Unit One - Foundations of Social Studies, Expansion and Reform, Revolution and the New Nation and Expansion and Reform
Cover Chapter 3 Sec 5: Conflicts in the Colonies: The American Revolution with a Power Point 2 days
8-U3.3.7 Using important documents (e.g., Mayflower Compact, Iroquois Confederacy, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Northwest Ordinance, Federal Papers), describe the historical and philosophical orgins of Constitutional government in the United Statesusing the ideas of social compact, limited government, natural rights, right of revolution, separation of powers, bicameralism, republicanism, and popular participation in government.
Chapter 4 Sec 2: Declaring Independence page - 118 - 125pgs
Common Sense 118pg - Pamphlet written for the common man to understand 500,000 copies made.
Thomas Paine, author 118pg
Declaration of Independence 122-125pgs
Main Author Thomas Jefferson
3 Parts
Chapter 5 Forming a Government
Chapter 5 Sect 1: The Articles of Confederation - 154 - 155pgs
Natural Rights - 95pg - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, in the
Declaration of Independence from beliefs of John Locke
John Locke - 95pg, 153pg - Believed that a social contract, or agreement, existed between political leaders and the people they ruled.
Right of Revolution - Locke argued that if leaders did not rule with the consent of the governed, citizens could justly overthrow them.
Rule of Law - Locke
Mayflower Compact - 79pg and 153pg,
Republic
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - 82pg
Constitution - 153pg
Suffrage - 153pg Popular Sovereignity
Articles of Confederation - 154pg, 158pg
Ratification - 154pg
Land Ordinance of 1785 - 154pg
Northwest Ordinance of 1787 - 155page
Northwest Territory - 154pg
Magna Carta - 152pg, 153pg
The English Bill of Rights, 1689 - 157pg
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - 153pg, 217pg
Orgins of the Constitution - 156-157pgs
8-U3.3.1 Explain the reasons for the adoptionand subsequent failure of the Articles of Confederation (e.g., why its drafters created a weak central government, challenges the nation faced under the Articles, Shay's Rebellion, and disputes over western lands).
Chapter 5 Sec 2: Problems in the New Nation - 158 - 162pgs
International Trade with Great Britain - Closed West Indies July 1783 - 159pg
Spanish officials closing the lower Mississippi and the port of New Orleans to USA - 159pg
Interstate Commerce - 160 pg
Shay's Rebellion - 161 pg
8-U3.3.2 Identify economic and political questions facing the nation during the period of the Articles of Confederation and the opening of the Constitutional Convention.
8-U3.3.3 Describe the major issues debated at the Constitutional Convention including distribution of politial power, conduct of foreign affairs, rights of individuals, rights of states, election of the executive, and slavery as a regional and federal issue.
8-U3.3.4 Explain how the new Constitution resolved (or compromised) the major issues including sharing, separating, and checking of power among federal government institutions, duel sovereignty (state and federal power), rights of individuals, the Electoral College, the Three - Fifths Compromise, and the Great Compromise.
Chapter 5 Sec 3: Creating The Constitution - 163-168pgs
Constitutional Convention - 164pg
Virginia Plan - 164pg
New Jersey Plan - 165pg
Great Compromise - Bicameralism - 165pg
Three Fifths Compromise - Individual Rights - 166pg
Federalism - 167pg Graph 201pg
Legislative Branch - 167pg
Executive Branch - 167pg
Judicial Branch - 167pg
Checks and Balances - 167pg
8-U3.3.5 Analyze the debates over the ratifucation of the Constitution from the perspectives of Federalists and Anti-Federalists and describe how the states ratified the Constitution
Chapter 5 Sec 4: Ratifying the Constitution - 170 - 173pgs
Anti Federalists - 170pg
Federalist - 170pg
Federalist Papers - 171pg
Amendments - 173pg
Bills of Rights - 173pg
Constitutional Convention Play
Chapter 6 Sec 1: Understanding the Constitution 182 - 186pgs
Delegated Powers - 182pg
Elastic Clause - 182
Reserved Powers - 182pg
Concurrent Powers - 182pg
Representative Democracy - 216pg
Impeach - 184pg
Veto - 184pg
Executive Orders - 185pg
Pardons - 185pg
Bill of Rights First 10 Amendments - Cartoon Booklet 204-205pgs
Graph 183 Separation of Powers
Graph 184 Checks and Balances
Chapter 6 Sec 2: The Bill of Rights 216 - 221pgs
Limited Government - The govt. is limited by the Bill of Rights
Petition - 217pg
Search Warrant - 218pg
Due Process - 218pg
Indict - 218pg
Double Jeopardy - 218pg
Eminent Domain - 218pg
Freedom of Assembly
Wanted to make sure that political groups in power did not try to stop rival groups from organizing meetings
Chapter 7 Sec 1: Washington Leads a New Nation 234 - 237pgs
Electoral College - 234pg
8-U4.1.1 Use Washington's Farewell Address to analyze the most significant challenges the new nation faced and the extent to which subsequent Presidents heeded Washington's advice
8-U4.1.2 Explain the changes in America's relationships with other nations by analyzing treaties with American Indian nations, Jay Treaty (1795), French Revolution, Pinckney's Treaty (1795), Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Transcontinental Treaty (1819), and the Monroe Doctrine.
8-U4.1.3 Explain how political parties emerged out of the competing ideas, experirences, and fears of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton (and his followers), despite the worries the Founders had concerning the dangers of political division, by analyzing disagreements over
relative power of the national government (e.g., Whiskey Rebellion, Alien and Sedition Acts)
foreign relations (e.g., French Revolution, relations with Great Britian)
economic policy (e.g., the creation of a national bank, assumption of revolutionary debt)
Chapter 10 Sec 2: Hamilton and National Finances - 238 - 242pgs
Hamilton, Federalist Versus Jefferson, Republican
Strict Construction - Jefferson - 242pg
Loose Construction - Hamilton - Article 1 Section 8 - (Elastic Clause or Necessary and Proper Clause), Hamilton - 242pg
Bank of the United States - 242pg
Chapter 7 Sec 3: Challenges for the New Nation - 243 - 249pgs
French Revolution - 243pg
Neutrality Proclamation - 244pg
Privateers - 244pg
Jay's Treaty - 245pg
Pinckney's Treaty - 245pg
Treaty of Greenville - 247pg
Whiskey Rebellion - 247pg
Washington's Farewell Adress 248pg
Chapter 7 Sec 4 John Adam's Presidency 250-253pgs
Alien and Sedition Acts 253pg
8-U4.1.4 Explain the development of the power of the Supreme Court through the doctrine of Judical review as manifested in Marbury v. Madison(1803) and the role of Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court in interpeting the power of the national government (e.g., McCullouch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden)
Chapter 8 Sec 1: Jefferson Becomes President 266 - 270pgs -
Video Marbury vs Madison
The Midnight Judges Cartoon 5 slides
Judicial Review - 270pg
Chief Justice John Marshall - 270pg
Chapter 10 Sec 2: McCulloch v. Maryland - 330pg - The Court ruled that the national bank was Constitutional.
Chapter 10 Sec 2: Gibbons v. Ogden - 330pg - The Court ruled that the states could not interfere with the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Show students how to write essay for BUA.
Target Goals
1. Understand the important documents that helped the colonists to become Patriots
2. Understand the purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
3. Understand what was wrong with the Articles of Confederation
4. Explain the economic issues after the war with Great Britain and Spain
5. Understand the compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
6. Understand the views of the Anti Federalists and the Federalists.
7. Explain why the Ant – Federalists would not sign off on the Constitution without something added.
8. Which Bill of Rights Amendments habe orgins to the Revoluntionary War.
9. Bring history alive create a play on the Constitutional Convention.
10. Understand the scoring rubric for the Argumentive Essay
11. Use of Transitional words and phrases
12. Understand the Essay structure
13. Understand the Separation of Powers
14. Understand why the Bill of Rights was created.