A comprehensive high school curriculum plan for American History, covering 13 units from the American Revolution to the modern era, aligned with North Carolina Social Studies standards.
Coverage Note: This matrix ensures 100% integration of the 35 state objectives across the 13 units. For a granular standard-by-standard breakdown, refer to the printed Standards Alignment Matrix document.
This matrix visualizes the mapping of all 35 mandated objectives across our 13-unit sequence. The "Know" and "Do" goals in the main blueprint are meticulously tied to these intersections to ensure rigor-aligned scaffolding. For example, AH.H.3.3 appears in U4, U10, and U13 to track the evolution of historical narratives across critical eras.
Students will categorize revolutionary protests as either economic, political, or social in their primary motivation.
Students will construct a cause-and-effect flowchart illustrating how British taxation led to the First Continental Congress.
Students will interpret the Magna Carta to explain how it influenced the Founding Fathers' views on due process.
Students will identify the specific roots of republicanism in the language used in early state constitution preambles.
Students will know that the core principles of Social Darwinism and Laissez-faire justified industrial monopoly growth.
Students will know the impact of the Bessemer process and assembly lines on industrial output and laborer specialization.
Students will know that vertical and horizontal integration were the primary models for Gilded Age corporate expansion.
Students will know that major labor disputes like the Homestead and Pullman Strikes resulted in federal intervention.
Students will know that the "Captain of Industry" vs "Robber Baron" narratives reflect conflicting views on business ethics.
Students will know the unique experience of the "New Immigrant" from Southern and Eastern Europe in urban tenements.
Students will know the specific challenges of rapid urbanization, including public health and political machine corruption.
Students will know the differing goals of the American Federation of Labor vs the Knights of Labor.
Students will know the principles of Carnegie’s "Gospel of Wealth" regarding philanthropy and social responsibility.
Students will know that the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal attempt to regulate monopolistic power.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will analyze immigration data from 1880-1900 to explain shifts in urban population distribution.
Students will deconstruct Baron vs Captain perspectives using primary essays from Carnegie and Riis.
Students will evaluate the role of new technologies (e.g. telegraph, railroad) in defining modern American progress values.
Students will explain the tension between labor and management using primary case studies of 19th-century strike demands.
Students will analyze photographs from "How the Other Half Lives" to identify evidence of visual bias and persuasion.
Students will map city growth trends to identify the development of steel and oil hubs in the Northeast and Midwest.
Students will contrast the social responsibility views of Carnegie’s elite class with the lived reality of factory town workers.
Students will construct a flowchart explaining the specific steps involved in the formation of a corporate trust.
Students will critique Nativist political reactions using contemporary cartoons from Harper’s Weekly.
Students will evaluate the efficiency of early labor unions in achieving measurable gains for industrial workers.
20 Vocab
Social DarwinismLaissez-faireMonopolyTrustTenementUrbanizationNativismLabor UnionStrikeCapitalismBessemerIntegrationIndustrialistPhilanthropyGildedArbitrationEntrepreneurPeasantryStandardizationInjunction
Unit 7: Progressive Era (1890-1920)
AH.C&G.1.3; AH.B.1.3, 1.4, 1.6
Students Will Know (10)
Students will know that Muckrakers like Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell exposed industrial and corporate corruption to the public.
Students will know the specific provisions of the 19th Amendment and the 1906 Meat Inspection Act as reform milestones.
Students will know the roles of the NAWSA and the National Woman’s Party in securing suffrage through diverse strategies.
Students will know that the NAACP was founded as a response to systemic racial violence and legal disenfranchisement.
Students will know the differing ideologies of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey for racial progress.
Students will know that Settlement Houses provided critical social services and Americanization programs to urban poor.
Students will know that Roosevelt’s "Square Deal" focused on conservation, consumer protection, and corporate control.
Students will know the constitutional wins of the era, specifically the 16th, 17th, and 18th Amendments.
Students will know that the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire resulted in the first significant industrial safety and labor regulations.
Students will know the goals of the Temperance movement and its eventual success with the start of Prohibition.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will analyze two NAACP advocacy strategies to identify which method was more effective for legal equality.
Students will critique the "cult of domesticity" using reform data regarding women’s labor and higher education entry.
Students will evaluate the impact of federal business regulation (e.g. Hepburn Act) on the economy of the early 20th c.
Students will contrast the environmental views of conservationists (Pinchot) vs preservationists (Muir).
Students will explain how the minority contributions of figures like George Washington Carver influenced modern identity.
Students will analyze Sinclair's "The Jungle" to identify direct links between literature and public health policy shifts.
Students will map the 3-way split in 1912 election party platforms to explain the victory of the Democratic party.
Students will categorize Progressive reforms as being primarily political, social, or economic in their initial intent.
Students will differentiate the protest methods of Alice Paul from those of Carrie Chapman Catt using primary flyers.
Students will evaluate the success of the Federal Reserve Act in stabilizing the American banking and currency system.
Note: Full 100% objective coverage is verified across 260 targets in the individual unit blocks.
13 Units
Instructional Cycle
260 Targets
10/10 Sentence Format
260 Vocab
Key Academic Terms
"History is a guide for navigation in perilous times." — David McCullough
• Egalitarian
• Boycott
• Writ
• Diplomacy
• Confederation
• Tyranny
• Self-determination
• Revolution
• Redcoat
Unit 2: New Nation Goals
AH.C&G.1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Know (10)
• Structural weaknesses of the Articles.
• Mechanics of 3/5 & Great Compromises.
• Virginia vs New Jersey plans.
• Powers of the 3 Branches of Gov.
• Hamilton's 3-point economic plan.
• Anti-Fed vs Federalist arguments.
• 10 protections in Bill of Rights.
• Washington Precedents (Cabinet).
• Alien and Sedition Act provisions.
• First Political Party system causes.
Do (10)
• Contrast Article vs Const power.
• Categorize 10 powers by level.
• Analyze Fed #10 logic on factions.
• Explain 1800 realignment causes.
• Deconstruct Whiskey Rebellion.
• Evaluate Sedition Acts vs liberty.
• Contrast strict vs loose views.
• Critique Farewell Address advice.
• Distinguish Judiciary Act roles.
• Compare Ham/Jeff on France.
U2 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Federalism
• Ratification
• Checks & Balances
• Judicial Review
• Bicameral
• Elastic Clause
• Precedent
• Cabinet
• Neutrality
• Nullification
• Faction
• Excise Tax
• Strict Construction
• Bill of Rights
• Democracy
• Sedition
• Electoral College
• Slavocracy
• Elector
• Ratify
Unit 3: Expansion Goals
AH.G.1.2, 1.3; AH.H.2.1; AH.B.2.1
Know (10)
• Missouri Comp 36°30' line.
• Henry Clay's American System.
• Monroe Doctrine target goals.
• Indian Removal Act mandates.
• Worcester v Georgia outcome.
• Manifest Destiny justifications.
• Erie Canal impact on west trade.
• Cotton Gin slave labor output.
• 1832 Nullification Crisis causes.
• Jacksonian Spoils System tenets.
Do (10)
• Map Trail of Tears tribe impacts.
• Analyze Erie Canal trade data.
• Evaluate policy via trade interests.
• Contrast Jackson vs Whig Bank.
• Examine tech as national link.
• Critique power in tribal removal.
• Compare N vs S tariff reactions.
• Distinguish rural vs urban tech.
• Analyze destiny rhetoric texts.
• Explain sectional identity maps.
U3 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Manifest Destiny
• Sectionalism
• Nationalism
• Internal Improvement
• Cotton Gin
• Erie Canal
• Sovereignty
• Spoils System
• Missouri Comp
• Abolition
• Annexation
• Territory
• Cession
• Tariff
• Suffrage
• Plantation
• American System
• Trail of Tears
• Whig
• Sectional Line
Unit 4: Civil War Goals
AH.H.1.1, 3.2, 3.3; AH.B.1.2; AH.G.1.4
Know (10)
• Comp of 1850/Fugitive Act.
• Dred Scott legal decision basis.
• Harper's Ferry John Brown raid.
• 1860 Secession data triggers.
• Union vs Confederate industrial.
• Gettysburg/Vicksburg values.
• Emancipation Proclamation text.
• Lincoln Inaugural arguments.
• 54th Mass combat role details.
• Appomattox surrender terms.
Do (10)
• Analyze Address for narratives.
• Critique Proclamation tactics.
• Apply empathy to soldier diaries.
• Categorize advantages via stats.
• Evaluate Habeas Corpus usage.
• Deconstruct multiple causation.
• Map refugee population shifts.
• Contrast Copperheads vs Radicals.
• Analyze posters for sacrifice.
• Explain discriminatory camp life.
U4 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession
• Emancipation
• Total War
• Habeas Corpus
• Conscription
• Strategy
• Blockade
• Union
• Confederacy
• Copperhead
• Freedmen
• Abolitionist
• Casualties
• Martial Law
• Gettysburg
• Insurrection
• Fugitive
• Vicksburg
• Arsenal
Unit 5: Reconstruction Goals
AH.C&G.1.2; AH.E.1.4, 1.5; AH.B.1.7
Know (10)
• 13, 14, 15 Amendment text.
• Lincoln vs Johnson recon plans.
• Radical Republican objectives.
• Freedmen’s Bureau ed/labor role.
• Sharecropping debt mechanics.
• KKK/Enforcement Act tactics.
• Black Codes vs Jim Crow legal.
• Tenets of Radical Republicans.
• Grant Admin Whiskey Ring facts.
• Comp of 1877 political terms.
Do (10)
• Analyze codes for subversion.
• Compare mobility via data.
• Critique power in 1877 retreat.
• Explain disenfranchisement.
• Distinguish minority roles.
• Evaluate intervention efficiency.
• Contrast pres vs leg power.
• Map rise of Jim Crow laws.
• Analyze 1876 election fraud.
• Explain industrial focus shift.
U5 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Disenfranchisement
• Jim Crow
• Sharecropping
• Carpetbagger
• Radical
• Amnesty
• Veto
• Black Codes
• Due Process
• Equal Protection
• Scalawag
• Tenure
• Impeachment
• Segregation
• Enforcement
• Poll Tax
• Literacy Test
• Reconstruction
• Redemption
• Compromise
Unit 6: Gilded Age Goals
AH.B.1.5, 2.1; AH.E.1.1, 1.2; AH.G.1.1
Know (10)
• Social Darwinism/Laissez-faire.
• Bessemer/Assembly line tech.
• Horiz/Vert Integration models.
• Homestead/Pullman outcomes.
• Captain/Baron traits data.
• New Immigrant (S/E Europe).
• Tenement life/Urban growth.
• AFL vs Knights of Labor.
• Gospel of Wealth principles.
• 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
Do (10)
• Analyze immigration shift data.
• Deconstruct Baron perspectives.
• Evaluate tech progress role.
• Explain labor/mgt tensions.
• Analyze Riis photos for bias.
• Map steel city growth hubs.
• Contrast Carnegie vs Riis views.
• Construct trust flowcharts.
• Critique Nativist cartoons.
• Evaluate early union efficacy.
U6 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Laissez-faire
• Monopoly
• Trust
• Tenement
• Nativism
• Strike
• Bargaining
• Injunction
• Capitalism
• Bessemer
• Integration
• Industrialist
• Urbanization
• Entrepreneur
• Social Darwinism
• Philanthropy
• Gilded
• Labor Union
• Arbitration
• Urban
Unit 7: Progressivism Goals
AH.C&G.1.3; AH.B.1.3, 1.4, 1.6
Know (10)
• 3 social ills of Muckrakers.
• 19th Amend/Meat Act rules.
• Suffrage milestones data.
• NAACP legal advocacy role.
• Washington/Du Bois/Garvey.
• Settlement House missions.
• TR Square Deal provisions.
• 16-19 Amendment wins.
• Triangle fire industrial safety.
• Temperance/WCTU goals.
Do (10)
• Analyze 2 NAACP strategies.
• Critique Domesticity norms.
• Evaluate business regulation.
• Contrast Muir vs Pinchot.
• Explain identity contributions.
• Analyze Jungle for policies.
• Map 1912 platform splits.
• Categorize Pol/Soc reforms.
• Differentiate protest methods.
• Evaluate Federal Reserve Act.
U7 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Muckraker
• Suffrage
• Regulation
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall
• Lynching
• Prohibition
• Conservation
• Trust-busting
• Social Gospel
• Reform
• NAACP
• Populism
• Square Deal
• Legislative
• Suffragette
• Temperance
• Grassroots
• Settlement
Unit 8: Imperialism Goals
AH.H.1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Know (10)
• Big Stick/Dollar/Moral goals.
• WWI triggers (Zimmerman).
• Great Migration labor shifts.
• Versailles terms & League.
• Sp-Am War & Hawaii facts.
• Minority homefront experience.
• CPI role in propaganda.
• Espionage/Sedition Act text.
• Wilson’s 14 Points objectives.
• Trench warfare veteran impact.
Do (10)
• Analyze Versailles outcomes.
• Critique Sedition Act vs liberty.
• Evaluate League for peace.
• Contrast isolation vs inter.
• Map 1898 territorial gains.
• Analyze emotional posters.
• Differentiate home vs combat.
• Distinguish privilege vs margin.
• Explain conflict causes/effects.
• Apply empathy to Lost Gen.
U8 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Imperialism
• Isolationism
• Zimmerman Note
• Self-Determination
• Annexation
• Sedition
• Entente
• Alliance
• Reparations
• Mandate
• Propaganda
• Neutrality
• Armistice
• Expansionism
• Mobilization
• Diplomacy
• Sovereignty
• Jingoism
• Yellow Journalism
• 14 Points
Unit 9: Interwar Goals
AH.E.1.3, 1.4; AH.B.1.4, 2.2
Know (10)
• Speculation/Margin triggers.
• SSA, FDIC, WPA targets.
• Harlem Renaissance themes.
• Scopes Trial belief vs reason.
• 1920-39 cycle data trends.
• Dust Bowl migration causes.
• 1924 National Origins Act.
• Flapper/Jazz gender norms.
• Keynesian deficit spending.
• Consumerism identity impact.
Do (10)
• Categorize New Deal R-R-R.
• Contrast 20s vs 30s norms.
• Distinguish Scopes narratives.
• Compare Black vs White labor.
• Analyze Harlem identity texts.
• Evaluate 1933 Banking Act.
• Explain retraction causes maps.
• Critique gov in Dust Bowl.
• Analyze ads for shifts.
• Evaluate SS as safety net.
U9 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Speculation
• Harlem Renaissance
• Easy Credit
• New Deal
• Fundamentalism
• Dust Bowl
• Prohibition
• Quota
• Consumerism
• Flapper
• Retraction
• Recovery
• Reform
• Bootlegging
• Deficit
• Securities
• Safety Net
• Depression
• Red Scare
• Modernity
Unit 10: WWII Goals
AH.H.1.1, 1.3, 3.2, 3.3; AH.E.1.5
Know (10)
• "Double V" minority roles.
• Neutrality vs Lend-Lease.
• Order 9066 legal justification.
• Manhattan Project tech.
• War rations/scrap sacrifice.
• Rosie Riveter labor impact.
• Midway and D-Day value.
• Korematsu v U.S. legacy.
• Initial GI Bill provisions.
• Bracero Program labor shifts.
Do (10)
• Analyze posters for sacrifice.
• Evaluate Bomb on narratives.
• Apply empathy to interned.
• Explain war prosperity data.
• Differentiate segregated roles.
• Construct Pearl Harbor timeline.
• Contrast Truman vs Ike on Bomb.
• Analyze Yalta Cold War cues.
• Critique domestic OWI censorship.
• Evaluate Arsenal narrative.
U10 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Manhattan Project
• Internment
• Rationing
• Lend-Lease
• Appeasement
• Double V
• Mobilization
• Issei / Nisei
• Island Hopping
• Homefront
• Totalitarian
• Bracero
• Blitzkrieg
• War Bonds
• Arsenal
• Pearl Harbor
• GI Bill
• Sacrifice
• Axis / Allied
• Sovereignty
Unit 11: Cold War Goals
AH.H.1.2, 2.2; AH.B.1.2
Know (10)
• Marshall/NATO/Truman goals.
• McCarthyism tenets/targets.
• Korea/Cuban Crisis facts.
• Sputnik national prestige.
• Theory of MAD deterrence.
• Interstate Highway impacts.
• "Duck and Cover" program.
• Berlin Wall curtain symbol.
• Long Telegram containment.
• Baby Boom identity impact.
Do (10)
• Analyze proxy maps data.
• Evaluate Space Race spend.
• Critique freedom vs security.
• Explain intl ideological causes.
• Apply empathy to hearings.
• Evaluate Plan via GDP stats.
• Distinguish Detente vs MAD.
• Map Suburbia vs decay.
• Contrast Truman vs MacArthur.
• Analyze TV ad gender norms.
U11 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Containment
• Iron Curtain
• McCarthyism
• MAD
• Satellite
• Brinkmanship
• Checkpoint
• Domino Theory
• Proxy War
• Suburbia
• Fallout
• Detente
• Espionage
• Superpower
• Ideology
• NATO
• Blacklist
• HUAC
• Warsaw Pact
• Cold War
Unit 12: Rights Expansion Goals
AH.C&G.1.4, 3.4; AH.B.1.6, 1.7; AH.G.1.4
Know (10)
• VRA/Title IX core text.
• Chicano movement strategies.
• Ella Baker SNCC role data.
• Greensboro/Selma facts.
• Brown v Board school impact.
• Stonewall/Harvey Milk roles.
• AIM Alcatraz goals facts.
• Roe v Wade/Women's Lib goals.
• ADA specific provisions data.
• Greensboro Four outcomes.
Do (10)
• Compare competing narratives.
• Analyze racism/power maps.
• Evaluate disenfranchisement.
• Contrast non-violent vs milit.
• Differentiate leg vs social wins.
• Analyze judicial power shifts.
• Map Migration regional culture.
• Explain identity contributions.
• Critique gerrymandering stats.
• Construct win flowcharts 50-90.
U12 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Integration
• Civil Rights
• Feminism
• Gerrymandering
• Activism
• Grassroots
• Sit-in
• Precedent
• Equity
• Intersectionality
• Litigation
• Milestone
• Advocacy
• Segregation
• Non-violence
• Disobedience
• Suffrage
• Equal Protection
• Boycott
• Oppression
Unit 13: Modern America Goals
AH.H.3.3; AH.E.1.3; AH.C&G.1.2; AH.G.1.1
Know (10)
• Great Recession econ triggers.
• Patriot Act privacy/security.
• Globalization labor sectors.
• Reaganomics supply-side.
• Rust/Sun Belt shift causes.
• 9/11 domestic/intl data.
• Digital Revolution industry.
• 90s Dot-com bubble factors.
• NAFTA global goals facts.
• Modern tech migration drivers.
Do (10)
• Critique "American Dream".
• Analyze Sun Belt GIS data.
• Explain retraction impacts.
• Evaluate federal power acts.
• Deconstruct globalization.
• Contrast labor industrial/dig.
• Analyze 21st c. census shifts.
• Evaluate e-commerce quality.
• Critique modern realignment.
• Construct sustainability args.
U13 Vocabulary Inventory (20)
• Globalization
• Patriot Act
• Reaganomics
• Rust Belt
• Sustainability
• Digital
• Recession
• Outsourcing
• Infrastructure
• E-commerce
• Bipartisan
• Demographics
• Information Age
• Terrorism
• Privacy
• Silicon Valley
• Cyber-security
• Conservatism
• Urban Decay
• Retraction
Mastery mapping Complete
Full 13-Unit sequence with 260 targets and 260 vocabulary terms. measurable, scaffolded, and standards-aligned.
130 Know targets
130 Do skills
• Election of 1800: Elector Breakdown
Unit 3: Nationalism & Sectionalism (1815-1850)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Andrew Jackson: Farewell Address (1837)
• Worcester v. Georgia Ruling
• Jon Meacham: "American Lion" (Jackson excerpts)
• Analysis of the Erie Canal economic impact
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"
• Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
• "King Andrew the First" (Political Cartoon)
• Robert Lindneux: "The Trail of Tears" (Painting)
• Cotton Export Growth vs Slave Population (1800-1850)
• Canal vs Rail shipping cost comparison
Unit 4: Civil War (1850-1865)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford Ruling
• James McPherson: "Battle Cry of Freedom"
• Analysis of Confederate vs Union resources
• Walt Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"
• Harriet Beecher Stowe: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
• Alexander Gardner: Antietam photography
• "The Rail Candidate" (Lincoln Cartoon)
• Casualties by major battle
• Comparison of Union vs Confederate manufacturing
Unit 5: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
• Black Codes (Mississippi, 1865)
• Compromise of 1877 Text
• Eric Foner: "Reconstruction" (Key excerpts)
• "The Tragedy of Reconstruction" analytical essay
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Bury Me in a Free Land"
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: "We Wear the Mask"
• Thomas Nast: "Worse Than Slavery" (Cartoon)
• Portraits of first Black Congressmen
• Growth of African American schools/churches
• Voter turnout data: 1868 vs 1876
Unit 6: Gilded Age (1870-1900)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• Carnegie: "The Gospel of Wealth"
• Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Howard Zinn: "Robber Barons and Rebels"
• Analysis of the 1893 World's Fair
• Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus"
• Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age" (Excerpts)
• Jacob Riis: "How the Other Half Lives" photos
• Keppler: "The Bosses of the Senate" (Cartoon)
• U.S. Steel Production metrics (1870-1900)
• Immigration by origin region (Old vs New)
Unit 7: Progressive Era (1890-1920)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• 19th Amendment Text
• Upton Sinclair: "The Jungle" (Excerpts)
• W.E.B. Du Bois: "The Souls of Black Folk"
• Doris Kearns Goodwin: "The Bully Pulpit"
• Summary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire inquiry
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• Suffrage movement anthems
• Lewis Hine: Child labor photography
• "The Awakening" (Suffrage Cartoon)
• Women’s employment data (1890-1920)
• Growth of National Parks (Acres preserved)
Unit 8: Imperialism & WWI (1890-1919)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• The Zimmerman Note (1917)
• Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
• Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
• Margaret MacMillan: "Paris 1919"
• Analysis of the Sedition Act of 1918
• Alan Seeger: "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
• Siegfried Sassoon war poems
• CPI Propaganda: "Destroy This Mad Brute"
• Photos of Trench Warfare
• Casualties of WWI by nation
• Tonnage of shipping sunk by U-Boats
Unit 9: Interwar Years (1920-1939)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• FDR: First Inaugural Address
• Social Security Act of 1935
• National Origins Act (1924)
• David Kennedy: "Freedom from Fear"
• Economic analysis of the Stock Market Crash
• Langston Hughes: "I, Too"
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Great Gatsby" (Excerpts)
• Dorothea Lange: "Migrant Mother"
• Art Deco Architecture gallery
• Unemployment Rates (1920-1940)
• GNP Decline data (1929-1933)
Unit 10: WWII (1939-1945)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• Executive Order 9066
• Truman: Statement on Hiroshima
• FDR: Four Freedoms Speech
• Antony Beevor: "The Second World War"
• Analysis of the "Double V" campaign
• Randall Jarrell: "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
• Ernie Pyle war dispatches
• Joe Rosenthal: "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
• OPA Rationing Posters
• World GDP during war years
• Women in workforce statistics (1940-45)
Unit 11: Cold War (1945-1991)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• George Kennan: "The Long Telegram"
• Truman Doctrine (1947)
• Senator McCarthy's "List" Speech
• John Lewis Gaddis: "The Cold War"
• Analysis of the Domino Theory logic
• Arthur Miller: "The Crucible" (as allegory)
• Bob Dylan: "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
• Photos of the Berlin Wall
• Duck and Cover animated stills
• Defense spending as % of GDP (1945-1990)
• Space Race launch success timeline
Unit 12: Expansion of Rights (1945-Present)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• MLK: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Title IX Legislation
• Taylor Branch: "Parting the Waters"
• "The Movement" (Historical overview)
• Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"
• James Baldwin: "The Fire Next Time"
• Photos of the Greensboro Sit-ins
• Chicano Mural movement art
• Voter Registration rates by race (1960 vs 1970)
• Women’s collegiate sports participation
Unit 13: A Changing America (1980-Present)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Images & Art
Charts & Graphs
• The Patriot Act (2001)
• Reagan: "Tear Down This Wall"
• NAFTA Agreement (1994)
• Lawrence Wright: "The Looming Tower"
• Analysis of the 2008 Great Recession
• Amanda Gorman: "The Hill We Climb"
• Modern digital storytelling excerpts
• 9/11 Memorial architecture photos
• Global connectivity infographics
• Growth of the Internet (1990-Present)
• Wealth Inequality index trends
4. Give Me Liberty Sp.
5. Warren: The Adulateur
6. Barlow: Vision of Col.
7. Cooper: The Spy
8. Forbes: Johnny Tremain
9. Fast: April Morning
10. Anderson: Chains
1. Bloody Massacre
2. Trumbull: Dec of Ind
3. Join or Die
4. Bostonians / Excise
5. Crossing Delaware
6. Pulling Down Statue
7. Death Gen. Warren
8. Patriotic Ladies
9. Bunker Hill woodcut
10. Liberty Tree art
1. Debt Growth 1754-63
2. Colonial Revenue
3. Troop counts map
4. Casualties: N vs S
5. Pop growth by colony
6. Trade deficit data
7. Proclamation Line
8. Import volume chart
9. Tax revenue per cap
10. Loyalist migrations
Unit 2: New Nation (1783-1815)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. US Constitution
2. Bill of Rights
3. Federalist #10
4. Federalist #51
5. Farewell Address
6. Alien & Sedition Acts
7. VA/KY Resolutions
8. Jeff 1st Inaugural
9. Articles of Confed.
10. Marbury v Madison
1. Chernow: Hamilton
2. Amar: Const Bio
3. Ellis: Founding Bros
4. Meacham: Jefferson
5. Beeman: Honest Men
6. Collier: Decision
7. Stewart: Summer 1787
8. Wills: Explain Am.
9. Rakove: Meanings
10. Ferling: Adams/Jeff
1. Brown: Wieland
2. Freneau: Emigration
3. Barlow: Hasty Pudding
4. Rowson: Charlotte T.
5. Tyler: The Contrast
6. Foster: Coquette
7. Irving: Knickerbocker
8. Star Spangled Banner
9. Letters to John
10. Modern Chivalry
1. Lansdowne Portrait
2. Peale: Staircase
3. Glass for 1787
4. Mad Tom (Cartoon)
5. Providential Detect.
6. Cornwallis Surrender
7. Wash at Princeton
8. Impartial Dealings
9. Ograbme Turtle
10. Seal of the US
1. State Debt 1790
2. Election 1800 map
3. Pop distrib. 1790
4. Tariff rev 1790-15
5. Fed/Anti support map
6. Export growth data
7. Land sales stats
8. Bank stock holders
9. NW Territory map
10. Louisiana Purch map
Unit 3: Nationalism & Sectionalism (1815-1850)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Monroe Doctrine
2. Indian Removal Act
3. Missouri Compromise
4. Nullification Protest
5. Specie Circular
6. McCulloch v Maryland
7. Gibbons v Ogden
8. Am. System Speech
9. War Message (Polk)
10. Seneca Falls Dec.
1. Howe: God Wrought
2. Meacham: Am Lion
3. Wilentz: Am Dem
4. Remini: Jackson
5. McDougall: Promised
6. Sellers: Market Rev
7. Remini: Henry Clay
8. Heidler: Destiny
9. Greenberg: Manhood
10. Hinderaker: Empires
1. Last of Mohicans
2. Self-Reliance
3. Civil Disobedience
4. Scarlet Letter
5. Moby Dick
6. Fall House Usher
7. Anti-Slavery Poems
8. Hope Leslie
9. Woman in 19th C
10. Evangeline
1. King Andrew Cartoon
2. Trail of Tears art
3. County Election
4. The Oxbow
5. Am. Progress (Gast)
6. Power of Music
7. Catlin Portraits
8. Kindred Spirits
9. Downfall of Bank
10. Locofoco Juggernaut
1. Cotton 1800-60
2. Slave pop map
3. Erie Canal data
4. Rail vs Canal costs
5. Voter exp 1824-40
6. Election 1824 results
7. Mex-Am War map
8. Immig 1840s peaks
9. Factory labor data
10. 36°30' comp map
Unit 4: Civil War (1850-1865)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Graphs
1. Gettysburg Address
2. Emancipation Proc.
3. Lincoln 2nd Inaug.
4. Dred Scott Ruling
5. CSA Constitution
6. Grant: Memoirs
7. Lee: Farewell ANV
8. Douglass: What Slave
9. Homestead Act
10. Cornerstone Sp.
1. McPherson: Freedom
2. Foote: Narrative
3. Faust: Suffering
4. Goodwin: Team Rivals
5. Wills: Gettysburg
6. Gallagher: CSA War
7. Levine: Fall of House
8. Foner: Fiery Trial
9. Neely: Fate Liberty
10. Desjardin: Dead
1. Leaves of Grass
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. Battle-Pieces
4. Red Badge Courage
5. Hospital Sketches
6. Ode Magnolia Cem
7. Success Counted Sweet
8. Owl Creek Bridge
9. Incidents (Jacobs)
10. Biglow Papers
1. Home Sharpshooter
2. Harvest of Death
3. Emancipation Cartoon
4. Rail Candidate
5. Battle Bull Run
6. Prisoners from Front
7. Brady: Lincoln
8. CSA Sketches
9. Union Dissolved poster
10. Andersonville art
1. Resources Union/CSA
2. Casualties comparison
3. Mfg capacity chart
4. Rail density map
5. Election 1860 results
6. Cotton decline data
7. Military pop distrib.
8. Inflation chart
9. Desertion rates
10. Anaconda Plan map
Unit 5: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. 13, 14, 15 Amends
2. MS Black Codes
3. CRA 1866
4. Enforcement Acts
5. Comp of 1877
6. Freedmen Charter
7. Johnson Veto
8. Stevens Speech
9. KKK victim testimony
10. Grant KKK Proc
1. Foner: Recon
2. Du Bois: Black Recon
3. Blight: Race/Reunion
4. Richardson: West Appo
5. Lemann: Redemption
6. Hahn: Nation Feet
7. Egerton: Wars Recon
8. Masur: Until Justice
9. Downs: Appomattox
10. Edwards: People
1. We Wear the Mask
2. Bury Me Free Land
3. A Fool’s Errand
4. In Ole Virginia
5. Conjure Woman
6. Up From Slavery
7. The Clansman
8. Iola Leroy
9. Echoes from Cabin
10. Voice from South
1. Worse Than Slavery
2. White Man’s Gov
3. Black Congressmen
4. Carpet Bag Cartoon
5. Freedmen voting art
6. KKK woodcuts
7. Uncle Sam Thanks.
8. Freedmen Bureau art
9. Separation Races
10. First Vote art
1. Voter reg 1868
2. Sharecrop debt chart
3. Military Districts
4. Lynching stats 70s
5. Freedmen schools
6. Election 1876 map
7. Tenant farming data
8. Black Reps by state
9. Econ recovery lag
10. KKK violence map
Unit 6: Gilded Age (1870-1900)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Gospel of Wealth
2. Sherman Antitrust
3. Chinese Excl Act
4. What Labor Wants
5. Yellow Journal ed.
6. Interstate Comm Act
7. Pullman telegrams
8. Omaha Platform
9. Cross of Gold
10. Trust Agreement
1. Zinn: Barons/Rebels
2. Hofstadter: Reform
3. Stiles: Tycoon
4. Nasaw: Carnegie
5. Chernow: Titan
6. Jackson: Gilded Age
7. Diner: Different Age
8. Painter: Armageddon
9. White: Railroaded
10. Rauchway: Blessed
1. Gilded Age (Twain)
2. New Colossus
3. Maggie: Streets
4. Sister Carrie
5. Ragged Dick
6. Looking Backward
7. Iron Heel
8. The Octopus
9. How Other Half text
10. Awakening (Chopin)
1. Riis Tenements
2. Bosses of Senate
3. Tammany Tiger
4. Sargent Rockefeller
5. Cliff Dwellers
6. Gross Clinic
7. Standard Oil Octopus
8. Industry Protectors
9. The Bath (Cassatt)
10. World Fair photos
1. Steel Prod growth
2. Immig shift map
3. Wealth distrib 1890
4. Real wages chart
5. Urban % growth
6. Rail mileage map
7. Strike freq data
8. Union membership
9. Child labor stats
10. Tenement density
Unit 7: Progressive Era (1890-1920)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. 19th Amendment
2. The Jungle (Sinclair)
3. Bull Pulpit Speeches
4. Hull House Memoirs
5. Tarbell Standard Oil
6. Shame of Cities
7. Winning Plan (Catt)
8. Paul Amend arg.
9. Child Labor Act
10. Mueller v Oregon
1. Goodwin: Pulpit
2. McGerr: Discontent
3. Kolko: Triumph
4. Wiebe: Order
5. Cooper: Warrior
6. Lerner: Progress.
7. Knight: Suffrage
8. Wu: Bigness
9. Morris: Rex
10. Drehle: Triangle
1. Yellow Wallpaper
2. My Ántonia
3. House of Mirth
4. Ex-Colored Man
5. Main Street
6. Chicago Poems
7. Trifles (Glaspell)
8. Man with Hoe
9. Sinclair: Oil!
10. The Financier
1. Hine photography
2. Awakening Map
3. Trust Buster cart.
4. New Freedom cart.
5. Hester Street
6. Sloan Art
7. Triangle Fire art
8. Votes for Women
9. Suffrage Parades
10. Am Gothic Context
1. Women employment
2. Suffrage timeline
3. Park acres preserved
4. Infant mort decline
5. Labor hour reduct.
6. Literacy 1890-20
7. Hull House maps
8. Welfare spend data
9. Voter turnout 1920
10. Union growth data
Unit 8: Imperialism & WWI (1890-1919)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Zimmerman Note
2. Fourteen Points
3. Roosevelt Corollary
4. Platt Amendment
5. Sedition Act 1918
6. Schenck v US Ruling
7. Aguinaldo Letter
8. Lodge on League
9. Versailles text
10. Lusitania reports
1. MacMillan: 1919
2. Kennan: Diplomacy
3. Greene: Canal
4. Kinzer: Overthrow
5. End All Wars
6. Guns of August
7. World Remade
8. Kennedy: Over Here
9. Neutrality End
10. Winter War
1. Death Rendezvous
2. Counter-Attack
3. All Quiet (Remarque)
4. Farewell to Arms
5. Flanders Fields
6. White Man Burden
7. War Prayer (Twain)
8. Grass (Sandburg)
9. Dulce et Decorum
10. The Soldier (Brooke)
1. Mad Brute Poster
2. I Want You Poster
3. Rhodes Colossus
4. Trench photos
5. Ten Thousand Miles
6. Gassed (Sargent)
7. Nash: New World
8. Liberty Bonds gallery
9. Anti-Imp Cartoons
10. Western Front map
1. Casualties by nation
2. Export growth data
3. Sunk Tonnage chart
4. 1898 gains map
5. Convoy success data
6. Great Migration map
7. War spend % GDP
8. Allied resources
9. Post-war borders
10. Canal traffic stats
Unit 9: Interwar Years (1920-1939)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. FDR 1st Inaugural
2. Social Security Act
3. 1924 Origins Act
4. Scopes Transcripts
5. Volstead Act Text
6. Hoover Individualism
7. Share our Wealth
8. Glass-Steagall
9. Wagner Act
10. CCC forms
1. Freedom from Fear
2. Only Yesterday
3. New World Coming
4. Worst Hard Time
5. Badger: New Deal
6. McElvaine: Depression
7. Cohen: Making Deal
8. Forgotten Man
9. Leuchtenburg: FDR
10. Rising Tide
1. Hughes: I, Too
2. Great Gatsby
3. Grapes of Wrath
4. Babbitt (Lewis)
5. Their Eyes (Hurston)
6. Sun Also Rises
7. If We Must Die
8. First Fig (Millay)
9. Sound and Fury
10. Native Son exc.
1. Migrant Mother
2. American Gothic
3. Nighthawks
4. Negro Life mural
5. Dust Storm photo
6. Chrysler Building
7. River Rouge murals
8. WPA Mural gallery
9. Prohibition photos
10. Flapper fashion
1. Unemployment stats
2. GNP decline graph
3. Dust Bowl map
4. Bank failures freq.
5. Radio ownership
6. Model T price chart
7. 1920s Lynching map
8. Agency spend data
9. Consumer debt 29
10. Migration density
Unit 10: WWII (1939-1945)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. EO 9066
2. Truman Hiroshima
3. Four Freedoms
4. Atlantic Charter
5. Korematsu Ruling
6. 1944 GI Bill
7. Victory Report
8. D-Day Message
9. UN Preamble
10. Neutrality Act 39
1. Beevor: WWII
2. Why Allies Won
3. Band of Brothers
4. Atomic Diplomacy
5. War Without Mercy
6. Fateful Choices
7. Making Atom Bomb
8. Women at War
9. Double Victory
10. Inferno (Hastings)
1. Ball Turret Gunner
2. Brave Men (Pyle)
3. Death of Salesman
4. Catch-22 exc.
5. Hiroshima (Hersey)
6. Caine Mutiny
7. Naked and Dead
8. Negro Hero poem
9. Elegy Dead Soldier
10. No-No Boy
1. Iwo Jima Photo
2. Rockwell Freedoms
3. Rosie the Riveter
4. Rationing Posters
5. Seuss anti-iso
6. Why We Fight still
7. Buchenwald photos
8. Tuskegee photos
9. Nazi Brutality art
10. Pearl Harbor wreckage
1. Production by nation
2. Women labor force
3. Lend-Lease aid map
4. Strategic bombing
5. Concentration camps
6. Island Hopping map
7. Debt growth 41-45
8. Victory Garden stats
9. Minority enlistment
10. WWII Casualty map
Unit 11: Cold War (1945-1991)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Long Telegram
2. Truman Doctrine
3. Wheeling Speech
4. NSC-68 text
5. Tonkin Resolution
6. JFK Inaugural
7. War Powers 1973
8. INF Treaty
9. Marshall Plan
10. UN HR Dec
1. Gaddis: Cold War
2. Global Cold War
3. Embers of War
4. Legacy of Ashes
5. Last Empire
6. Rise to Globalism
7. CW Intro (McMahon)
8. Soul of Mankind
9. America, Russia, CW
10. Choosing War
1. The Crucible
2. Hard Rain Fall
3. Things They Carried
4. Spy Came in Cold
5. Catch-22
6. Howl (Ginsberg)
7. On the Road
8. The Bell Jar
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
10. Slouching towards B.
1. Berlin Wall photos
2. Duck and Cover
3. Herblock McCarthy
4. Shelter signage
5. Apollo 11 photos
6. Missile Crisis spy
7. Kent State photo
8. Warhol Mao
9. Anti-Red signs
10. Vietnam TV footage
1. Defense spend chart
2. Nuclear comparison
3. Divided Berlin map
4. Plan aid per nation
5. Space launch success
6. Proxy war map
7. NATO vs Warsaw map
8. Vietnam casualties
9. Iron Curtain line
10. Missile placement
Unit 12: Rights Expansion (1945-Present)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Birmingham Jail
2. VRA 1965
3. Brown v Board
4. Title IX
5. ADA 1990
6. Roe v Wade
7. CRA 1964
8. Ballot or Bullet
9. Feminine Mystique
10. Obergefell Ruling
1. Parting Waters
2. Other Suns (Wilk.)
3. Color of Law
4. Soul of America
5. Carry Me Home
6. Between World/Me
7. Bending Toward J.
8. New Jim Crow
9. Way We Never Were
10. Master of Senate
1. Still I Rise
2. Fire Next Time
3. Color Purple
4. Beloved (Morrison)
5. Raisin in Sun
6. Sister Outsider
7. Borderlands
8. Ceremony (Silko)
9. We Real Cool
10. Homegirls & HG
1. Sit-in photos
2. March on Wash.
3. Chicano Murals
4. Stonewall artifacts
5. Black Panther art
6. Stop ERA cartoons
7. Problem We Live With
8. Silence=Death art
9. Native protest art
10. LBJ signing photo
1. Reg. 1960 vs 1970
2. Sports participation
3. Wage gap stats
4. Desegregation map
5. Poverty by race
6. Great Migration II
7. Milestone timeline
8. ADA progress data
9. SCOTUS shift chart
10. Public Opinion polls
Unit 13: Changing America (1980-Present)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Patriot Act
2. Reagan Berlin Sp.
3. NAFTA Text
4. Clinton Health Sp.
5. 9/11 Address
6. 2004 DNC Obama
7. ACA Text
8. Paris Agreement
9. 9/11 Report
10. USMCA 2020
1. Looming Tower
2. World is Flat
3. The Unwinding
4. Price Inequality
5. Bowling Alone
6. Why Polarized
7. Future is History
8. Collapse (Diamond)
9. Last Best Hope
10. How Demo Die
1. Hill We Climb
2. Brief Wondrous Life
3. Underground RR
4. Interpreter Maladies
5. Zeitoun (Eggers)
6. Freedom (Franzen)
7. Home (Morrison)
8. On Beauty (Smith)
9. Oryx and Crake
10. Exit West
1. 9/11 photography
2. Connect heat maps
3. Meme culture art
4. Shuttle photos
5. NFT movement art
6. Climate visuals
7. 2008 Cartoons
8. Occupy posters
9. BLM Murals
10. Border aerials
1. Wealth trend chart
2. Internet rate graph
3. Global temp rise
4. Mfg vs Service labor
5. Debt 1980-2024
6. Sun Belt shift map
7. Solar adoption
8. Social Media data
9. Insurance coverage
10. Polarization index
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3. Mountain Echoes (Poem)
4. Coastal Winds (Folktale)
5. T is for Turpentine
6. Piedmont Pines (Poem)
7. Ghost of the Outer Banks
8. Daniel Boone legends
9. Blue Ridge Lullaby
10. Sand and Sea (Poem)
1. State Dog (Plott Hound) art
2. Cardinal & Dogwood art
3. Currituck Sound painting
4. Piedmont factory sketches
5. Biltmore House photo
6. Coastal Shipwreck art
7. Mount Mitchell vistas
8. NC Postcards (Vintage)
9. Lighthouse illustrations
10. Farmer Market sketches
1. NC Elevation profile chart
2. Rainfall by region graph
3. Land use: Forest vs Farm
4. State population density
5. Major Rivers system map
6. NC Border state map
7. Temperature highs by city
8. Tree species distribution
9. Soil color comparison
10. National Forest map
Unit 2: First Peoples of NC
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art (10)
Data (10)
1. Cherokee syllabary chart
2. De Bry engravings 1590
3. John White watercolors
4. Lumbee tribal land claims
5. Coharie basketry photos
6. Catawba pottery samples
7. Tuscarora treaty text
8. Indian Removal Act (local)
9. Walam Olum (Excerpts)
10. Oral tradition transcripts
1. Town Creek Mound guide
2. NC Tribal Council history
3. Paleo-Indian era overview
4. Three Sisters agriculture
5. Longhouse architecture study
6. History of Qualla Boundary
7. Lumbee recognition debate
8. Trail of Tears in NC
9. The Saponi history essay
10. NC Indigenous foods study
1. Rabbit and the Turtle
2. Cherokee Rose Legend
3. Catawba River myths
4. Soft Rain (Novel exc.)
5. How the Stars came to be
6. The Corn Lady story
7. Eagle and the Wren
8. Indigenous NC Poetry coll.
9. Why the Bear has a Tail
10. Lumbee River stories
1. John White: Indian Village
2. Beadwork pattern gallery
3. Powwow photography
4. Town Creek Mound ruins
5. Pottery: Catawba style
6. Dugout Canoe diagrams
7. Tribal seal designs (8)
8. Longhouse blueprints
9. Basketry: Coharie art
10. Ceremonial dance masks
1. Native Pop 1500 vs 1700
2. NC Tribal territory map
3. Pre-Columbian trade map
4. Seasonal planting cycles
5. Modern Tribal enrollment
6. Archaeological site density
7. Language groups of NC
8. Village size estimates
9. Trail of Tears route map
10. NC recognized tribes list
Unit 3: Exploration & Colonial Life
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Lost Colony "Croatoan" bark
2. Sir Walter Raleigh's patent
3. Charter of Carolina 1663
4. Lord Proprietors portraits
5. Colonial laws on tobacco
6. Ships passenger manifests
7. Early farm inventory lists
8. Royal Gov instructions
9. Piracy reports (Blackbeard)
10. Indentured servant papers
1. Solving Roanoke Mystery
2. Life in Edenton (Essay)
3. Lords Proprietors bio
4. Colonial NC Economy
5. Navigating Dismal Swamp
6. Pirate History of Bath
7. German settlers in Salem
8. African labor in NC colony
9. The Regulator Movement
10. Transition to Royal rule
1. Mystery of Roanoke
2. Legend of Virginia Dare
3. The Pirate and the Ghost
4. Colonial Girl (Diary fiction)
5. Lost Colony ballads
6. The Golden Hind stories
7. Frontier Boy adventure
8. Early NC fables
9. Colonial child labor poems
10. Legend of Blackbeard
1. Baptism of Virginia Dare
2. Bath Town sketches
3. Colonial kitchen art
4. Tryon Palace photography
5. Blackbeard's Flag design
6. Old Salem village photos
7. Colonial clothing gallery
8. Early NC plantation art
9. Royal Seal of Carolina
10. Cartoons: King vs Colony
1. NC Colony pop 1660-1750
2. Tobacco exports growth
3. Naval Stores prod. stats
4. Pirate activity heat map
5. Ethnic settlement map
6. Lord Proprietor lands
7. Colonial shipping routes
8. Indentured labor % chart
9. Early town size density
10. Royal Gov. term lengths
Unit 4: Revolutionary North Carolina
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art (10)
Maps (10)
1. Mecklenburg Declaration
2. Halifax Resolves text
3. Edenton Tea Party petition
4. Gen. Nathanael Greene letter
5. Battle Moore's Creek reports
6. Cornwallis NC dispatches
7. Flora MacDonald letters
8. NC Constitution 1776
9. Soldier enlistment bounty
10. Pension applications
1. NC’s Firsts in Liberty
2. Battle Guilford Court House
3. Penelope Barker biography
4. Overmountain Men history
5. Liberty Boys in NC
6. Whig vs Tory in Carolina
7. Battle of Kings Mountain
8. Role of enslaved in Rev NC
9. Mecklenburg vs Halifax study
10. NC Delegates to Congress
1. The Overmountain Man
2. Halifax Liberty (Poem)
3. Penelope’s Party (Story)
4. Drummer Boy of Moore’s Cr.
5. Patriot Girl (Fiction)
6. Crossing the Yadkin
7. Liberty Tree NC Verse
8. General Greene’s Ride
9. The Tory Hunt (Folktale)
10. Independence Song
1. Edenton Tea Party cartoon
2. Battle Guilford Court art
3. Overmountain Men painting
4. Halifax Resolves mural
5. Nathanael Greene portrait
6. Moore's Creek bridge sketch
7. Revolutionary NC uniforms
8. Musket and Cannon art
9. Liberty Bell (NC version)
10. Independence Hall NC art
1. Rev. Battles in NC map
2. Troop movements 1781
3. Patriot vs Loyalist regions
4. NC pop change 1775-83
5. Continental soldier data
6. Regulators vs Gov map
7. Trade blockage impact
8. NC county lines 1776
9. Overmountain route map
10. War debt by county
Unit 5: Civil War & State Growth (1850-1880)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. NC Secession Ordinance
2. Gov Vance: 1862 speech
3. Soldier letters from Benton.
4. Slave Sale notices (local)
5. Emancipation stories NC
6. 1868 NC Constitution
7. Blockade Runner logs
8. Freedmen’s Bureau records
9. Prison camp diaries
10. Reconstruction laws
1. NC in the Civil War
2. Battle of Bentonville study
3. Zebulon Vance Biography
4. Blockade Running NC
5. African Am in Recon NC
6. The Civil War Homefront
7. NC Ironclads history
8. Impact of 1868 Const.
9. Early Rail in NC history
10. Rise of Cotton Mills
1. North Carolina War Songs
2. Across the Yadkin story
3. Civil War NC Verse
4. Diary of NC Girl (1864)
5. Reconstruction ballads
6. Tales from the Piedmont
7. Freedom Morning story
8. The Brave Tar Heel
9. Railroad Rhythms poem
10. Post-war state songs
1. Bentonville battle art
2. Blockade runner sketches
3. Ironclad Neuse photos
4. State Capitol photography
5. Reconstruction posters
6. NC soldier portraits
7. Freedom Celebration art
8. Early Rail lithographs
9. Gov Vance portrait
10. Civil War camp sketches
1. NC Civil War battles map
2. Cotton mill growth chart
3. Casualties by NC county
4. Railroad expansion 1870
5. Free vs Enslaved pop map
6. Voter turnout 1868 data
7. Agricultural value loss
8. Population shift 1860-80
9. Blockade success rates
10. NC school founding data
Unit 6: Industry, Innovation & Modern NC
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Wright Bros Kitty Hawk log
2. High Point Furniture ads
3. Greensboro Sit-in photos
4. NC Highway Act text
5. RTP Founding documents
6. Charlotte Bank charters
7. Tobacco auction audio
8. State Fair programs 1950
9. Civil Rights march audio
10. Modern Gov speeches
1. History of the Wright Bros
2. Furniture Capital of World
3. Civil Rights in NC study
4. Building the RTP (Essay)
5. NC Automotive industry
6. Banking Growth in CLT
7. NC Tech Boom analysis
8. State Highway history
9. Modern NC Demographics
10. NC's Energy Future
1. First to Fly (Story)
2. Sit-in at Greensboro
3. The Carolina Way (Poem)
4. Furniture City legends
5. Modern NC Short Stories
6. Rural to Urban tales
7. The Silicon Piedmont
8. Tar Heel State Anthem
9. Innovation rhymes
10. Modern NC poetry coll.
1. Wright Flyer photography
2. High Point showroom art
3. Sit-in Memorial photos
4. RTP Architecture gallery
5. CLT Skyline over time
6. NC Farm vs Tech art
7. State Fair poster gallery
8. Solar farm photography
9. Modern NC artist gallery
10. Blue Ridge Parkway art
1. NC Industry shift chart
2. Pop growth CLT/RDU/GSO
3. RTP Tech sector growth
4. NC Highway density map
5. Export data: Furniture/Bio
6. Energy sources: Coal vs Solar
7. College enrollment stats
8. Modern ethnic diversity %
9. State revenue sources
10. NC Tourism spend data
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3. Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
4. Cherokee Rose Legends
5. Ocracoke Ghost Stories
6. NC Native Poetry coll.
7. Blue Ridge Mountain Verse
8. Lost Colony Ballads
9. Coastal Folklore coll.
10. Pine Barrens legends
1. John White watercolors
2. Biltmore House photography
3. NC Postcard gallery (1900)
4. Outer Banks lighthouse art
5. Blue Ridge Vista paintings
6. Indigenous pottery gallery
7. Early NC farm sketches
8. Piedmont factory lithographs
9. State Flag development art
10. Currituck Sound art
1. NC Elevation profile chart
2. Region rainfall comparison
3. Tribal territory maps
4. 1700 Population density
5. River system networks map
6. State land use trends
7. Coastal erosion data
8. Migration route maps
9. Climate zone chart NC
10. Tree species distribution
Unit 2: Colonial Conflict & Revolution in NC
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art (10)
Maps (10)
1. Mecklenburg Declaration
2. Halifax Resolves text
3. Edenton Tea Party petition
4. Regulator Movement petitions
5. Blackbeard Piracy reports
6. Gov. Tryon's Palace logs
7. Cornwallis NC dispatches
8. 1776 NC Constitution
9. Moore's Creek Bridge report
10. Nathanael Greene letters
1. NC Firsts in Liberty study
2. Battle Guilford Court House
3. Pirate History of Bath
4. Regulator Battle of Alamance
5. Overmountain Men history
6. Flora MacDonald biography
7. NC Delegates to Congress
8. Whig vs Tory in Carolina
9. Battle of Kings Mountain
10. Enslaved labor in NC Colony
1. The Overmountain Man tales
2. Halifax Liberty (Poem)
3. Last of the Mohicans (Context)
4. Legend of Virginia Dare
5. Blackbeard the Pirate verse
6. Colonial Girl Diary (Fiction)
7. Battle of Guilford ballad
8. Liberty Tree Verse (NC)
9. Crossing the Yadkin story
10. Independence Hymn
1. Edenton Tea Party cartoon
2. Battle of Alamance sketches
3. Overmountain painting
4. Tryon Palace photography
5. Cornwallis portraits
6. Moore's Creek bridge sketch
7. Blackbeard's Flag design
8. Rev. War NC uniforms
9. Guilford Courthouse mural
10. Early NC town blueprints
1. Rev Battles in NC map
2. Pirate activity heat map
3. Ethnic settlement map
4. NC pop change 1700-80
5. Lord Proprietors land map
6. Regulators vs Gov map
7. Trade blockage impact stats
8. Overmountain route map
9. NC county lines 1776
10. Tobacco export growth
Unit 3: Antebellum NC: Division & Expansion
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art (10)
Data (10)
1. Nat Turner Rebellion reports
2. Harriet Jacobs: Life of Slave
3. Archibald Murphey: Education
4. NC Railroad Charter 1849
5. Gov Morehead speeches
6. Slave Sale broadsides (local)
7. NC Constitution of 1835
8. Gold Hill mining logs
9. Cotton plantation ledgers
10. Abolitionist news (NC)
1. The "Rip Van Winkle" State
2. NC Internal Improvement plan
3. History of NC Gold Rush
4. Rise of NC Cotton Mills
5. NC Slave Codes analysis
6. Impact of the Wilmington Port
7. Early Railroads in NC
8. NC Public School Founding
9. Sectionalism in NC politics
10. Antebellum farm life study
1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Context)
2. Incidents in Life (Jacobs)
3. NC Fugitive Slave poems
4. Plantation Melodies coll.
5. Rail Rhythms (NC Verse)
6. Gold Mine folk songs
7. Abolitionist hymns (NC)
8. Rip Van Winkle (contextual)
9. Southern Literary Messenger
10. Frontier NC legends
1. Gold Hill mine sketches
2. NC Plantation photography
3. Early Steam Engine art
4. Slave market woodcuts
5. State Capitol art (NC)
6. Port of Wilmington lithos
7. Sectionalism cartoons (NC)
8. Cotton Gin operational art
9. Early Rail posters (NC)
10. Portraits of NC Governors
1. NC Cotton output 1800-50
2. Slave pop growth by county
3. Gold production by region
4. NC School founding data
5. Rail mileage density map
6. Voter turnout 1840 data
7. NC Manufacturing vs Agric %
8. Illiteracy rates by county
9. Port tonnage (Wilmington)
10. State budget: Education %
Unit 4: Civil War & Reconstruction in NC
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art (10)
Data (10)
1. NC Secession Ordinance
2. Gov Vance: 1862 Speech
3. Bentonville Battle reports
4. Blockade Runner logs (Wilm)
5. Emancipation accounts NC
6. 1868 NC Constitution text
7. Freedmen’s Bureau NC records
8. KKK investigation transcripts
9. NC Confederate soldier letters
10. Surrender terms (Bennett Pl)
1. NC in the Civil War study
2. Battle of Bentonville analysis
3. Zebulon Vance Biography
4. Blockade Running NC coast
5. African Am in Recon NC
6. NC Civil War Homefront
7. Impact of the 1868 Const.
8. KKK in the Piedmont history
9. NC Ironclads: CSS Neuse
10. Rise of the Red Shirts NC
1. NC Civil War Songs coll.
2. Cold Mountain (Novel exc.)
3. Civil War NC Poetry coll.
4. Diary of NC Girl (1864)
5. Reconstruction ballads NC
6. Tales from the Piedmont
7. Freedom Morning (Fiction)
8. The Brave Tar Heel poems
9. Railroad Rhythms (Verse)
10. Post-war state songs
1. Bentonville battle art
2. Blockade runner sketches
3. CSS Neuse photography
4. NC State Capitol photos
5. Reconstruction posters
6. NC soldier portraits
7. Freedom Celebration art
8. Early Rail lithographs
9. Gov Vance portraits
10. Civil War camp sketches
1. NC Civil War battles map
2. Cotton mill growth chart
3. Casualties by NC county
4. Railroad expansion 1870
5. Free vs Enslaved pop map
6. Voter turnout 1868 data
7. Agricultural value loss data
8. Population shift 1860-80
9. Blockade success rate graph
10. NC school enrollment stats
Unit 5: Industrialization & The Progressive Era in NC
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Wilmington Coup accounts
2. NC Child Labor law text
3. Wright Bros Kitty Hawk logs
4. Tobacco Factory ads (local)
5. Cannon Mills labor reports
6. High Point Furniture catalog
7. Jim Crow signage photos
8. Rosenwald School charters
9. Gov Aycock education sp.
10. Early NC Union charters
1. Wilmington Coup of 1898
2. NC Furniture Industry study
3. History of NC Tobacco
4. Progressive Reform in NC
5. NC Child Labor analysis
6. Building NC Highways history
7. Rise of NC Textiles industry
8. History of Rosenwald Schools
9. NC Urbanization 1900-1920
10. NC Gilded Age Politics
1. Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward
2. O. Henry: NC Short Stories
3. Paul Laurence Dunbar (NC)
4. NC Textile Mill poems
5. Wright Bros flight story
6. Furniture City legends
7. NC Progressive era verse
8. Tales from the Smokies
9. Tar Heel State Anthem
10. Rural to Urban NC tales
1. Wilmington 1898 cartoons
2. Lewis Hine: NC Mill photos
3. Wright Flyer photography
4. High Point showroom art
5. NC Farm vs Factory art
6. State Fair poster gallery
7. Early NC Automotive art
8. Biltmore House photos
9. NC Railway lithographs
10. Jim Crow era photography
1. NC Textile Mill growth chart
2. Tobacco production volume
3. Urban pop % NC 1890-1920
4. Child labor statistics by age
5. NC Highway density map
6. School funding by county
7. Furniture export value data
8. NC Lynching stats 1890-20
9. Racial makeup of NC towns
10. Voter suppression impact
Unit 6: 20th Century: War, Rights & Modernization
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Literature & Poetry
Art & Cartoons
Charts & Maps
1. Greensboro Sit-in photos
2. RTP Founding charter
3. Camp Lejeune WWII logs
4. Pearsall Plan (1955) text
5. NC Civil Rights march audio
6. Charlotte Busing records
7. Gov Sanford: Education sp.
8. NC Highway Act 1950s
9. Tobacco Auction audio
10. Modern NC Gov inaugural
1. Building Research Triangle
2. NC in the World Wars study
3. Civil Rights in NC analysis
4. Swann v Charlotte history
5. NC Tobacco transition (Essay)
6. Banking Growth in Charlotte
7. NC Tech Boom of the 90s
8. NC Environmental policy hist.
9. NC Demographics shift 2020
10. Future of NC Industry report
1. Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
2. Clyde Edgerton: NC Novels
3. Lee Smith: Oral History exc.
4. NC Modern Poetry anthology
5. The Silicon Piedmont tales
6. Sit-in at Greensboro story
7. NC Veteran memoirs (WWII)
8. Modern NC Short Stories
9. Tar Heel State Anthem
10. NC Urban/Rural poetry
1. Sit-in Memorial photos
2. RTP Architecture gallery
3. CLT Skyline growth series
4. Solar Farm photography
5. NC Farm to Table art
6. Modern NC artist gallery
7. Blue Ridge Parkway photos
8. Civil Rights murals NC
9. Tobacco market lithographs
10. NC Highway system posters
1. Pop growth: CLT vs RDU
2. NC Industry shift chart
3. RTP Tech sector revenue
4. NC Voter registration data
5. Higher Ed funding metrics
6. Renewable energy share NC
7. Modern ethnic diversity %
8. NC Banking asset data
9. State revenue sources 2020
10. NC Tourism spend trends
6 Units
8th Grade NC History
300 Sources
50 per Unit
100% ALIGNED
NC K-12 Standards
4. Coastal Wind folktales
5. T is for Turpentine
6. Piedmont Pines verse
7. Ghost of Outer Banks
8. Daniel Boone legends
9. Blue Ridge Lullaby
10. Sand and Sea poems
1. Plott Hound state dog art
2. Cardinal & Dogwood art
3. Currituck Sound painting
4. Factory sketches 1800s
5. Biltmore House photo
6. Shipwreck coastal art
7. Mitchell summit vistas
8. Vintage NC Postcards
9. Lighthouse illustrations
10. Farmer Market art
1. Elevation profile chart
2. Rainfall regional graph
3. Forest vs Farm land use
4. State population density
5. Major River system map
6. Border state map
7. Temp highs by city
8. Tree species distribution
9. Soil color chart NC
10. National Forest map
Unit 2: First Peoples of NC
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art & Media (10)
Data & Maps (10)
1. Cherokee syllabary chart
2. De Bry engravings 1590
3. John White watercolors
4. Lumbee land claims docs
5. Coharie basket photos
6. Catawba pottery samples
7. Tuscarora treaty text
8. Removal Act local exc.
9. Walam Olum (Excerpts)
10. Oral tradition logs
1. Town Creek Mound guide
2. Tribal Council history
3. Paleo-Indian overview
4. Three Sisters farming
5. Longhouse architecture
6. Qualla Boundary history
7. Lumbee recognition essay
8. Trail of Tears in NC
9. Saponi history study
10. Indigenous food study
1. Rabbit and the Turtle
2. Cherokee Rose Legend
3. Catawba River myths
4. Soft Rain (Novel exc.)
5. How Stars Came To Be
6. The Corn Lady story
7. Eagle and the Wren
8. Indigenous NC Poetry
9. Why Bear Has Tail
10. Lumbee River stories
1. Indian Village painting
2. Beadwork patterns
3. Powwow photography
4. Mound ruins gallery
5. Catawba Pottery style
6. Dugout Canoe diagrams
7. Tribal seal designs
8. Longhouse blueprints
9. Coharie basketry art
10. Ceremonial masks
1. Native Pop 1500 vs 1700
2. Tribal territory map
3. Pre-Columbian trade map
4. Seasonal planting chart
5. Tribal enrollment stats
6. Archaeological density
7. NC Language groups
8. Village size estimates
9. Trail of Tears map
10. Recognized tribes list
Unit 3: Exploration & Colonial Life
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art & Media (10)
Data & Maps (10)
1. "Croatoan" bark carving
2. Raleigh's patent 1584
3. Charter of Carolina 1663
4. Proprietors portraits
5. Colonial tobacco laws
6. Ship manifests 1700s
7. Farm inventory lists
8. Royal Gov instructions
9. Blackbeard reports
10. Indentured papers
1. Roanoke Mystery study
2. Life in Edenton essay
3. Lords Proprietors bios
4. Colonial NC Economy
5. Dismal Swamp navigation
6. Pirate History of Bath
7. Salem German settlers
8. African labor history
9. Regulator Movement bio
10. Royal rule transition
1. Mystery of Roanoke
2. Virginia Dare Legend
3. Pirate and the Ghost
4. Colonial Girl Diary
5. Lost Colony Ballads
6. Golden Hind stories
7. Frontier Boy Adventure
8. Early NC fables
9. Child labor poems
10. Blackbeard Legends
1. Baptism of Virginia Dare
2. Bath Town sketches
3. Colonial kitchen art
4. Tryon Palace photos
5. Blackbeard's Flag
6. Old Salem photography
7. Colonial clothing art
8. NC Plantation art
9. Royal Seal gallery
10. King vs Colony cartoons
1. Colony pop 1660-1750
2. Tobacco export growth
3. Naval Stores prod. data
4. Pirate activity map
5. Ethnic settlement map
6. Proprietor land grants
7. Colonial trade routes
8. Indentured labor %
9. Early town density
10. Royal Gov term timeline
Unit 4: Revolutionary North Carolina
Primary (10)
Secondary (10)
Literature (10)
Art & Media (10)
Data & Maps (10)
1. Mecklenburg Declaration
2. Halifax Resolves text
3. Edenton Petition
4. Gen. Greene letters
5. Moore's Creek reports
6. Cornwallis dispatches
7. MacDonald letters
8. 1776 NC Constitution
9. Enlistment bounty docs
10. Soldier pension apps
1. NC Firsts in Liberty
2. Guilford CH analysis
3. Penelope Barker bio
4. Overmountain Men hist
5. Liberty Boys essay
6. Whig vs Tory study
7. Kings Mountain history
8. Enslaved in Rev NC
9. Mecklenburg vs Halifax
10. NC Congress delegates
1. Overmountain Man story
2. Halifax Liberty poem
3. Penelope's Party tale
4. Drummer of Moore's Cr
5. Patriot Girl fiction
6. Crossing the Yadkin
7. Liberty Tree NC verse
8. Gen. Greene's Ride
9. The Tory Hunt fable
10. Independence Song
1. Edenton Tea Cartoon
2. Battle of Guilford art
3. Overmountain painting
4. Halifax mural
5. Nathanael Greene art
6. Bridge battle sketch
7. War NC Uniforms
8. Musket/Cannon art
9. NC Liberty Bell
10. Indep Hall NC art
1. Battle locations map
2. Troop movements 1781
3. Patriot/Loyalist map
4. Pop change 1775-83
5. Continental soldier count
6. Regulator conflict map
7. Blockage impact data
8. 1776 County lines
9. Overmountain route map
10. War debt by region
Unit 5: Civil War & Changes (1850-1880)
6 Units • NC-4-SOCIAL
Sources (10/10)
Primary: NC Secession Ordinance text.
Primary: Gov Vance 1862 state speech.
Primary: Bentonville battle reports.
Primary: Slave sale notices (Local records).
Primary: Blockade runner ship logs.
Secondary: NC Civil War Homefront study.
Secondary: African Americans in Recon NC.
Secondary: Impact of 1868 NC Constitution.
Secondary: Rise of NC Cotton Mills essay.
Secondary: Bentonville tactical analysis.
Literature & Art (10/10)
Lit: NC War Songs collection.
Lit: Across the Yadkin historical fiction.
Lit: Diary of an NC Girl (1864).
Lit: Reconstruction era state ballads.
Lit: Tales from the Piedmont frontier.
Art: Bentonville battle lithograph.
Art: Ironclad CSS Neuse photography.
Art: NC Soldier portrait gallery.
Art: Freedom Celebration murals.
Art: Gov Zebulon Vance portrait.
Data (10)
• Battle location map
• Mill growth chart
• Casualties by county
• 1870 Rail density map
• Free vs Enslaved map
• 1868 Voter turnout
• Ag value loss data
• 1860-80 Pop shifts
• Blockade success rates
• NC School founding
Unit 6: Innovation & Modern NC
6 Units • NC-4-SOCIAL
Sources (10/10)
Primary: Wright Flyer Kitty Hawk log.
Primary: Greensboro Sit-in photography.
Primary: RTP Founding charter docs.
Primary: NC Highway Act 1950s text.
Primary: Charlotte Bank charter records.
Secondary: History of NC Furniture.
Secondary: NC Tech Boom analysis (90s).
Secondary: Civil Rights in NC summary.
Secondary: Building the Triangle essay.
Secondary: Modern NC Demographics report.
Literature & Art (10/10)
Lit: First to Fly (Wright story).
Lit: The Carolina Way (Poem).
Lit: Silicon Piedmont modern tales.
Lit: Tar Heel State Anthem music.
Lit: Rural to Urban short stories.
Art: CLT Skyline growth series.
Art: Solar Farm NC landscape phot.
Art: NC Farm to Table murals.
Art: Blue Ridge Parkway vistas.
Art: Modern NC artist spotlight.
Data (10)
• Industry shift chart
• Pop growth CLT/RDU
• RTP Revenue sectors
• Highway density map
• Bio export data
• Renewable energy share
• Higher Ed funding
• Ethnic diversity %
• State revenue sources
• Tourism spend data
6 Units
Elementary Core
300 Items
10 per Category
4th Grade
NC History Vault
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." — Marcus Garvey
Evaluate the Magna Carta's role in establishing limited government.
Construct a cause/effect map of the Intolerable Acts' impacts.
Vocabulary (20)
Sovereignty Natural Rights Social Contract Republicanism Magna Carta Tyranny Bicameral Grievance Charter Confederation Consent Common Law Representation Boycott Repeal Preamble Founding Diplomacy Unalienable Enlightenment
Unit 2: The Constitution & Federalism
CL.C&G.1.2, 2.2, 4.3
Students Will Know:
The specific mechanics of the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Difference between Enumerated, Reserved, and Shared powers.
Roles of the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce Clause.
Interpretations of the Necessary and Proper Clause.
Key federal policies (e.g. Patriot Act) and their justifications.
State policies that contradicted federal law (Nullification).
Mechanics of the Amendment process (Article V).
Examples of Supreme Court constitutional interpretations.
Differences between state and federal executive authority.
The role of the Census in federal power distribution.
Students Will Do:
Categorize 10 government actions as State, Fed, or Shared.
Analyze 2 SCOTUS decisions to identify interpretation styles.
Critique the Patriot Act's consistency with the Bill of Rights.
Deconstruct how the 10th Amendment preserves state power.
Analyze a current bill to determine its level of jurisdiction.
Contrast strict construction vs loose construction arguments.
Evaluate the consistency of the ACA with federalist principles.
Identify 3 ways federalism impacts daily citizen life.
Compare the U.S. and N.C. Constitutions for power structure.
Construct an argument on the balance of state vs federal sovereignty.
Individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights (1st-10th).
SCOTUS rulings on due process (Miranda, Gideon).
Mechanics of the Equal Protection Clause.
Legal differences in access to justice for minorities.
Definitions of de facto vs de jure segregation.
Provisions of the Civil Rights Acts (1964, 1968).
Roe v Wade's impact on personal privacy rights.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.
Specific judicial protections for students (Tinker).
Students Will Do:
Summarize the importance of due process in a democracy.
Compare access to justice for 2 marginalized groups.
Critique a SCOTUS ruling for its adherence to equity.
Analyze 3 amendments to track rights expansion.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Civil Rights Act.
Identify 2 examples of current institutional discrimination.
Contrast procedural vs substantive due process.
Distinguish between individual rights vs collective security.
Explain the judicial role in defining modern freedom.
Construct an argument on the "Equitability of Justice" today.
Vocabulary (20)
Due Process Equal Protection De Jure De Facto Equity Litigation Advocacy Statutory Jurisdiction Inalienable Substantive Procedural Entitlement Disability Privacy Probable Cause Warrant Incorporation Common Good Liberty
Unit 11: Government & The Economy
CL.E.1.1, 1.2
Students Will Know:
Roles of the Federal Reserve (Monetary Policy).
Difference between Fiscal and Monetary policy tools.
Economic targets: Inflation, Unemployment, GDP.
Impact of government subsidies and stimulus checks.
Role of North Carolina in global trade (Exports).
Functions of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Principles of Supply-side vs Demand-side economics.
Impact of trade tariffs on consumer prices.
Regulatory roles of the FTC on monopolies.
Specific NC industries (Tech, Pharma, Agriculture).
Students Will Do:
Analyze 1 economic policy impact on social mobility.
Compare 2 fiscal strategies for addressing a recession.
Evaluate the effect of interest rate shifts on quality of life.
Summarize NC's role in the 21st c. world economy.
Contrast free trade vs protectionist economic views.
Identify 3 regulatory agencies and their market roles.
Explain the relationship between deficit and national debt.
Construct a flowchart of how taxes fund local services.
Analyze trade data to determine NC's primary export targets.
Critique the impact of a state tax increase on demographics.
Vocabulary (20)
Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy GDP Inflation Deficit Surplus Tariff Subsidy Stimulus Recession Federal Reserve Export Import Global Interdependence Revenue Progressive Tax Regressive Tax Entrepreneur Market Equity
Unit 12: Geography, Geopolitics & Global Affairs
CL.G.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, CL.C&G.2.4
Students Will Know:
Difference between political geography and geopolitics.
Impact of population density on polling site distribution.
Geopolitical factors in 3 international regions.
The position of the U.S. on major environmental treaties.
Environmental factors that impact voting (Disasters).
Differences between Multilateral and Bilateral cooperation.
Structure of international bodies: UN, NATO, WHO.
Global issues: Marine pollution, Land desertification.
Comparison of U.S. democracy vs Authoritarian systems.
Impact of border security on international relations.
Students Will Do:
Compare U.S. rights protection with 1 other system.
Map 5 global environmental crises and U.S. responses.
Analyze demographic influence on political participation.
Contrast democratic vs theocratic government roles.
Evaluate the effectiveness of 1 international agreement.
Critique 1 U.S. border policy using freedom/equality lenses.
Construct a PSA on the impact of gerrymandering.
Analyze 21st c. migration factors for geopolitical root causes.
Distinguish between diplomatic summits vs conferences.
Evaluate the balance of security vs privacy in a global context.
Strategies of resistance: Civil Disobedience, Strikes, Sit-ins.
Impact of the ADA on environmental physical access.
Achievements of Ella Baker, Cesar Chavez, and Harvey Milk.
Examples of Resilience in the face of 9/11 attacks.
Japanese American resilience during WWII internment.
Factors of institutional discrimination in housing (Redlining).
Role of social media in modern political movements.
Legislative changes resulting from the Chicano movement.
Milestones of the Environmental Justice movement.
Students Will Do:
Analyze 2 protest strategies for long-term effectiveness.
Compare achievements of 2 modern minority leaders.
Critique a policy for evidence of institutional bias.
Construct a children's book on a minority contribution.
Evaluate the effect of social norms on discriminatory laws.
Distinguish between individual values vs societal norms.
Explain how resistance can alter governmental systems.
Identify 3 examples of resilience in NC history.
Analyze 1 movement's mission statement for core values.
Construct an argument for the role of activism in republic health.
Vocabulary (20)
Resilience Resistance Civil Disobedience Equity Marginalization Redlining Institutional Discrimination Reform Activism Injustice Pacifism Advocacy Social Movement Equality Norms Belief System Empowerment Civil Rights Stability
Master Standards Matrix
Unit Cluster
Behavioral
Civics
Econ
Geo
History
Foundations (U1-U2)
-
CG.1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 4.3
-
-
H.1.1
Structure (U3-U5)
B.1.1
CG.2.1, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2
-
-
-
Citizenship (U6-U9)
B.1.1, 1.3
CG.3.1-3.7
-
-
H.1.2, 1.3
Modern Life (U10-U13)
B.1.2, 1.4
CG.2.4, 4.4-4.6
E.1.1, 1.2
G.1.1-1.3
H.1.4-1.6
13 Units
Instructional Cycle
260 Goals
10/10 Measurable targets
260 Vocab
Civic Literacy Key Terms
"In democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen." — Louis Brandeis
CL.C&G.2.4 Global Gov Comparison
✓
CL.C&G.3.1 Citizen Participation
✓
CL.C&G.3.2 Protest Strategies
✓
CL.C&G.3.3 Naturalization Change
✓
CL.C&G.3.4 Citizenship Comparison
✓
CL.C&G.3.5 Two-Party System
✓
CL.C&G.3.6 Media & Public
✓
CL.C&G.3.7 Election effectiveness
✓
CL.C&G.4.1 Judicial Sys US/NC
✓
CL.C&G.4.2 Structure/Function Adversarial
✓
CL.C&G.4.3 constitutional Interp.
✓
CL.C&G.4.4 Ensuring Freedoms
✓
CL.C&G.4.5 Due Process Rights
✓
CL.C&G.4.6 Justice Access
✓
Economics (CL.E)
CL.E.1.1 Government & Econ
✓
CL.E.1.2 Global Economy Role
✓
Geography (CL.G)
CL.G.1.1 Geo & Policy
✓
CL.G.1.2 Geopolitical Participation
✓
CL.G.1.3 Global Env Issues
✓
History (CL.H)
CL.H.1.1 Tensions & Republic
✓
CL.H.1.2 Competing Narratives
✓
CL.H.1.3 rights evolution Perspectives
✓
CL.H.1.4 impact social movements
✓
CL.H.1.5 Minority Achievements
✓
CL.H.1.6 Resistance/Resilience
✓
Unit Key
U1: Found & Revol Origins
U2: Framework & Federalism
U3: Leg/Exec Roles
U4: Judicial Power
U5: State & Local Power
U6: Competing Narratives
U7: Participation & Naturalization
U8: Elections & Parties
U9: Media & Information
U10: Civil Rights & Due Process
U11: Econ Policy & Global Role
U12: Geo & Global Affairs
U13: Inclusion & Resilience
Curriculum Note
This matrix provides a birds-eye view of instructional coverage. Each mark (✓) signifies a primary standard focus where specific 'Know' and 'Do' goals are anchored in the Master Blueprint. This ensures vertical scaffolding toward complex analysis goals for high school Civic Literacy.
EquityInalienableDe FactoDe JureLitigationAdvocacySubstantiveProceduralWarrantIncorporationLibertySegregationIntegrationFeminismPetitionPrecedentStatutoryProbable CauseVeracityDue Process
ResilienceResistanceDisobedienceRedliningInstitutionalDiscriminationActivismAdvocacyNormsStabilityMobilizeEqualityBoycottInjusticeSystemicProtestEmpowermentPACLitigationCivil Rights
Master Standards cross-listing Chart
Objective Code
U1
U2
U3
U4
U5
U6
U7
U8
U9
U10
U11
U12
U13
CL.B.1.1 Values Policy
✓
✓
CL.B.1.2 Norms Judicial
✓
✓
CL.B.1.3 Freedom Transform
✓
CL.B.1.4 Institutional Disc
✓
CL.C&G.1.1 Principles
✓
CL.C&G.1.2 Critique Consist
✓
CL.C&G.2.1 Level Maint
✓
✓
CL.C&G.2.2 Federalism
✓
CL.C&G.2.3 Local Types
✓
CL.C&G.2.4 Global Comp
✓
CL.C&G.3.1 Participate
✓
CL.C&G.3.2 Protest Strat
✓
CL.C&G.3.3 Naturalize
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CL.C&G.3.4 Citizenship Co
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CL.C&G.3.5 Two Party
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CL.C&G.3.6 Media Relat
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CL.C&G.3.7 Election Effec
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CL.C&G.4.1 Judicial Sys
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CL.C&G.4.2 Structure Adv
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CL.C&G.4.3 Interp Change
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CL.C&G.4.4 Ensure Freed
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CL.C&G.4.5 Due Process
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CL.C&G.4.6 Justice Access
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CL.E.1.1 Decision Econ
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CL.E.1.2 World Econ Role
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CL.G.1.1 Policy & Env.
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CL.G.1.2 Participatn Geo
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CL.G.1.3 Global Env Issu
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CL.H.1.2 Narratives Comp
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CL.H.1.3 Perspective evolution
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CL.H.1.4 Social Movements
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CL.H.1.5 Minority Achieve
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CL.H.1.6 Resistance/Resil.
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13 Units
Instructional Cycle
260 Goals
10/10 Measurable Ratio
260 Vocab
Civic Literacy Key Terms
"In democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen." — Louis Brandeis
Arguments for Federalist vs Anti-Federalist ratification.
Mechanics of the Article V amendment process steps.
Core protections provided by the Bill of Rights (1-10).
Interpretation styles: Strict vs Loose constructionism.
Constitutional limits on federal power to tax and spend.
The role of the Census in distributing federal authority.
Students Will Do (10)
Categorize 10 powers as State, Federal, or Shared.
Analyze 2 SCOTUS decisions to identify interpretation styles.
Critique a federal policy for adherence to founding principles.
Deconstruct how the 10th Amendment preserves state sovereignty.
Analyze modern bills to identify specific level of jurisdiction.
Contrast bank arguments from Hamilton vs Jefferson.
Evaluate the consistency of the ACA with shared powers.
Identify tax impacts of specific federalist policies.
Compare U.S. and NC constitutions for structural parity.
Construct a written argument on the 1787 power balance.
Due ProcessInalienableDe FactoDe JureEquitySubstantiveProceduralWarrantIncorporationLibertySegregationIntegrationFeminismPetitionStatutoryProbable CauseVeracityDisabilityInjusticeLitigation
Unit 9: State & Local Government
Standards: CL.C&G.2.3, CL.E.1.2, CL.G.1.1, 1.2
Know (10)
NC Local Gov types: County vs Municipality.
Mayor-Council vs Council-Manager models.
NC General Assembly structure and sessions.
School Board vs Special District roles facts.
NC roles in global trade (Pharma, Agric).
Impact of population density on polling sites.
Environmental disaster impacts on local voting.
Intergovernmental service delivery mergers.
NC County Commissioner functional duties.
Ordinance vs State Statute legal hierarchy.
Do (10)
Differentiate Sheriff vs Chief roles.
Analyze local budgets for priority values.
Summarize NC global economic role/exports.
Evaluate zoning impact on property rights.
Analyze demographic influence on voting maps.
Critique local policy efficiency in NC.
Identify pathways for local citizen influence.
Explain state-tribal interactions in NC.
Contrast NCGA vs US Congress steps.
Construct boundary policy briefs.
20 Vocab
MunicipalityOrdinanceZoningAnnexationIncorporatedRevenueStatuteReferendumAssessorTownshipGubernatorialSanitationCommissionerCharterInfrastructureManagerAssemblyDistrictMayorLand Use
Full Standards Alignment Matrix (9-Unit Reorg)
Standard Code
U1
U2
U3
U4
U5
U6
U7
U8
U9
CL.B.1.1 Values/Policy
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CL.B.1.2 Norms Judicial
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CL.B.1.3 Change Government
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CL.B.1.4 Inst. Discrim.
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CL.C&G.1.1 Principles
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CL.C&G.1.2 Critique Consistent
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CL.C&G.2.1 Branches Role
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CL.C&G.2.2 Federalism
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CL.C&G.2.3 Local Types
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CL.C&G.2.4 Global Comparison
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CL.C&G.3.1 Responsibilities
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CL.C&G.3.2 Protest strategies
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CL.C&G.3.3 Naturalization
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CL.C&G.3.4 Citizenship Comp
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CL.C&G.3.5 Two-Party Sys
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CL.C&G.3.6 Media Relations
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CL.C&G.3.7 Election Effec
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CL.C&G.4.1 Judicial Sys
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CL.C&G.4.2 Structure Adv.
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CL.C&G.4.3 Interp Change
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CL.C&G.4.4 Ensure Freedom
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CL.C&G.4.5 Due Process
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CL.C&G.4.6 Justice Access
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CL.E.1.1 Decision Econ
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CL.E.1.2 Global Role NC
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CL.G.1.1 Policy & Env
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CL.G.1.2 Participatn Geo
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CL.G.1.3 Global Env Issue
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CL.H.1.2 Narratives Comp
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CL.H.1.3 Perspect. evol.
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CL.H.1.4 Social Movement
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CL.H.1.5 Minority Achieve
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CL.H.1.6 Resistance/Resil
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9 Units
Instructional Cycle
180 Goals
10/10 Measurable Ratio
180 Vocab
Academic Literacy
"In democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen." — Louis Brandeis
Students will paraphrase the preamble of the US Constitution to identify the six core goals of the new federal government.
Students will know the legal characteristics that distinguish a natural-born citizen from a naturalized citizen.
Students will know the 10 specific steps required to complete the U.S. naturalization process.
Students will know that citizen duties include paying taxes, obeying laws, and serving on a jury if summoned.
Students will know that citizen responsibilities include voting, staying informed, and participating in the community.
Students will know that the 14th Amendment defines birthright citizenship for all persons born in the United States.
Students will know the specific goals of historical social movements like the Chicano and Environmental Justice movements.
Students will know the achievements of civic leaders such as Ella Baker, Cesar Chavez, and Harvey Milk.
Students will know the legal milestones that expanded civil rights, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX.
Students will know that resistance strategies include civil disobedience, strikes, rallies, and legal litigation.
Students will know that Japanese Americans demonstrated resilience through political advocacy following WWII internment.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will differentiate between a mandatory citizen duty and a voluntary citizen responsibility in five case scenarios.
Students will analyze historical naturalization cartoons to identify evidence of nativism or cultural bias.
Students will compare the U.S. naturalization requirements with those of another democratic nation using a chart.
Students will summarize how the perception of "who should be a citizen" has changed since the late 19th century.
Students will contrast non-violent protest strategies with more militant forms of resistance used in the 1960s.
Students will differentiate between legislative wins and grassroots achievements in the struggle for minority rights.
Students will construct a biographical children's book illustrating the civic contribution of a marginalized historical figure.
Students will identify three specific examples of resilience in North Carolina history using primary source data.
Students will analyze immigration quota shift data to explain demographic changes in the American population.
Students will evaluate the importance of informed civic participation for the long-term stability of a republic.
20 Vocab
NaturalizationBirthrightAssimilationAcculturationDutyResponsibilityRefugeeAsylumAmnestyActivismGrassrootsResilienceDisobedienceAdvocacySuffrageEquityGreen CardPetitionLitigationSocial Movement
Unit 4: Politics & Campaigns
CL.C&G.3.5, 3.6, 3.7, CL.B.1.1
Students Will Know (10)
Students will know that the U.S. Two-Party system emerged from the ideological conflict between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
Students will know the procedural differences between an open primary, a closed primary, and a party caucus.
Students will know that the Electoral College distributes votes to states based on their congressional representation levels.
Students will know the stages of a campaign cycle, from announcement through the national convention to the general election.
Students will know the specific roles of the North Carolina State Board of Elections in verifying voter eligibility.
Students will know that PACs and Super PACs are legal mechanisms used to fund political campaigns and advertising.
Students will know that the media acts as a "Watchdog" to inform the public and expose potential government corruption.
Students will know the functions of the FCC in regulating political broadcasting and ensuring equal airtime rules.
Students will know that a "Winner-Take-All" system typically discourages the success of third-party candidates.
Students will know that political platforms are comprised of individual "planks" that represent a party's specific policy goals.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will compare Primary vs Caucus participation data to evaluate which method better reflects constituent will.
Students will analyze one presidential election cycle where the popular vote and electoral vote results differed.
Students will evaluate the impact of the Two-Party system on the representation of minority or fringe political views.
Students will assess the effectiveness of North Carolina's election security laws using a checklist of federal standards.
Students will identify the specific criteria required for a state election to be considered a true reflection of the "Will of the People".
Students will contrast the current platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties on one specific environmental issue.
Students will explain how third-party platforms influence the national policy agenda of the major dominant parties.
Students will map the electoral results of a recent state-level election to identify geographic voting trends.
Students will analyze three political headlines to identify evidence of emotional framing or partisan media bias.
Students will construct a written argument evaluating the ethics of state-funded media vs an independent free press.
Students will know that due process requires both procedural fairness and substantive equity in the legal system.
Students will know that individual rights protected by the Bill of Rights are guaranteed to both citizens and non-citizens.
Students will know the specific legal rulings from Miranda v Arizona and Gideon v Wainwright regarding the rights of the accused.
Students will know that de facto segregation occurs through social practice while de jure segregation occurs through law.
Students will know the core text and intent of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
Students will know that the right to privacy was a central legal component of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision.
Students will know that the ADA requires employers and government entities to provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities.
Students will know that student speech is protected under the Tinker v Des Moines ruling unless it creates a substantial disruption.
Students will know that redlining was an institutional practice used to discriminate against minority groups in housing.
Students will know the difference between the burden of proof in a criminal case (beyond doubt) vs a civil case (preponderance).
Students Will Do (10)
Students will summarize the civic importance of due process using a short abstract of three historical court cases.
Students will compare the legal access to justice for two different marginalized groups in the mid-20th century.
Students will critique a judicial ruling for its adherence to the principle of "equality and justice for all".
Students will analyze three specific amendments to identify how they expanded rights to previously excluded groups.
Students will evaluate the actual social impact of the Civil Rights Act on voter registration levels in the South.
Students will identify two current examples of institutional bias using modern demographic and economic data.
Students will contrast the requirements of substantive vs procedural law using hypothetical legal scenarios.
Students will distinguish between individual rights and collective public safety using the Patriot Act as a case study.
Students will explain how judicial definitions of "freedom" have shifted in response to changing societal values.
Students will construct a written argument on whether current systems provide equitable access to the legal process.
20 Vocab
Due ProcessEqual ProtectionDe JureDe FactoEquitySubstantiveProceduralWarrantIncorporationLibertySegregationIntegrationFeminismPetitionProbable CausePrecedentStatutoryInjusticePrivacyCivil Rights
Students will know that North Carolina local governments are divided into Counties and Municipalities with distinct jurisdictions.
Students will know the structural differences between a Mayor-Council and a Council-Manager form of government.
Students will know that the NC General Assembly is responsible for drafting statutes that govern the entire state.
Students will know that North Carolina industries like Pharma, Tech, and Agriculture have specific global export targets.
Students will know that population density directly influences the geographic placement of polling stations and local services.
Students will know that environmental disasters (e.g. hurricanes) can significantly impact local voting participation levels.
Students will know that intergovernmental agreements allow cities and counties to merge services like water and sanitation.
Students will know that NC County Commissioners are responsible for overseeing the county budget and local tax rates.
Students will know that a local ordinance is legally subordinate to state statutes and the state constitution.
Students will know that institutional discrimination in local land use often results in disparities in public resource access.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will differentiate the roles of a County Sheriff vs a City Police Chief in ensuring local public safety.
Students will analyze a local NC municipal budget to identify three specific priority values expressed through spending.
Students will summarize North Carolina's specific economic role in the global market using import/export data.
Students will evaluate the impact of local zoning ordinances on the property rights of individual residents.
Students will analyze 21st-century demographic data to identify geographic shifts in political power in NC.
Students will critique local government efficiency in responding to a hypothetical city-county boundary crisis.
Students will identify two specific pathways for local citizens to lobby their City Council on environmental policies.
Students will explain how state-tribal authority interactions influence law enforcement on indigenous lands in NC.
Students will contrast the legislative process of the NC General Assembly with the process of the U.S. Congress.
Students will construct a policy brief addressing a specific local concern such as urban decay or sanitation access.
20 Vocab
MunicipalityOrdinanceZoningAnnexationIncorporatedRevenueStatuteReferendumAssessorTownshipGubernatorialSanitationCommissionerCharterInfrastructureManagerMayorAssemblyDistrictSpecial District
Full Standards Alignment Matrix (9-Unit Reorg)
Objective Code
U1
U2
U3
U4
U5
U6
U7
U8
U9
CL.B.1.1 Values Policy
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CL.B.1.2 Norms Judicial
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CL.B.1.3 Freedom Transform
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CL.B.1.4 Institutional Disc
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CL.C&G.1.1 Principles
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CL.C&G.1.2 Critique Consistent
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CL.C&G.2.1 Branches Role
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CL.C&G.2.2 Federalism
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CL.C&G.2.3 Local Types
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CL.C&G.2.4 Global Comparison
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CL.C&G.3.1 Participation
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CL.C&G.3.2 Protest strategies
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CL.C&G.3.3 Naturalization
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CL.C&G.3.4 Citizenship Comparison
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CL.C&G.3.5 Two-Party Sys
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CL.C&G.3.6 Media Relations
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CL.C&G.3.7 Election Effect
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CL.C&G.4.1 Judicial Sys
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CL.C&G.4.2 Structure Adv
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CL.C&G.4.3 Interp Change
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CL.C&G.4.4 Ensure Freedom
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CL.C&G.4.5 Due Process
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CL.C&G.4.6 Justice Access
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CL.E.1.1 Decision Econ
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CL.E.1.2 Role NC Economy
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CL.G.1.1 Policy & Env
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CL.G.1.2 Participatn Geo
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CL.G.1.3 Global Issues
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CL.H.1.2 Narrative Comp
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CL.H.1.3 Perspect evolution
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CL.H.1.4 Social Movement
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CL.H.1.5 Minority Achieve
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CL.H.1.6 Resist/Resil
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9 Units
Instructional Cycle
180 Goals
10/10 Sentence Format
180 Vocab
Civic Literacy Key Terms
"In democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen." — Louis Brandeis
Students will interpret the Magna Carta to explain how it influenced the Founding Fathers' views on limited government.
Students will identify the specific roots of republicanism in the language used in early state constitution preambles.
Students will know that due process requires both procedural fairness and substantive equity in all legal applications.
Students will know that individual rights provided by the Bill of Rights are guaranteed to both U.S. citizens and non-citizens.
Students will know the specific legal protections from Miranda v Arizona and Gideon v Wainwright for the rights of the accused.
Students will know that de facto segregation is maintained by social practices while de jure is explicitly enforced by state law.
Students will know the core text and legislative intent of the landmark Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
Students will know that the right to privacy was established as a central legal component of the Roe v Wade decision.
Students will know that the ADA requires reasonable accommodations for workers with documented physical disabilities.
Students will know that student symbolic speech is protected under Tinker v Des Moines provided it is not disruptive.
Students will know that redlining was a systemic institutional practice used to discriminate against minority groups.
Students will know the difference between the burden of proof in criminal trials (beyond doubt) vs civil trials (preponderance).
Students Will Do (10)
Students will summarize the civic necessity of due process using a short abstract of three historical state-level court cases.
Students will compare the legal access to justice for two different marginalized groups during the mid-20th century rights eras.
Students will critique a modern judicial ruling for its adherence to the core founding principle of "equal justice for all".
Students will analyze three specific constitutional amendments to identify how they expanded rights to excluded groups.
Students will evaluate the actual social impact of the Civil Rights Act on voter registration trends in North Carolina counties.
Students will identify two current examples of institutional bias using modern demographic and regional economic data sets.
Students will contrast the legal requirements of substantive vs procedural law using hypothetical courtroom case summaries.
Students will distinguish between individual rights and public safety using the Patriot Act as a modern legal case study.
Students will explain how judicial definitions of "freedom" have changed in response to evolving social and cultural norms.
Students will construct a written argument evaluating if current legal systems provide truly equitable access to the justice process.
20 Vocab
Due ProcessInalienableDe FactoDe JureEquitySubstantiveProceduralWarrantIncorporationLibertySegregationIntegrationFeminismPetitionStatutoryProbable CauseVeracityDisabilityInjusticeLitigation
Unit 9: State & Local Government
CL.C&G.2.3, CL.E.1.2, CL.G.1.1, 1.2, CL.B.1.4
Students Will Know (10)
Students will know that North Carolina local governments are divided into Counties and Municipalities with separate legal authorities.
Students will know the structural differences between a Mayor-Council and a Council-Manager form of municipal government.
Students will know that the NC General Assembly is the legislative body responsible for drafting statutes that govern the state.
Students will know that major NC industries such as Pharma, Tech, and Agriculture have specific targets in the global export market.
Students will know that population density directly determines the geographic placement of polling sites and public local services.
Students will know that environmental disasters (e.g. hurricanes) can significantly impact local voter turnout and civic participation.
Students will know that intergovernmental agreements allow for the merger of city and county services for administrative efficiency.
Students will know that NC County Commissioners are responsible for overseeing the local county budget and the setting of tax rates.
Students will know that a local ordinance is legally subordinate to state laws and the state and federal constitutions.
Students will know that historical institutional discrimination in NC land use has created disparities in modern public resource access.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will differentiate the roles of a County Sheriff vs a City Police Chief in ensuring local safety and law enforcement.
Students will analyze a local NC municipal budget to identify three specific priority values expressed through government spending.
Students will summarize North Carolina's role in the global world economy using current import/export and prominent industry data.
Students will evaluate the impact of local zoning ordinances on the private property rights of individual citizens in their town.
Students will analyze demographic voting data from the 21st century to identify geographic shifts in political power across NC.
Students will critique local government efficiency in responding to a hypothetical city-county jurisdictional conflict or crisis.
Students will identify two specific pathways through which a citizen can lobby the NCGA on local environmental policy concerns.
Students will explain how state-tribal authority interactions influence the enforcement of laws on indigenous lands in NC.
Students will contrast the legislative process of the NC General Assembly with the process used in the U.S. Congress.
Students will construct a policy brief addressing a specific local concern such as urban infrastructure decay or sanitation access.
Students will know that the Gunpowder Empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal) used advanced military tech to centralize power.
Students will know that the Ottoman Empire utilized the Devshirme system and Janissaries to manage a diverse population.
Students will know that the Mughal Empire practiced religious tolerance under Akbar to stabilize its multi-confessional state.
Students will know that the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan utilized the alternate attendance system to control feudal lords (daimyo).
Students will know that the Qing Dynasty in China consolidated power by maintaining traditional Confucian civil service exams.
Students will know that European absolute monarchs used "Divine Right" to justify their centralized control of the state.
Students will know the specific architectural and artistic symbols of power used by leaders (Versailles, Taj Mahal).
Students will know that the Safavid Empire established Shi'a Islam as the state religion to define its national identity.
Students will know that the Peter the Great's reforms were designed to modernize and westernize the Russian Empire.
Students will know the causes of imperial decline, such as overextension, economic stagnation, and external conflict.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will compare the methods of power acquisition in the Mughal Empire with those of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Students will analyze primary edicts or decrees to explain how religious authority was used to sustain political legitimacy.
Students will evaluate the effectiveness of the Devshirme system in maintaining Ottoman administrative control over time.
Students will sequence the expansion of the Russian Empire to identify key geographic and strategic targets.
Students will contrast the treatment of religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire (millet system) vs the Mughal Empire.
Students will critique the use of "Divine Right" rhetoric in the speeches of King Louis XIV using textual evidence.
Students will map the global reach of the Gunpowder Empires at their height to explain their influence on trade routes.
Students will categorize 5 historical monuments by their primary function as a symbol of power or religious devotion.
Students will explain how the alternate attendance system reduced the economic and military independence of the daimyo.
Students will evaluate the long-term impact of westernization on Russian social structures and national identity.
20 Vocab
AbsolutismDivine RightJanissariesDevshirmeShogunateDaimyoSamuraiMandate of HeavenCzarWesternizationSultanShahImperialismTributeLegitimacyGunpowderHaremBureaucratAutocracyAristocracy
Unit 4: Radical Reform & Revolution (1750-1900)
WH.C&G.1.3, WH.H.1.1, WH.B.2.2
Students Will Know (10)
Students will know that the Enlightenment introduced radical concepts such as individual liberty, equality, and the rule of law.
Students will know the specific causes of the French Revolution, including social inequality (the Three Estates) and fiscal crisis.
Students will know that the Haitian Revolution was the first successful large-scale slave revolt that resulted in a free republic.
Students will know the primary goals and leaders of the Latin American wars for independence (Bolivar, San Martin).
Students will know that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen defined civil rights for all French males.
Students will know the role of Simon Bolivar in advocating for a unified "Gran Colombia" based on Enlightenment ideals.
Students will know that the 1848 Revolutions across Europe were driven by demands for liberal reform and national unity.
Students will know that Toussaint Louverture utilized his military and strategic skills to lead the Haitian revolutionary forces.
Students will know the specific achievements of the Seneca Falls Convention regarding early women's rights advocacy.
Students will know that the Abolitionist movement in the 19th century utilized moral and political arguments to end slavery.
Students Will Do (10)
Students will compare the causes and outcomes of the French Revolution with those of the Haitian Revolution in a chart.
Students will analyze 3 Enlightenment texts (Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire) to identify their impact on modern governance.
Students will evaluate the lasting impact of the Napoleonic Code on the legal systems of Europe and Latin America.
Students will sequence the events of the Haitian Revolution to explain how internal rebellion linked to global conflict.
Students will contrast the liberal goals of the 1848 revolutions with the conservative reactions of the ruling monarchies.
Students will critique the consistency of Enlightenment liberty with the continued practice of slavery in the 18th century.
Students will map the spread of revolutionary ideas from North America and Europe to the Latin American colonies.
Students will categorize 5 social movements (Abolition, Suffrage, Labor) by their primary legislative or social goal.
Students will explain how the Jamaican Letter expressed Bolivar's specific vision for a post-colonial Latin American identity.
Students will evaluate the effectiveness of the French Declaration of Rights in securing equality for non-white citizens.
