Unit 1: Foundations of America

Unit One

Foundations of America

(1700s-1870s)

Objectives:

To summarize the key conflicts at the Constitutional Convention and explain how they were resolved through compromise
To understand how and why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution
To explain how the spiritual awakening of the early 19^th century inspired the reform movement (abolition, women’s suffrage)
To clarify the key causes and major events leading to the Civil War

Slavery, federal v. state power, northern v. southern economies, territorial expansion, Dred Scott decision

To describe the obstacles African Americans faced from slavery through Reconstruction
To understand why Reconstruction and the efforts to rebuild Southern society after the Civil War ultimately collapsed

Terms/Vocabulary:

· Enlightenment

· Benjamin Franklin

· Great Awakening

· Abraham Lincoln

· Emancipation Proclamation

· Gettysburg Address

· Thomas Jefferson

· Declaration of Independence

· Ulysses S. Grant

· William T. Sherman

· James Madison

· Federalists/ Antifederalists

· Marbury v. Madison

· secession

· Jefferson Davis

· Robert E. Lee

· Bill of Rights

· James K. Polk

· Thirteenth Amendment

· Reconstruction

· manifest destiny

· scalawags

· Second Great Awakening

· carpetbaggers

· Seneca Falls convention

· Elizabeth Cady Stanton

· sharecroppers

· Ku Klux Klan

· Dred Scott

· Frederick Douglass

· Fourteenth Amendment

· Fifteenth Amendment

· abolitionist

· Underground Railroad

· Harriet Tubman