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  • Topic:The National Period
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:5
  • 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 and domestic 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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What were the effects of the War of 1812?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

Of what significance was the Louisiana Purchase?

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How did the Monroe Doctrine affirm American nationalism?

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What is Manifest Destiny?

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How did the westward expansion affect Native Americans?

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What caused war with Mexico?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

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

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

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How did the market revolution transform the nation?

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What was the intention behind Clay's American System?

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What were the major social reforms in the mid 1800's?

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Additional Info:

History alive, United Streaming.com, skill reinforcement activities,timeline, graphs, maps from the textbook, The American Odyssey Chapters 4 & 5. Case studies, audio-materials, transparencies, reading study guide, workbooks.

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Vocabulary Report

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

  • Trail of Tears -
  • Mexican War -