U.S.

History & Government Curriculum Map

Falcon Ridge Ranch (2 Quarters)

Quarter 1: Beginnings to International Expansion

Unit Week Key Elements/Concepts Projects/Interactive

Ideas

Prior to Independence Wk 1 Establishing 13 Colonies Build a Road using

(Before-1781) Wk 2 Mayflower Compact construction paper and
The Role of Southern Colonies Economy - cash crops white paint and then
Citizen: Civic New England Economy - farming, forest/shipbuilding have students put
Values, Politics and Middle Colonies Economy - women contributions, staple little cars on it that
Government crops, labor needs have the items that
Contribution of women, slaves, indentured servants lead to independence
The Road to Independence Read the declaration
result of the French and Indian War of independence and
reason for the Sugar Act then have students
reason the Stamp Act was upsetting for colonists write their own
purpose of/punishment following the Boston Tea Party declarations. Have
Townshend Acts students soak paper in
Coercive Acts coffee grinds and tea
Declaration of Independence bags to make an old
paper and then have
students transfer
their declarations onto
the paper

Establishing America Wk 3 The American Revolution Build a tree

(1787-1830) Wk 4 Goal of the First Continental Congress representing the three
 Principles and Wk 5 Main issue debated in the Second Continental Congress branches of
Foundations of the The inspiration of Common Sense government and have
U.S. Constitution Author of the Declaration of Independence each leaf describe a
The Structure and Patriots v. Loyalists different
Function of the Taxation without Representation responsibility of the
Federal Revolutionary War: Battle of Saratoga, Battle of branches.
Government Yorktown, Frances interest, Valley Forge, trouble at Have students work in
The Role of sea, Treaty of Paris groups to create a
Citizen: Civic Forming a Government concept map showing
Values, Politics and Articles of Confederation purpose and ratification the differences and
Government Effect of Shays Rebellion similarities of
Original purpose of the Constitutional Convention different plans
Virginia Plan proposed
New Jersey Plan Read parts of the U.S.
Great Compromise Constitution Bill of
Three-Fifths Compromise Rights
Commerce Compromises
Check and Balances/ Three Branches
Federalists v. Anti-Federalists -purpose of the
Federalist Papers
Citizenship
Bill of Rights
Privileges of legal immigrants
Electoral College
What is the role of a citizen?
Civic Values

Regionalism and Wk 6 The Jefferson Era Have students create a

Expansion (1800-1850s) Wk 7 Marbury v. Madison display demonstrating
Significance of the Louisiana Purchase - purposes of the the differences between
Lewis and Clark expedition the different regions in
 failure of the Embargo Act the United States.
War of 1812 and patriotism - Treaty of Ghent
A New National Identity
Conflict with the Seminole Indian tribe - sectionalism
Monroe Doctrine and the U.S. relationship with Latin
America
Consequence of the Missouri Compromise
The Age of Jackson
Cherokees resistance to removal - leader of the
Seminoles
Supreme Courts ruling on Worcester v. Georgia
Trail of Tears
The West
Push for fur trade to move west
Benefit of the Gadsden Purchase
Oregon Trail - forty-niners
Refusal to annex Texas
Effect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The North
Industrial Revolution -plow and reaper inventions
Influence of Eli Whitney -
Significance of telegraph
Working conditions at the mills -
Transportation Revolution
Benefits and two forms of transportation
invented
Steamboats on rivers
Mass-produced goods effect on families
The South
Crop rotations
Slave codes -
 Passing down slave culture
How slaves rebelled against working long hours
Nat Turners Rebellion

March to War Wk 7 New Movements in America

(1850s-1861) Wk 8 immigration
Human and Civil Wk 9 Fredrick Douglass
Rights in American Sojourner Truth
Democracy Difficulty of emancipation in the South
Significance of the Seneca Falls Convention
A Divided Nation
Popular sovereignty and slavery
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
John Browns Raid
Reason for Southern states secession after election of
1860
The Civil War
Start of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Volunteer armies
Southern surrender
Emancipation Proclamation
habeas corpus
Northern opposition to the war

Toward a More Perfect Wk 10 Reconstruction

Union (1861-1877) Souths economy after the war
Human and Civil Plessy v Ferguson - main goal of Reconstruction -
Rights in American 13th amendment
Democracy Timing of 14th amendment
 15th amendment
Purpose of Black Codes
Jim Crow laws

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