Unit 4: Jacksonian Democracy,Manifest Destiny, and Early Reforms

December 9 – December 17

Assignments:

  • American Pageant, Review Chapters 15, 16,17
  • United States History chapters 10, 11, 12
  • Fact, Chapter 4
  • After School Date or lunch dates December 15
  • Unit Vocabulary identified on flash cards. (due Dec.17)
  • Oral Presentations on The Reform Period:

Women’s RightsAbolition

EducationMental Institutions and Prisons

ProhibitionTransandentalism

Utopian Societies

  • “AParty”Five time period documents and political cartoons turned in on December 17 (20 points each – quiz grade)
  1. Jacksonian Period
  2. reforms period
  3. Indian Relocation
  4. transportation
  5. manifest destiny

Virginia and US History SOLs covered:

VUS.6The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major events from the last decade of the eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century by

a)explaining the principles and issues that prompted Thomas Jefferson to organize the first opposition political party;

b)identifying the economic, political, and geographic factors that led to territorial expansion and its impact on the American Indians;

c)examining the reasons why James Madison asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812 and how this divided the nation;

d)relating the changing character of American political life in “the age of the common man” (Jacksonian Era) to increasing popular participation in state and national politics;

e)describing the cultural, economic, and political issues that divided the nation, including tariffs, slavery, the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, and the role of the states in the Union.

VUS.7The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era and their importance as major turning points in American history by

a)evaluating the multiple causes of the Civil War, including the role of the institution of

slavery as a principal cause of the conflict;

Classes:

Wednesday, December 9

Turn in United States History Chapter 10 Outlines and questions

  • John Quincy Adams; Election of 1824, 1828; Jacksonian Era, Tariff - Calhoun – Nullification, Presidency
  • Moving Westward and Rise of the Two Party System
  • Homework:Read Chapters15-17American Pageant
  • Homework - Fact: Chapter 4 Turn in a summary of the reading. This can be typed.

Friday, December 11

Complete Jacksonian Era

Begin Manifest Destiny

Outline United States History chapter 11 due

Tuesday, December 15

Complete Manifest Destiny

Reforms and Culture Presentations

Outline United States History Chapter12 due

After School Tutoring

Thursday, December 17

Unit Multiple Choice TestandUnit DBQ

Time Period Documents due

Begin Unit 5

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