CONCEPTS

Perspective and Conflict

Power Standards

• Analyze political ideas and actions taken by significant individuals in the past to explain the impact on society.
• Explain the relationship among: economic choices, social lives, political systems, the environment.
• Describe the ways in which the movement of people affects families and communities.
• Describe the effects of significant inventions or technological innovations on society and the environment.
• Given specific information, create maps and/or graphs, utilizing key elements.

Essential Understandings & Guiding Questions

Essential Understanding: Social and economic needs often lead to movement of groups of people.

Guiding Questions

• How do social needs encourage people to relocate?
• How do economic needs encourage people to relocate?
• If needs and wants of people are not met, what do they do?

Essential Understanding: The movement of people may have a positive or negative impact on people and the environment.

Guiding Questions

• How does the movement of people positively and negatively impact the environment?
• How does the movement of people positively and negatively impact other people?
• How does movement of people, goods, and ideas impact a region? (impact on new region as well as on original region, demographics)

Essential Understanding: Advances in technology may cause change.

Guiding Questions

• What motivates individuals to think of new ways to do things?
• How do inventions impact people?
• How do inventions impact the interaction between groups of people?
• How do technological advances impact economic and social systems?
• What are the positive and negative results of advances in technology?
• How do people’s ideas from the past impact the world today?
• How has technology changed the movement of people, goods, and ideas?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Perspectives of people; Movement of people

• Motivation for movement
• Positive and negative impacts of movement
• Pioneers’ experiences
• Natives’ experiences
• Technological advances (e.g. Transcontinental Railroad)

Major Events and People of Westward movement

• Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Thomas Jefferson & Louisiana Purchase
• Lewis and Clark
• Andrew Jackson

Economic change (inventions & entrepreneurship)

CONCEPTS

Perspective and Conflict

POWER STANDARDS

• Analyze political ideas and actions taken by significant individuals in the past to explain the impact on society.
• Explain the relationship among: economic choices, social lives, political systems, the environment.
• Describe the ways in which the movement of people affects families and communities.
• Describe the effects of significant inventions or technological innovations on society and the environment.
• Given specific information, create maps and/or graphs, utilizing key elements.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: An individual’s experiences influence his/her beliefs and values.

Guiding Questions

• How does geographical location influence beliefs and values?
• How does an individual’s experiences influence their beliefs and values?
• How does a person’s beliefs and values influence their actions?

Essential Understanding: Individuals’ roles and responsibilities evolve to meet challenges.

Guiding Questions

• What is the relationship between roles and responsibilities?
• How do challenges motivate people?
• How do social, political, and economic experiences influence decision making?

Essential Understanding: Differing political, social, and economic perspectives lead to conflict and/or cooperation.

Guiding Questions

• Why is it important to be aware of your own, and other people’s perspectives?
• How do people’s experiences help to shape their perspectives on political, social, and economic issues?
• How do differing perspectives impact decisions, events, or society as a whole?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Major events before, during, and after the Civil War

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Gettysburg Address
• Emancipation Proclamation

Important people (Perspectives and Contributions)

• Abolitionists
• Abraham Lincoln

Economics of the Era

• Slavery
• Indentured servants
• Cotton Gin
• Industry vs. Farming

Social Issues

• Roles and perspectives of different people
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Positive and negative influences of leadership

CONCEPTS

Perspective and Conflict

POWER STANDARDS

• Analyze political ideas and actions taken by significant individuals in the past to explain the impact on society.
• Explain the relationship among: economic choices, social lives, political systems, the environment.
• Describe the effects of significant inventions or technological innovations on society and the environment.
• Given specific information, create maps and/or graphs, utilizing key elements.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS & GUIDING QUESTIONS

Essential Understanding: Social and economic needs often lead to movement of groups of people.

Guiding Questions

• How do social needs encourage people to relocate?
• How do economic needs encourage people to relocate?
• If needs and wants of people are not met, what do they do?

Essential Understanding: The movement of people may have a positive or negative impact on people and the environment.

Guiding Questions

• How does the movement of people positively and negatively impact the environment?
• How does the movement of people positively and negatively impact other people?
• How does movement of people, goods, and ideas impact a region? (impact on new region as well as on original region, demographics)

Essential Understanding: Advances in technology may cause change.

Guiding Questions

• What motivates individuals to think of new ways to do things?
• How do inventions impact people?
• How do inventions impact the interaction between groups of people?
• How do technological advances impact economic and social systems?
• What are the positive and negative results of advances in technology?
• How do people’s ideas from the past impact the world today?
• How has technology changed the movement of people, goods, and ideas?

CRITICAL CONTENT

Leadership/Positive and negative influences of individuals

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Susan B. Anthony – Suffrage
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights
• Thomas Edison
• Henry Ford
• George Washington Carver
• John Deere
• Robert McCormick
• John Muir – Conservation

Technological advances

• Impact on economy
• Shifting jobs/Service industry
• Depression/Recession

Impact of government on people

• Democracy
• Dictatorship – Holocaust
• Conflict – war