Sunday, March 29, 2015

Week of March 30-April 1, 2015

Monday-Review Westward Expansion 
Begin: Age of Reform 
Tuesday-Reading STAAR
Wednesday-Continue with Age of Reform 
2nd Great Awakening 
Temperance movement 
Education Reform
Prison Reform
Thursday-Abolotionist Movement 
Women's Rights Movement Review 
Friday-Exam introduce causes of Civil War a.k.a the breakup 

Monday, March 23, 2015

Week of March 23-27,2015

8th Grade U.S. History
The Age of Jackson

-Election of 1824
-6th President John Q. Adams
  **Corrupt Bargain** 
       -Henry Clay
-Election of 1828
-7th President Andrew Jackson
 *democracy expands
 *Spoils System
 *Nullification Crisis
  -John C. Calhoun 
  -Tariff of 1828
 *Indian Removal Act 
 *Worcester vs. Georgia
 **Trail of Tears**
 *Jackson Vetoes 2nd Bank of the U.S.

Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny
Roots of Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk- 3 promises
Texas Annexation
Oregon Treaty
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Week of March 16-20, 2015

Industrial Revolution
-free enterprise
-cottage industry
**Efficient Production**
-factorization 
-urbanization 
-Samuel Slater
-Slater's Mill
-Lowell's Mill
-Interchangeable Parts
  Eli Whitney
-Steam Powered Engine 
-Inventions in Agriculture 
   •cotton gin 
   •mechanical reaper 
   •steel plow 
Developments in transportation 
-steamboat 
-Erie canal 
-railroad 
-national road 
Communications 
-the telegraph