UNIT GOAL:  Students will be able to analyze how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

4) Students can analyze and evaluate how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

3) Students can analyze how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

2) Students can explain how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

1) Students are able to recognize how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

 Now - let's go back and discuss last Unit's unit goal and talk about how to attack it.  And then we return to our current Unit Goal. 

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.  

1800 - 1848 

Louisiana Purchase  (1803)
War of 1812 
Missouri Compromise (1820) 
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Corrupt Bargain (1824) - 
Bank of American
The 2nd Great Awakening
    - Education chances
    - Temperance Movement
    - Women's Right 
    - Abolitionist Movement
Literary - Arts 
Transcendentalists - Thoreau and Emerson
Romantics - Poe, Hawthorne, Copper 
Mexican-American War