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=Unit Cover Page=


 * Unit Title:** The Expanding Nation (1815-1850) **Level(s):** Grades 6-8
 * Subject/Topic Area(s):** Social Studies, History
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 * =Brief Summary of Unit= ||
 * ======The goal of this unit is for students to build a confident understanding of the Expanding Nation. The unit will provide familiarization with the time period’s events, people, geography and key terms. The unit will build these understandings though lessons, research, projects and essays. The understanding will be proved in projects that use sources such as iMovie, Google Earth, blogs and Skype. While studying this time in history the class will travel from the Tardif of 1812 and the opening of the first bank to the Compromise of 1850 and the California gold rush. We will watch the price of land change from $1.25 an acre to $1.64 an acre. The class will analyze events and determine their importance. They will create a setting for the 1800’s and figure out why time and place even matters. Women in the class will see how different their rights would be without the events that occurred in the 1800’s. The men will learn about the different wars they would of fought in. By learning about the past, we will now relive its mistakes. Together, we will work to figure out the importance of change and why it affects the world we live in today. ====== ||