Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can describe the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: “Black Forties,” Political Machines, “Tammany Hall,” “Know-Nothing” Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Lowell Mills, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Preemption Act of 1830, Homestead Act, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, “National Road,” Robert Fulton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clipper Ship, Pony Express

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What inventions have done the most to transform American society in the last 25 years?
2. Citizenship Question: How old do citizens have to be to vote for President? 
   A. starting at 16 years of age and older 
   B. starting at 18 years of age and older 
   C. starting at 21 years of age and older 
   D. starting at 35 years of age and older
3. Individual Learning: The Market Revolution Activity
4. ​Reflection Question: Which Market Revolution invention do you think did the most to transform American society? Why?

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Homework: The Market Revolution Reading