Content Standard |
Lesson Title |
Resources |
8.1 |
How does the biography of an important figure like Benjamin Franklin help us to understand the philosophical principles on which the United States was founded? – UCI History Project |
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8.1 |
Why was diplomacy important for the success of the Americans in the Revolutionary war? – UCI History Project |
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8.1 |
How did Thomas Jefferson state in the Declaration of Independence that the colonies had the right to break away from King George III? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.1 |
How did the Patriots use propaganda to turn the killings on King Street in Boston on March 5, 1770 into the Boston Massacre? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.1 |
How can we use primary sources to better understand the American Revolution? – UCI History Project |
Primary Source Set |
8.1 |
What occurred during the Boston Massacre? – UCI History Project |
Lesson |
8.2 |
How did the Pilgrims use the Mayflower Compact to justify forming a new colony in North America? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.2 |
Why is a centralized government important for the founding of America? – UCI History Project |
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8.2 |
How did state constitutions define the rights of citizens? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
Lesson |
8.2 |
Why did the Antifederalists fail? – UCI History Project |
Primary Source Set |
8.3 |
How did the conflicts between Jefferson and Hamilton shape the politics of the nation? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
Lesson |
8.3 |
How and why do federal and state governments borrow money? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.3 |
Should the freedom of speech and the press ever be limited? – UCI History Project |
Lesson |
8.3 |
How much power should the federal government have and what should it do? – UCI History Project |
Primary Source Set |
8.3 |
How did the views of Hamilton & Jefferson differ on the issue of a National Bank? – UCI History Project |
Lesson |
8.3 |
How did Hamilton’s ideas about the American political system differ from and Jefferson’s ideas? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.4 |
How do Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper reflect and influence American writing and artists in the new republic? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.6 |
How and why was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.6 |
How did water power the early Industrial Revolution in the United States? What effect did industrialization have on American rivers? – UCI History Project |
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8.6 |
How did Americans and Native Americans respond to westward expansion?– UCI History Project |
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8.6 |
What was life like for Chinese Railroad Workers in the 1860s? |
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Remote Lesson |
8.7 |
How did slave resistance impact the southern plantation and economy? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.8 |
How were Native Americans affected by Jacksonian Democracy? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.8 |
How did the Gold Rush impact California’s population and economy? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.8 8.9 |
How did the land grant court cases of the 1840s and 1850s violate the Californios’ rights gained under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? |
Lesson |
8.9 |
How did members of the Antislavery movement differ in motivation and strategy? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.9 |
How did slavery contribute to the onset of the Civil War? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.9 |
How did John Brown affect the movement to abolish slavery? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.9 |
How did Americans’ movement to the West contribute to tension between the North and the South? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.11 |
How did the development of the cotton gin impact the economy of the agrarian south and lead to the increased dependency on slavery? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.11 |
How were the rights of African Americans, guaranteed by Congress in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, later restricted? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.12 |
How did the relationship between the federal government and the Sioux change as federal policies toward Plains Indians evolve? – UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project |
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8.12 |
Were Chinese Americans free in the West? |
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