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Westward Expansion Day 4

EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Game Day:

• Oregon Trail Game

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Westward Expansion

 EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Engage:

• Oregon Trail Game
• Vocabulary

1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. Manifest Destiny
3. forty-niners
4. prospect
5. empresario
6. merchant,
7. Gadsden Purchase
8. abolition
9. subsistence farming
10. Santa Fe Trail
11. California Gold Rush
12. Oregon Territory
13. Mormons
14. Oregon Trail
15. Donner Party

Explore:

•  Manifest Destiny
• The Oregon Country
• The Republic of Texas
• The Mexican American War
• The Southwest
• Trailblazers

Explain:

• What was Manifest Destiny?
• How did the US acquire the Oregon Territory?
• How did the US acquire Texas?
• What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
• How did the US gain control of the Southwest?
• Who were some of the famous explorers of the western US?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 1

 

EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

•  Geography Now: Russian Republics (15:48)

Explore:

•  A Land of Diversity
• Soviet Russia
• A Crossroad of Culture

Explain:

•  How did Russia's diverse population develop?
• How did the Soviet Union impact life in Russia?
• What influences shape modern Asia?

Evaluate:

Worksheet

Vocabulary: 

1. architecture
2. Tatars
3. Slavic peoples
4. mosque
5. colonization
6. Rus
7. Mongols
8. Arab Empire
9. caravan
10. steppe
11. glasnost
12. capitalism
13. assembly
14. autocracy
15. authoritarian

Russian Empire

                             

EQ: Why did the Russian Empire Fail?

Engage:

•  Review last lesson

Explore:

•  Engineering an Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire (44:52) HistoryVault

Explain:

• What was the nickname of Ivan III?
• When was Moscow founded?
• What empire did Russia borrow religion and architecture from?
• Who ruled over the Russians for three centuries until they were defeated by Ivan III?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

Challenges of Expansion

 

EQ: Did the benefits of expansion outweigh the costs?

Engage:

• Following the Frontier Line Interactive Map
•  Westward Expansion and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (2:39)

Explore:

•  Settling the Northwest
• The Union Grows
• New States in the Southeast
• Native American Resistance
• A System to Unify America
• A National Transportation System
• The American System

Explain:

• How did the Northwest Ordinance aid the expansion of the United States?
• Which Northern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• Which Southern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• How did Native Americans react to the early expansion?
• What was the American System?
• How did transportation improve?
• What economic measures supported the American System?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet
• Vocabulary

1. Land Ordinance of 1785
2.  Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
3. Erie Canal
4. market revolution
5.  Gibbons v. Ogden
6. National Road
7. Adams-Onís Treaty  
8. pioneer 
9. McCulloch v. Maryland, 
10. Tariff of 1816 
11. meridian 
12. Treaty of Ghent

Geography of Russia

  

EQ:

• How does geography effect life in Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

• Geography Now Russia (32:54)

Explore:

• Physical Features
• Political Map
• Climate
• Vegetation and Biomes

Explain:

• What are the major physical features of Russia and Central Asia?
• What countries make up Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the climate like in Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the natural vegetation like in Russia and Central Asia?

Evaluate:

• Map of Russia Checklist

European Union

  

EQ:

•  What is the European Union?

Engage:

•  The United Kingdom is Leaving the European Union (2:07) 
• Post-Brexit (2:58) March 2021

Explore:

• Europe: From World War 2 to the European Union (23:57) 2014
• European Union Map
• Joining the EU 
• Making Decisions for Many Countries

Explain

• What is the EU?
• What countries belong to the EU?
• How has the EU addressed political and economic challenges?
• Vocabulary: Use this link to go to Discovery Education for the words.

1. taxes
2. debt
3. federation
4. feudalism
5. imperialism
6. supply and demand
7. command economy
8. parliament
9. constitutional monarchy
10. free trade
11. commerce
12. division of labor

 

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary
• EU Timeline

Rick Steves Eastern Europe

 

EQ: What are some of the countries in Eastern Europe?

Explore:

• Rick Steves Poland, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria

Explain:

• What are some of the cities RS visits in Eastern Europe
• What important sites does RS visit?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves' Worksheet

Age of Jefferson Day 6

 

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

• Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean Digging for the Truth History Vault

Explain:

• Who are the Barbary Pirates
• What problems did they cause to the US?
• How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

• Class Discussion

War of 1812

  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#/media/File:War_of_1812_Montage.jpg

EQ:

• What was the impact of the War of 1812 on early history of the United States?

Engage:

• 'The Impressment' picture. What is going on in this picture? What clues do you find?

Explore:

• Great Britain Angers the US
• Tecumseh and His Confederacy
• A Second War for Independence Begins
• War on Land and Sea
• An Era of Pride and Good Feelings
• The War of 1812 PBS (1:53:00)

Explain:

• What caused tensions between the US and Great Britain?
• What caused tensions between the US and Native Americans?
• What finally started the War of 1812?
• What were the major battles of the War of 1812?
• What were the results of the War of 1812?

Evaluate:

• Assessment in Lesson Book
• War of 1812 Scavenger Hunt
• Answer Key
• Map

Government and Geography of Europe

 

 EQ: What role do government and economic systems play in the lives of Europeans?

Engage:

• A Dividing Wall Comes Down

Explore:

• Rick Steves' Berlin (25:04)
• Postwar Europe
• Free Market VS Command Economy (2:33)
• The Beginning of the Cold War (11:05)
• The Marshall Plan (2:35)
• The Fall of USSR
• The Break up of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
• Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Serbia (4:00)

Explain:

• How did Europe change after the end of World War 2?
• What brought about the fall of the Soviet Union?
• How did ethnic tensions contribute to political change in Eastern Europe?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves' Worksheet