SOCIAL STUDIES
Social Studies Grade Replacement Projects:
1. 13 Colonies Research Project- You will be given a colony to research and collect information about. You will need to answer specific questions about each colony and create a visual presentation.
2. Colony Advertisement- Suppose that someone asked you to help bring people to their colony. Create an advertisement in which you try to persuade people to settle in your colony. You can choose any colony you'd like.
3. Visit Here! Geographic Regions of North Carolina- You have recently been hired to work for NC's Travel & Tourism Department. Your job is to persuade people to visit one of our great state's four regions. To do this, your boss has instructed to to create a pamphlet on a particular region of North Carolina.
4. An Unsolved Crime: The Salem Witch Trials- You have been hired as a "Cold Case" detective to try and figure out exactly what happened over 300 years ago in Salem, MA. You will be given three sets of evidence that you will use, as well as your own research, to form a theory stating what you believe caused the village of Salem to kill 24 people for being "witches."
Grading:
All assignments are worth 100 points, grades are calculated by total number of points possible at the end of the quarter.
Unit Overviews:
Unit 1: Pre-Colonial North America: 4 regions of NC, 5 regions of U.S., location and geographic features of NC and U.S., migration & immigration to North America, European explorers to the New World, The Columbian Exchange, The Lost Colony
Unit 2: Colonial Era: climate, geography & natural resources of the colonies, economic hardships & social conflicts, colonial governing styles & religious beliefs, Jamestown settlement, NC immigrant groups
Unit 3: The American Revolution: economic & political conflicts that led to the Revolution (French & Indian War, British Acts), groups and individuals that influenced political & social change (NC's Regulators, Sons of Liberty), ideas of freedom, democracy & self-government in historical documents (Mecklenburg & Halifax Resolves, Second Continental Congress), Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War battles
Unit 4: U.S. Government & New Nations: Federal and State Constitutions, Articles of Confederation, Federalists/Anti-Federalists, U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights, U.S. & NC government structure (3 branches, checks & balances, election process, local, state & federal powers)
Unit 5: 19th Century: Westward Expansion: Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears, War of 1812, Lewis & Clark's expedition, Manifest Destiny, Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine
Unit 6: Civil War & a Divided Nation: government attempts to compromise on slavery (Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Missouri Compromise & Kansas-Nebraska Act), Abolitionist Movement, the South's dependence on slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Bleeding Kansas, election of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
Unit 7: Reconstruction: conclusion of the Civil War, rebuilding & reuniting after the Civil War, Amendments/Articles added to the U.S. Constitution (13th, 14th, & 15th), sharecropping, radicals & moderates, Freedman's Bureau, Black Codes
Unit 8: Industrialization & Immigration: "Five Men Who Built America" & the American Dream, entrepreneurs & their inventions, basic human rights & the organization of labor unions, socioeconomic & ethnic groups and their contribution to the development of the U.S. & NC, immigrant groups looking for land, work, education & religious freedom & how they contributed to the industry workforce and urbanization
Unit 9: World War I & the Roaring 20's: ideas of neutrality & isolationism that prevented the U.S. from joining the war at first, conflicts that caused the U.S. to enter the war, negotiations after the war, The Fourteen Points established by Woodrow Wilson
Unit 10: The Great Depression & the New Deal: causes of the Great Depression (Stock Market Crash of 1929), using "credit" for purchasing, conflicting ideas between Hoover & FDR, social, political & economic change with New Deal programs (FDIC, Social Security, Alphabet Soup), unemployment, Douglas MacArthur, the Manhattan Project
Unit 11: World War II: political ideologies of communism, fascism & democracy that led to war, WWII's impact on the economy, Axis & Allied Powers, Lend-Lease Act, attack on Pearl Harbor, rationing, Victory Gardens, war bonds, Torpedo Junction, Rosie the Riveter, Japanese internment camps, D-Day, Yalta & Potsdam conferences, Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombs
Unit 12: The Cold War: power struggle between the U.S. & Soviet Union, desire for economic & political stability after WWII, U.S.-initiated policies to protect non-communist nations against Joseph Stalin's attempt at communist expansion, nuclear weapons & space race, NATO, Domino Theory, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Warsaw Pact, Gulf of Tonkin, Berlin Airlift Blockade, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
Unit 13: Civil Rights: citizen groups taking various actions to take a stand against unfair practices (segregation, disenfranchisement, gender inequality, racism), Civil Rights organizations that emerged to lead actions (Freedom Riders, NAACP, Black Panthers, etc.), Civil Rights leaders (Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Tuskegee Airmen, etc.), Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Bloody Sunday, Watts Riots, Southern Manifesto, Rosa Parks/Bus Boycott, Little Rock Nine, March on Washington, Greensboro Sit-In
Unit 14: Modern America: the Nixon era & the Watergate Scandal, President Reagan & the Iran Hostage Crisis, Reaganomics, the Information Age, September 11th, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession
1. 13 Colonies Research Project- You will be given a colony to research and collect information about. You will need to answer specific questions about each colony and create a visual presentation.
2. Colony Advertisement- Suppose that someone asked you to help bring people to their colony. Create an advertisement in which you try to persuade people to settle in your colony. You can choose any colony you'd like.
3. Visit Here! Geographic Regions of North Carolina- You have recently been hired to work for NC's Travel & Tourism Department. Your job is to persuade people to visit one of our great state's four regions. To do this, your boss has instructed to to create a pamphlet on a particular region of North Carolina.
4. An Unsolved Crime: The Salem Witch Trials- You have been hired as a "Cold Case" detective to try and figure out exactly what happened over 300 years ago in Salem, MA. You will be given three sets of evidence that you will use, as well as your own research, to form a theory stating what you believe caused the village of Salem to kill 24 people for being "witches."
Grading:
All assignments are worth 100 points, grades are calculated by total number of points possible at the end of the quarter.
Unit Overviews:
Unit 1: Pre-Colonial North America: 4 regions of NC, 5 regions of U.S., location and geographic features of NC and U.S., migration & immigration to North America, European explorers to the New World, The Columbian Exchange, The Lost Colony
Unit 2: Colonial Era: climate, geography & natural resources of the colonies, economic hardships & social conflicts, colonial governing styles & religious beliefs, Jamestown settlement, NC immigrant groups
Unit 3: The American Revolution: economic & political conflicts that led to the Revolution (French & Indian War, British Acts), groups and individuals that influenced political & social change (NC's Regulators, Sons of Liberty), ideas of freedom, democracy & self-government in historical documents (Mecklenburg & Halifax Resolves, Second Continental Congress), Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War battles
Unit 4: U.S. Government & New Nations: Federal and State Constitutions, Articles of Confederation, Federalists/Anti-Federalists, U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights, U.S. & NC government structure (3 branches, checks & balances, election process, local, state & federal powers)
Unit 5: 19th Century: Westward Expansion: Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears, War of 1812, Lewis & Clark's expedition, Manifest Destiny, Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine
Unit 6: Civil War & a Divided Nation: government attempts to compromise on slavery (Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Missouri Compromise & Kansas-Nebraska Act), Abolitionist Movement, the South's dependence on slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Bleeding Kansas, election of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
Unit 7: Reconstruction: conclusion of the Civil War, rebuilding & reuniting after the Civil War, Amendments/Articles added to the U.S. Constitution (13th, 14th, & 15th), sharecropping, radicals & moderates, Freedman's Bureau, Black Codes
Unit 8: Industrialization & Immigration: "Five Men Who Built America" & the American Dream, entrepreneurs & their inventions, basic human rights & the organization of labor unions, socioeconomic & ethnic groups and their contribution to the development of the U.S. & NC, immigrant groups looking for land, work, education & religious freedom & how they contributed to the industry workforce and urbanization
Unit 9: World War I & the Roaring 20's: ideas of neutrality & isolationism that prevented the U.S. from joining the war at first, conflicts that caused the U.S. to enter the war, negotiations after the war, The Fourteen Points established by Woodrow Wilson
Unit 10: The Great Depression & the New Deal: causes of the Great Depression (Stock Market Crash of 1929), using "credit" for purchasing, conflicting ideas between Hoover & FDR, social, political & economic change with New Deal programs (FDIC, Social Security, Alphabet Soup), unemployment, Douglas MacArthur, the Manhattan Project
Unit 11: World War II: political ideologies of communism, fascism & democracy that led to war, WWII's impact on the economy, Axis & Allied Powers, Lend-Lease Act, attack on Pearl Harbor, rationing, Victory Gardens, war bonds, Torpedo Junction, Rosie the Riveter, Japanese internment camps, D-Day, Yalta & Potsdam conferences, Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombs
Unit 12: The Cold War: power struggle between the U.S. & Soviet Union, desire for economic & political stability after WWII, U.S.-initiated policies to protect non-communist nations against Joseph Stalin's attempt at communist expansion, nuclear weapons & space race, NATO, Domino Theory, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Warsaw Pact, Gulf of Tonkin, Berlin Airlift Blockade, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
Unit 13: Civil Rights: citizen groups taking various actions to take a stand against unfair practices (segregation, disenfranchisement, gender inequality, racism), Civil Rights organizations that emerged to lead actions (Freedom Riders, NAACP, Black Panthers, etc.), Civil Rights leaders (Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Tuskegee Airmen, etc.), Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Bloody Sunday, Watts Riots, Southern Manifesto, Rosa Parks/Bus Boycott, Little Rock Nine, March on Washington, Greensboro Sit-In
Unit 14: Modern America: the Nixon era & the Watergate Scandal, President Reagan & the Iran Hostage Crisis, Reaganomics, the Information Age, September 11th, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession