The History Project - University of California, Davis
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8.1 - 1.0073 the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor
8.1 - 2.0094 the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key phrases such as "
8.1 - 3.00100 the significance of the American Revolution as it affected other nations especially France
8.1 - 4.0071 its blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary traditions
8.10 - 1.0011 the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesman such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun
8.10 - 2.0024 the boundaries constituting "the North" and "the South", the geographical differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists
8.10 - 3.008 the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine
8.10 - 4.0025 Abraham Lincoln's presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence such as his "House Divided" speech (1858), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), his inaugural
8.10 - 5.0020 the views and lives of leaders and soldiers on both sides of the war, including black soldiers and regiments (e.g., biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee)
8.10 - 6.0020 critical developments in the war, including the major battles, geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox
8.10 - 7.0042 how the war affected combatants, with the largest death toll of any war in American history, and the physical devastation, the effect on civilians, and the effect on future warfare
8.11 - 1.0018 the original aims of Reconstruction and the effects on the political and social structure of different regions
8.11 - 2.0018 the push-pull factors in the movement of former slaves to the cities in the North and to the West, and their differing experiences in those regions (e.g. the experiences of Buffalo Soldiers)
8.11 - 3.0046 the effects of the Freedman’s Bureau and the restrictions on the rights and opportunities of freedman, including racial segregation and "Jim Crow" laws
8.11 - 4.007 the rise and effects of the Ku Klux Klan
8.11 - 5.005 the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, and their connection to Reconstruction
8.12 - 1.00163 patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, natural resource use, markets, and trade, including their location on a map
8.12 - 2.00134 the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the Plains wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization
8.12 - 3.0062 how states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies
8.12 - 4.00358 entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford)
8.12 - 5.00324 the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, and the conservation movement)
8.12 - 6.00193 child labor, working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward big business and the leaders of (e.g., Samuel Gompers) and the rise of the labor movement, including collective bargaining, strikes, and protests over labor conditions
8.12 - 7.00139 the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contribution of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural d
8.12 - 8.0026 the characteristics and impact of Grangerism and Populism
8.12 - 9.0046 the significant inventors and their inventions (e.g., biographies of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright) and the incentives that prompted the quality of life (e.g., inventions in transportation, communication, agriculture, in
8.2 - 1.00109 the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact
8.2 - 2.002 the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, and the success of each in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence
8.2 - 3.008 the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions on areas such as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states (later addressed by the
8.2 - 4.0013 the political philosophy underpinning the U.S. Constitution as specified in The Federalist (authored by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay) and the role of such leaders as James Madison, George Washington, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, a
8.2 - 5.0013 the significance of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom as a forerunner of the First Amendment, and the origins, purpose and differing views of the founding fathers on the issue of the separation of church and state
8.2 - 6.002 the powers of government enumerated in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights
8.2 - 7.007 the principles of federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, the nature and purpose of majority rule, and how the American idea of constitutionalism preserves individual rights
8.3 - 1.005 the principles and concepts codified in the state constitutions between 1777 and 1781 that create the context out of which American political institutions and ideas developed
8.3 - 2.003 how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships and states
8.3 - 3.000 the advantages of a "common market" among the states as foreseen and protected by the Constitution’s clauses on interstate commerce, common coinage, and full-faith and credit
8.3 - 4.002 the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton that resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt
8.3 - 5.001 the significance of domestic resistance movements and ways in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays’ Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion)
8.3 - 6.0011 the basic law-making process and how the design of the U.S. Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interes
8.3 - 7.006 the function and responsibilities of a free press
8.4 - 1.00100 its physical landscapes and political divisions and the territorial expansion of the U.S. during the terms of the first four presidents
8.4 - 2.009 the policy significance of famous speeches (e.g., George Washington’s Farewell Address, Jefferson’s Inaugural, John Q
8.4 - 3.0047 the rise of capitalism and the economic problems and conflicts that arose (e.g., Jackson’s opposition to the National Bank; early decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that reinforced the sanctity of contracts and a capitalist economic system of law)
8.4 - 4.00580 the daily lives of people, including the traditions in art, music, and literature of early national America (e.g., writings by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper)
8.5 - 1.0029 the political and economic causes and consequences of the War of 1812 and the major battles, leaders, and events leading to a final peace
8.5 - 2.0023 the changing boundaries and the principal relationships between the United States, its neighbors (current Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and how those relationships influenced westward expansion and the Mex
8.5 - 3.0021 the major treaties with Indian nations during the administrations of the first four presidents and their varying outcomes
8.6 - 1.00268 the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction)
8.6 - 2.0071 the physical obstacles to, and the economic and political factors in (e.g., Henry Clay’s American System), building a network of roads, canals and railroads
8.6 - 3.0086 the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the U.S. and growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine)
8.6 - 4.0010 the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance black rights and communities
8.6 - 5.00118 the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the role of religious and private schools, Horace Mann's campaign for free public education, and its assimilating role in American culture
8.6 - 6.00211 the women's suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Susan B
8.6 - 7.00113 common themes in American art as well as Transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writings about and by Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Alcott, Hawthorne, Longfellow)
8.7 - 1.0035 the development of the agrarian economy in the South, the location of the cotton producing states and the role of cotton and the cotton gin
8.7 - 2.00225 the origins and development of the institution of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and the various attempted strategies to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., b
8.7 - 3.0041 the different characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War
8.7 - 4.008 the lives and opportunities of free-blacks in the North as compared with free-blacks in the South
8.8 - 1.0035 the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy and his actions as president (e.g., spoils system, veto of National bank, policy of Indian removal, opposition to Supreme court)
8.8 - 2.0089 the purpose, challenges and economic incentives associated with westward expansion including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., Lewis and Clark expedition, accounts of the removal of Indians and the Cherokees’ "Trail of Tears," settlement of the Grea
8.8 - 3.0014 the role of pioneer women and the new status that western women achieved (e.g., biographies, journals, diaries and other original documents on Laura Ingalls Wilder, Annie Bidwell, slave women gaining freedom in the West, Wyoming granting suffrage to wome
8.8 - 4.0049 the role of the great rivers and the struggle over water rights
8.8 - 5.0055 Mexican settlements (i.e., their locations, cultural traditions, attitudes toward slavery, land-grant system, the economies they established)
8.8 - 6.0052 the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War (i.e., territorial settlements, the aftermath of the wars and the effect on the lives of Americans, including Mexican-Americans today)
8.9 - 1.0077 the leaders of the movement (e.g., biographies and other literature on John Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment, John Brown and the armed resistance, Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Weld, Willia
8.9 - 2.000 how early state constitutions abolished slavery
8.9 - 3.000 the role of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in banning slavery in new states north of the Ohio River
8.9 - 4.002 the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and the effect of California coming into the union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850
8.9 - 5.0011 the significance of the States' Rights Doctrine, Missouri Compromise (1820), Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1
8.9 - 6.0010 the lives of free blacks and the laws that curbed their freedom and economic opportunity

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