Collierville Schools

Survey of American History (Dual Enrollment)

Scope and Sequence

2ndQuarter
Pacing / Standards / Learning Targets / Supporting Text(s) / Assessment Description(s)
Weeks
1-5 / The Sectionalism of the American North, South, and West (1800- 1850)
Students analyze the paths of the American people in the three regions of the United States from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced as they became increasingly sectionalized.
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. / Describe the Market Revolution, factory system, and the agrarian economyof the South
Describe the improvements in infrastructure proposed in Henry Clay's American System.
Evaluate the effects of inventions or innovations of the era on life in America.
Explain how transportation innovations and infrastructure improvements affected the US.
Identify the causes for new waves of immigration seen in the 1830s and 1840s.
Identify the reasons for the rise of nativism in response to immigration in cities.
Describe the social issues that encouraged reformers to pursue changes in the early 1800s.
Explain the effects of the Second Great Awakening on American culture.
Identify the contributions of early abolitionist leaders.
Identify the legal restrictions faced by women in the early 1800s. Analyze the importance of the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments
Examine the impact of other social movements on the growth of the abolitionist movement.
Identify the role of slavery in the society and economy of the South
Examine the living and working conditions experienced by enslaved workers in the South.
Compare and contrast the political views of congressional leaders with regard to states' rights, federalism, and sectionalism.
Describe the events of the Nullification Crisis. Examine the growing debate over states' rights in the early and mid-1800s.
Analyze Jackson's decision to veto the national bank. Describe the accomplishments of the Jackson presidency. Explain the impact of the spoils system on American politics. / Text, Foner, Give Me Liberty! Chapter 9, 10, 11, 12
Remini, R. The Jacksonian Era
Cartoons on Andrew Jackson’s presidency
Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government”
Northup, “!2years a slave”
De Bow, :The Non-slaveholders of the South”
Primary sources:
the Declaration of Sentiments, F.Douglas’ “4th of July” speech.
The Mill Girls-jigsaw of primary sources
Emerson, “The American Scholar”
Brownson, “The laboring Classes” / Students will have multiple quizzes and tests.
Students will do and present their research in class on the reform movements of the 1820s-1840s.
Students will write a DBQ on the factory system workers of Lowell.
Students will analyze a supplementary reading – Remini, The Jacksonian Era.
Students will write a comparison essay on the Whigs and Democrats.
Primary Source analysis will support learning and will be assessed based upon teacher-provided rubric.
Weeks
6-9 / Manifest Destiny and its impact on the developing character of the American nation
The Civil War (1830-1865)
Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction. / Explain the motivations behind passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, including the rise of the Republican Party, “Bleeding Kansas,” the Sumner Brooks incident, and the John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry.
Analyze the debate that surrounded the admission of Kansas and Nebraska as states to the Union.
Expalin the end of the second party system.
Describe events and details surrounding the Dred Scott case.
Examine the arguments presented by Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race debate of 1858.
Evaluate each candidate and the election of 1860 and analyze how that campaign reflected the sectional turmoil in the country.
Analyze the significance of the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Explain the reasons for the creation of the Confederate States of America.
Analyze the reasons for and effects of the Emancipation Proclamation
Describe the contributions of African Americans during the Civil War.
Compare the challenges facing both sides on the home front as the war went on
Describe the influence of industrialization and technological developments of the regions, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions-growth of cities, deforestation, farming and mineral extraction.
Explain the geographical division of Tennessee over the issue of slavery and secession, including Governor Harris, the secession convention vote of 1861, anti-secession efforts, and Scott County.
Explain the roles of leaders during the Civil War, including Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and soldiers on both sides of the war, including Tennesseans David Farragut, Nathan Bedford Forrest and William Brownlow.
Describe African-American involvement in the Union army, including the Massachusetts 54th Regiment and the 13th U.S. Colored Troops in the Battle of Nashville.
Cite textual evidence analyzing the life of the common soldier in the Civil War.
Trace the critical developments and events in the war, including geographical advantages and economic advantages of both sides, technological advances and the location and significance of the major battles.
Examine why the Union victory at Gettysburg was a turning point in the war. Explain the significance of the capture of Vicksburg and New Orleans. Identify the reasons for the Union''s success in the West.
Analyze the impact of Grant's strategy of total war on the Confederacy's resources.
Describe the overall impact of the war on the United States. Describe the reasons for Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Explain the postwar problems facing the North and the South.
Compare and contrast the presidential and congressional plans for Reconstruction, and analyze their effects.
Describe the presidential plans for Reconstruction
Examine the response by Congress to presidential plans for Reconstruction.
Explain the significance of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Trace the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and vigilante justice, including its role in Tennessee.
Analyze the reasons for the resurgence of Democratic Party leadership in the South.
Describe the disputed presidential election of 1876 and its effect on the end of Reconstruction.
Describe the progress made by African Americans during Reconstruction.
Describe the growing violence against African Americans as a result of Reconstruction.
Examine the reasons for the development of sharecropping and tenant farming in the South during Reconstruction.
Summarize the failures of Reconstruction. / Text, Foner, Give Me Liberty! Chapter 13, 14, 15
Primary Sources:
Joun O’Sullivan “Annexation,”
Excerpts from the “House Divided” speech in 1858
Excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates;
South Carolina Defines the Causes of Succession
Excerpts from Mary Chesnut Diary
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863,
Lincoln’s Inaugural Addresses in 1861 and 1865
Clara Barton, Medical Field at The Battlefield
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier
The Gettysburg Address
Excerpts for Civil War sodliers’ letters
Maps and Photos from the Civil War
Photos and lithographs of the Battle of Memphis
Socratic Seminar
on the song Battle Hymn of the Republic
Students will read supplementary material on the radical republicans.
Mississippi Black Codes
A Sharecropper Contract
Congressional Hearings on KKK
Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities
Sources on the Mamephis 1868 race riots
From, Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington, 1901 – / Students will take a quiz over the Westward expansion and ManifestDestiny; a test over the Civil War, and quiz over the Reconstruction.
Primary Source analysis will support learning and will be assessed based upon teacher-provided rubric.