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Year 2 Social Studies Curriculum
Essential Questions:
- How did people interact with their environment?
- Why do people want to change their lives?
- How can obstacles or challenges cause change?
- What were the different perspectives in this time period?
- How and why do systems of government change?
UNIT I --COLONIAL LIFE
Unit Questions:
- What reasons did people have for coming to the New World?
- How was life for teh colonists different from our lives today?
- What jobs did children, men, and women have?
- What natural resources did the colonists use to make food, clothing, and shelter?
- What were some of the environmental hardships that the colonists endured?
- How did people work together to overcome hardships?
- What factors led to success or failure of a colony?
- What were the relationships with Native Americans--Did they change over time?
- What kinds of government did the people set up in their colonies?
- Who were the leaders in the community?
Content
Life in England and the Netherlands—Separatists and King James
Life on the Mayflower
Plimouth Plantation Life
Relationships with the Wampanoag Indians
The True Story of Thanksgiving, 1621
Settlements/Colonies: Roanoke, Jamestown, Plimouth Plantation, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Netherlands/New Amsterdam, Pennsylvania
Life in Southern, Middle, and New England colonies
Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Puritan General Court, Witch Trials of Salem
Leaders: John Smith, William Bradford, William Penn, Anne Hutchinson, Peter Stuyvesant, Roger Smith
Geography of Southern and New England colonies
UNIT II -- SLAVERY
Unit Questions:
- What was slavery and why was it brought to America?
- What were the lives of slaves like?
- What was the Underground Railroad?
- How did people resist slavery?
- Who were some of the powerful people in the movement against slavery?
- What laws were in place to keep slavery in place?
- How did slaves communicate things that were forbidden?
- What primary sources help us learn about slavery?
Content
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Slavery in North and South
Indentured servants
Underground Railroad
Abolitionists
Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
Fugitive slave laws
UNIT III -- PRE-REVOLUTION
Unit Questions
- Why did some colonists want independence from England?
- What are the factors that led to the Revolution?
- How did colonists’ opinions about independence differ?
- What role did George Washington play in the America’s road to independence?
- How did the colonies govern themselves?
Content
Patriots and loyalists
Taxation of colonies
George Washington –Continental Army
French and Indian War
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence
UNIT IV -- WESTWARD EXPANSION
Unit Questions:
- Why did people move west?
- How did they travel?
- What environmental hardships (and discoveries) did people encounter?
- Which people took on a leadership role?
- How did the American way of life change because of westward expansion?
- How was pioneer life different from our lives today?
- How did the outcome of the American Revolution affect Westward Expansion?
- How did westward expansion affect the Native Americans?
Content
Daniel Boone and Wilderness Road
Methods of transportation: Prairie Schooners, keelboats, railroad
Lewis and Clark—Corps of Discovery-events, discoveries, participants
Oregon Trail
Transcontinental railroad
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
Gold Rush
UNIT V -- IMMIGRATION
Unit Questions:
- What is an immigrant?
- What were the reasons immigrants came to America?
- How did coming to a new country change their lives?
- How did immigration affect American culture?
- What is the significance of the Statue of Liberty?
Content
Mapping the groups of immigrants
Procedures at Ellis Island
Immigrant children
Life and work in America
Immigration past and present
