2015-2016

Social Studies Pacing Guide

Scope and Sequence for the 8th Grade

Colonial Era thru WWI

Created by Mr. Aurelio Cortez

2015-2016 Social Studies Pacing Guide

Mr. Cortez

SEMESTER 1

Week 1 – Administrative Duties

-Class rules, expectations, etc.

-Team Building

Week 2 – Review (7.6.5; 7.11.1; 7.11.2; 7.11.3; 7.11.6; 8.2.1)

-Age of Exploration

  • Causes
  • New Technology
  • Compass, better ships and maps, etc.
  • Gold, Glory, and the Gospel
  • Effects
  • Columbian Exchange
  • mercantilism
  • destruction of empires
  • slave trade
  • spread of Christianity
  • establishment of the 13 Colonies

-Native American culture

-Basic American Geography

-Development of British democracy

  • Magna Carta, parliament, habeas corpus, English Bill of Rights

Week 3 – Colonization of Early America (8.2.1)

-John Cabot claims land for England

-Defeat of the Spanish Armada

-The Lost Colony of Roanoke

-The Jamestown settlement – successes and failures

  • joint-stock companies, starving time, John Smith, tobacco, House of Burgesses, indentured servitude, slavery

-The Plymouth colony

  • Mayflower Compact

-Establishment of 13 English colonies

  • Massachusetts – The Puritans
  • Government structure
  • Dissenters
  • Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer
  • Connecticut
  • Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
  • Pennsylvania, Maryland, etc.

Week 4 – Colonization of Early America, Part II(7.11.3; 7.11.5; 8.1.1)

-13 English Colonies

  • Economies, governments, culture, and religion
  • subsistence farming, the Great Awakening, the Triangular Trade, the slave system, ways of living, etc.
  • Enlightenment ideas spread throughout the colonies
  • Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.
  • natural rights, consent of the governed, etc.

-Review and Testing of Colonization of Early America

Week 5 – The American Revolution (7.11.6; 8.1.1; 8.1.2; 8.1.3;8.1.4)

-The Navigation Acts

-The French and Indian War

-Steps to Revolution

  • Proc. of 1763, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, etc.
  • No Taxation Without Representation
  • Boycotts
  • Sons of Liberty

-More steps toward Revolution

  • The Boston Massacre
  • The Gaspee Affair
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Powder Alarms
  • Committees of Correspondence
  • “give me liberty or give me death”

-The War Begins

  • Paul Revere’s Ride, Lexington & Concord

Week 6 – The American Revolution, Part II (8.1.2; 8.1.3)

-Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”

-Declaration of Independence

-Key Battles, Part 1

  • Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton, etc.

Week 7 – The American Revolution, Part III

-Key Battles, Part 2

  • Winter at Valley Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown

-Key Characters in the Revolution

  • John Paul Jones, Nathan Hale, General Washington, Molly Pitcher, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen, de Lafayette, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.

-Why We Won

-Results of the Revolution

  • The French Revolution

-Review and Testing of the American Revolution

Week 8 – Creation of a Country (8.2.2; 8.3.5)

-The Articles of Confederation and the Critical Period

-Shay’s Rebellion

-The Annapolis Convention and the Philadelphia Convention

Week 9 – Creation of a Country, Part II (8.2.3; 8.2.4; 8.2.7; 8.3.6)

-The Constitution

  • The Constitutional Convention – the debates and the plans
  • Populous states vs. non-populous states, slave states vs. free states, etc.
  • The Great Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, the slave trade compromise, etc.
  • The Constitution’s Preamble and the purposes of government
  • The Seven Principles of the Constitution
  • Popular sovereignty, republicanism, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, federalism, individual rights

Week 10 – Creation of a Country, Part III (8.2.7; 8.3.6)

-The Constitution

  • Article I – The Legislative Branch
  • Article II – The Executive Branch
  • Article III – The Judicial Branch
  • Articles IV-VII

Week 11 – Creation of a Country, Part IV (8.2.5; 8.2.6; 8.2.7; 8.3.7)

-The Federalist Papers

-The Bill of Rights

Week 12 – Creation of a Country, Part V (8.2.5; 8.2.6; 8.2.7; 8.3.4)

-Amendments 11-27

-Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

  • loose vs. strict interpretation of the Constitution

-Review and Testing of Creation of a Country

Week 13 – America’s Early Years (8.2.4; 8.3.4; 8.3.5; 8.4.2)

-The Challenges of President Washington

  • Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists revisited
  • A Vision for America: Hamilton vs. Jefferson
  • The National Debt Crisis
  • National Bank debate
  • The Whiskey Rebellion and its meanings
  • Shay’s Rebellion vs. Whiskey Rebellion
  • The Neutrality Proclamation and its effects
  • Securing the Northwest
  • Treaty of Greenville
  • Washington’s Farewell Address
  • no political parties, no permanent alliances with foreign nations, etc.

Week 14 – America’s Early Years, Part II (8.3.4)

-The Adam’s Years

  • XYZ Affair
  • Quasi-War with France
  • Alien and Sedition Acts
  • The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • the birth of states’ rights

-Review and Testing of America’s Early Years

Week 15–America Begins to Grow (8.4.3; 8.8.2)

-The Election of 1800

-Jefferson’s Politics

  • Small, limited federal government
  • States’ rights

-War of the Barbary Pirates

-Marbury vs. Madison

  • Judicial Review is developed

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(Thanksgiving Break: November 23 thru November 27)

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Week 16 – America Begins to Grow, Part II (8.8.2)

-The Louisiana Purchase

  • Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Zebulon Pike

-The Embargo Act

-The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

-James Madison becomes president

-Causes of the War of 1812

  • Britain seizing US ships, impressment, aiding Indians, etc.
  • The War Hawks

Week 17 – America Begins to Grow, Part III (8.5.1; 8.5.2)

-Major Battles and Key Events in the War of 1812

  • Burning of the White House, Battle of Fort McHenry and the Star-Spangled Banner, Treaty of Ghent, Battle of New Orleans, etc.

-Effects of the War of 1812

  • increasednationalism, increased manufacturing, Indians are weakened, Jackson a hero, etc.

-The Era of Good Feelings

  • The acquisition of Florida
  • Henry Clay’s American System
  • The Monroe Doctrine and its effects

-Review and Testing of America Begins to Grow

(Week 18 – Semester 1 Final Review and Final Exam)

Week 18 – Semester 1 Review: 8th Final Exam and PowerPoint Reviews

-Colonial America

-The American Revolution

-The Constitutional Era

-The Early Republic

-The Era of Jefferson

-The War of 1812 and the Era of Good Feelings

-1st Semester American History Jeopardy!

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(Christmas Break: December 21 thru January 8)

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SEMESTER 2

Week 19–The Age of Jackson (8.4.3; 8.8.1)

-Jackson vs. Quincy Adams: Elections of 1824 and 1828

  • The Corrupt Bargain
  • Dirty Politics

-Jacksonian Democracy

  • Suffrage, Spoils System, Nominating Conventions, etc.

-Jackson vs. Biddle: War on the National Bank

  • Jackson’s veto, pet banks, Specie Circular, etc.

Week 20 – The Age of Jackson, Part II (8.4.3; 8.8.1; 8.10.1)

-Jackson vs. Native Americans: Indian Removal

  • Indian Removal Act, Seminole Wars, Trail of Tears (Van Buren)

-Jackson vs. Supreme Court:Executive and Judicial Powers Conflict

  • King Andrew

-Jackson vs. Calhoun: Nullification Crisis

  • Tariff of Abominations, Calhoun quits, Webster-Hayne debate, Force Act, etc.

-Calhoun vs. Webster: State and Federal Powers Conflict

-Review and Testing of the Age of Jackson

Week 21– The North in the 1800s (8.6.2; 8.6.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5; 8.12.6; 8.12.7)

-Industrial Revolution

  • Causes of the Industrial Revolution
  • British textile manufacture inventions, metallurgy,steam power, Samuel Slater, interchangeable parts, War of 1812, etc.
  • New England Factories and Mills
  • Lowell Mills
  • Transportation and Communication
  • Steamboat, Erie Canal, Morse Code, etc.
  • Various Inventions and their Inventors
  • Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Samuel Morse, etc.
  • Urbanization and European Immigration
  • The growth of cities
  • Irish potato famine, German Revolution, etc.
  • Nativism and the Know-Nothing party
  • Capitalism and the free enterprise system
  • Child Labor
  • Organization of Labor

Week 22 – The South in the 1800s (8.6.1; 8.7.1; 8.7.2)

-The Cotton Kingdom

  • Plantation culture
  • The cotton gin

-Slave Life

  • Spirituals, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, slave codes, etc.

-Review and Testing of The North and South in the 1800s

Week 23 -- Westward Expansion (8.8.2; 8.8.6)

-Manifest Destiny introduced

-Texas Independence

  • Empresarios, Mexican Independence, Stephen F. Austin, Santa Anna, David Crockett
  • Major Battles
  • San Antonio, Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto

-Mexican-American War

  • Texas Annexation
  • Debates over going to war
  • “Spotty Lincoln”
  • Major battles and key figures
  • Buena Vista, Zachary Taylor, Bear Flag Revolt, etc.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • The Mexican Cession

Week 24 – Westward Expansion, Part II (8.8.3; 8.8.4)

-The Old West

  • Mountain men, trails, law, water rights, etc.
  • Fur trappers, John Jacob Astor, the rendezvous, Jed Smith, Kit Carson, etc.

-The Pioneer Experience

  • Donner Party, the Whitmans, wagon trains, the Mormon Trek, etc.

-The California Gold Rush

  • James Marshall, forty-niners, boomtowns, San Francisco, etc.

-The Acquisition of Oregon Country

  • “54°40′ or fight!”

-A summary of president James Polk’s achievements

-Review and Testing of Westward Expansion

Week 25 – The Age of Reform (8.7.6; 8.7.7)

-Reform Movements

  • 2nd Great Awakening
  • Charles Finney, revivals, Shakers, utopias, etc.
  • Transcendentalism
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
  • Temperance
  • Education
  • Horace Mann, etc.
  • Women’s Rights
  • Seneca Falls Convention, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, etc.
  • Art
  • Hudson River School, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bingham, George Catlin, etc.
  • Literature
  • Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, etc.

-Review and Testing on The Age of Reform

Week 26 – Causes of the Civil War (8.9.1; 8.9.4; 8.9.5)

-Abolitionism

  • William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society, Frederick Douglas, Underground Railroad, Elijah Lovejoy, John Brown, etc.

-Sectionalism

  • Failed Compromises
  • Missouri Compromise
  • 36°30′ parallel
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty, etc.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act, etc.
  • Border Ruffians, Bleeding Kansas, etc.
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Week 27 – Causes of the Civil War, Part II (8.9.5; 8.10.2)

-More Causes of the Civil War

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin,Dred Scott case, John Brown’s raid, Lincoln’s election, etc.

-The War Begins

  • Southern secession, Fort Sumter, strategies, advantages and disadvantages of both “sides”

Week 28 – The Civil War (8.10.3;8.10.4; 8.10.5; 8.10.6)

-Strengths, Weaknesses, and Strategies of the North and South

-Leaders, Part 1

  • Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, P.G.T. Beauregard, Irvin McDowell, Robert Lee, George McClellan, Thomas Jackson, Clara Barton, etc.

-Major Battles, Part 1

  • Battles of Bull Run, Seven Days Battles, Antietam, Shiloh, New Orleans, etc.

-Lincoln’s Policies and Speeches, Part 1

  • House Divided, First Inaugural, Emancipation Proclamation

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(Spring Break: March 21 thru April 1)

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Week 29 – The Civil War, Part II (8.10.3; 8.10.4; 8.10.5; 8.10.6)

-Life During the War

  • Copperheads
  • Suspension of Habeus Corpus
  • Northern and Southern Drafts
  • The Costs of the War
  • Life at Home/Life in a Military Camp
  • Prisoners of War

-Major Battles, Part 2

  • Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Pea Ridge, Stones River, Chickamauga, Atlanta, etc.

-Leaders, Part 2

  • Clement Vallandigham, Sally Louisa Tompkins, U.S. Grant, David Farragut, George Meade, William Sherman, etc.

-Lincoln’s policies and speeches, Part 2

  • Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural

-Lincoln’s Assassination

-Costs and Consequences of the War

Week 30 – The Reconstruction Era (8.11.1; 8.11.2; 8.11.3; 8.11.4; 8.11.5)

-The Plans

  • Wade-Davis Bill
  • 10 Percent Plan (Lincoln’s Plan)
  • Johnson’s Plan
  • Radical Republican Plan
  • Freedman’s Bureau
  • 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Week 31 – The Reconstruction Era, Part II (8.11.1; 8.11.2; 8.11.3; 8.11.4; 8.11.5)

-Southern Response to Radical Republican Reconstruction

  • Black codes, Jim Crow laws, KKK, sharecropping, etc.

-The Administration of US Grant

-The End and Effects of Reconstruction

  • Election of 1876

-Review and Testing of Reconstruction

Week 32 – Standardized Test Review: 6thPractice Test and PowerPoint Reviews

-Ancient History Review

  • Hunters and Gatherers
  • Sumerians
  • Egyptians
  • Hebrews
  • Indians/Aryans
  • Chinese
  • Greeks
  • Roman Republic

-6th Grade World History Jeopardy!

Week 33 – Standardized Test Review: 7th Grade Practice Tests and PowerPoint Reviews

-Medieval, and Early Modern World History

  • Roman Empire
  • Islamic Empire
  • West African Trading Kingdoms
  • Medieval Chinese Dynasties
  • Medieval Japan
  • Western Europe
  • Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
  • Renaissance
  • Art and Architecture
  • Literature
  • Scientific Revolution
  • Protestant Reformation
  • Age of Exploration
  • Enlightenment

-7th Grade World History Jeopardy!

Week 34 – The Gilded Age (8.12.1; 8.12.2; 8.12.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5; 8.12.6; 8.12.7;

8.12.9)

-The Last Frontier

  • The Wild West
  • New States Join the United States
  • Federal Indian Policy and the American Indian Wars

-The Second Industrial Revolution

  • Industrial and Technological Advances
  • Graham Bell, Edison, Goodyear, Wright Brothers, etc.
  • The Rise of Big Business and the Titans of Industry
  • Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, etc.
  • Laissez-faire policies toward big business
  • The Growth of the Labor Movement
  • Samuel Gompers, child labor, collective bargaining, strikes, etc.

Week 35 – The Gilded Age, Part II (8.12.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5;8.12.8)

-Immigration and the Growth of Cities

-The Agrarian Revolt

-Presidential Administrations during the Gilded Age

-The Depression of 1893

-The Populist Movement

(Week 36 – Semester 2 Final Review and Final Exam)

Week 36 – Semester 2 Review: 8th Final Exam and PowerPoint Reviews

-The Age of Jackson

-The Industrial Revolution

-Reform Movements

-Causes of the Civil War

-The Civil War

-The Reconstruction Era

-The Gilded Age

-2nd Semester American History Jeopardy!

Week 37 – The Progressive Era (11.2.8;11.2.9)

-Government and Legislative Reform

-Teddy Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency

-Progressivism during the Administrations of William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson

Week 38 – U.S. Involvement in World Affairs (10.5.1;10.5.2;10.5.4; 10.6.2;11.4.1;

11.4.2; 11.4.3; 11.4.4; 11.4.6)

-The Spanish-American War

  • Causes and Consequences

-Relations with Latin-American Countries

  • Panamanian Revolution and the Panama Canal
  • Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy
  • Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
  • Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy

-World War I

  • Causes
  • The Nations and the Leaders
  • Key Battles
  • Consequences of the “War to End All Wars”