CURRICULUM MAP – SOCIAL STUDIES SURVEY
(ACT EOC Standards attached)
Geography Review(Aug. – Sept.)
Weeks 1-65 Themes of Geography, countries of the world,
physical features, movement patterns, etc.
Building a Nation (Sept.-Dec.)
Week 7Identify reasons for colonization, its impact and analyze success or failure of settlements in North America (Review)
Week 8Analyze religious development and its significance in colonial America
Week 9Describe significant aspects of the variety of social structures of colonial America
Week 10Compare economies of the colonies and analyze the development/impact of indentured servitude and African slavery (Review)
Weeks 11-12Explain the origins and development of colonial governments
Week 13Evaluate the influence of Enlightenment ideas on the development of American government as embodied in the Declaration of Independence
Week 14Identify and evaluate the ideas and events that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution and determine key points (Review)
Week 15-16Identify the impetus for the Constitutional Convention and analyze the events and outcomes of the convention (Articles of Confederation, “bundle of compromises”)
Weeks 17-18Interpret the ideas and principles expressed in the U.S. Constitution
(Jan.- Feb.)
Week 19Explain the development of the Bill of Rights, and assess various debates of the day
Weeks 20-21Identify and evaluate the political and territorial changes resulting from the westward expansion of the US in the early 19th century (Review)
Week 22Analyze and evaluate federal and state policies toward American Indians in the first half of the 19th century (Andrew Jackson) (Review)
Week 23Evaluate, take and defend positions on the development of US foreign policy during the early 19th century (Embargo Act, Monroe Doctrine)
Antebellum America(Feb.- April)
Week 24Describe and evaluate the impact of the First Industrial Revolution during the 19th century (Lowell system, immigration, changing technologies, transportation innovations)
Week 25-26Identify and evaluate the major events and issues that promoted sectional conflicts and strained national cohesiveness in the antebellum period
Week 27Identify significant religious, philosophical and social reform movements of the 19th century and their impact on American society
Week 28Identify major characteristics of the abolition movement in the antebellum period, its achievements, failures and Southern opposition to it
Week 29Analyze the women’s rights and the suffrage movements and the impact of women on other reform movements in the antebellum period
Week 30Compare/contrast the economic, social and cultural differences of the North and South during the antebellum period
Civil War and Reconstruction (April-May)
Week 31Identify and analyze the technological, social and strategic aspects of the Civil War
Week 32Explain the influence of Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy of the Union and his executive actions and leadership on the course of the Civil War
Week 33Describe the basic provision and immediate impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Week 34Evaluate different Reconstruction plans and their social, economic and political impact on the South and the rest of the US
Week 35Analyze the immediate and long-term influences of Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans and US society as a whole
Week 36Review/Finals