MJ US History OP 11

Organizing Principle 11: From 1815-1855, changes in the makeup of American society led to April – 1 week - by April 18th
reformers attempting to improve living conditions for all populations.

Measurement Topics Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Academic Language
SS.8.E.2.1
Analyze contributions of entrepreneurs, inventors, and other key revival
individuals from various gender, social, and ethnic backgrounds in the SS.8.G.2.2 utopia
development of the United States economy. Temperance
Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of regional SS.8.A.4.8 transcendentalism
issues in different parts of the United States that have had critical normal school
economic, physical, or political ramifications. civil disobedience
Describe the influence of individuals on social and political abolitionist
developments of this era in American History. suffrage
coeducation
• Examples: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William ministry
Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Horace Mann, Dorothea
Dix, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.

Analyze the causes, course and consequences of the Second Great SS.8.A.4.9
Awakening on social reform movements.
Reform Movements
in the US • Compare and contrast the motivations and goals of various
individuals involved in the movement.

• Examples: abolition, women’s rights, temperance, education,
prison and mental health reform, Charles Grandison Finney,
the Beecher family.

Examine the aspects of slave culture including plantation life, SS.8.A.4.11
resistance efforts, and the role of the slaves' spiritual system. SS.8.A.4.14
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the women's
suffrage movement (1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of
Sentiments).

• Examine the Declaration of Sentiments and its significance.
• Compare the lives of women before the women’s suffrage

movement with the lives of women living in the United States
today, identifying key differences.
• Understand the chronology of the women’s suffrage
movement.

• Explain how the 15th Amendment served as a precursor to the
women’s suffrage movement.

Analyze the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict. SS.8.A.5.2
• Describe the difference in how Southern whites and
Northerners viewed slavery. SS.8.C.1.4
• Evaluate the impact of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Students SS.8.C.1.6
will identify and describe the key individuals and goals of the SS.8.A.4.15
abolitionist movement.
• Examples: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Black Codes, Missouri
Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas
Debates, raid on Harper’s Ferry, Underground Railroad,
Presidential Election of 1860, Southern secession.

Identify the evolving forms of civic and political participation from the
colonial period through Reconstruction.
Evaluate how amendments to the Constitution have expanded voting
rights from our nation's early history to present day.
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of literature
movements (Transcendentalism) significant to this era of American
history.

• Describe the societal influences that led to the development of
Transcendentalism.

• Identify two major figures in the Transcendentalism
movement and describe their contributions.

• Examples: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John
Muir, Margaret Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott, Students will
compare Transcendentalism with the Founding Fathers’ ideas
about freedom, identifying similarities and differences.