Alabama

Map skills

• 1 Locate on a map physical features that impacted the exploration and settlement of the Americas, including ocean currents, prevailing winds, large forests, major rivers, and significant mountain ranges.

  • Locating on a map states and capitals east of the Mississippi River

    • Identify states of the Southeast (5-C.7)
    • Select states of the Southeast (5-C.8)
    • Name states of the Southeast (5-C.9)
    • Identify states of the Northeast (5-C.10)
    • Select states of the Northeast (5-C.11)
    • Name states of the Northeast (5-C.12)
    • Identify the 50 states (5-C.13)
    • Select the 50 states (5-C.14)
    • Name the 50 states (5-C.15)
    • Identify state capitals of the Southeast (5-D.5)
    • Name state capitals of the Southeast (5-D.6)
    • Identify state capitals of the Northeast (5-D.7)
    • Name state capitals of the Northeast (5-D.8)
    • Identify the 50 state capitals (5-D.9)
    • Name the 50 state capitals (5-D.10)

  • Identifying natural harbors in North America

Early settlement of North America

• 2 Identify causes and effects of early migration and settlement of North America.

  • Jamestown: the early years (5-F.1)
  • Jamestown: growth of a colony (5-F.2)
  • Plymouth (5-F.3)

• 3 Distinguish differences among major American Indian cultures in North America according to geographic region, natural resources, community organization, economy, and belief systems.

  • Locating on a map American Indian nations according to geographic region

• 4 Determine the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.

  • Identifying significant early European patrons, explorers, and their countries of origin, including early settlements in the New World

    • Portuguese and Spanish expeditions: part I (6-Q.2)
    • Portuguese and Spanish expeditions: part II (6-Q.3)
    • French and English expeditions: part I (6-Q.4)
    • French and English expeditions: part II (6-Q.5)

  • Tracing the development and impact of the Columbian Exchange

    • The Columbian Exchange (6-Q.6)

• 5 Explain the early colonization of North America and reasons for settlement in the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies, including geographic features, landforms, and differences in climate among the colonies.

  • Recognizing how colonial development was influenced by the desire for religious freedom

    • Plymouth (5-F.3)
    • New England colonies: religion and government (5-F.4)

  • Identifying influential leaders in colonial society

    • Jamestown: the early years (5-F.1)
    • Jamestown: growth of a colony (5-F.2)
    • Plymouth (5-F.3)
    • New England colonies: religion and government (5-F.4)
    • New England colonies: economy and conflict (5-F.5)
    • Middle colonies: founding and government (5-F.6)
    • Middle colonies: economy and society (5-F.7)
    • Southern colonies: founding and government (5-F.8)
    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)

  • Describing emerging colonial government

    • New England colonies: religion and government (5-F.4)
    • Middle colonies: founding and government (5-F.6)
    • Southern colonies: founding and government (5-F.8)

• 6 Describe colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas.

  • Recognizing centers of slave trade in the Western Hemisphere and the establishment of the Triangular Trade Route

    • Southern colonies: economy and slavery (5-F.9)

The American Revolution

• 7 Determine causes and events leading to the American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party.

  • The American Revolution: the Thirteen Colonies under British rule (5-G.1)
  • The American Revolution: New British taxes (5-G.2)
  • The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)

• 8 Identify major events of the American Revolution, including the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown.

  • Describing principles contained in the Declaration of Independence

    • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
    • The Enlightenment: influences on government (6-O.6)

  • Explaining contributions of Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Haym Solomon, and supporters from other countries to the American Revolution

    • Paul Revere (3-D.2)
    • Thomas Jefferson (3-D.3)
    • The American Revolution: New British taxes (5-G.2)
    • The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)
    • The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
    • The American Revolution: preparing for war (5-G.5)
    • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
    • The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (5-G.7)
    • The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)

  • Explaining contributions of ordinary citizens, including African Americans and women, to the American Revolution

    • The American Revolution: New British taxes (5-G.2)
    • The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)
    • The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
    • The American Revolution: preparing for war (5-G.5)
    • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
    • The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (5-G.7)
    • The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)

  • Describing efforts to mobilize support for the American Revolution by the Minutemen, Committees of Correspondence, First Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, boycotts, and the Second Continental Congress

    • The American Revolution: the Boston Tea Party (5-G.3)
    • The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
    • The American Revolution: preparing for war (5-G.5)
    • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)

  • Locating on a map major battle sites of the American Revolution, including the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown

    • The American Revolution: the rebellion begins (5-G.4)
    • The American Revolution: struggle for independence (5-G.6)
    • The American Revolution: turning the tide of the war (5-G.7)
    • The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)

  • Recognizing reasons for colonial victory in the American Revolution

    • The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)

  • Explaining the effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 on the development of the United States

    • The American Revolution: conclusion and aftermath (5-G.8)

The Early Republic

• 9 Explain how inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation led to the creation and eventual ratification of the Constitution of the United States.

  • Describing major ideas, concepts, and limitations of the Constitution of the United States, including duties and powers of the three branches of government

    • Federal government (5-K.3)
    • The Constitution (5-K.4)
    • Checks and balances (5-K.6)
    • The Enlightenment: influences on government (6-O.6)

  • Identifying factions in favor of and opposed to ratification of the Constitution of the United States

  • Identifying main principles in the Bill of Rights

    • The Bill of Rights (5-K.5)

  • Analyzing the election of George Washington as President of the United States for its impact on the role of president in a republic

• 10 Describe political, social, and economic events between 1803 and 1860 that led to the expansion of the territory of the United States, including the War of 1812, the Indian Removal Act, the Texas-Mexican War, the Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush of 1849.

  • Analyzing the role of the Louisiana Purchase and explorations of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark for their impact on Westward Expansion

    • The Louisiana Purchase (5-H.1)
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (5-H.2)

  • Explaining the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine

  • Identifying Alabama's role in the expansion movement in the United States, including the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Trail of Tears

  • Identifying the impact of technological developments on United States' expansion

The Civil War and Reconstruction

• 11 Identify causes of the Civil War, including states' rights and the issue of slavery.

  • Describing the importance of the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's insurrection, the Compromise of 1850, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's rebellion, and the election of 1860

    • Frederick Douglass (3-D.7)
    • Antebellum Period: abolitionist and proslavery perspectives (5-H.6)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part I (5-H.7)
    • Antebellum Period: slavery and politics part II (5-H.8)
    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)

  • Recognizing key Northern and Southern personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Joseph Wheeler

    • Abraham Lincoln (3-D.6)
    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-I.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-I.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)
    • Source analysis: the Gettysburg Address (6-JJ.6)

  • Describing social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-I.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-I.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)
    • Source analysis: the Gettysburg Address (6-JJ.6)

  • Identifying Alabama's role in the Civil War

  • Locating on a map sites important to the Civil War

    • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (5-I.1)
    • The Civil War: the First Battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg (5-I.2)
    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-I.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)

  • Explaining events that led to the conclusion of the Civil War

    • The Civil War: war tactics and the home front (5-I.3)
    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)

• 12 Summarize successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.

  • Evaluating the extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

    • The Civil War: the end of the war (5-I.4)
    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

  • Analyzing the impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States

    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

  • Explaining the black codes and the Jim Crow laws

    • Thurgood Marshall (3-D.15)
    • Rosa Parks (3-D.16)
    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

  • Describing post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping

    • Reconstruction (5-I.5)

Expansion prior to World War I

• 13 Describe social and economic influences on United States' expansion prior to World War I.

  • Explaining how the development of transcontinental railroads helped the United States achieve its Manifest Destiny

  • Locating on a map states, capitals, and important geographic features west of the Mississippi River

    • Identify states of the West (5-C.1)
    • Select states of the West (5-C.2)
    • Name states of the West (5-C.3)
    • Identify states of the Midwest (5-C.4)
    • Select states of the Midwest (5-C.5)
    • Name states of the Midwest (5-C.6)
    • Identify state capitals of the West (5-D.1)
    • Name state capitals of the West (5-D.2)
    • Identify state capitals of the Midwest (5-D.3)
    • Name state capitals of the Midwest (5-D.4)
    • Identify the 50 state capitals (5-D.9)
    • Name the 50 state capitals (5-D.10)
    • Cities of the West (5-E.1)
    • Cities of the Midwest (5-E.2)

  • Explaining how the United States acquired Alaska and Hawaii

  • Identifying major groups and individuals involved with the Westward Expansion, including farmers, ranchers, Jewish merchants, Mormons, and Hispanics

  • Analyzing the impact of closing the frontier on American Indians' way of life

    • Sitting Bull (3-D.10)

  • Explaining how the Spanish-American War led to the emergence of the United States as a world power