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Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.
Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.
Work, Exchange, and
Technology: How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly
urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and
those for whom they worked? How did the
continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern
social, political, and economic life?
Peopling: How did
the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the
United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old
communities?
Politics and Power:
How did the growth of ideas of mass democracy, including such concerns as
expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy
affect political life and discourse?
America in the World:
How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its
power in the western hemisphere? How did
foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new America Nation?
Environment and
Geography: How did environmental and geographic factors affect the
development of sectional economics and identities?
Ideas, Beliefs, and
Cultures: How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American
arts, literature, ideals, and culture?
