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  • Topic:The National Period
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:6
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning: As a new nation, the United States faced problems associated with physical expansion, rapid economic growth, political direction and foreign policy. Nationalism held the country together while sectionalism fostered division.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How did nationalism shape foreign policy in the first half of the nineteeth century?
   
Concept: Political events
Concept: Growth of a nation
Concept: Political conflict and division
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the election of Thomas Jefferson change the course of the nation?

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Of what significance was the Louisiana Purchase?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did Jefferson's philososphy of government compare to Alexander Hamilton's views of government?

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How did the Monroe Doctrine assert American nationalism

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What is Manifest Destiny?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

What were the effects of the War of 1812?

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How did the election of Andrew Jackson change the character of democracy after 1828?

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What was the intention behind Clay's American System?

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Do you think that Andrew Jackson was a strong leader or a tyrannt?

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How did the market revolution transform the nation?

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Additional Info:

History alive, unitedstreaming.com timeline, graphs, maps, audio-materials, transparencies, reading study guide, workbook and textbooks from Chapter3 in The Americans.

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Vocabulary Report

  • Democratic-Republicans -
  • John Quincy Adams -
  • manifest destiny -
  • oregon trail -
  • election of 1824 -
  • Jeffersonian democracy -
  • Henry Clay -
  • Alexander Hamilton -
  • Mormons -
  • John C Calhoun -
  • 12th Amendment -
  • Stephen Austin -
  • Missouri Compromise -
  • Texas Revolution -
  • Marbury v.Madison -
  • John Marshall -
  • the Alamo -
  • Old Hickory -
  • Sam Houston -
  • judicial review -
  • Jacksonian Democracy -
  • Spoils System -
  • Gibbon v.Ogden -
  • annexation -
  • Louisana Purchase -
  • election of 1828 -
  • James K. Polk -
  • Lewis & Clark Expedition -
  • mexican War -
  • tariffs -
  • John Fremont -
  • nullification -
  • Stephen Kearney -
  • national bank -
  • Republic of California -
  • Indian Removal Act -
  • Zachary Taylor -
  • Trail of Tears -
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
  • market revolution -
  • Wilmot Proviso -
  • Samuel B Morse -
  • Sutter's Mill -
  • Robert Fulton -
  • Lowell textile mills -
  • Forty-Niners -
  • Horace Greeley -