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Standards |
Description |
Lessons |
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1 |
Contrast
effects of economic, geographic, social, and political conditions
before and after European explorations of the fifteenth through
seventeenth centuries on Europeans, American colonists, and
indigenous Americans. |
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1.1 |
Contrasting European motives for
establishing colonies |
4 |
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1.2 |
Tracing the course of the Columbian
Exchange |
2 |
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1.3 |
Explaining how the institution of
slavery developed in the colonies |
3 |
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1.4 |
Explaining how mercantilism was a
motive for colonization |
3 |
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2 |
Compare various early English
settlements and colonies on the basis of economics, geography,
culture, government, and Native American relations. |
7 |
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2.1 |
Identifying
tensions that developed between the colonists and their local
governments and between the colonists and Great Britain |
2 |
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2.2 |
Describing the
influence of ideas of the Age of Enlightenment on the colonies |
2 |
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2.3 |
Explaining the
role of the House of Burgesses and New England town meetings on
colonial society |
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2.4 |
Describing the
impact of the Great Awakening on colonial society |
4 |
3 |
Trace the chronology of events
leading to the American Revolution, including the French and
Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable
Acts, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the publication of
Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence. |
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3.1 |
Explaining the
role of key leaders and major events of the Revolutionary War |
6 |
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3.2 |
Summarizing major
ideas, including their origins, in the Declaration of Independence |
4 |
3.3 |
Comparing roles
in and perspectives of the American Revolution from different
regions and groups in society, including men, women, white
settlers, free and enslaved African Americans, and Native
Americans |
1 |
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3.4 |
Describing
reasons for American victory in the American Revolution |
2 |
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3.5 |
Analyzing how
provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1783) affected relations of the
United States with European nations and Native Americans |
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3.6 |
Contrasting
prewar colonial boundaries with those established by the Treaty of
Paris (1783) |
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4 |
Describe the political system of the United
States based on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. |
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4.1 |
Describing inadequacies of the Articles of
Confederation |
4 |
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4.2 |
Describing personalities, issues, ideologies,
and compromises related to the Constitutional Convention and
ratification of the Constitution |
6 |
4.3 |
Identifying factors leading to the
development and establishment of political parties, including
Alexander Hamilton's economic policies and the election of 1800 |
4 |
5 |
Identify key cases that helped shape the United
States Supreme Court, including Marbury v. Madison, McCullough
v.Maryland, and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia. |
6 |
6 |
Describe relations of the United States with
Britain and France from 1781 to 1823, including the XYZ Affair,
the War of 1812, and the Monroe Doctrine. |
10 |
7 |
Describe the development of a distinct culture
within the United States between the American Revolution and the
Civil War, including the impact of the Second Great Awakening and
writings of James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar
Allan Poe. |
5 |
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7.1 |
Tracing the development of temperance,
women's, and other reform movements in the United States between
1781 and 1861 |
3 |
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7.2 |
Relating events in Alabama from 1781 to 1823
to those of the developing nation |
2 |
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7.3 |
Tracing the development of transportation
systems in the United States between 1781 and 1861 |
4 |
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8 |
Trace the development of efforts to abolish
slavery prior to the Civil War. |
4 |
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8.1 |
Describing the abolition of slavery in most
Northern states in the late eighteenth century |
4 |
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8.2 |
Describing the rise of religious movements in
opposition to slavery, including the objections of the Quakers |
4 |
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8.3 |
Describing the impact of the principle of
"inalienable rights" as a motivating factor for movements to
oppose slavery |
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8.4 |
Describing the founding of the first
abolitionist societies by Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Franklin and
the role played by later critics of slavery, including William
Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Angelina and Sarah Grimké,
Henry David Thoreau, and Charles Sumner |
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8.5 |
Explaining the importance of the Northwest
Ordinance of 1787 that banned slavery in new states north of the
Ohio River |
3 |
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8.6 |
Describing the rise of the underground
railroad and its leaders, including Harriet Tubman and the impact
of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's |
3 |
9 |
Summarize major legislation and court decisions
from 1800 to 1861 that led to increasing sectionalism, including
the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, the
Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott
decision. |
9 |
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9.1 |
Describing Alabama's role in the developing
sectionalism of the United States from 1819 to 1861
Examples: participation in slavery,
secession, Indian Wars, reliance on cotton. |
1 |
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9.2 |
Analyzing the Westward Expansion from 1803 to
1861 to determine its effects on sectionalism, including the
Louisiana Purchase, Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession |
6 |
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9.3 |
Describing the tariff debate and the
nullification crisis |
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9.4 |
Describing the formation of the Republican
party and its effect on the election of 1860 |
3 |
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9.5 |
Identifying causes leading to the Westward
Expansion |
4 |
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9.6 |
Locating on a map areas affected by the
Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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10 |
Describe how the course, character, and effects
of the Civil War influenced the United States. |
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10.1 |
Identifying key Northern and Southern
personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert
E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and William T. Sherman |
2 |
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10.2 |
Describing the impact of the division of the
nation during the Civil War on resources, population, and
transportation |
7 |
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10.3 |
Explaining reasons for border states
remaining in the Union |
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10.4 |
Discussing nonmilitary events and life during
the Civil War |
8 |
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10.5 |
Explaining causes of the military defeat of
the Confederacy |
13 |
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10.6 |
Explaining Alabama's involvement in the Civil
War |
1 |
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11 |
Contrast congressional and presidential
reconstruction plans, including African-American political
participation. |
7 |
11.1 |
Tracing economic changes in the post-Civil
War period for whites and African Americans in the North and the
South, including the effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau |
2 |
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11.2 |
Describing the social restructuring of the
South |
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11.3 |
Describing the Compromise of 1877 |
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11.4 |
Identifying post-Civil War Constitutional
amendments |
2 |
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11.5 |
Discussing causes for the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson |
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