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Growth and Expansion Unit Docs
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Growth and Expansion Lesson One
Unit Launch; Cotton Becomes the Southern King (Q1)
Students read the unit setting and outcome, learn the story of the growth of the cotton economy in the South, and tell the story back using Because, But, So sentences.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Two
Industrialization Spreads in the Northeast (Q1)
Students learn the story of the spread of industrialization in the Northeast, and check their understanding with a four-sentence story.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Three
Orestes Brownson Objects to Industrialization (Q2)
Students interpret an article by a critic of the factory system.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Four
The Mill Girls Respond to Brownson (Q2)
Students interpret a Lowell Mill Girl’s response to Brownson.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Five
Settling the Northwest Territory (Q1)
Students learn the story of the settling of the Northwest, and tell the story back with Because, But, So sentences.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Six
Explaining Chicago's Dominance (Q3)
Students study data to explain why Chicago came to dominate Midwestern trade. They then write a general hypothesis and test it on a new case: the port of Houston.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Seven
The Missouri Compromise (Q1)
Students learn the story of the Missouri Compromise, and tell the story back using Because, But, So sentences.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Eight
The Annexation of Texas (Q1)
Students learn the story of the annexation of Texas, then tell the story back with a four-sentence story.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Nine
John O'Sullivan on America's "Manifest Destiny" (Q2)
Students interpret a famous editorial in favor of American expansion and the country’s “manifest destiny.”
Growth and Expansion Lesson Ten
The Mexican-American War (Q1)
Students learn the story of the Mexican-American War, and tell the story back with a four-sentence storyboard.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Eleven
Massachusetts Objects To War (Q2)
Students interpret Massachusetts’ Resolution against the Mexican American War.
Growth and Expansion Lesson Twelve
Wars of Territorial Expansion (Q4)
Students consider the specific case of the Mexican-American War, and judge whether it was permissible. They then create a general principle, and apply it to a new case: the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014.