Objective 1- The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S.
1A- identify the major eras in U.S. history through 1877 and describe their defining characteristics.
1B- apply absolute and relative chronology through the sequencing of significant individuals, events, and time periods.
1C- explain the significance of the following dates: 1607, 1776, 1787, 1803, and1861-1865
2B- compare political, economic, and social reasons for establishment of the 13 colonies.
4A- analyze causes of the American Revolution, including mercantilism and British economic policies f4B- explain the roles played by significant individuals during the American Revolution, including Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, King George III, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Washington.ollowing the French and Indian War.
4C- explain the issues surrounding important events of the American Revolution, including declaring independence; writing the Articles of Confederation; fighting the battles of Lexington, Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown; and signing the Treaty of Paris.
4D- analyze the issues of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, including major compromises and arguments for and against ratification.
5C- explain the origin and development of American political parties.
5D- explain the issues surrounding important events of the War of 1812
5E- explain the impact of Washington's Farewell Address and the Monroe Doctrine.
5F- explain the impact of the election of Andrew Jackson, including the beginning of the modern Democratic Party.
5G- analyze federal Indian policies and the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians during the Jacksonian era.
6A- explain how the Northwest Ordinance established principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States.
6B- explain the political, economic, and social roots of Manifest Destiny.
6C- analyze the relationship between the concept of Manifest Destiny and the westward growth of the nation.
6D- explain the major issues [and events] of the Mexican War and their impact on the United States.
7A- analyze the impact of tariff policies on sections of the United States before the Civil War.
7B- compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks.
7C- analyze the impact of slavery on different sections of the United States.
7D- compare the provisions and effects of congressional conflicts and compromises prior to the Civil War, including the roles of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.
8A- explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln.
8B- explain the issues surrounding significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter, the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, the assassination of Lincoln, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
8C- analyze Abraham Lincoln's ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address
| 1218191518 | Jacksonian Democracy | A movement for more democracy in the American government in the 1830s. Led by President Andrew Jackson, this movement championed greater rights for the common man | 1 | |
| 1218191519 | 1803 | The year that the Louisiana Territory was purchased by a treaty signed with France in by which the U.S. purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, almost doubling the size of the United States. | 2 | |
| 1218191520 | Democratic | Ruled by the people. In a democracy, citizens elect representatives to make and carry out laws. | 3 | |
| 1218191521 | Impressment | Forcing American sailors into the British Navy. | 4 | |
| 1218191522 | War Hawks | Government officials wanting to attack Britain and invade Canada | 5 | |
| 1218191523 | Tecumseh | Shawnee Indian chief who united tribes to fight the United States. | 6 | |
| 1218191524 | Neutrality | not taking part in or giving assistance in a dispute or war between other countries | 7 | |
| 1218191525 | Political Parties | group of people with common beliefs attempting to gain power in government | 8 | |
| 1218191526 | Foreign | outside of one's country | 9 | |
| 1218191527 | Isolationism | a national policy of staying out of political or economic relations with other countries | 10 | |
| 1218191528 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers | 11 | |
| 1218191529 | Foreign policy | a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations. | 12 | |
| 1218191530 | Tariff | Tax on goods imported or exported. | 13 | |
| 1218191531 | Nullify | voiding a law | 14 | |
| 1218191532 | Secession | Formal withdrawal from an alliance or union. | 15 | |
| 1218191533 | States Rights | Right of states to refuse federal law that they do not agree with. | 16 |
