8th Grade US History- Chad Fixa
Door Chad Fixa
1. In table groups, each group will read aloud the Junior Scholastic 'Turning Point at Gettysburg' Play. Then discuss the significance of the battle.
2. Texas Mexico Border Dissagrement
3. Changes in the South
3.1. agrarian economy
3.2. Cotton
3.3. Role of Slavery
3.4. White Society
3.5. Freed Black Rights
4. Expansion West
4.1. Andrew Jackson
4.2. Manifest Destiny
4.3. Waterways
5. Attempts to Abolish Slavery
5.1. Underground Railroad
5.2. State wide Emancipation
5.3. Compromise of 1850
5.4. Legal Cases that defend or abolish slaves rights
6. Civil War
6.1. States Rights Vs Federal Rights
6.2. Abraham Lincon
6.3. Bounders of North and South
6.4. Effects of War on Solders, Citizens, and physical environment
6.5. Important Civil War Leaders
7. Reconstruction
7.1. Rise of the ku klux klan
7.2. Jim Crow Laws
7.3. Black Movement in the US
7.4. New Amendments to the Constitution
8. Second Industrial Revolution
8.1. Creation of Labor Laws
8.2. Urbanization
8.3. Large Scale Immigration
8.4. Inventers New Qualities of Life
8.5. Grangerism and Populism.
8.6. Wars with Native American Tribes
9. Activity: Close read the portions of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, and the Constitution and see where the Founding Fathers drew ideas from the different documents. As well as allow students the opportunity to discuss if they were a founding father what they would have added or omitted to the constitution, based on the documents they read.
10. Founding of a Nation
10.1. Great Awaking
10.2. Declaration of Independence
10.3. American Revolution and effects it had on other countries
10.4. French and Indian War
11. The U.S Constitution and Federal Power
11.1. The Documents that the influenced the Constitution
11.2. Articles of Confederation and Constitution
11.3. Agreements and compromises made to create the constitution.
11.4. Bill of Rights
12. Political Systems
12.1. Two Party System
12.2. States vs. Federal
12.3. Law Making process
12.4. Free Press
12.5. Domestic resistance movements
13. People in the New Nation
13.1. Land
13.2. Famous Speeches
13.3. Capitalist economy
13.4. Creation of American Culture
14. Foreign Policy
14.1. War of 1812
14.2. Expansion of Land
14.3. Treaties with Native Americans
15. Changes in the North
15.1. Industrial Economy
15.1.1. Using the knowledge of both the Northern and the Southern economy, geography, and infrastructure, the table groups will discuss who they think is better off for when the Civil War breaks out. They will use documents they have read and looked at in class to help them decide and justify why they picked their decision.