8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.

8.6.1 - Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).

8.6.2 - Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay's American System).

8.6.3 - List the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the United States and describe the growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangements of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine).

8.6.4 - Study the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance their rights and communities.

8.6.5 - Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the roles of religious and private schools and Horace Mann's campaign for free public education and its assimilating role in American culture.

8.6.6 - Examine the women's suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony).

8.6.7 - Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writings about and by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).


Resources Available in the Marchand Room for Standard 8.6
4133Little Women Alcott, Louisa May973.8 Fiction
928Margaret Fuller: A Life of Passion and Defiance Balducci, C. F.973.5 Fiction
1009Gathering of Days: A New England Girlıs Journal, 1830-32 Blos, J.W.973.5 Fiction
3634Oneida: Utopian community to modern corporation Carden, Maren Lockwood973.8
814Farm to Factory: Womenıs Letters, 1830-1860 Dublin, T. editor973.5
765In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Griffith, E.973.8 Biography
809The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Womanıs Rights Movement Gurko, M.973.8
844The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years 1790-1860 Harris, N.973.5
894Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War Hendrickson, R.973.7
716North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States 1790-1860 Litwack, L.F.973.4
919O Little Town: The Germans Reiff, T.973
926Hungry No More: The Irish Reiff, T.973
898All For the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes Rhodes, R.H.973.7 Biography
756Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in Nineteenth Century City Thernstrom, S.973.8
750Walden Thoreau, H.D973.6
798American Reformers 1815-1860 Walters, R. G.973.5
4147The Gift of Sarah Barker Yolen. Jane973.6 Fiction
4040Gil Gorospe ggorospe@telis.orgEich Intermediate School, Roseville
3204Investigating History: Projects for the 5th Grade * (Kari Wilson) Kari WilsonMiscellaneous
46This Will Never be Submitted to ... Without a Civil War: Congress Debates Slavery Laichas and Ingersoll973.4
3605The Antebellum Women's Movement, 1820-1860 Leighow, Sterner-Hine973.6
3996Lewis and Clark Murphey, Dan973.5
4063Alan Taylor, PhD. astaylor@ucdavis.edu


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