Unit 4: Westward Expansion and Reform Movements

Stage 1- Desired Results

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

Students understand that...

    • To what extent does the growth of a new nation transform people’s lives, beliefs and values?

  • Industrialization and technological improvements changed the way that people lived.

  • Expansion provided new opportunities and challenges that impacted people in different ways.

  • Leaders in governments have a profound influence on the political direction and traditions established in a nation.

  • Disagreements over social, political and economic matters led to the need for reform.

Common Core Standards and Performance Indicators:

Unifying Themes:

    • Individual Development and Cultural Identity (ID)

    • Development , Movement, and Interaction of Cultures (MOV)

    • Time, Continuity, and Change (TCC)

    • Geography, Humans, and the Environment (GEO)

    • Development and Transformation of Social Structures (SOC)

    • Power, Authority, and Governance (GOV)

    • Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems (ECO)

    • Science, Technology, and Innovation (TECH)

    • Global Connections and Exchange (EXCH)

New York State Social Studies Framework

    • Social Studies Standards

      • 1: History of the United States and New York

      • 3: Geography

      • 4: Economics

      • 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government

    • Key Ideas:

      • 7.6, 7.7, 7.8

    • Conceptual Understandings:

    • 7.6a, 7.6b, 7.7a, 7.7b, 7.7c, 7.8a

    • Social Studies Practices:

    • Gathering, Using, and Interpreting Evidence

    • Chronological Reasoning and Causation

    • Comparison and Contextualization

    • Economics and Economic Systems

    • Geographic Reasoning

    • Civic Participation

Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy

    • RH: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10

    • WHST: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  • SL: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Knowledge

Students know...

Skills

Students will be able to...

    • vocabulary connected to the Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion Periods

    • the roles of key early United States government leaders and presidents such as (Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, etc.).

    • how key events in the United States and the world influence the direction of the young nation.

    • that various groups experienced different motivations for westward expansion.

    • the precedents and traditions established in the nation by Presidents and the Supreme Court influence the United States today.

    • how technological advancements shape the development of early America.

    • that various reform movements began to gain influence in the nation.

Key Vocabulary

  • precedent

  • tariff

  • states' rights

  • impressment

  • sedition

  • judicial review

  • expedition

  • embargo

  • nationalism

  • interstate commerce

  • cede

  • annex

  • suffrage

  • nullify

  • urbanization

  • famine

  • nativist

  • slave codes

  • abolition

Key Terms/Events

  • Federalists

  • Democratic-Republicans

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • War of 1812

  • McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Cherokee Trail of Tears

  • Industrial Revolution

  • Erie Canal

  • Underground Railroad

  • Declaration of Sentiments (Seneca Falls Convention)

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

  • Texas Revolution

  • Mexican War

  • California Gold Rush

    • create a physical map

    • compare and contrast two documents

    • complete a graphic organizer

    • draw conclusions from images

    • pair/share information and conclusions

    • participate in a jigsaw experience

    • integrate information from several sources

    • present their project to their peers

    • extract information from various sources

Stage 2- Assessment Evidence

Performance Task

DBQ's

Growth of Political Parties DBQ (pg. 19 - 22)

War of 1812 DBQ (pg. 23 - 27)

Jacksonian Democracy DBQ (pg. 28 - 32)

Antebellum Reforms DBQ (pg. 33 - 36)

Traders in the West source reliability (Beyond the Bubble)

The War of 1812 connections across the curriculum (Beyond the Bubble)

Immigration which source was written first? (Beyond the Bubble)

Stage 3- Related Lessons

These lessons are aligned with the unit goals. They are intended for center work, whole group and/or small group instruction. Lessons that meet the same objectives can be used in place of the ones below.

Technology and Resources