Desired Results
Conceptual Lens: Change and Challenges
Established Goals:
Competency Goal 2: Expansion and reform (1801-1850) The learner will assess the
competing forces of expansionism
2.01: Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the
union 1801-1850
2.02: Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art,
literature, and language
2.03: Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and
nationalism
2.04: Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and
nationalism
2.05: Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06: Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social movements
and issues
Understandings:
Students will understand that . ..
 The affects of territorial expansion
led to the admission of new states
from 1801 to 1850.
 The growth of nationalism and the
rise of sectionalism were reflected
in art, literature and the language
of the period.
 Technological innovations and
economic issues led to the rise of
sectionalism.
 The political events, issues and
personalities that contributed to the
struggle to maintain a balance of
power in congress.
 The major reform movements and
the role of religion in the debate
over slavery.
Essential Questions:
 What were the conflicts
consequences of westward
expansion?
 How did the transcendentalist
movement contribute to nationalism
in America?
 To what extent innovations in
technology in the early 1800s
contribute to the rise of
sectionalism in America?
 What role did conflicting political
agendas play in the struggle to
maintain the balance of power in
congress?
 To what extent did religion play a
role in the social reform movement
of the antebellum period?
Students will know . . .
Students will be able to . . .
The following terms and concepts:
2.01 Concepts
 The rationale for and the
consequences of Manifest Destiny

Federal Indian policy before The
Civil War

The political and economic
importance of the West
Terms
Missouri Compromise
The Indian Removal Act 1830
Sequoyah
Worchester v. Georgia, 1832
Trail of Tears
White man suffrage
The Alamo
Election of 1844
Texas Annexation
“54-40 or Fight!”
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
49ers
Stephen Austin
Gadsden Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Oregon Trail
2.02 Concepts
 Cultural expressions of patriotism

Celebrating the common man and
the American way of life

Influence of the Transcendentalist
Movement
Terms
Noah Webster
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
2.01
 Analyze how manifest destiny
motivated westward expansion and
the opening of the west.
 Assess the validity of the following
statement: American Indians
presented a barrier to westward
expansion that required military
actions and political decisions.
 Identify and label a map of the new
territories.
 Determine how the addition of new
territories influenced economic and
political change in the U.S.
 Identify how the Texas war for
independence and subsequent
annexation by the U.S. led to the
war with Mexico.
 Relate to the plight of migrants
moving west.
2.02
 Explain transcendentalism and
provide examples of two authors.
 Assess Noah Webster’s impact on
literacy.
 Characterize the artistic movement
known as the Hudson River School.
2.03
 Identify how each of the following
affected life in the early nation,
cotton gin/telegraph/steel
plow/mechanical reaper.
 Assess the role nativism played in
the
2.04
 Analyze how the expansion of
democracy in the first half of the
19th century contributed to the rise
of the common man.
 Identify the goals of Henry Clay’s
American System.
 Discuss and chart the importance of
Andrew Jackson’s administration.
 Identify the slave resistance
movement.
2.05
Neoclassical Architecture
Washington Irving
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Fennimore Cooper
Hudson River School of Artists
Alex de Tocqueville
2.03 Concepts
 Transformation of life in the early
industrial revolution

Cultural polarization of Antebellum
America
Terms
Samuel Morse
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Cotton Kingdom
1st Industrial Revolution
Nativism
Know-Nothings
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
2.04 Concepts
 Political agendas of antebellum
leaders

Concepts of “Jacksonian
Democracy”

Slave Revolts

States’ Rights

Era of Good Feelings
 Complete a chart detailing leaders
of the reform movement and their
contributions.
 Compare and contrast the success
of the different reforms of the
period.
 Identity the goals of the early
women’s movement and the impact
of the Seneca Falls Convention.
 Define the term utopia and identify
two successful utopian
communities.
2.06
 Discuss the impact of religion
(Second Great Awakening) on the
abolition movement.
 List the various ways abolitionist
tried to end slavery.
Terms
Henry Clay
American System
Panic of 1819
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
Election of 1824
“corrupt bargain”
suffrage
spoils system
Tariff of Abomination
South Carolina Nullification Crisis
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Election of 1832
Pet Banks
Whig Party
Election of 1840
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Monroe Doctrine
2.05 Concepts
 Women’s Rights

Temperance Movement

Improvement of social institutions
(prisons, mental health, education)

Development of Utopian
Communities
Terms
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Convention
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Utopian Communities
• Brook Farm
Oneida
New Harmony
Rehabilitation
Prison Reform
2.06 Concepts
 Second Great Awakening

Moral Dilemma of Slavery
 The Abolitionist Movement
Terms
William Lloyd Garrison
Grimke Sisters
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
Charles G. Finney
Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
Other Evidence:
Students will color code a map of
Brainstorming activity to assess prior
expansion.
knowledge
Students will complete a Rap/Poem of
reformers and transcendentalists.
Successful completion of review guide and
Students will complete a chart of reformers graphic organizer.
and transcendentalists
Students will construct a chart of
Multiple choice test
innovations and their impact.
Draw a political cartoon to illustrate an
event, conflict, reform movement or
personality discussed in the unit.
Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
Day 1
a. Brain storming activity- to assess prior knowledge (War of 1812)
b. Introduce visual – Manifest Destiny (art) and discuss
c. Handout- Vocabulary and goal outline
d. Teacher Notes on the Texas War and Mexican War
e. Handout- Map of Westward Expansion
Day 2
a. Review causes of Mexican War
b. Teacher notes on the American System and rise of Nativism
c. Handout-American System
d. Students will read text and complete a chart of Industrial Innovations
e. Introduce Andrew Jackson
Day 3
a.
b.
c.
d.
Review industrial innovations
Handout-Reading Guide on Jackson
Teacher Notes on Jackson
Handout- Graphic Organizer of Jackson
Day 4
a. Trail of Tears (art)
b. Handout-I Am Poem
c. Video-Jackson
Day 5
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d.
Day 6
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b.
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d.
Review the contributions of
Introduce Transcendentalism
Handout-Chart Reformers
Handout- Reformer Raps: Assign groups- Each create a Rap/poem that reflect the
ideas of the Reformer/Reform Movement assigned.
Allow time to present Raps
Teacher notes-Contribution of the Second Great Awakening
Discuss impact on Abolitionist Movement and the Rise of Slave Resistance
Video- Schlessinger – Expansion with viewing guide
Day 7
a. Teacher led review
b. Test on Expansion and Reform
c. Students will draw a political cartoon describing an event, conflict, reform
movement or personality discussed in the unit.
Needed Resources:
 Overhead projector
 Media projector and VCR/DVD
 Schlessinger Video – Expansion with Study Guide
 A & E Biography of Andrew Jackson
 Graphic Organizer on Jackson
 Manifest Destiny (Artwork)
 Trail of Tears (Artwork)
 Map of Manifest Destiny
 Trail of Tears (Story)
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“I Am” poem
Chart of Reformers (importance and contribution)
Samples of Hudson River School Artists
Excerpts from Irving and/or Cooper, Thoreau and Emerson
Reading Guide for Goal 2
Outline of American System
The Star Spangled Banner