First Trimester Unit 1 Colonial Review: Causes of the American Revolution 1-3 3 weeks 4 5-6 Toward Independence - Before 1763 - French and Indian War - Proclamation of 1763 - Parliamentary Acts o Stamp Act o Quartering Act o Townshend Act - Boston Massacre - Boston Tea Party - Intolerable Acts - First Continental Congress - Lexington and Concord The Declaration of Independence - The Continental Army - Bunker Hill - Siege of Boston - Olive Branch Petition - John Locke and the Natural Rights of Man - Common Sense o Thomas Paine - Drafting the Declaration of Independence - Understanding the Declaration of Independence The American Revolution - American strengths and weaknesses - British strengths and weaknesses - Key battles o Saratoga - Valley Forge - The war goes south - Yorktown - Treaty of Paris Chapter 5 Roots Episode 1 and 2 Chapter 6 Roots Episode 2 II Chapter 7 Roots Episode 3 Unit 1 Colonial Review: Causes of the American Revolution Test - Chapter 5, 6 and 7 Common Benchmark Exam
First Trimester, continued Unit 2 United States Government 7-8 1 ½ weeks 8-9 10-12 1 ½ weeks Creating the Constitution - Articles of Confederation - Early quarrels and accomplishments - Northwest Ordinance - Shay s Rebellion - Constitutional Convention - Virginia plan - New Jersey Plan - Roger Sherman Compromise - Three-Fifths Compromise - Executive Election - Electoral College - Approving and signing the Constitution - Federalist and Anti-Federalist The Constitution: A More Perfect Union - Preamble - Legislative Branch - Executive Branch - Judicial Branch - Checks and Balances - The Amendment process - State powers - Shared powers The Bill of Rights - Bill of Rights - Ratification - First 10 Amendments in detail Chapter 8 II II III.1.MS.4 II III.2.MS.3 Chapter 9 II II III.1.MS.4 II III.2.MS.3 III.4.MS.2 Chapter 10 II III.1.MS.4 II III.2.MS.3 III.4.MS.2 Unit 2: United States Government Test - Chapter 8, 9 and 10 Common Benchmark Exam
Second Trimester Grade 8 Plainwell Social Studies Curriculum Map Unit 3 1-2 3-4 A New Republic: Competing Visions for a New Nation Political Developments in the Early Republic - Setting up the Executive Branch o Cabinet - Washington as President - Farwell address - Creating the National Bank - Hamilton and the Federalist Party - Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans - The Presidency of John Adams - Election of 1800 Foreign Affairs in the Young Nation - Washington s foreign policy - Isolationism - Jay Treaty - XYZ Affair - Impressment - Embargo Act of 1807 - War of 1812 - Monroe Doctrine Chapter 11 Roots Episode 3 Chapter 12 Roots Episode 4 Unit 3: A New Republic (Part 1 ) Test - Chapter 11 and 12 Common Benchmark Exam 5-6 7-8 A Growing Sense of Nationhood Developing a nation in a land of differences The American Landscape Economic Nationhood Capitalism Judicial Nationalism Early American Art, Music, and Literature Andrew Jackson and the Growth of American Democracy Jackson s background Jackson s approach to governing Spoils system Nullification Crisis Jackson battles the bank Jackson s Indian Policy Trail of Tears Indian Removal Act Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Roots Episode 4 Unit 3: A New Republic (Part 2 ) Test - Chapter 13 and 14 Common Benchmark Exam
Second Trimester, continued Unit 4 9 10-11 Expansion Manifest Destiny and the Growing Nation - Louisiana Purchase - Florida Purchase - Texas o Alamo o - Oregon Country - Mexican War - Gadsden Purchase Texas wins its independence - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo o California Life in the West - Explorers o Lewis and Clark - Californians o California Missions - Mountain Men o A trapper s life - Missionaries o Oregon Trail - Pioneer Women o Homestead - The Mormons - Forty-Niners o Gold Rush - The Chinese Chapter 15 Into the West Episode 1 Chapter 16 Intro the West Episode 2 Unit 4 Expansion Test - Chapter 15 and 16 Common Benchmark Exam Unit 5 Reform and Expressions of Democracy 12 Era of Reform - Reformers - Second Great Awakening - Mental Health Reform - Improving Education o Horace Mann - Fighting Slavery - Women s Rights - Seneca Falls Convention Chapter 18
Third Trimester Grade 8 Plainwell Social Studies Curriculum Map 1 2-3 Unit 5 The Worlds of North and South - Geography of the North - Geography of the South - Economy of the North o Industrial Revolution o Lowell Mill o McCormick Reaper - Economy of the South o King Cotton o Eli Whitney s Cotton Gin - Transportation of the North and South o Erie Canal - Society of the North and South African Americans at Mid-Century - Racism - North and South, Slave and Free - Slave Codes (laws) - Segregation - Economics of Slavery - Slave working conditions - Slave living conditions - Controlling slaves - Resistance to slavery - Slave Families and culture - African America Culture Chapter 19 I Chapter 20 Fredrick Douglas Video Roots Episode 5 Reform and Expressions of Democracy Test - Chapter 18, 19 and 20 Common Benchmark Exam Unit 6 4-6 Civil War and Reconstruction A Dividing Nation - Confronting Slavery - Missouri Compromise - Fugitive Slave Laws - Compromise of 1850 - Uncle Toms Cabin - Kansas-Nebraska Act - Dred Scott Case - Lincoln Douglas Debates - Election of 1860 - John Browns raid - Secession Chapter 21 I.4.MS.4 Public Policy Letter
- Grade 8 Plainwell Social Studies Curriculum Map Third Trimester, continued Unit 6 7 Civil war and Reconstruction, continued The Civil War - Strengths and weaknesses of the North and South - Lincoln Vs. Davis - Bull Run - Antietam - Gettysburg and Gettysburg Address - Emancipation - Draft Riots - Vicksburg - African Americans and the war - Total war - Appomattox Chapter 22 Roots Episode 5 I.4.MS.4 Unit 6 (Part 1) Civil War Test - Chapter 21 and 22 Common Benchmark Exam 8-9 10-11 The Reconstruction Era - Presidential Reconstruction - The end of slavery o 13 th Amendment - Freedman s Bureau - Black codes - Congressional Reconstruction - Fourteenth Amendment - Sharecropping - Impeachment of Johnson - Southern Reconstruction - Fifteenth Amendment - White Terrorism - KKK - Plessy v. Ferguson - Withdraw of federal troops - Great Migration - Tensions in the West - The Nez Perce - Homestead Act - Pacific Railroad Act - Transcontinental Railroad - Boomtowns and ghost towns - Ranchers and Cowboys - War on the Plains - Battle of the Little Big Horn Chapter 23 Roots Episode 6 I.4.MS.4 Chapter 24 Into the West Episode 3 and 4 Unit 6 (Part 2) Reconstruction Test - Chapter 23 and 24 Common Benchmark Exam
Third Trimester, continued Unit 7 Industrialism 12 The Rise of Industry - Industrialization - Entrepreneurs - Growth of Big Business - The Gilded Age - The Age of Steel - Mass Production - Growth of Corporations o Trust o Monopoly - Growth of Cities - Urbanization - Working Conditions - Labor Unions Chapter 25 IV.4.MS.2 Unit 7 Industrialism Test - Chapter 25 Common Benchmark Exam Note: Economics Unit Economics is now blended into all seven units. Local Materials IV.1.MS.1-3 IV.2.MS.1-3 IV.3.MS.1-4 IV.4.MS.1-4 IV.5.MS.1-3