Introduction

Indian Removal (Trail of Tears)
Missouri Compromise
War with Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas (John Brown Pottawatomie Creek)
Dred Scott
Fugitive Slave Laws
The Underground Railroad
John Brown's Raid Harper's Ferry
Lincoln vs Douglas
Election of 1860
Secession

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Define migration and immigration and distinguish between the two terms.

Identify how migration and immigration have shaped the development of our state and nation through new ideas, culture, and a new workforce.

Explain how and why slaves were transported to the United States and the multiple perspectives on slavery.

Analyze the economic, social and political differences between the various regions of the country, such as North, South and the West.

Explain how and why the United States expanded westward to the Pacific Ocean and the impact on native populations.

Analyze the impact of Manifest Destiny on the development of the identity of the United States.

Analyze the significance of the War of 1812 on the development of the economy and identity of the United States.

Summarize the economic, social and political factors that influenced North Carolina prior to the Civil War.

Identify the political, economic, and cultural factors that led to escalating tensions between the North and South.

Explain how the United States attempted to use debate, compromise, and democratic principles to prevent the Civil War.

Unit Compelling Question: How did differing ideas about the development of the United States and equity for its citizens create competing sectional identities resulting in the Civil War?

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Standards

History

8.H.1.1 - Construct charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain particular events or issues.

8.H.1.2 - Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context.

8.H.1.3 - Use primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives.

8.H.1.4 - Use historical inquiry to evaluate the validity of sources used to construct historical narratives (e.g. formulate historical questions, gather data from a variety of sources, evaluate and interpret data and support interpretations with historical evidence).

8.H.1.5 - Analyze the relationship between historical context and decision-making

8.H.2.1 - Explain the impact of economic, political, social, and military conflicts (e.g. war, slavery, states’ rights and citizenship and immigration policies) on the development of North Carolina and the United States.

8.H.2.2 - Summarize how leadership and citizen actions (e.g. the founding fathers, the Regulators, the Greensboro Four, and participants of the Wilmington Race Riots, 1898) influenced the outcome of key conflicts in North Carolina and the United States.

8.H.2.3 - Summarize the role of debate, compromise, and negotiation during significant periods in the history of North Carolina and the United States.

8.H.3.2 - Explain how changes brought about by technology and other innovations affected individuals and groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. advancements in transportation, communication networks and business practices).

8.H.3.3 Explain how individuals and groups have influenced economic, political and social change in North Carolina and the United States.

8.H.3.4 - Compare historical and contemporary issues to understand continuity and change in the development of North Carolina and the United States

Civics & Government

8.C&G.1.1 - Summarize democratic ideals expressed in local, state, and national government (e.g. limited government, popular sovereignty, separation of powers, republicanism, federalism and individual rights).

8.C&G.1.3 - Analyze differing viewpoints on the scope and power of state and national governments (e.g. Federalists and anti-Federalists, education, immigration and healthcare).

8.C&G.1.4 - Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups).

8.C&G.2.3 - Explain the impact of human and civil rights issues throughout North Carolina and United States history

Economics

8.E.1.1 - Explain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline (e.g. economic depressions and recessions)

Geography

8.G.1.1 - Explain how location and place have presented opportunities and challenges for the movement of people, goods, and ideas in North Carolina and the United States.

8.G.1.3 - Explain how human and environmental interaction affected quality of life and settlement patterns in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. environmental, disasters, infrastructure development, coastal restoration and alternative sources of energy)

Culture

8.C.1.1 - Explain how influences from Africa, Europe, and the Americas impacted North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Columbian Exchange, slavery and the decline of the American Indian populations).

8.C.1.2 - Summarize the origin of beliefs, practices, and traditions that represent various groups within North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Moravians, Scots-Irish, Highland Scots, Latinos, Hmong, Africans, and American Indians

Inquiry

I Standard 1.1 - Construct a compelling question through a disciplinary lens individually and with peers.

I Standard 1.2 - Construct supporting questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

I Standard 1.3 - Analyze details, central ideas, and inferences from sources using discipline-specific strategies.

I Standard 1.4 - Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources using the origin, authority, structure, credibility, reliability, and context of the sources to guide the selection.

I Standard 1.6 - Construct claims and counterclaims using evidence while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both based on multiple sources.

Vocab

Reform - To change the way things are done or systems operate.

Abolish/Abolition - To End / To stop : in reference to the system of Slavery in the US

Motivate - To provide a reason for doing something.

Expansion - Growing in size, EX: Westward Expansion - claiming new territory for our nation in the west

Innovation - New advances in technology, New ideas.

Migrate - Relocation of people from one area in the US to another.

Foreign - Hailing from a different country, things that are going on abroad.

Domestic - Things going on within the US.

Sectionalism - Extreme differences between two areas that cause conflict.

Capital investment - Investments made for future benefits: in infrastructure (roads, Rail-roads, highways, water ways.

Plantation - Large properties that grow cash crops but use slave labor to keep production costs low.

Industry - Mercantilism, manufacturing, production of goods.

Suffrage - The right to vote, Notably the women's suffrage movement

Infrastructure - The resources used for transportation (roads, Rail-roads, highways, water ways.

Manifest Destiny - The 18/19th century American Notion that it was our Devine right to expand our territory from coast to coast, without any concern for those that already reside there.

Slave codes - A series of laws passed to keep slaves under control, fugitive slave laws - required the return of property to slave owners

Antebellum - The time period prior to the American Civil War.

Secession - The removal of oneself or a state from an organization or nation declaring self independence.