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United States History I
Course Consensus Map
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United States History I
The development of the social studies 7-12 consensus maps for Salt Lake City School District began in 2010 and has been a
collaborative effort involving contributions from secondary social studies teachers across the school district. This consensus map
serves as a framework for curriculum, but is recognized as a living document wherein teachers are invited to provide their reflective
feedback for the purposes of improving this map in order to provide students a coherent and appropriate curriculum. While each
content area includes information unique to that discipline, we have identified common social studies/history literacy skills that are
essential for students to learn in order to be college and career ready for the 21st Century. While these skills are the same for each
content area, we envision these skills to be appropriately scaffold, utilized, and applied within each content area so that students
have multiple opportunities to engage in these skills throughout their secondary social studies experience, further developing them
as they progress through each course. The essential questions, concepts, and content identified in this consensus map are written in
a way to promote a comprehensive investigation of the world, develop global competencies and understanding of various
perspectives, and to align with the Utah Social Studies Core Curriculum and the Utah Core Standards for English Language Arts and
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects.
We’d like to recognize and thank the work and publications of Heidi Hayes Jacobs, which guided our work, and the contributions of
many social studies colleagues from other school districts.
United States History I
Skills students will know and be able to:
Read to Develop and Demonstrate Content Competencies
 Identify key ideas and details from multiple types of texts, including primary and secondary sources such as photos, charts, graphs, etc.
 Analyze the author’s purpose and/or point of view
 Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment of a text
 Determine the significance of the text; understand domain-specific words and phrases
Write to Develop and Demonstrate Content Competencies
 Write arguments as well as informative and explanatory texts incorporating narrative elements appropriately
 Produce writing that is clear, organized, and appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 Draw evidence from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility and accuracy of sources
 Quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism
Interpretation and Synthesis
 Describe, analyze, evaluate and create diverse interpretations of the past and/or present
 Analysis of evidence, reasoning, contexts, points of view, frames of reference, patterns and processes
 apply insights to other contexts and circumstances, including the present
Comparison and Contextualization
 Describe, compare and evaluate multiple historical developments within one society, one or more developments across or between
different societies in various chronological and geographical contexts.
 Consider social or historical developments to circumstances in time and place, and to broader regional, national or global processes.
Chronological Reasoning
• Identify, analyze and evaluate between multiple cause-and-effect relationships and change over time
Crafting Arguments from Evidence
• Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment
• Define and frame a question. Construct a plausible and persuasive argument supported by relevant evidence
• Describe, analyze, and evaluate opposing arguments
• Draw appropriate conclusions from relevant evidence
United States History I
Quarter 1
Enduring Understanding for Quarters 1 & 2:
 Over time, the United States has and continues to change, politically, economically and socially
 The United States has many unique qualities as a multicultural society
 The causes, consequences, and results of the pursuit of the “American Dream.”
Essential Questions
What role does geography play in the
development of the U.S. and its history?
How has society’s perspective in the US
changed over time?
What is an American?
Why is America considered the land of
opportunity?
Concept/Content
The role of geography taught in context of the course (Standard 1.1-1.2)
 5 themes of geography
o Location, place, human environmental interaction, movement, and region
 Use geographical skills
 Locate: physical features, political features, apply map skills
Historical connections to current events (Standard 2.1-2.2)
 Various forms of media for awareness of current events and historical events.
 Distinguish fact from opinion, looking for bias in the media.
Diverse Peoples and Cultures (Standard 3.1, 3.3)
 Identify the cultures and locations of American Indian nations, some exemplars
include: The Narragansett, Powhatan, and Iroquois
 Examine the cultures of American Indian Nations (e.g. lifestyle, traditions, beliefs,
etc.)
 Explore the interaction between Europeans, Native Americans and Africans.
Exploration (Standard3.2)
 Identify individuals and regions of exploration
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Economic, political, and social reasons for exploration
Britain, France, Spain,
United States History I
Quarter 2
Enduring Understanding for Quarter 1 & 2:
 Over time, the United States has and continues to change, politically, economically and socially
 The United States has many unique qualities as a multicultural society
 The causes, consequences, and results of the pursuit of the “American Dream.”
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
How did the interaction of different groups of
people shape United States history?
Slavery (Standard 3.3)
 Examine the reasons
 Beginning of slave trade in the Americas
 Transportation of African Slaves to the Americas
What was the political social, and economic
ideology of Colonial America?
What were the causes and consequences of the
War for American Independence?
Colonization (Standard 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
 Motives, locations, and contributions of European settlement
 Contributions of key individuals and groups involved in settlement and mercantilism
 Reasons for conflict between European powers
o French and Indian War
 Colonies (English, French, Spain, Dutch)
o Economic, political, and social patterns of the different settlement regions
o Contributions of key individuals and groups
o Conflicts between the European powers in North America
American Revolution (Standard 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4)
 Ideas and events that led to the Revolutionary movement
o Outbreak of armed conflict between colonies and Great Britain
o Social contract, natural rights, English traditions
 Concepts expressed in the Declaration of Independence
 Factors that affected the course of the war, the colonists, and ultimately contributed
to American victory
o European aid to the American cause
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
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o Advantages/Disadvantages of Continental Army against the British Army
Contributions of political and social groups and key individuals to the revolutionary
War effort
Effect of the Revolution on the United States
o Treaty of Paris of 1783
o The Articles of Confederation
o Problems encountered in creating a national government from a multicultural
society, including Native American Indians, slaves, European immigrants
United States History I
Quarter 3
Enduring Understanding(s):
 The creation, implementation and functioning of the United States Constitution of 1787
Essential Questions
What role did compromise play in creating and
ratifying the Constitution?
What role does a balance of power play in
government?
What are the responsibilities of individual
citizens?
How did expanding the boundaries of the US
impact different people and places?
In what ways did the industrial revolution help
or hinder unity in the US?
How have reform movements and specific
reformers impact United States politics,
economics, and society?
How did the practice of slavery affect the
political, social, and economic development of
the United States?
Concept/Content
The Constitution (Standard 6.1-6.4)
 Foundations and principles that led to the development
o Constitutional Convention
o Magna Carta, Iroquois Confederation, European philosophers
 Compromises that led to ratification
o Federalist and Anti-Federalist ratification debates
o 3/5 Compromise, Great Compromise, Bill of Rights
 Basic structure
o Preamble
o Role and function of three branches
o Constitutional powers; checks and balances
o Constitution as a living document
 Rights, liberties, and responsibilities of citizens (Standard 7.1-7.2)
o Bill of Rights Territorial Expansion before the Civil War
 Motivation for expansion
o Manifest Destiny
o Louisiana Purchase
o Explorers
o Lewis and Clark, Pike, Fremont
o Mountain Men, Mormon pioneers, California 49ers, Asian and Irish immigrant
 Conflicts during American expansion (Standard 7.2)
o War of 1812
o Government policies towards treaties with American Indians (e.g. relocation,
removal, assimilation, sovereignty)
o Mexican War
 Mexican cession, Texas, Gadsden Purchase
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
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Social impact of boundary realignment on different groups
o Consequences of American expansion
New inventions and transportation stimulate western expansion (Standard 7.3)
 Farming, industry, communication, roads, trails, steamboats, and railroads
Impact of the Industrial Revolution (Standard 7.4)
 Factory system and growth of northern cities, regional differences, changes in
working conditions
Political System and Social Rights Expansion before the Civil War (Standard 8.1)
 Development of the American political party system
o Federalists and democratic-Republicans, Whigs, Jacksonian Democrats,
Republicans
Evolution and extension of democracy and democratic principles (Standard 8.2)
 Strength of the Supreme Court
 States’ rights and sectionalism
 National and states’ rights in expanding democracy
 Involvement of people in the political process
Social Reforms (8.3)
 Abolitionist movement and key individuals involved
o Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, The Grimke
sisters
o Reform in education, religion, prisons, and mentally ill
o Extension of women’s rights, political and legal
United States History I
Quarter 4
Enduring Understanding(s):
o The Civil War and Reconstruction fundamentally altered the economic, political, and social structure of the United States, the States
and the relationship between the state and the national government with American citizens.
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
How have reformers and reform movements
altered American society?
Civil War Era (Standard 9.1-9.3)
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What were the causes and consequences of the
American Civil War?
How can a country’s unity be salvaged after a
civil war?
How did industry and the railroads impact the
Western United States?
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Events leading to war
o Cultural differences between North and South
o Economic differences (slavery, industry, agriculture, geography)
o States’ rights
o Lack of compromise (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850,
Kansas-Nebraska Act)
o Sectional tensions (Jon Brown’s raid, Dred Scott decision, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, The Fugitive Slave Law)
o Election of 1860
Factors affecting the course of the war and the Union victory (9.2)
o Advantages and disadvantages of Union and Confederacy
o Impact of Emancipation Proclamation
o Contributions of key individuals (Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant)
o Effect on all people within the geographical U.S.
Reconstruction
o Purposes of Reconstruction
o Social impact (abolition of slavery, integration of races, fall of Southern
society, education)
o Economic impact
o Political changes (13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, voting regulations,
military districts)
American West Following the Civil War (Standard 10.1-10.3)
 Factors influencing people to go west
Essential Questions
Concept/Content
o Farmers, ranchers, miners, American Indian nations, immigrants,
adventurers
o Impact of mining and ranching on the land and people
o Impact of the railroad on western development
 Settlement of the American West
o Changes of the landscape due to settlement patterns
o Development of cities in the West
o Impact of western settlement patterns on Native American Indians
 Conflict among various groups
o Reasons and groups involved in conflict (ranchers, miners, farmers,
American Indian nations, immigrants)
o Consequences of conflict in the settlement of the West