Articles of Confederation Big Ideas   What issues divided the Continental Congress as it developed a plan for the national government?What were the...

Big Ideas

• What issues divided the Continental Congress as it developed a plan for the national government?
• What were the structure and powers of the national government under the Articles of Confederation?
• What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

People & Events to Know

• John Locke 
• Shay’s Rebellion

Terms to Know

• state of nature
• republic

• Articles of Confederation

Big Ideas

• How did the Great Compromise satisfy the concerns of the large and smaller states?
• How did the Constitutional Convention reach a compromise on the issue of slavery?
• What was the goal of the Federalists?
• Why did the Antifederalists oppose the Constitution?
• What goals are outlined in the Preamble to the Constitution?
• How is the national government organized?
• What are the three branches of government?  What is each branch in charge of doing?
• What is the significance of the Bill of Rights?
• What rights are protected by the Bill of Rights?    

People  and Events to Know

• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• George Washington

Terms to Know

• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• Great Compromise
• Three-fifths Compromise
• Congress
• ratification
• Federalism

• Federalism
• Antifederalists
• Bill of Rights
• amendment
• Preamble
• legislative Branch
• judicial Branch
• executive branch
• suffrage

• House of Representatives
• Senate
• popular sovereignty 
• federalism
• separation of powers
• checks and balances
• “rule of law”

Big Ideas

• What challenges did George Washington face as the first president of the United States?
• What economic problems did the new government face?
• What is the purpose of a tariff?  
• Why did Alexander Hamilton favor imposing high tariffs and creating a national bank?
• What are the two major ways of interpreting the Constitution, and how do they differ?
• Why did Federalists pass the Alien and Sedition Acts?
• What were the main parties in the election of 1800, and how did their views differ?

People  and Events to Know

• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• Creation of the national bank
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• Marbury v. Madison

Terms to Know

• Tariff
• National bank
• Alien and Sedition Acts 
• Political parties
• Democratic-Republicans
• Federalists (the political party)

Big Ideas

• How did the United States acquire the land in the west?
• What was the spoils system and how was it controversial?
• How did the Indian Removal Act affect Native Americans in the Southeast?
• How did the issue of tariffs divide the country?
• Why did nullification threaten the nation?
• Why did people move west?
• How did Texas become a state?
• How did Manifest Destiny impact westward migration?
• What areas did the United States gain as a result of Manifest Destiny?
• What goals did the Lewis and Clark expedition have?  What did it accomplish?
• What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812?
• What were the effects of the War of 1812? 
• How did the invention of the cotton gin change Southern life?
• How did economic differences lead to tensions between the North and South?
• What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

People  and Events to Know

• Thomas Jefferson
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lewis and Clark expedition 
• Sacagawea
• The War of 1812
• Missouri Compromise
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• Cherokee
• Texas Revolution
• Mexican-American War
• Mexican Cession
• California gold rush
• Forty-niners (49’ers) 

Terms to Know

• Louisiana Purchase
• Impressments
• War Hawk
• Cotton gin
• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Trail of Tears
• Jacksonian democracy

• Indian Removal Act
• Doctrine of nullification
• Secession
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Trail
• The Alamo
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Abolition