Unit 1 Overview and Objectives: 10 Day Unit
Unit 1: Historical Roots of American Democracy
Unit 1 Test Material Comes from:
Chapters 2 and 3 of the Textbook
Video Viewing Guides
Lecture Materials
All Objectives we will learn in Unit 1
Objective 1.01: Describe how geographic diversity influenced economic, social and political life in colonial North America.
Essential Questions:
• How did the unique geographic landscape of each region cause the colonies to develop differently?
• In what ways did the purpose and focus of settlement affect the development of each colony?
• How did the diversity of the populations in each region lead to varied experiences economically, socially, and politically?
Objective 1.02: Trace and analyze the development of ideas about self-government in British North America.
Essential Questions:
• How did the colonists’ experiences under the British government influence them to establish a system of self-government?
• Which documents and people influenced the colonists’ viewpoints on self-government?
• How did the successes and failures of the colonial governments influence the colonists’ attitude about self-government?
Objective 1.03: Examine the causes of the American Revolution.
Essential Questions:
• What events and actions led the colonies to rebel against Great Britain?
• How did colonists react to the treatment they received from the British government?
• How did the events of the Revolutionary time period influence the formation of a national identity?
Objective 1.04: Elaborate on the emergence of an American identity.
Essential Questions:
• How did land acquisition after the Revolutionary War lead to conflicts?
• How did colonists justify taking land from Native Americans and owning slaves during the time of the 1st Great Awakening?
• Why was the Treaty of Paris significant in creating a national identity?
Objective 1.05: Identify the major domestic problems of the nation under the Articles of Confederation and assess the extent to which they were resolved by the new Constitution.
Essential Questions:
• How were the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan incorporated in the compromise of the Connecticut Plan?
• To what extent were the compromises made during the Constitutional Convention necessary and appropriate?
• How was the role of government different under the new Constitution as compared to the Articles of Confederation?
Objective 1.06: Compare viewpoints about government in the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
Essential Questions:
• What were the contrasting viewpoints of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
• How would society be different today if the new Constitution had incorporated only the viewpoints of the Federalists or Anti-Federalists?
• What arguments exist today that may be similar to those that occurred between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
Objective 1.08: Compare the American system of government to other forms of government.
Essential Questions:
• What affect do the various forms of government have on people around the world?
• How do various forms of government provide for individual freedom?
• What will likely happen if a government denies all power to the people it governs?
“Big Picture” questions I need answered before the test: (make notes of things you still are not understanding) ______
All Terms and Concepts we will learn in Unit 1
1.01 Terms/Concepts:Ethnic diversity
Plantation system
Mercantilism
(Geographic Diversity)
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Jamestown
(Economic Growth)
Joint-stock Companies
Proprietary/Royal/Self-Governing Colonies
Triangular Trade Route
(Social Structure)
Indentured servants
Native Americans
Public schooling
Bacon’s Rebellion
(Religious Diversity)
Pilgrims
Puritans
Quakers
Catholics
Religious dissenters
Salem Witch Trials / 1.02 Terms/Concepts:
Common Law
Natural rights
(Majority Rule)
Parliament
Republic
(Self Government)
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
Town meetings
(Limited Government)
Magna Carta/Great Charter
Social Contract theory
English Bill of Rights
(Rebellion)
1st/2nd Continental Congress / 1.03 Terms/Concepts:
Civil liberties
Salutary Neglect
Albany Plan of Union
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Stamp Act/Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
John Peter Zenger
“Shot heard around the world”
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Writs of Assistance
“No Taxation without representation”
1st/2nd Continental Congress
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Navigation Acts
Declaration of Independence
1.04 Terms/Concepts:
Property Rights
Separation of church and state
Slavery
Egalitarianism
(National Identity)
Treaty of Paris
(Land acquisition)
Land ownership
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
(Slavery)
Slave trade
Middle Passage
(Religious Pluralism)
1st Great Awakening
1.08 Terms/Concepts:
Governments
Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Dictatorship
Democracy / 1.05 Terms/Concepts:
(Confederation)
Characteristics of Articles of Confederation
(Central Government)
The Virginia Plan
The New Jersey Plan
The Great Compromise/
Connecticut Plan
The three/fifths Compromise
The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
The Electoral College
Shay’s Rebellion / 1.06 Terms/Concepts:
Federalism
Individual rights
States rights
Centralized government
Ratification
Role of government
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
(Individual rights/States rights)
Anti-federalists
Federalists
Anti-Federalist Papers
Federalist Papers
Strict Interpretation
Loose Interpretation
(Centralized government)
Factions
(Separation of Powers)
The Judiciary
The Executive Branch
(Ratification)
Adoption of the Constitution