2016-2017
Social Studies Pacing Guide
Scope and Sequence for the 8th Grade
Colonial Era thru WWI
Created by Mr. Aurelio Cortez
www.cortezhistory.com
2016-2017 Social Studies Pacing Guide
Mr. Cortez
www.cortezhistory.com
SEMESTER 1
Week 1 – Administrative Duties
- Class rules, expectations, etc.
- Team Building
Week 2 – Review (7.6.5; 7.11.1; 7.11.2; 7.11.3; 7.11.6; 8.2.1)
- Age of Exploration
o Causes
 New Technology
 Compass, better ships and maps, etc.
 Gold, Glory, and the Gospel
o Effects
 Columbian Exchange
 mercantilism
 destruction of empires
 slave trade
 spread of Christianity
 establishment of the 13 Colonies
- Native American culture
- Basic American Geography
- Development of British democracy
o Magna Carta, parliament, habeas corpus, English Bill of Rights
Week 3 – Colonization of Early America (8.2.1)
- John Cabot claims land for England
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- The Lost Colony of Roanoke
- The Jamestown settlement – successes and failures
o joint-stock companies, starving time, John Smith, tobacco, House of
Burgesses, indentured servitude, slavery
- The Plymouth colony
o Mayflower Compact
- Establishment of 13 English colonies
o Massachusetts – The Puritans
 Government structure
 Dissenters
 Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer
o Connecticut
 Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
o Pennsylvania, Maryland, etc.
Week 4 – Colonization of Early America, Part II (7.11.3; 7.11.5; 8.1.1)
- 13 English Colonies
o Economies, governments, culture, and religion
 subsistence farming, the Great Awakening, the Triangular
Trade, the slave system, ways of living, etc.
o Enlightenment ideas spread throughout the colonies
 Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.
 natural rights, consent of the governed, etc.
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Review and Testing of Colonization of Early America
Week 5 – The American Revolution (7.11.6; 8.1.1; 8.1.2; 8.1.3; 8.1.4)
- The Navigation Acts
- The French and Indian War
- Steps to Revolution
o Proc. of 1763, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts,
etc.
o No Taxation Without Representation
o Boycotts
o Sons of Liberty
- More steps toward Revolution
o The Boston Massacre
o The Gaspee Affair
o The Boston Tea Party
o Powder Alarms
o Committees of Correspondence
o “give me liberty or give me death”
- The War Begins
o Paul Revere’s Ride, Lexington & Concord
Week 6 – The American Revolution, Part II (8.1.2; 8.1.3)
- Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
- Declaration of Independence
- Key Battles, Part 1
o Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton, etc.
Week 7 – The American Revolution, Part III
- Key Battles, Part 2
o Winter at Valley Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown
- Key Characters in the Revolution
o John Paul Jones, Nathan Hale, General Washington, Molly Pitcher,
Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen, de Lafayette, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.
- Why We Won
- Results of the Revolution
o The French Revolution
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Review and Testing of the American Revolution
Week 8 – Creation of a Country (8.2.2; 8.3.5)
- The Articles of Confederation and the Critical Period
- Shay’s Rebellion
- The Annapolis Convention and the Philadelphia Convention
Week 9 – Creation of a Country, Part II (8.2.3; 8.2.4; 8.2.7; 8.3.6)
- The Constitution
o The Constitutional Convention – the debates and the plans
 Populous states vs. non-populous states, slave states vs. free
states, etc.
 The Great Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, the slave trade
compromise, etc.
o The Constitution’s Preamble and the purposes of government
o The Seven Principles of the Constitution
 Popular sovereignty, republicanism, separation of powers,
checks and balances, limited government, federalism,
individual rights
Week 10 – Creation of a Country, Part III (8.2.7; 8.3.6)
- The Constitution
o Article I – The Legislative Branch
o Article II – The Executive Branch
o Article III – The Judicial Branch
o Articles IV-VII
Week 11 – Creation of a Country, Part IV (8.2.5; 8.2.6; 8.2.7; 8.3.7)
- The Federalist Papers
- The Bill of Rights
Week 12 – Creation of a Country, Part V (8.2.5; 8.2.6; 8.2.7; 8.3.4)
- Amendments 11-27
- Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
o loose vs. strict interpretation of the Constitution
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Review and Testing of Creation of a Country
Week 13 – America’s Early Years (8.2.4; 8.3.4; 8.3.5; 8.4.2)
- The Challenges of President Washington
o Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists revisited
 A Vision for America: Hamilton vs. Jefferson
o The National Debt Crisis
 National Bank debate
o The Whiskey Rebellion and its meanings
 Shay’s Rebellion vs. Whiskey Rebellion
o The Neutrality Proclamation and its effects
o Securing the Northwest
 Treaty of Greenville
o Washington’s Farewell Address
 no political parties, no permanent alliances with foreign
nations, etc.
Week 14 – America’s Early Years, Part II (8.3.4)
- The Adam’s Years
o XYZ Affair
o Quasi-War with France
o Alien and Sedition Acts
 The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
 the birth of states’ rights
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Review and Testing of America’s Early Years
Week 15 – America Begins to Grow (8.4.3; 8.8.2)
- The Election of 1800
- Jefferson’s Politics
o Small, limited federal government
o States’ rights
- War of the Barbary Pirates
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Marbury vs. Madison
o
Judicial Review is developed
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(Thanksgiving Break: November 21 thru November 25)
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Week 16 – America Begins to Grow, Part II (8.8.2)
- The Louisiana Purchase
o Lewis and Clark Expedition
o Zebulon Pike
- The Embargo Act
- The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
- James Madison becomes president
- Causes of the War of 1812
o Britain seizing US ships, impressment, aiding Indians, etc.
o The War Hawks
Week 17 – America Begins to Grow, Part III (8.5.1; 8.5.2)
- Major Battles and Key Events in the War of 1812
o Burning of the White House, Battle of Fort McHenry and the StarSpangled Banner, Treaty of Ghent, Battle of New Orleans, etc.
- Effects of the War of 1812
o increased nationalism, increased manufacturing, Indians are
weakened, Jackson a hero, etc.
- The Era of Good Feelings
o The acquisition of Florida
o Henry Clay’s American System
o The Monroe Doctrine and its effects
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Review and Testing of America Begins to Grow
(Week 18 – Semester 1 Final Review and Final Exam)
Week 18 – Semester 1 Review: 8th Final Exam and PowerPoint Reviews
- Colonial America
- The American Revolution
- The Constitutional Era
- The Early Republic
- The Era of Jefferson
- The War of 1812 and the Era of Good Feelings
- 1st Semester American History Jeopardy!
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(Christmas Break: December 19 thru January 6)
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SEMESTER 2
Week 19 – The Age of Jackson (8.4.3; 8.8.1)
- Jackson vs. Quincy Adams: Elections of 1824 and 1828
o The Corrupt Bargain
o Dirty Politics
- Jacksonian Democracy
o Suffrage, Spoils System, Nominating Conventions, etc.
- Jackson vs. Biddle: War on the National Bank
o Jackson’s veto, pet banks, Specie Circular, etc.
Week 20 – The Age of Jackson, Part II (8.4.3; 8.8.1; 8.10.1)
- Jackson vs. Native Americans: Indian Removal
o Indian Removal Act, Seminole Wars, Trail of Tears (Van Buren)
- Jackson vs. Supreme Court: Executive and Judicial Powers Conflict
o King Andrew
- Jackson vs. Calhoun: Nullification Crisis
o Tariff of Abominations, Calhoun quits, Webster-Hayne debate, Force
Act, etc.
- Calhoun vs. Webster: State and Federal Powers Conflict
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Review and Testing of the Age of Jackson
Week 21 – The North in the 1800s (8.6.2; 8.6.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5; 8.12.6; 8.12.7)
- Industrial Revolution
o Causes of the Industrial Revolution
 British textile manufacture inventions, metallurgy, steam
power, Samuel Slater, interchangeable parts, War of 1812,
etc.
o New England Factories and Mills
 Lowell Mills
o Transportation and Communication
 Steamboat, Erie Canal, Morse Code, etc.
o Various Inventions and their Inventors
 Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Samuel Morse, etc.
o Urbanization and European Immigration
 The growth of cities
 Irish potato famine, German Revolution, etc.
 Nativism and the Know-Nothing party
o Capitalism and the free enterprise system
o Child Labor
o Organization of Labor
Week 22 – The South in the 1800s (8.6.1; 8.7.1; 8.7.2)
- The Cotton Kingdom
o Plantation culture
o The cotton gin
- Slave Life
o Spirituals, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, slave codes, etc.
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Review and Testing of The North and South in the 1800s
Week 23 -- Westward Expansion (8.8.2; 8.8.6)
- Manifest Destiny introduced
- Texas Independence
o Empresarios, Mexican Independence, Stephen F. Austin, Santa Anna,
David Crockett
 Major Battles
 San Antonio, Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto
- Mexican-American War
o Texas Annexation
o Debates over going to war
 “Spotty Lincoln”
o Major battles and key figures
 Buena Vista, Zachary Taylor, Bear Flag Revolt, etc.
o Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 The Mexican Cession
Week 24 – Westward Expansion, Part II (8.8.3; 8.8.4)
- The Old West
o Mountain men, trails, law, water rights, etc.
 Fur trappers, John Jacob Astor, the rendezvous, Jed Smith, Kit
Carson, etc.
- The Pioneer Experience
o Donner Party, the Whitmans, wagon trains, the Mormon Trek, etc.
- The California Gold Rush
o James Marshall, forty-niners, boomtowns, San Francisco, etc.
- The Acquisition of Oregon Country
o “54°40′ or fight!”
- A summary of president James Polk’s achievements
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Review and Testing of Westward Expansion
Week 25 – The Age of Reform (8.7.6; 8.7.7)
- Reform Movements
o 2nd Great Awakening
 Charles Finney, revivals, Shakers, utopias, etc.
o Transcendentalism
 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
o Temperance
o Education
 Horace Mann, etc.
o Women’s Rights
 Seneca Falls Convention, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, etc.
o Art
 Hudson River School, Thomas Cole, George Caleb Bingham,
George Catlin, etc.
o Literature
 Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, etc.
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Review and Testing on The Age of Reform
Week 26 – Causes of the Civil War (8.9.1; 8.9.4; 8.9.5)
- Abolitionism
o William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society, Frederick
Douglas, Underground Railroad, Elijah Lovejoy, John Brown, etc.
- Sectionalism
o Failed Compromises
 Missouri Compromise
 36° 30′ parallel
 Compromise of 1850
 Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty, etc.
 Kansas-Nebraska Act, etc.
 Border Ruffians, Bleeding Kansas, etc.
o Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Week 27 – Causes of the Civil War, Part II (8.9.5; 8.10.2)
- More Causes of the Civil War
o Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred Scott case, John Brown’s raid, Lincoln’s
election, etc.
- The War Begins
o Southern secession, Fort Sumter, strategies, advantages and
disadvantages of both “sides”
Week 28 – The Civil War (8.10.3; 8.10.4; 8.10.5; 8.10.6)
- Strengths, Weaknesses, and Strategies of the North and South
- Leaders, Part 1
o Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, P.G.T. Beauregard,
Irvin McDowell, Robert Lee, George McClellan, Thomas Jackson, Clara
Barton, etc.
- Major Battles, Part 1
o Battles of Bull Run, Seven Days Battles, Antietam, Shiloh, New
Orleans, etc.
- Lincoln’s Policies and Speeches, Part 1
o House Divided, First Inaugural, Emancipation Proclamation
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(Spring Break: March 20 thru March 31)
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Week 29 – The Civil War, Part II (8.10.3; 8.10.4; 8.10.5; 8.10.6)
- Life During the War
o Copperheads
o Suspension of Habeus Corpus
o Northern and Southern Drafts
o The Costs of the War
o Life at Home/Life in a Military Camp
o Prisoners of War
- Major Battles, Part 2
o Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Pea Ridge, Stones River, Chickamauga,
Atlanta, etc.
- Leaders, Part 2
o Clement Vallandigham, Sally Louisa Tompkins, U.S. Grant, David
Farragut, George Meade, William Sherman, etc.
- Lincoln’s policies and speeches, Part 2
o Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural
- Lincoln’s Assassination
- Costs and Consequences of the War
Week 30 – The Reconstruction Era (8.11.1; 8.11.2; 8.11.3; 8.11.4; 8.11.5)
- The Plans
o Wade-Davis Bill
o 10 Percent Plan (Lincoln’s Plan)
o Johnson’s Plan
o Radical Republican Plan
 Freedman’s Bureau
 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Week 31 – The Reconstruction Era, Part II (8.11.1; 8.11.2; 8.11.3; 8.11.4; 8.11.5)
- Southern Response to Radical Republican Reconstruction
o Black codes, Jim Crow laws, KKK, sharecropping, etc.
- The Administration of US Grant
- The End and Effects of Reconstruction
o Election of 1876
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Review and Testing of Reconstruction
Week 32 – Standardized Test Review: 6th Practice Test and PowerPoint Reviews
- Ancient History Review
o Hunters and Gatherers
o Sumerians
o Egyptians
o Hebrews
o Indians/Aryans
o Chinese
o Greeks
o Roman Republic
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- 6 Grade World History Jeopardy!
Week 33 – Standardized Test Review: 7th Grade Practice Tests and PowerPoint Reviews
- Medieval, and Early Modern World History
o Roman Empire
o Islamic Empire
o West African Trading Kingdoms
o Medieval Chinese Dynasties
o Medieval Japan
o Western Europe
o Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
o Renaissance
 Art and Architecture
 Literature
 Scientific Revolution
 Protestant Reformation
 Age of Exploration
o Enlightenment
- 7th Grade World History Jeopardy!
Week 34 – The Gilded Age (8.12.1; 8.12.2; 8.12.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5; 8.12.6; 8.12.7;
8.12.9)
- The Last Frontier
o The Wild West
o New States Join the United States
o Federal Indian Policy and the American Indian Wars
- The Second Industrial Revolution
o Industrial and Technological Advances
 Graham Bell, Edison, Goodyear, Wright Brothers, etc.
o The Rise of Big Business and the Titans of Industry
 Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, etc.
 Laissez-faire policies toward big business
o The Growth of the Labor Movement
 Samuel Gompers, child labor, collective bargaining, strikes,
etc.
Week 35 – The Gilded Age, Part II (8.12.3; 8.12.4; 8.12.5; 8.12.8)
- Immigration and the Growth of Cities
- The Agrarian Revolt
- Presidential Administrations during the Gilded Age
- The Depression of 1893
- The Populist Movement
(Week 36 – Semester 2 Final Review and Final Exam)
Week 36 – Semester 2 Review: 8th Final Exam and PowerPoint Reviews
- The Age of Jackson
- The Industrial Revolution
- Reform Movements
- Causes of the Civil War
- The Civil War
- The Reconstruction Era
- The Gilded Age
- 2nd Semester American History Jeopardy!
Week 37 – The Progressive Era (11.2.8; 11.2.9)
- Government and Legislative Reform
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency
- Progressivism during the Administrations of William H. Taft and Woodrow
Wilson
Week 38 – U.S. Involvement in World Affairs (10.5.1; 10.5.2; 10.5.4; 10.6.2; 11.4.1;
11.4.2; 11.4.3; 11.4.4; 11.4.6)
- The Spanish-American War
o Causes and Consequences
- Relations with Latin-American Countries
o Panamanian Revolution and the Panama Canal
o Roosevelt’s Big Stick Policy
o Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
o Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy
- World War I
o Causes
o The Nations and the Leaders
o Key Battles
o Consequences of the “War to End All Wars”