development of the United States.
6.1.8. B.4.b Map territorial expansion and settlement, as well as the locations of conflicts with and removal of Native Americans.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
People moved west to find new economic opportunities, greater freedom or to get away from something.
Pioneer life on the trail and prairie like all pioneering, was filled with dangers and hardships.
Why did pioneers decide to face the dangers and hardships of the trail and life on the prairie?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Analyze ways in which nation-states interact with one another through trade, diplomacy, cultural exchanges, treaties or agreements, humanitarian aid, economic incentives and sanctions, and the use or threat of military force.
2. Discuss how cultures may change and that individuals may identify with more than one culture.
3. Describe and map American territorial expansions and the settlement of the frontier during this period.
4. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
5. Explain the concept of the Manifest Destiny and its relationship to the westward movement of settlers and territorial expansion, including the purchase of Florida (1819), the annexation of Texas (1845), the acquisition of the Oregon Territory (1846), and territorial acquisition resulting from the Mexican War (1846-1848)
6. Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and settlement of
---Journal Entry: about life on the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails.
---Discuss mountain men/marriage with Native Americans
--Biography of James Beckwourth (mountain men)
--Interpreting Maps: Expansion (physical features): explain to the President of
Mexico the possible changes to the Mexican boundaries because of U.S.
expansion
Graphic Organizer: Reasons why Americans moved west and challenges they faced
-View map of the Texas Revolution p.352 also view transparency of Texas’s
Revolution
the frontier, including the acquisition of new territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold rush
7. Explain the law of supply and demand. Discuss how meeting the needs and wants of a growing world population impacts the environment and economic growth.
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Language Arts
--- New Orleans to San Francisco in ‘49
Primary Sources
View the Republic of Texas’s flag and discuss why the flag was created this
6.1.8. B.4.a Assess the impact of the Louisiana Purchase and western exploration on the expansion and economic development of the United States.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
The settlement of the west by pioneers resulted in “unsettling” the Native Americans.
What happens when cultures collide?
Did the United States treat the Native Americans fairly?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
Students will…
1. Discuss major historical and contemporary conflicts over United states constitutional principles, including judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, slavery in the Dred Scott Decision, separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson, and the rights of minorities in the Indian Removal Act.
2. Describe major conflicts that have arisen from diversity (e.g., land and suffrage for Native Americans, civil rights, women’s rights) and discuss how the conflicts have been addressed.
3. Describe and map American territorial expansions and the settlement of the frontier during this period.
4. Analyze the causes and consequences of continuing conflict between Native American tribes and colonists (e.g., Tecumseh’s rebellion)
5. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
6. Explain how state and federal policies influenced various Native American tribes (e.g., homeland vs. resettlement, Black Hawk War, Trail of Tears)
7. Discuss how and why people cooperate, but also engage in conflict, to control the Earth’s surface.
--Geography: view map on Indian Removal Treaties
p.336-337
-Geography: view on Second Seminole War
Vocabulary Builder Section 3
--Compare and Contrast: effects on Native Americans’ lives and Settlers’ lives
-- Discussion question: How might the Southeast be different today if Native
Americans had successfully resisted removal?
-Read personal accounts of Trail of Tears p334
--Biographies of John C. Calhoun, Sequoya, Black Hawk, Daniel Webster---Discuss the
court case: Worcester v. Georgia
--Complete Map activities: Seminole Wars
---to help students follow the sequence of events, create timeline of events that led
6.1.8. B.4.a Assess the impact of the Louisiana Purchase
and western exploration on the expansion and economic
development of the United States.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
The concept of Manifest Destiny affected relations with Mexico. How did expansion in the South West effect relations with the Mexico?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe the continuing struggle to bring all groups of Americans into the mainstream of society with the liberties and equality to which all are entitled, as exemplified by individuals such as Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez
2. Analyze ways in which nation-states interact with one another through trade, diplomacy, cultural exchanges, treaties or agreements, humanitarian aid, economic incentives and sanctions, and the use or threat of military force.
3. Discuss how cultures may change and that individuals may identify with more than one culture.
4. Discuss Spanish exploration, settlement, and missions in the American Southwest
5. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
6. Explain the concept of the Manifest Destiny and its relationship to the westward movement of settlers and territorial expansion, including the purchase of Florida (1819), the annexation of Texas (1845), the acquisition of the Oregon Territory (1846), and territorial acquisition resulting from the Mexican War (1846-1848)
7. Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and settlement of the frontier, including the acquisition of new territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold rush
Vocabulary builder section 3
---Discuss Ranch Life p.356
---Geography: Spanish Missions in California, discuss the missions in California. Also,
read and discuss a journal entry of a Spanish Missionary and Explorer Junipero Serra
---Timeline events that led to the Mexican American War
--View Mexican American War map (1846-1847) p.359 and map transparency
----List key battles of the Mexican American War
---Create a timeline of the Mexican American War
---Discuss the conflicts between the Native Americans and the settlers and compare
the two different cultures
---Biography on Lorenzo De Zalava
---Read and discuss a Mexican’s view on the War
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
To help clarify the differences in California under different rulers
Have students create collages. Once would show life in California under
Spanish rule and another collage would have images showing in California
under Mexican rule. Can compare and contrast the two different rules
Art/Music:
create an outline for a documentary film during the time period:
Explain how words, sounds and images could be used to explain manifest
destiny and the Mexican-American War to your audience (middle school
students as audience)
Read a Mexican Views the War
--From the Journal of Junipero Serra
---Map questions #1-2 p.359
---Section 3 questions p.363 #1-5
--Review Quiz Section
Technology Integration Vocabulary
Spanish Missions
http://my.hrw.com/apps/alchemy/editors/display.jsp?cid=musewcbfng_act1ir http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/index.html http://www.missionsjc.com/schoolreport.html http://susdl.fcla.edu/fh/outline/1492spa1.html Texas Ballads http://my.hrw.com/apps/alchemy/editors/display.jsp?cid=musewcbfng_act2ir http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/houston/ http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/bowie/ http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/crockett/ interactive map Mexican American War 1846-1847 (www.go.hrw.com)
6.1.8. B.4.a Assess the impact of the Louisiana Purchase and western
exploration on the expansion and economic development of the United
States.
6.1.8. D.4.a Analyze the push-pull factors that led to increases in
immigration, and explain why ethnic and cultural conflicts resulted.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Manifest Destiny led to a conflict of cultures in the United States.
Scarcity of resources and goods can lead to conflict.
What happens when cultures collide?
Did the United States treat the Native Americans fairly?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe major conflicts that have arisen from diversity (e.g., land and suffrage for Native Americans, civil rights, women’s rights) and discuss how the conflicts have been addressed.
2. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
3. Explain the concept of the Manifest Destiny and its relationship to the westward movement of settlers and territorial expansion, including the purchase of Florida (1819), the annexation of Texas (1845), the acquisition of the Oregon Territory (1846), and territorial acquisition resulting from the Mexican War (1846-1848)
4. Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and settlement of the frontier, including the acquisition of new territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold rush
5. Discuss how innovation, entrepreneurship, competition, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement in productivity are responsible for the rise in the standard of living in the United States and other countries with market economies.
Vocabulary builder section 4
Read about the experience traveling to California (New Orleans to San Francisco)
Create a list of items used and needed by the people heading to California
Great a guide book for people who want to explore California (include items needed,
expectations, cost of materials, and living conditions)
Discuss how the “gold rush” had a lasting impact on California’s population and
economy
Create a timeline of events leading up to the Gold Rushhelp understand the
rush to California)
----create an advertisement urging people to go to California.
---List the many reasons why people were going westward
(extend beyond on mining towns)
---create a newspaper for Gold Rush mining town
Read Fam Literature:
Read New Orleans to San Francisco in ‘49ily letters during the California Gold Rush
6. Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by different political and economic philosophies.
7. Discuss how and why people cooperate, but also engage in conflict, to control the Earth’s surface.
8. Describe how physical and human characteristics of regions change over time
9. Analyze the impact of various human activities and social policies on the natural environment and describe how humans have attempted to solve environmental problems through adaptation and modification. (6.6.E.2)
The Industrial Revolution in America (North and South) First Quarter
Cumulative Progress Indicator Number(s): 21st
Century Theme
6.1.8. C.4.b Explain how major technological developments revolutionized land and water transportation, as well as the economy, in New Jersey and nation.
6.1.8.C.4.cAnalyze how technological innovations affected the status and social class of different groups of people, and explain the outcomes that resulted.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Technology has positive and negative effects on society, politics and economics of country.
A historical interpretation is influenced by one’s perspective.
The Industrial Revolution positively or negatively effected the future of the United States of America
How does technological change influence people’s lives? Society?
What social, political, and economic opportunities and problems arise from changes in technology?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Explain how non-governmental organizations influence legislation and policies at the federal, state, and local levels.
2. Discuss the basic contemporary issues involving the personal, political, and economic rights of American citizens (e.g. dress codes, sexual harassment, fair trial, free press, minimum wage).
3. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
4. Discuss American cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period (e.g. abolitionists, the Second Great Awakening, the origins of the labor and women’s movements).
5. Discuss the economic history of New Jersey, including growth of major industries and businesses, the lives of factory workers, and occupations of working people.
6. Describe and map the continuing territorial expansion and settlement of the frontier, including the acquisition of new territories and conflicts with Native Americans, the Louisiana
create a chart that includes each contributor and his/her invention
and improvements made to society
vocabulary builder section 1
-Economics: mass production and its affect on society Vocabulary builder section
2
Biography of Samuel Slater
Discuss the overall growth of factories, factory life and factories in early NJ
Discuss mill life and the working experience
Biography on Sarah Bagley
Explain why workers organized; the benefits for the workers and disadvantages
for the employer.
Vocabulary builder section 3
Create a timeline listing the key events of the steamboat and transportation
Biography of Peter Cooper
View Growth in U.S. 1853, p.400 and map transparency (6.4.F.1) (6.4.F.9)
Geography: Transportation Revolution—identify routes and identify the railroads
throughout the U.S. in the 1850’s
Vocabulary Builder section 4
Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the California gold rush
7. Explain the law of supply and demand 8. Discuss how innovation, entrepreneurship, competition,
customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement in productivity are responsible for the rise in the standard of living in the United States and other countries with market economies.
9. Describe how inventions and innovations have improved standards of living over the course of history.
10. Analyze and give examples of how business and industry influence the buying decisions of consumers through advertising.
Biography on John Deere. Connect Deere and McCormick and how farms began to
expand throughout the U.S.
Create a jingle for one of the inventions, share jingles with class, discuss the
importance for these products to sell.
View the Fears of the Railroad p Help understand importance of inventors and
inventions)
---Write headlines for a newspaper, headlines are regarding the inventors and
inventions. Discuss why these key terms would be in the news.
(Help connect inventor with invention and effects)
--graphic organizer identifying the inventorinnovationeffects on society
Help connect how the steamboat changed lives)
---View picture p397 (picture of Mississippi Riverboat), identify people and what
they are doing. Discuss how this innovation changed lives and society
(Extend and explore more on the railroad systems)
Research the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Research railroad company’s growth
and effect on the economy
Help understand importance of inventors and inventions)---Write headlines for a
newspaper, headlines are regarding the inventors and inventions. Discuss why
these key terms would be in the news.
(Help connect inventor with invention and effects)
--graphic organizer identifying the inventorinnovationeffects on society
Help connect how the steamboat changed lives)
---View picture p397 (picture of Mississippi Riverboat), identify people and what
they are doing. Discuss how this innovation changed lives and society
(Extend and explore more on the railroad systems)
---Research the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Research railroad company’s growth
and effect on the economy
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Section 1 questions p.389 #1-5
---Review quiz Section 1
---Section 2 questions p.395 #1-5
--Review quiz section 2
--Section 3 questions 401 #1-6
-Review quiz section 3
---How did the use of steam power change where factories are located
6.1.8. C.4.b Explain how major technological developments revolutionized land and water transportation, as well as the economy, in New Jersey and nation.
6.1.8.C.4.c Analyze how technological innovations affected the status and social class of different groups of people, and explain the outcomes that resulted.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Technology has positive and negative effects on society, politics and economics of country.
A historical interpretation is influenced by one’s perspective.
The Industrial Revolution positively andnegatively affected the future of the United States of America.
How does technological change influence people’s lives? Society?
What social, political, and economic opportunities and problems arise from changes in technology?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
Students will..
1. Describe the continuing struggle to bring all groups of Americans into the mainstream of society with the liberties and equality to which all are entitled, as exemplified by individuals such as Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez (6.2.B.3)
2. Describe how one’s heritage includes personal history and experiences, culture, customs, and family background. (6.2.E.6)
3. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery. (6.4.F.1)
4. Explain the concept of the Manifest Destiny and its relationship to the westward movement of settlers and territorial expansion, including the purchase of Florida (1819), the annexation of Texas (1845), the acquisition of the Oregon Territory (1846), and territorial acquisition resulting from the Mexican War (1846-1848) (6.4.F.3)
Vocabulary builder Section 1
Biography of Eli Whitney, create an advertisement to promote the cotton gin
Discuss and list the effects of the cotton gin on the southern economy
----Geography: view The Cotton Kingdom p. 416 and map transparency. Identify the
cotton belt and how the cotton gin changed the productivity (expansion into Texas)
Vocabulary Builder section 2 )create a costs-benefits chart, for a southern planter
deciding on if they want to switch their crops
Geography: (Cotton in the South) identify the crops of the South, identify their
locations and the amounts produced.
--View a southern plantation p.421, identify the different workers and working parts
of the plantation
Vocabulary Builder Section 3
---Create a chart that lists four groups of southern society and describe life for these
Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
-Jacob Stroyer, My Life in the South
5. Explain the law of supply and demand (6.5.A.2) 6. Discuss how innovation, entrepreneurship, competition, customer
satisfaction, and continuous improvement in productivity are responsible for the rise in the standard of living in the United States and other countries with market economies. (6.5.A.7)
7. Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by different political and economic philosophies (6.5.B.3)
8. Describe how inventions and innovations have improved standards of living over the course of history. (6.5.B.4)
9. Analyze and give examples of how business and industry influence the buying decisions of consumers through advertising. (6.5.B.6
10. Discuss the similarities and difference among rural, suburban, and urban communities. (6.6.B.6)
Economics: Identify and compare southern population 1860 (The Southern
Population, 1860) (6.4 help understand the cotton boom
and the effect on southern society)--create a chart, list the positives and negative
effects of the cotton boom(extension on cotton in the South)
---Write an editorial to support his/her position on the over-reliance on cotton in the
South.
(Help explain life in the Urban South)
--List the public services and the Role of slavery
(help understand the differences between theslaves)
---Create a chart: agricultural slaves, slaves in the house, skilled slaves: identify,
describe, compare(help understand the challenging of the slave system)
--Create a chart: identify the many challenge
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Literature:
Plantation Life before Emancipation
Biography on Mary Boykin Chesnut
Nat Turner’s Rebellion p.429
---Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian plantation
6.1.8. A3.f Explain how political parties were formed and continue to be shaped by differing perspectives regarding the role and power of federal government.
6.1.8. D.4.b Explore efforts to reform education, women’s rights, slavery, and other issues during the Antebellum period.
6.1.8. D.4.c Explain the growing resistance to slavery and New Jersey’s role in the Underground Railroad.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
The institution of slavery caused a rift between slave and non-slave states.
The North and South had different economic bases; North was industrialized and the South was agrarian.
What individual was the most influential in changes in pre Civil War?
How does a regions geography climate and natural resources influence society?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe the continuing struggle to bring all groups of Americans into the mainstream of society with the liberties and equality to which all are entitled, as exemplified by individuals such as Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez
2. Explain how non-governmental organizations influence legislation and policies at the federal, state, and local levels.
3. Describe major conflicts that have arisen from diversity (e.g., land and suffrage for Native Americans, civil rights, women’s rights) and discuss how the conflicts have been addressed.
4. Describe the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey and American society preceding the Civil War including the early stages of industrialization, the growth of cities, and the political, legal and social controversies surrounding the expansion of slavery.
5. Discuss the economic history of New Jersey, including growth of major industries and businesses, the lives of factory workers, and occupations of working people.
6. Understand the institution of slavery in the United States, resistance to it, and New Jersey’s role in the Underground Railroad.
---Vocabulary Builder Section 1
-Create a chart: identify the reason for rapid urban growth and the problems that
occurred. Discuss NJ’s industrial growth, rise of cities. (6.4.F.1) (6.4.F.6)-
Vocabulary Builder section 2
Create a chart: list the transcendentalists and describe who they are and what
they accomplished. (6.4.F.1)
Vocabulary Builder Section 3
Biography of Grandison Finney
Biography of Dorothea Dix
Biography of Mary Lyon (Pioneers in Education)
---Vocabulary Builder Section 4
-Identify and examine the Underground Railroad p.457, and map transparency.
Discuss NJ’s role in the Underground Railroad
-Explore Frederick Douglass and Frederick Douglass (What the Black Man
Wants)
Read about the abolitionists: Theodore Weld, Robert Purvis, John Brown
Create a timeline of important events in women’s rights (1838, 1848, 1851, 1860)
-Identify Seneca Falls Convention, reasons for meeting and accomplishments
(Biography of Mott, Fuller, Anthony
View and discuss the Temperance Reform Political Cartoon help understand why
immigrants came to the U.S.)
--Create a chart: list the homeland and reasons for leaving
(Help understand abolitionists)
---Create a chart, list the leaders in one column, identify their methods and
successes in another column
(Help understand the connection between the abolitionist movement and
women’s rights movement)
--Create a graphic organizer that displays the reasons for the abolitionist
movement and then connect these reasons to the women’s rights movement
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Literature: P.446 Romanticism and Realism
---Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
Primary Sources
---Horace Mann to the Board of Education p.451
---Anti-Abolitionist Rally p451
---Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man wants”
---David Walker’s “An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”
---Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Letter to Lucretia Mott
6.1.8. A.5.a Explain how and why the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address continue to impact American life.
6.1.8. C.5.a Assess the human and material costs of the Civil War in the North and South.
6.1.8. B.5.aDetermine the role of geography, natural resources, demographics, transportation, and technology in the progress and outcome of the Civil War.
6.1.8. D.5.b Analyze critical events and battles of the Civil War and determine how they contributed to the final outcome of the war.
6.1.8. D.5.c Examine the roles of women, African Americans, and Native Americans in the Civil War.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
The Civil War resulted from complex regional differences
involving political, economic, and social issues, as well as
different views on slavery.
The Civil War and Reconstruction had a lasting impact on the
development of the United States.
What was the most important battle in changing the tied of the war?
Which individual do you believe was the most significant?
What effect did technology have on the war?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
Explain the major events, issues, and personalities of the American
Civil War including:
The causes of the Civil War (e.g., slavery, states’ rights)
The course and conduct of the war (e.g., Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg)
Sectionalism
The role of women
The role of African Americans
The Gettysburg Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
Juneteenth Independence Day
Identify the 7 states that seceded
--view and discuss the Folly of Secession political cartoon
---Geography (Choosing Sides) worksheet
---Identify and discuss the first spark of the Civil War (Fort Sumter)
---View map of Fort Sumter p.511 and map transparency of Charleston South Carolina
---Vocabulary Builder Section 1
---Compare Pensacola Florida to Fort Sumter South Carolina
---View map p.512, North v. South, identify the border states
---compare and contrast chart, the North’s and South’s resources
---Identify the different uniforms, examine the differences and the similarities. Have
students draw and label a Union and Confederate uniform
---Vocabulary Builder Section 2
---Create a timeline of the battles in the east, add the winner and the importance of the
battle
----View map battles in the east p.517 and map transparency
--Identify and explain the battle of the Sea, illustrate the battle between the Merrimack
and Monitor, View the Union blockade map p520 and map transparency
---Biography of Stonewall Jackson
---Vocabulary Builder Section 3
---Interview David Farragut, write a synopsis of the interview
---View the map of the war in the west p.523, and map transparency
Add the new battles to the timeline
---View the map of Vicksburg. P.526
---Discuss and examine the Emancipation Proclamation, reflect on how this
proclamation affected both the North and the South.
---View map of Emancipation Proclamation p.528 and map transparency
---Vocabulary Builder Section4
---Discuss and write about the role of African Americans in the war, Biography of
William H. Carney
---Connect the battle field communications from Civil War time to current time
---Discuss the soldiers on the battlefield and the role prisoners
had in the war
----View the movie Andersonville
---Discuss hospitals and medicine at the time period, and the recovery of wounded
soldiers. Biography of Clara Barton
---Examine Lincoln ad the Union leader and president
---Vocabulary Builder Section 5
---Discuss and examine the impact Gettysburg had on the war. View Pickett’s Charge,
P.539 and map transparency
---Add the new battles to the timeline
----View Final Campaigns map p.541 and map transparency
---Chart the causes of the war and the effects of the War on the U.S.
----Biography of William Tecumseh Sherman
---Create a battle brochure
----Read Novel Behind Rebel Lines
. Battles of War
Eastern Theatre of War
First Battle of Bull Run- McDowell, Beauregard
Seven Pines, Seven Days-McClellan, Lee
Second Battle of Bull Run-Pope, Jackson, Lee
Antietam- Hooker, Lee
Fredericksburg- Burnside, Lee
Chancellorsville- Hooker, Lee
Gettysburg-Meade, Gettysburg Address
Western Theatre of War
Fort Donelson, Fort Henry- Grant, Johnston
Shiloh- Grant, Johnston
New Orleans-Farragut
Vicksburg
Wilderness Campaign
Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, Wilderness
Siege of Petersburg
Sherman’s March, Total War
Fall of Richmond, Collapse of Confederate Government
Surrender at Appomattox
Chamberlain, Lee. Longstreet, and Pickett
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Literature
---Andersonville Diary
View and discuss Anaconda Plan p.520
---Speech Response to Farragutp.524
---Read and Discuss The Battle of Shiloh, April 1862
---Joseph E. Williams, African American Soldier letter p.532
---John L. Ranson, Andersonville Diary
---The Civil War Era Diary of
Section 1 questions p.5151 #1-4
---Review Quiz Section 1
---Write a compare and contrast essay about the North and the South at the beginning
of the War. Include the resources that both regions had.
---Section 2 questions p.521 #1-5
---Review Quiz Section 2
---Section 3 questions p.525 #1-4
---Review Quiz Section 3
---Be able to identify and label the battles learned so far
---Section 4 questions p.534 #1-6
---Review Quiz Section 4
---Section 5 questions p.543 #1-6
---Review Quiz Section 5
---Write about how the war ended and the effects of the war on the U.S.
---Chapter Review
Help understand differences between North and South)
---Identify the resources the North had and explain their importance. Then do the same
for the South. Compare and contrast these resources.
6.1.12. A.5.c Analyze the effectiveness of governmental policies and of actions by groups and individuals to address discrimination against new immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans.
6.1.12. B.5.a Explain how the Homestead Act, the availability of land and natural resources, and the development of transcontinental railroads and waterways promoted the growth of a nationwide economy and the movement of populations.
6.1.12.A.3.b Determine the extent to which America’s foreign policy (i.e., Tripoli pirates, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, the War with Mexico, and Native American removal) was influenced by perceived national interest.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Westward movement, industrial growth, increased immigration, the
expansion of slavery, and the development of transportation systems
increased regional tensions.
What happens when cultures collide?
Did the United States treat the Native Americans fairly?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Describe the continuing struggle to bring all groups of Americans into
the mainstream of society with the liberties and equality to which all
are entitled, as exemplified by individuals such as Susan B. Anthony,
Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Paul Robeson, and Cesar Chavez
Describe major conflicts that have arisen from diversity (e.g., land and
suffrage for Native Americans, civil rights, women’s rights) and discuss
how the conflicts have been addressed.
2. Discuss the Dawes Act of 1887, how it attempted to assimilate Native
Americans by converting tribal lands to individual ownership, and its
impact on Native Americans
3. Describe the economic development by which the United States
became a major industrial power in the world and analyze the factors
that contributed to industrialization
---Discuss the frontier and the movement westward
---Discuss the natural resources that were found in the West
---Discuss the rise of boom towns and cattle ranches
---View and discuss the political cartoon on the Transcontinental Railroad
---Geography: view Routes West, 1870
---Discuss the importance of the buffalo
---View: Native American Land Loss in the West, identify the battles fought and
discuss the effects of these battles on the U.S.
4. Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by
different political and economic philosophies
5. Describe how regions change over time
6. Describe the types of regions and the influence and effects of region
labels including:
Formal regions: school districts, states
Functional regions: marketing area of a newspaper, fan base of a sport team
Perceptual regions: the Bible Belt, the Riviera in southern France
---Identify the mistreatment of Native Americans (Long Walk)
---Biography on Sarah Winnemucca/George Armstrong Custer
Create a compare and contrast organizer for Miners, Cowboys, Rail workers
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Art
---View pictures of the battles fought between Native Americans and
Americans
Literature
---A Letter from a Pony Express Rider
Primary Sources
---E.C. Abbott’s Memoirs of Cowhands and cattle drive
---The Battle of the Little Bighorn
---Section 1 Questions p.592 # 1-4
---Review Quiz Section 1
---Section 2 Questions p. 598 # 1-4
---Review Quiz Section 2
---Identify the conflicts that took place between the Native Americans and the U.S.
6.1.8.C.4.b Explain how major technological developments revolutionized land and water transportation, as well as the economy, in New Jersey and nation.
6.1.8.C.4.c Analyze how technological innovations affected the status and social class of different groups of people, and explain the outcomes that resulted.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Technology has positive and negative effects on society, politics and economics of country.
A historical interpretation is influenced by one’s perspective.
The Industrial Revolution positively or negatively effected the future of the United States of America
How does technological change influence people’s lives? Society?
What social, political, and economic opportunities and problems arise from changes in technology?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
Explain how non-governmental organizations influence legislation and
policies at the federal, state, and local levels
Discuss the basic contemporary issues involving the personal, political,
and economic rights of American citizens (e.g. dress codes, sexual
Analyze and evaluate key events, people and groups associated with
industrialization and its impact on urbanization, immigration, farmers,
the labor movement, social reform, and government regulation
inducing:
Inventions such as the telephone and electric light
The formation of Standard Oil Trust
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Analyze the development of industrialization in America and New Jersey during this period and the resulting transformation of the country, including the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the introduction of
Identify and list the changes of rapid growth in the U.S.manufacturing in
the late 1800’
--Describe the Bessemer Process and explain how this process changed society
and improved the economy
---Create a timeline of inventions
---Create an invention made out of junk, try to market the product
---Biography of Edison, Graham Bell, Wright, Stanford, and Mother Jones
---Economics: Monopolies and Trusts
Geography: Pullman’s Company Town
---Describe the corporations and their effect on society
---Compare vertical and horizontal integration
---Monopoly game: understand the effect of monopolies on society and the
growth of the economy
mechanized farming, the rise of corporations and organized labor, and the growth of cities Describe the economic development by which the United States became a
major industrial power in the world and analyze the factors that contributed
to industrialization
Discuss how innovation, entrepreneurship, competition, customer
satisfaction, and continuous improvement in productivity are responsible for
the rise in the standard of living in the United States and other countries
with market economies.
Discuss how meeting the needs and wants of a growing world
population impacts the environment and economic growth
Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by
different political and economic philosophies
Describe how inventions and innovations have improved standards of
living of the course of history
---Graphic Organizer: Unions and the actions toward improving the workforce
---Compare the strikes: Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike
---Geography: Locate the strikes on the U.S. map
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
---In Support of the Coal Miners
---Samuel Gompers, Testimony before Congress, 1900
---Section 1 Questions p.618 # 1-3
---Review Quiz Section 1
---Section 2 Questions p. 622 # 1-3
---Review Quiz Section 2
---Section 3 Questions p. 627 # 1-4
---Review Quiz Section 3
---Compare vertical and horizontal integration and include an example for each
type of integration
---List the leaders of Big Business and explain their role in society
6.1.4.D.3Evaluate the impact of voluntary and involuntary immigration on America’s growth as a nation, historically and today.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Immigrants come to New Jersey and the United States for various reasons and have a major impact on the state and the nation.
What happens when cultures collide?
How did immigrants affect expansion?
What potential problems arise from immigration and what possible solutions
Why do people immigrate?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Discuss how cultures may change and that individuals may identify with more than one culture.
2.Engage in activities that foster understanding of various cultures (e.g., clubs, dance, groups, sports, travel,
community celebrations
3.Analyze and evaluate key events, people and groups associated with industrialization and its impact on
urbanization, immigration, farmers, the labor movement, social reform, and government regulation inducing:
Inventions such as the telephone and electric light
The formation of Standard Oil Trust
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act ) 4. Analyze the development of industrialization in America and New Jersey during this period and the resulting
transformation of the country, including the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the introduction of mechanized farming, the rise of corporations and organized labor, and the growth of cities
5. Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by different political and economic
philosophies
6. Compare and contrast various careers, examining educational requirements and costs, salary, and benefits,
longevity, impact on society and the economy, and demand
--Compare old immigrants to new
immigrants
---Map and identify where the
immigrants came from and where they
settled
---Journal Entries, immigrant
experiences, journey, and settlement
---Describe the opposition to
immigration and compare this behavior
to the benevolent societies that helped
the immigrants get settled and adjust to
American life
---Compare the reactions to immigrants
---Describe the type of work, immigrants
did
---Describe the growth of cities
7. Discuss the similarities and differences among rural, suburban, and urban communities
---Political Cartoon: Urban Life and
Tenements, view and discuss
---Geography: Central Park, improving
the environment
---Identify the changes made to improve
society
---Biography of Pulitzer and Alice
Hamilton
---Read The novel Land of Hope
---Research personal history regarding
family that might have immigrated to
America
Help understand Reformers of Big City
Troubles)
---graphic organizer: Living Conditions V.
Working Condition
Resource Materials/Related Literature Assessments
Literature
---The Jungle
---An Immigrant Story
---Chicago 1900 p.643
---Immigrants First –Person Account
---Handbill Recruiting Railroad Workers
---Photo of the Interior of an Immigrant’s One Room Home
6.1.12.A.6.a Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive reforms in preventing unfair business practices and political corruption and in promoting social justice.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Progressive reform movements promoted government efforts to address problems created by rapid
industrialization, immigration, and unfair treatment of women, children, and minority groups.
What progressive
reform movements
promoted government
efforts to address
problems created by
rapid industrialization,
immigration, and unfair
treatment of women,
children, and minority
groups?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1.Discuss how cultures may change and that individuals may identify with more than one culture
2.Engage in activities that foster understanding of various cultures (e.g., clubs, dance, groups, sports, travel, community
celebrations
3.Analyze and evaluate key events, people and groups associated with industrialization and its impact on urbanization,
immigration, farmers, the labor movement, social reform, and government regulation inducing:
Inventions such as the telephone and electric light
The formation of Standard Oil Trust
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act ) 8. Analyze the development of industrialization in America and New Jersey during this period and the resulting
transformation of the country, including the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the introduction of mechanized farming, the rise of corporations and organized labor, and the growth of cities
9. Discuss how societies have been affected by industrialization and by different political and economic philosophies
10. Compare and contrast various careers, examining educational requirements and costs, salary, and benefits, longevity,
impact on society and the economy, and demand
11. Discuss the similarities and differences among rural, suburban, and urban communities
6.2.12.D.4.a Analyze the extent to which nationalism, industrialization, territory disputes, imperialism, militarism, and alliances led to World War I.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Nationalism, imperialism, industrialization, and militarism contributed to an
increase in economic and military competition among European nations, the
Ottoman Empire, and Japan, and led to World War I.
How did Nationalism, imperialism, industrialization, and militarism contributed to an increase in economic and military competition among European nations, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan, and led to World War I
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Explain why some people favored expansion over isolationism
2. Describe the events that led to U.S. annexation of Hawaii
3. Identify the goal of U.S. foreign policy
4. Explain how the press affected U.S. involvement in conflict between Span
and Cuba
5. Describe what enabled the United States to win war against Spain.
6. Identify the steps that United States took to build a canal across Panama
7. Analyze how U.S. involvement in Latin America changed under President
Theodore Roosevelt
---View and discuss the U.S. territories in the Pacific 1856-1899-Identify
and list the U.S.’s new territories
---Identify and discuss the different traditions and cultures of Hawaii
---Discuss the Open Trade with Japan
---Discuss the Boxer Rebellion
---View and Discuss the Map War in Philippines and Map War in Caribbean
---Identify the countries in the Caribbean and explain their fight for
freedom
---Letter to editor, 1899- citizen who wants to help settle a dispute
between U.S. Puerto Rico
---List the events of the Spanish American War
---Political Cartoon: View and discuss Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
---Biography George Washington Goethals
---View and discuss The Panama Canal map p.706
---Write negotiations treaty between the U.S. and Nicaragua
Graphic organizer: chart the events that lead up the Spanish American
6.1.12.D.11.d Compare the varying perspectives of victims, survivors, bystanders, rescuers, and perpetrators during the Holocaust.
Global Awareness
Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:
Compare the varying perspectives of victims, survivors, bystanders, rescuers, and perpetrators during the Holocaust.
What lessons can we learn from the Holocaust?
How did people follow Nazi policy without questioning?
Unit Learning Targets: The student will be able to….
Suggested Activities: Including Differentiated Strategies (DI)
1. Understand the causes and global consequences of World War II 2. Understand the human costs of World War II 3. Learn the consequences of prejudice and intolerance 4. Utilize geography resources to understand the global scope of the
war.
Read the novel The Wave
-----Discuss the people that were involved in the Holocaust
---Identify the concentration camps located in Europe