1st Quarter Focus Exploring Social Studies, Exploration, Colonization & Life in the American Colonies:
Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technology to report information
Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human population
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of British settlement of the American colonies
Demonstrate an understanding of the causes, course and consequences of the American Revolution and founding principles of our nation
Vocabulary: location, region, place, human environment interaction, movement, human development, physical systems, scale, political features, compass rose, population, economics, supply and demand, citizen, naturalization, separation of powers, civic responsibilities, civic duties, New World, Indies, astrolabe, compass, Columbian Exchange, Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigate, conquistador, Aztec, Inca, Ponce de Leon, immunity, missions, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther and Spanish Armada, Roanoke, John Smith, Jamestown, Burgesses, puritans, separatists, Mayflower Compact, Plymouth colonists, Squanto, Samoset, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Anne Hutchinson, New Amsterdam, Pennsylvania, Quakers, William Penn, slavery, indentured servants, Toleration Act of 1649, Maryland, agriculture, industries, New England, New York, Philadelphia, cash crops, Middle Passage, triangular trade route, slave codes, mercantilism, Great Awakening, William Pitt, French & Indian War, and Proclamation of 1763
2nd Quarter Focus American Revolution & Principles of American Government:
Demonstrate an understanding of the causes, Course, and consequences of the American Revolution and founding principles of our nation
Recognize a way citizens benefit from the rights provided by the Constitution and Bill of Rights
Identify principles of the American government, such as representative democracy (republicanism), separation of powers, and freedom expressed in important documents in American History
Vocabulary: revenue, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, propaganda, Tea Act, East India Company, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts, Hessians, militia, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, William Dawes, Lexington &Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, loyalist, patriots, Olive Branch Petition, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, Universal Principles, grievance, home court advantage, Trenton, Battle of Saratoga, Valley Forge, Marquis de Lafayette, Yorktown, republic, Articles of Confederation, Shay's Rebellion, James Madison, New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism, popular sovereignty, enumerated powers, reserved powers, concurrent powers, Bill of Rights, amendment, due process, precedents, cabinet, Whiskey Rebellion, Proclamation of Neutrality, XYZ Affairs, Alien and Sedition Acts
3rd Quarter Focus Western Expansion & Jackson and Social Change:
Demonstrate an understanding of the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution and founding principles of our nation
Demonstrate an understanding of the domestic and international causes, course, and consequences of westward expansion
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and reconstruction including the effects on American people
Vocabulary: Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase, Louis & Clark, Northwest Passage, Zebulon Pike, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, impressment, embargo, war hawks, James Madison, The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, Daniel Boone, Erie Canal, The American System, Henry Clay, sectionalism, McCulloch vs. Maryland, Gibbons vs. Ogden, Missouri Compromise, Adams-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine, spoil system, Indian territory, Worcester vs. Georgia, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Osceola, Seminole, Panic of 1837, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", Manifest Destiny, "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight", March 3, 1845/Florida statehood, The Alamo, Texan Annexation, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, polygamy, Second Great Awakening, temperance, Horace Mann, transcendentalist, abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, Seneca Falls Convention
4th Quarter Focus Industrial Revolution, The North and South & The Civil War and Reconstruction:
Demonstrate an understanding of the domestic and international causes, course and consequences of westward expansion
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction including its effects on American people
Vocabulary: clipper ship, telegraph, Morse Code, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere, trade union, strike, prejudice, discrimination, famine, nativist, Know-Nothing Party, productivity, domestic slave trade, yeoman, overseer, spiritual, Slave Codes, Underground Railroad, literacy, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, fugitive, secede, border ruffian, Civil War, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party, arsenal, martyr, Dred Scott vs. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, secession, states rights, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ft. Sumter, border state, enlist, strategy, tributary, ironclad, casualties, David Farragut, George B. McClellan, Emancipation Proclamation, habeas corpus, draft, bounty, greenback, Clara Barton, entrenched, flank, 54th Massachusetts, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Gettysburg Address, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Battle of Olustee, Sherman's march to the sea, total war, Appomattox Courthouse, reconstruction, amnesty, radical Republicans, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, black codes, override, impeach, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, scalawags, corruption, integrate, sharecropping, Ku Klux Klan, pole tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation, lynching, Buffalo Soldiers