Period 4: 1800-1848

Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Key Concepts:

1. Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce powerfully accelerated the American economy, precipitating profound changes to U.S. society and to national and regional identities.
2. The U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade and expanding its national borders shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.

Learning Targets:

1. I can analyze how new transportation system and technologies dramatically expanded manufacturing and agricultural production.
2. I can describe how the changes caused by the market revolution had significant effects on U.S. society, workers’ lives, and gender and family relations.
3. I can explain how economic development shaped settlement and trade patterns, helping to unify the nation while also encouraging the growth of different regions.
4. I can explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.
5. I can describe how the United States’s acquisition of lands in the West gave rise to contests over the extension of slavery into new territories.

Resources and Assignments:

• Rise of the Two-Party System
• Immigration Contextualization and Synthesis
• Market Revolution Map
• Antebellum Reformers - College Admissions Simulation
• Unit 5 Take-Home Test (DBQ)