SOCIAL STUDIES MODULE 3- Industrial America and Westward Expansion - 7 Weeks

Knox County Curriculum (VERY HELPFUL) - 7 Weeks




5.27 Explain the need for the South and Tennessee to move toward industry and mechanization after the Civil War and identify examples of the effort, including Coca Cola bottling in Chattanooga, mining on the Cumberland Plateau, coal and iron processing, the growth of urban areas, and the increase in railroads. (G, E, H, TN)

 5.28 Map the sources of new immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, China, and Japan, and interpret narratives and excerpts from informational text describing the role that Chinese and Irish laborers played in the development of the Transcontinental Railroad. (C, E, G, H)

 5.29 Summarize why the United States was viewed as the land of opportunity by immigrants versus a growing sense of protectionism and nativism by American citizens. (C, P)

 5.30 Write an argumentative piece from the viewpoint of American Indians and the viewpoint of American settlers about their rights to the land west of the Mississippi River.

5.31 Analyze the appeal of the Great Plains to settlers and immigrants, including geographical factors, railroads, homesteading rights, and the absence of American Indians. (G, H)

 5.32 Describe the role of Buffalo Soldiers in settling the West, including Tennessee native George Jordan. (H, TN)

5.33 Write a short piece with concrete words, phrases, and sensory details of the life on the Great Plains from the viewpoint of a particular immigrant or migrant group. (C, G, H)

5.34 Engage in a collaborative discussion to explore the ideas and events of the Gilded Age and determine the significance, including: (C, E, H, P)  political machines  major scandals  economic disparity  industrial capitalists

5.35 Describe child labor and working conditions in factories. (C, E, H)


 5.36 Analyze the role of Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor in changing standards for working conditions. (E, H, P)


 5.37 Use a graphic organizer to provide information about important business leaders, inventors, and entrepreneurs and the impact they had on American society, including: (C, E, H)  Thomas Edison  Alexander Graham Bell  Henry Ford  George Eastman  George Washington Carver  Henry Bessemer  Swift and Armour  Cornelius Vanderbilt


 5.38 Use multiple media elements to create a presentation describing the 1897 Centennial Exposition, including its purpose, sights, exhibits, and impact on the state. (TN)


 5.39 Analyze the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish American War, including: (C, E, G, H, TN)  yellow journalism  USS Maine  Rough Riders  Imperialism


 5.40 Analyze the major goals, struggles, and achievements of the Progressive Era, including attacking racial discrimination, child labor, big business, conservation, and alcohol use: (C, E, P)  Anti-Trust laws  16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments  immigration reform


 5.41 Describe the effects of Jim Crow Laws on the nation and Tennessee and the efforts of Ida B. Wells and Randolph Miller to bring attention to the inequalities of segregation. (C, H, P, TN)



Primary Documents and Supporting Texts to Read: excerpts from Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams; excerpts from How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis; excerpts from The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

SOCIAL STUDIES MODULE 2- 1860-1877 10 Weeks

Knox County Guide( Very Helpful) 



I CAN STATEMENTS
The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)
Understand the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, and explain the successes and failures of Reconstruction.
5.5 Evaluate each candidate in the campaign of 1860 and analyze how that campaign reflectedthe sectional turmoil of the country. (H, P, TN)
5.6 Explain with supporting details why Tennessee was divided on the issue of secession andthe events that led it to eventually leave the Union to include: state convention vote of 1861, theFree and Independent State of Scott, Hurst Nation, East Tennessee mostly pro-Union anddivided families. (H, P, TN)
5.7 Determine the meaning of the terms of this period with a visual representation, including:

(G, C)

• Union and Confederate States
  
• Yankees and Rebels
  
• Blue and Gray
  
• Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
  

5.8 Analyze the geographic, social, political, and economic strengths and weakness of the Northand South. (E, G, H, P)
5.9 Identify the Border States and the efforts of both sides to secure them to their cause. (G.H)
5.10 Create a visual display to explain the Union’s Anaconda Plan for defeating the Confederacyand how the geography of the South formed the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippitheaters of war. (G, H, P)
5.11 Explain the significance and outcome of the major battles and identify their location on a map or visual representation, including: (G, H, TN)
• Fort Sumter
• First Battle of Bull Run
• Fort Henry and Donelson • Shiloh
• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Chickamauga
• Franklin
• Nashville
• Appomattox Court House

5.12 Draw on informational text to explain the roles of the military and civil leaders during the Civil War, including: (C, H, P)

• Abraham Lincoln
  
• Jefferson Davis
  
• Ulysses S. Grant
  
• Robert E. Lee
  
• Frederick Douglas
  
• Clara Barton
  5.13 Read and write an informative piece summarizing the Gettysburg Address to determine its meaning and significance. (H)
  5.14 Use concrete words, phrases, and sensory details to describe the experience of the war on the battlefield and home front. (H, C)
  5.15 Explain the contributions of Tennesseans during the war, including: (H, TN) • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Sam Watkins
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury • Sam Davis
  5.16 Evaluate and debate the rationales for the Emancipation Proclamation. (C, P)
  5.17 Explain why Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson as his running mate in the election of 1864.
  (H, P, TN)
  5.18 Describe the physical, social, political and economic consequences of the Civil War on the southern United States. (E, G)
  5.19 Draw on information from multiple print or digital resources to describe the impact of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the nation. (H)
  5.20 Analyze the goals and accomplishments of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Freedmen’s Bureau, and Fisk University to help former slaves begin a new life. (C, H, P, TN)
  5.21 Compare and contrast the different Reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress. (H, P)
  5.22 Integrate information from several texts about the intent and failure of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. (H, P, TN)
  5.23 Analyze why the Radical Republicans turned to military Reconstruction and the backlash resulting in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, black codes, and vigilante justice. (H, P, TN)
  5.24 Explain the impact of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870, including poll taxes, segregation, and funds for public education. (E, P, TN)
  

5.25 Explain the compromise that ended Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes. (P)
5.26 Describe the impact of yellow fever during the 1870s; why it was particularly deadly in West Tennessee and the election of African Americans to the General Assembly. (G, H, TN)
Primary Documents and Supporting Texts to Read: The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln; the Emancipation Proclamation; Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln; the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; the Retrospective in Co. Aytch, Sam Watkins