OP 5 The Birth of A New Nation

Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) Benchmark Alignment:

U.S. History (Mastery):

SS.8.A.3.9: Evaluate the structure, strengths, and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and its aspects that led to the

Constitutional Convention

SS.8.A.3.10: Examine the course and consequences of the Constitutional Convention (New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan, Great

Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, compromises regarding taxation and slave trade, Electoral College, state vs. federal power, empowering a president).

SS.8.A.3.11: Analyze support and opposition (Federalists, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalists, Bill of Rights) to ratification

of the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. History (Embedded):

SS.8.C.1.5: Apply the rights and principles contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the lives of citizens today.

SS.8.C.2.1: Evaluate and compare the essential ideas and principles of American constitutional government expressed in primary sources from the colonial period to Reconstruction.