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11.1 Teacher Tests Period Assessments (Optional)
Brochure (Revolutionary Issues i.e. Stamp Act etc.) Placards Civil War Diary Civil War Essay
11.1 Students analyze the significant events in
the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
- Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation
was founded.
- Analyze the ideological
origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers' philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights,
the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.
- Understand the history of the Constitution
after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization.
- Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and
of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United
States as a world power.
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