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Unit 6: America in Transition (1815-1860) Unit Overview

 

Unit 6: America in Transition (1815-1860)
Analyze the rapid changes of the 19th century and explore how groups such as women, immigrants, and religious communities responded.
Assessment Focus:

Context, Thesis, Grouping Sources, and VIEW Sentences

 DBQ/ Essential Question:

How did Americans and democratic institutions respond to the rapid economic changes of the early nineteenth century?
DBQ Documents:

  • Document A: Excerpt from a Young Woman Working in the Lowell Mills (1830s or 1840s)
  • Document B: Excerpt from Angelina Grimké’s “Letter to Catharine Beecher” (1837)
  • Document C: Excerpts from “Letters from an Immigrant” – Johan Schütz (1840s)
  • Document D: Excerpt from the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
  • Document E: The County Election – George Caleb Bingham (1852)
  • Document F: Excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourt of July? Speech (1852)
  • Document G: Excerpt from “Walden” – Henry David Thoreau (1854)
DBQ Resources:
Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3
Jacksonian Democracy Industrialization and Urbanization Reform Movements

 
Guiding Questions:

How did Andrew Jackson’s presidency reshape American politics? How did democratic participation expand?

 Guiding Question:

How did industrialization and urbanization transform the economy, society, and culture of the United States in the 19th century?

 Guiding Question:

How did reform movements in the early 19th century address the social and economic challenges of the era?
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Principle(s)

  • Consent of the Governed
 Virtue(s)

  • Moderation