America: Colonies, Revolution, Government Quarter 1 7th Grade Social Studies

Key Terms Essential Questions Response Questions

Physical Feature Boston Tea Party 1). Do physical features affect the
ways people live?
Primary Source Bill of Rights (Be Thinking: Differences
between Northern, Middle,
Secondary Source Separation of Powers Southern colonies)
Bias Constitution 2). Does power cause conflict?
(Be Thinking: Taxation without
representation, colonists vs
Confederation Supreme Court
British, system of government)
Articles of Confederation Congress
3). Is violence ever justifiable?
(Be Thinking: Boston Massacre,
Amendment President tar and feathering tax collectors,
American Revolution)
Judicial Taxation Without Represenation
4). Is revolution ever justifiable?
Legislative (Be Thinking: Declaration of
Independence, grievances
Executive against King George/Britain)
Federation 5). Did historical figures influence
the U.S. government?
Checks and Balances (Be Thinking: Locke,
Montesquieu, Langton, Jefferson,
Revolution Somers)
Region 6). Is government necessary?
(Be Thinking: 3 Branches,
Colony Judicial, Legislative, Executive,
Separation of Powers)
The Boston Massacre
Declaration of Independence
1). What motivation did 11). Explain checks and
colonists have to come to balances.
America?
12). What is the purpose of the
2). What three regions did judicial branch?
America have at first? What did
they have in common? What 13). What is the purpose of the
was different about them? executive branch?
3). Why did the Boston 14). What is the purpose of the
Massacre happen? legislative branch?
15). What is the Bill of Rights?
4). What does taxation without
representation mean?
5). How did colonists react to
taxes they felt where unfair?
6). What did the Proclamation of
1763 do? Why did this make the
colonists so upset?
7). What are some major
differences between a Patriot
and a Loyalist?
8). What was the Declaration of
Independence all about? What
did it accomplish?

Bunker Hill and Concord 9). Why is the significance of

separation of powers in
American government?
Quartering Act

Stamp Act
10). How is the power
separated in America?
Tea Act
 The Civil War and Reconstruction Quarter 2 7th Grade Social Studies
Key Terms Essential Questions Response Questions

Annex Emancipation Proclamation 1). Did the U.S. need to expand 1). Explain the life of a slave in 12). How did new technology
after the American Revolutionary specific detail. and medical care lead to
Manifest Destiny Abraham Lincoln War? increased casualties during the
(Be Thinking: Manifest Destiny, 2). What was the Underground war?
Agriculture Jefferson Davis reasons to expand) Railroad? Explain how this
helped slaves. 13). What roles did women play
Manufacturing Ulysses S. Grant 2). Were the differences between during the Civil War?
the North and South significant? 3). What were two compromises
(Be Thinking: Economy, lifestyle) that were made to try and avoid 14). How did Shermans March
Underground Railroad William T. Sherman
the Civil War? Describe what to the Sea affect southern
3). Were slaves motivated to each accomplished. morale?
Harriet Tubman Robert E. Lee
escape?
(Be Thinking: Underground 4). Why did the South secede 15). What were Jim Crow laws?
Missouri Compromise Bleeding Kansas Railroad, Fugitive Slave Act) from the Union? How did they affect African-
Americans after the Civil War?
Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act 4). How effective was the Fugitive 5). List the major differences
Slave Act? between the North and South at
Popular Sovereignty The First Battle of Bull Run (Be Thinking: Underground the beginning of the Civil War.
Railroad, Fugitive Slave Act,
Sectionalism Battle of Antietam Abolitionists) 6). Explain who John Brown
was and what two events are
Abolitionist Battle of Gettysburg 5). Did the Missouri Compromise linked to him?
and Compromise of 1850 achieve
Fugitive Slave Act Shermans March their goals? 7). What was the significance of
(Be Thinking: Sectionalism) the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Compromise Reconstruction Explain the act and the effects of
6). Were John Brown's and the act.
Border Ruffians Jim Crow Laws abolitionist's actions justifiable?
(Be Thinking: Bleeding Kansas, 8). What was the significance of
John Brown Segregation Raid on Harpers Ferry, Border the Battle of Gettysburg?
Ruffians)
Dred Scot 9). What was the message/
7). Did the Dred Scot case cause purpose of Abraham Lincolns
conflict? Gettysburg Address?
Confederates
(Be Thinking: Supreme Court,
Abolitionists, Fugitive Slave Act) 10). Who was Dred Scott? What
Union
was the significance of his
8). Did an individual or group Supreme Court case? What did it
Secession change the course of The Civil prove about America during the
War? time period?
Morale (Be Thinking: Lincoln, Grant, Lee,
Davis 11). Why was the First Battle of
Total War Bull Run important to the Civil
9). Was Reconstruction effective? War?
(Be Thinking: Jim Crow Laws)
 Industrialization, Immigration, Progressivism Quarter 3 7th Grade Social Studies
Key Terms Essential Questions Response Questions

Manufactured Andrew Carnegie & John 1). Did the Industrial Revolution 1). How did industrialization 12). How did Carnegie and
Rockefeller help products become cheaper? Rockefeller build their
help or hurt Americans?
Thomas Edison monopolies?
Robber Baron (Be Thinking: Change in types of 2). How were urban
Henry Ford work, production speed, ease, communities (cities) affected by 13). Why did many people
Regulation industrialization? consider monopolies to be
cost, working conditions,
Assembly Line unfair?
Trustbusting movement of people) 3). How did inventors like Ford
Agricultural and Edison contribute to the 14). How did President Teddy
Sherman Antitrust Act Industrial Revolution? Roosevelt deal with monopolies
Industrialization 2). Did labor unions and strikes help and big businesses?
President Teddy Roosevelt or hurt Americans? 4). How did immigration benefit 15). What is the purpose of the
Industrial Revolution industrialization? 18th Amendment to the United
(Be thinking: purpose of unions/ States Constitution?
Philanthropy
strikes, success/failure, collective 5). What motivated people to
Urban
move to America during the 16). How did the Temperance
Political Reform bargaining, workers rights, work Industrial Revolution time Movement affect the lives of
Strike
conditions) period (push/pull factors)? Americans during the
18th Amendment
Progressive Era?
Union 6). What was factory life like
Temperance during the Industrial 17). What is the purpose of the
3). Does immigration help or hurt
Emigrate Revolution? 19th Amendment to the United
19th Amendment American during the Industrial States Constitution?
Immigrate Revolution? 7). Why was child labor
Susan B. Anthony common during the Industrial 18). Explain the importance and
(Be Thinking: Jobs immigrants
Immigrant Revolution? role of Susan B. Anthony in
Suffrage take, where immigrants live, achieving political reform in
Tenement assimilation, nativism, 8). Why did unions become America during the Progressive
Social Reform popular during the Industrial Era.
Slum industrialization & immigration Revolution?
Muckracker connection)
Assimilate 9). Why did immigrants want to 19). How did Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis assimilate into American contribute to social reform in
Nativism 4). To what extent does the culture? America?
How the Other Half Lives Progressive Era improve America?
Chinese Exclusion Act 10). How was immigration 20). How did Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair (Be Thinking: Economic, viewed negatively in the United contribute to social reform in
States? America?
Economic Reform Political, and Social Reform)
The Jungle
11). How did laws like the
Vertical/Horizontal Integration
Chinese Exclusion Act and the
Meat Inspection Act
1906 Naturalization Act passed
Monopoly show nativists point of view?
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
 America Involvement Around the World Quarter 4 7th Grade Social Studies
Key Terms Essential Questions Response Questions

Resources Zimmerman Note 1). Were the motivations for 1). What motivated America to
be imperialistic? 15). How did the Treaty of
Colony Total War imperialism justified? Versailles differ from President
(Be Thinking: Military, cultural, 2). What were the main causes Woodrow Wilsons 14 points?
Imperialism: Cultural/Economic/ Rations of World War 1?
Military economic)
Propaganda 3). What nations belong to the
Spanish-American War 2). Was the Spanish-American War Triple Entente or Allies?
Trench Warfare
U.S.S. Maine justified? 4). What nations belonged to the
No Mans Land (Be thinking: U.S.S. Maine, Central Powers?
Yellow Journalism
Imperialism, Cuba, Phillipines) 5). What impact did alliances
Armistice
President Teddy Roosevelt have in starting WW1?
Treaty of Versailles 3). Could World War 1 have been 6). What major event sparked
Cuba / Philippines / Puerto Rico /
Guam avoided? WW1?
Reparations
(Be Thinking: M.A.I.N. Causes, 7). What reasoning was given
President Woodrow Wilson Wilsons 14 Points
militarism, alliances, imperialism, for America staying neutral at
the beginning of World War 1?
Militarism League of Nations nationalism, assassination of
archduke by Gavrilo Princip) 8). What reasoning was given as
Alliances to why America had to enter
WW1?
Imperialism 4). Did America have to get
involved in World War 1? 9). How did people at home in
Nationalism America help the war effort?
(Be Thinking: President Wilsons
Gavrilo Princip speeches, isolationism, Germany 10). What was life like for
soldiers during WW1?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand provocations)
11). How did new technologies
Austria-Hungary / Serbia lead to more casualties?
5). Did Americans at home affect
Triple Entente (Allies) the outcome of the War? 12). What was the purpose of
propaganda during WW1?
(Be Thinking: Liberty bonds,
Central Powers
victory gardens, rationing, 13). What kind of items were
rationed during WW1?
Isolationism propaganda)
14). Why was Germany upset
Lusitania
6). Did the Treaty of Versailles truly with the Treaty of Versailles?

achieve peace?