Curriculum Standards
Social Studies Standards Addressed:
- Analyze American territorial expansion during this period, including the reasons for and consequences of the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, the Mexican War, the settlement of the frontier, and conflicts with Native-Americans.
- Analyze the political, economic, and social changes in New Jersey prior to the Civil War, including the growth of New Jersey's cities, New Jersey's 1844 Constitution, the early stages of industrialization, including Alexander Hamilton and the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufacturing, and the political and economic implications of the transportation monopolies.
- Analyze and evaluate key events, people, and groups associated with industrialization and its impact on urbanization, immigration, farmers, the labor movement, social reform, and government regulation
- Analyze the development of industrialization in America during this period and the resulting transformation of the country, including the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the introduction of mechanized farming, the rise of corporations and organized labor, and the growth of cities.
- Describe the economic development by which the United States became a major industrial power in the world and analyze the factors that contributed to industrialization.
Additional Learning Outcomes:
- critical thinking, teamwork, interpersonal skills, communication and presentation skills, creative production, observation and categorization, writing and editing.