Unit Three Standards
SS.8.A.3.9: Evaluate the structure, strengths, and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and its aspects that led to the Constitutional Convention.
SS.8.A.3.10: Examine the course and consequences of the Constitutional Convention
SS.8.A.3.11: Analyze support and opposition (Federalists, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalists, Bill of Rights) to ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
SS.8.C.1.5 Apply the rights and principles contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the lives of citizens today.
SS.8.C.2.1: Evaluate and compare the essential ideals and principles of American constitutional government expressed in primary sources from the colonial period to Reconstruction.
SS.8.C.1.1 Identify the constitutional provisions for establishing citizenship.
SS.8.E.2.2 Explain the economic impact of government policies.
Unit Three Essential Questions
1. Why do people form governments?
2. How do new ideas change the way people live?
3. How do governments change?
Words to Know
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, republic, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, delegates, James Madison, George Washington, Constitution, Virginia Plan, bicameral legislature, New Jersey Plan
unicameral legislature, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, three branches of government- legislative, executive, judicial
Electoral college, Federalists, Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, Anti-Federalists, ratify, Bill of Rights, amendment, manumission, traditions, depression, popular sovereignty, limited government, enumerated power, reserved power, concurrent power, separation of powers, implied power, judicial review, due process, equal protection, naturalization
SS.8.A.3.9: Evaluate the structure, strengths, and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and its aspects that led to the Constitutional Convention.
SS.8.A.3.10: Examine the course and consequences of the Constitutional Convention
SS.8.A.3.11: Analyze support and opposition (Federalists, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalists, Bill of Rights) to ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
SS.8.C.1.5 Apply the rights and principles contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the lives of citizens today.
SS.8.C.2.1: Evaluate and compare the essential ideals and principles of American constitutional government expressed in primary sources from the colonial period to Reconstruction.
SS.8.C.1.1 Identify the constitutional provisions for establishing citizenship.
SS.8.E.2.2 Explain the economic impact of government policies.
Unit Three Essential Questions
1. Why do people form governments?
2. How do new ideas change the way people live?
3. How do governments change?
Words to Know
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, republic, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, delegates, James Madison, George Washington, Constitution, Virginia Plan, bicameral legislature, New Jersey Plan
unicameral legislature, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, three branches of government- legislative, executive, judicial
Electoral college, Federalists, Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, Anti-Federalists, ratify, Bill of Rights, amendment, manumission, traditions, depression, popular sovereignty, limited government, enumerated power, reserved power, concurrent power, separation of powers, implied power, judicial review, due process, equal protection, naturalization