Unit I: Colonial America through the Revolution
Unit I: Colonial America through the Revolution
Unit I of American History I focuses on the earliest stages of American History. In this unit, we will be utilizing the following materials:
PowerPoints & Notes
Assignments & Worksheets
Primary Source Documents & Images
Review Materials
Media & Video Guides
NC Learning Standards:
AH1.H.2 Analyze key political, economic and social turning points in American History using historical thinking.
AH1.H.2.1 Analyze key political, economic, and social turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects (e.g., conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc).
AH1.H.2.2 Evaluate key turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact (e.g. conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc.)
AH1.H.3Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on United States development over time.
AH1.H.3.1 Analyze how economic, political, social, military and religious factors influenced European exploration and American colonial settlement (e.g., Reformation, mercantilism, improvements in navigation technology, colonization, defeat of Spanish Armada, Great Awakening).
AH1.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the US before the Civil War (e.g., economic diversity of regions, mercantilism, cash crops, triangular trade, ethnic diversity, Native American Indian beliefs about land ownership, Lewis and Clark expedition, farming, Industrial Revolution, etc).
AH1.H.3.3 Explain the roles of various racial and ethnic groups in settlement and expansion through Reconstruction and the consequences for those groups (e.g., Germans, Scotch-Irish, Africans, American Indian Indians, Irish, Chinese, etc.).
AH1.H.4.2 Analyze the economic issues and conflicts that impacted the United States through Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted (e.g., mercantilism, Revolutionary Era taxation, National Bank, taxes, tariffs, territorial expansion, Civil War).
AH1.H.5.1 Summarize how the philosophical, ideological and/or religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political and economic systems.
AH1.H.6.2 Explain the reasons for involvement in wars prior to Reconstruction and the influence each involvement had on international affairs.
AH1.H.7.3 Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture through Reconstruction (e.g., salutary neglect, slavery, breakup of the plantation system, carpetbaggers, scalawags, KKK, and relocation of American Indians, etc.).
PowerPoints & Notes
Assignments & Worksheets
Primary Source Documents & Images
Review Materials
Media & Video Guides
NC Learning Standards:
AH1.H.2 Analyze key political, economic and social turning points in American History using historical thinking.
AH1.H.2.1 Analyze key political, economic, and social turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects (e.g., conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc).
AH1.H.2.2 Evaluate key turning points from colonization through Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact (e.g. conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc.)
AH1.H.3Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on United States development over time.
AH1.H.3.1 Analyze how economic, political, social, military and religious factors influenced European exploration and American colonial settlement (e.g., Reformation, mercantilism, improvements in navigation technology, colonization, defeat of Spanish Armada, Great Awakening).
AH1.H.3.2 Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the US before the Civil War (e.g., economic diversity of regions, mercantilism, cash crops, triangular trade, ethnic diversity, Native American Indian beliefs about land ownership, Lewis and Clark expedition, farming, Industrial Revolution, etc).
AH1.H.3.3 Explain the roles of various racial and ethnic groups in settlement and expansion through Reconstruction and the consequences for those groups (e.g., Germans, Scotch-Irish, Africans, American Indian Indians, Irish, Chinese, etc.).
AH1.H.4.2 Analyze the economic issues and conflicts that impacted the United States through Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted (e.g., mercantilism, Revolutionary Era taxation, National Bank, taxes, tariffs, territorial expansion, Civil War).
AH1.H.5.1 Summarize how the philosophical, ideological and/or religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political and economic systems.
AH1.H.6.2 Explain the reasons for involvement in wars prior to Reconstruction and the influence each involvement had on international affairs.
AH1.H.7.3 Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture through Reconstruction (e.g., salutary neglect, slavery, breakup of the plantation system, carpetbaggers, scalawags, KKK, and relocation of American Indians, etc.).