Unit Standards
SS.8.A.4.5: Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the 19th century transportation revolution on the growth of the nation's economy.
SS.8.A.4.6: Identify technological improvements (inventions/ inventors) that contributed to industrial growth.
SS.8.A.4.7: Explain the causes, course, and consequences (industrial growth, subsequent effect on children and women) of New England's textile industry.
SS.8.A.4.10 Analyze the impact of technological advancements on the agricultural economy and slave labor. SS.8.A.4.8. Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments of this era in American History. SS.8.A.4.11: Examine the aspects of slave culture including plantation life, resistance efforts, and the role of the slaves' spiritual system.
SS.8.A.5.1: Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate).
Unit Essential Questions
Students will understand...
Words/Phrases to Know
turnpikes, national road, Industrialization, factories, mass production, Samuel Slater, textiles, Elias Howe, sewing machine, Robert Fulton, steamships, Clermont, railroads, Erie Canal, Samuel Morse/ Morse Code, telegraph, John Deere Steel, tipped plow, Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper, labor union, strike, Lowell factory girls, urbanization, Irish potato famine, nativism, Know Nothing Party, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, interchangeable parts, King Cotton
SS.8.A.4.5: Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the 19th century transportation revolution on the growth of the nation's economy.
SS.8.A.4.6: Identify technological improvements (inventions/ inventors) that contributed to industrial growth.
SS.8.A.4.7: Explain the causes, course, and consequences (industrial growth, subsequent effect on children and women) of New England's textile industry.
SS.8.A.4.10 Analyze the impact of technological advancements on the agricultural economy and slave labor. SS.8.A.4.8. Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments of this era in American History. SS.8.A.4.11: Examine the aspects of slave culture including plantation life, resistance efforts, and the role of the slaves' spiritual system.
SS.8.A.5.1: Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate).
Unit Essential Questions
- How does technology change the way people live?
- How do people adapt to their environment?
- Why do people make economic choices?
Students will understand...
- how technology and industry changed during the 1800s.
- what changes made agriculture more profitable in the 1830s.
- why many Americans pushed for reform in the workplace during this era.
- what challenges European immigrants faced in Northern cities.
- how the economies of the South and North differed.
- why industry developed slowly in the South.
- how Southern farms were different from Southern plantations.
- how enslaved African Americans tried to cope with their lack of freedom.
- what changes urbanization introduced in the South by the mid-1800s.
Words/Phrases to Know
turnpikes, national road, Industrialization, factories, mass production, Samuel Slater, textiles, Elias Howe, sewing machine, Robert Fulton, steamships, Clermont, railroads, Erie Canal, Samuel Morse/ Morse Code, telegraph, John Deere Steel, tipped plow, Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper, labor union, strike, Lowell factory girls, urbanization, Irish potato famine, nativism, Know Nothing Party, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, interchangeable parts, King Cotton