Unit 2: Building a New Nation
Learning Targets
I can identify the impetus for the Constitutional Convention (limitations of government under the Articles of Confederation), and analyze the events and outcomes of the Convention (i.e., the “bundle of compromises”).
I can interpret the ideas and principles expressed in the U.S. Constitution.
I can explain the development of the Bill of Rights, and assess various debates of the day.
I can identify and evaluate the political and territorial changes resulting from westward expansion of the United States in the early nineteenth century.
I can analyze and evaluate federal and state policies toward American Indians in the first half of the nineteenth century.
I can evaluate, take, and defend positions on the development of U.S. foreign policy during the early nineteenth century (e.g., Embargo Act, Monroe Doctrine).
I can describe and evaluate the impacts of the First Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century (e.g., the Lowell system, immigration, changing technologies, transportation innovations).
I can identify and evaluate the major events and issues that promoted sectional conflicts and strained national cohesiveness in the antebellum
period.
I can identify significant religious, philosophical, and social reform movements of the nineteenth century and their impact on American society.
I can identify the major characteristics of the abolition movement in the antebellum period, its achievements, failures, and Southern opposition to it.
I can analyze the women’s rights and the suffrage movements and the impact of women on other reform movements in the antebellum period.
I can compare and contrast the economic, social, and cultural differences of the North and South during the antebellum period.
I can interpret the ideas and principles expressed in the U.S. Constitution.
I can explain the development of the Bill of Rights, and assess various debates of the day.
I can identify and evaluate the political and territorial changes resulting from westward expansion of the United States in the early nineteenth century.
I can analyze and evaluate federal and state policies toward American Indians in the first half of the nineteenth century.
I can evaluate, take, and defend positions on the development of U.S. foreign policy during the early nineteenth century (e.g., Embargo Act, Monroe Doctrine).
I can describe and evaluate the impacts of the First Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century (e.g., the Lowell system, immigration, changing technologies, transportation innovations).
I can identify and evaluate the major events and issues that promoted sectional conflicts and strained national cohesiveness in the antebellum
period.
I can identify significant religious, philosophical, and social reform movements of the nineteenth century and their impact on American society.
I can identify the major characteristics of the abolition movement in the antebellum period, its achievements, failures, and Southern opposition to it.
I can analyze the women’s rights and the suffrage movements and the impact of women on other reform movements in the antebellum period.
I can compare and contrast the economic, social, and cultural differences of the North and South during the antebellum period.