- Understand important features of the United States Constitution.
- Explain the contradictions in the stated ideals of the United States Constitution and the treatment and status of black people in this country.
Describe the concept of Federalism.
- Understand the formation of political parties in the United States.
- Understand the concept of judicial review.
October
- Know the major issues on which the Federalists and Republicans disagreed.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of Manifest Destiny and its influence on the Westward movement.
- Explain how the American economy changed between 1790-1876.
- Understand that the profits from the slave trade and the institution of slavery helped to lay the economic foundation of the young nation.
November
- Understand the issues ofsectionalism.
- Know the causes and effects of the Civil War.
- Describe the major roles played by free and enslaved blacks during the Civil War.
- Understand Amendments 13,14, and 15.
- Describe the era of Reconstruction and its significance in terms of segregation and discrimination of the Afro-American.
December
- Review the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Explain the political, economic, and social impact of the Industrial Revolution.
