8.6 Focus on the North
8.7 Focus on the South
8.8 Focus on the West
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8.6-8.8 Divergent Paths in the 1800's
Analyze Growth/1800's/North
Henry Clay, Great Irish Famine,Education System, contributions of Blacks, Women's Suffrage Movement, Cady Stanton, Susan B., Thoreau, Melville, Longfellow, Alcott.
South
Agrarian economy, cotton gin, slavery, Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey
West
Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal, Manifest Destiny, Lewis and Clark, Trail of Tears, Pioneer Women, Great rivers, Mexican Settlements, Texas War for Independence
An Era of Reform Reading and Assignments
A NATION GROWS Reading & Assignments
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STANDARDS 8.6 8.7 8.8 Divergent Paths
8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
- Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
- Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay's American System).
- List the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the United States and describe the growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine).
- Study the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance their rights and communities.
- Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the roles of religious and private schools and Horace Mann's campaign for free public education and its assimilating role in American culture.
- Examine the women's suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony).
- Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writings about and by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
- Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.
- Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).
- Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War.
- Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
- Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president (e.g., the spoils system, veto of the National Bank, policy of Indian removal, opposition to the Supreme Court).
- Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., the Lewis and Clark expedition, accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees' "Trail of Tears," settlement of the Great Plains) and the territorial acquisitions that spanned numerous decades.
- Describe the role of pioneer women and the new status that western women achieved (e.g., Laura Ingalls Wilder, Annie Bidwell; slave women gaining freedom in the West; Wyoming granting suffrage to women in 1869).
- Examine the importance of the great rivers and the struggle over water rights.
- Discuss Mexican settlements and their locations, cultural traditions, attitudes toward slavery, land-grant system, and economies.
- Describe the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War, including territorial settlements, the aftermath of the wars, and the effects the wars had on the lives of Americans, including Mexican Americans today.