Lewis and Clark

Essential Questions:

Identity

How did debates over American democratic culture and the proximity of many different cultures living in close contact affect changing definitions of national identity?

Work, Exchange,

and Technology

How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those for whom they worked? How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern social, political, and economic life?

Peopling

How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old communities?

Politics and

Power

How did the growth of ideals of mass democracy, including such concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy affect political life and discourse?

America in the

World

How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its power in the western hemisphere? How did foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new American nation?

Environment

and Geography

How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economics and identities?

Ideas, Beliefs,

And Cultures

How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?

Key Concepts: 4.1-4.3

Readings: American Pageant, pages 204-298

A People's History, As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs

We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God

Pagaent Notes: chapter 11, chapter 12, chapter 13, chapter 14, chapter 15

Timeline: 1815-1860