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SHIFT HAPPENSMAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS BY CHAPTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM THEMES
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SECTION ONE THE AGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE CIVIL WAR 1492–1865
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Chapter 1Marco Polo#2 Time, Continuity, and Change
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IS SHE REALLY GOING TO START WITH MARCO POLO AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUSChristopher ColumbusDevelop an understanding of ethical and moral issues as they learn about important events and developments. Begin to recognize that stories can be told in different ways, and that individuals may hold divergent views about events in the past. Recognize that human decisions have consequences.
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The Age of Discovery
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Lokono Nation (Arawak) and the Carib Nation genocide
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Chapter 2John Smith and Jamestown#7 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
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SOMEBODY'S GOTTA WORKThe Virginia Company What is to be produced? How is production to be organized? How are goods and services to be distributed and to whom? What is the most effective allocation of the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship)?
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Feudalism dies-Capitalism is born
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Enclosures
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Indentured Servants
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Propaganda
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Chapter 3Bacon's Rebellion#6 Power, Authority, Governance
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RUNNING, RIOTING, AND REVOLTINGDutch West India Company, Hudson Bay CompanyWhat are the purposes and functions of government? How do we establish order and security that is fair and just? What is a just society? How do people work to promote positive societal change? What are the limits of authority? How are individual rights protected and challenged within the context of majority rule? What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a constitutional democracy?
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Enslaved people revolt
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Leisler's Rebellion
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Chapter 4Free Laborer is born from trade and season#7 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
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CAPITALISM GOES VIRALCommodity market beginsWhat is to be produced? How is production to be organized? How are goods and services to be distributed and to whom? What is the most effective allocation of the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship)?
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Workers and Market Fluctuations
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Guilds and Benevolent Societies form around trade/skill (European model)
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Communication hinders growth of early organizing
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Land Bank Failure
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Chapter 5Britain squashes Colonies with rules#5 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
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A RIOTOUS MOB FOUNDS A NATIONWe the People but not you the peopleWe organize ourselves around common needs, beliefs, and interests.Schools, religious institutions, families, government agencies, and the courts (institutions) take their core social values from us because they are us and we, them. We both form them and are formed by them. How am I influenced by institutions? How do institutions promote social conformity and influence culture. How do we encouraged institutional change for the common good. What is my role in institutional change?
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Workers form military organizations like the Sons of Liberty
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Liberty, democracy, happiness, and equality weren't exactly what the Fathers had intended
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Chapter 6Commodities Market on the go following the Revolution due to wars in Europe#7 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
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AN ORGY OF FRAUDIndustry slow out of the gate due to no infrastructure, farming, and the Southern PowersWhat is to be produced? How is production to be organized? How are goods and services to be distributed and to whom? What is the most effective allocation of the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship)?
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Embargo Act and the Non-Intercourse Act
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War of 1812
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Embargo, Non-Intercourse, and War of 1812 lead to industry in the North
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South and North power alliance, cotton fuels textile
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Samuel Slater and Pawtucket, RI
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Children and young women become original factory workers
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Rise of corporations (22K by the time of the Civil War)
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Company towns rise due to rise in corporations
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Business Associations begin
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Monopolies are introduced
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Fraud proliferates
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Economic crises: recessions and depressions: 1819, 1837, 1857, 1860
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Chapter 7Birth of Merchant Capitalist (middle man)#5 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
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FATAL FLAWSmall shop demiseWe organize ourselves around common needs, beliefs, and interests.Schools, religious institutions, families, government agencies, and the courts (institutions) take their core social values from us because they are us and we, them. We both form them and are formed by them. How am I influenced by institutions? How do institutions promote social conformity and influence culture. How do we encouraged institutional change for the common good. What is my role in institutional change?
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Philadelphia Cordwainers
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Skilled vs. Unskilled
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Labor organizing is a conspiracy against society
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Federalists vs. Dem Republicans, Hamilton vs. Jefferson, Central vs. State, North vs. South
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Democratic Republicans ironically tout Bill of Rights, winning the vote of white working men
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White men form political societies to build a win for Democratic Republicans
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Chapter 8Labor Movement officially begins in 1827 with the Philadelphia Mechanics Union of Trade#4 Individual Development and Identity AND #5 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
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YOU MADE IT!The fight for a ten-hour workday, turns into the first General StrikeWho we are is shaped by an individual’s culture, by groups, by institutional influences, and by lived experiences shared with people inside and outside of an individual’s own culture throughout development. Be aware of the relationships between social norms and emerging personal identities.
We organize ourselves around common needs, beliefs, and interests.Schools, religious institutions, families, government agencies, and the courts (institutions) take their core social values from us because they are us and we, them. We both form them and are formed by them. How am I influenced by institutions? How do institutions promote social conformity and influence culture. How do we encouraged institutional change for the common good. What is my role in institutional change?
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Corps introduce false patriotism, saying ten hours is "UnAmerican"
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Pyramid of Oppression
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Philadelphia wins ten hours and unions immediately grow from 25K to 300K
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Locals develop
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Union newspapers are born
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The first National Union takes up nat'l minimum wage, nat'l working hours, public ed and libraries
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Debtors prison grows prison labor while corps go bankrupt before payday and walk with the money
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Workers realize they need to be represented in government to create laws that protect them
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Chapter 9Labor puts up representatives #6 Power, Authority, Governance AND #7 Production, Distribution, Consumption
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HEAVEN AND HELL1857 depression, killing almost all labor organizing and organizationsWhat are the purposes and functions of government? How do we establish order and security that is fair and just? What is a just society? How do people work to promote positive societal change? What are the limits of authority? How are individual rights protected and challenged within the context of majority rule? What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a constitutional democracy?
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What is to be produced? How is production to be organized? How are goods and services to be distributed and to whom? What is the most effective allocation of the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship)?
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Utopian Socialists
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Capitalism, Socialism, Communism
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Hard work doesn't pay off
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Red scare and Red baiting begins
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Agrarians
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Speed ups
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Sara Bagley and the Female Labor Reform Society help win the second fight for ten hours
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 Government allows clauses to have workers work more than ten hours
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Chapter 10Springtime of Peoples in Europe (1848 Revolution against Absolutism)#1 Culture AND #9 Global Connections
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FOREIGNERS AND FRIGHTFUL ATROCITIESPeople lose the revolution and flood the U.S. because it is a democracyHow do various aspects of culture such as belief systems, religious faith, or political ideals, influence other parts of a culture such as its institutions or literature, music, and art? How does culture change over time to accommodate different ideas, and beliefs? AND How does globalization change societies? What are benefits and/or problems associated with global interdependence? Think about and acknowledge different perspectives on these benefits and problems? What influence has increasing global interdependence had on patterns of international migration? How should people and societies balance global connectedness with local needs?
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1840-1860 sees high immigration in response to Springtime revolution loss
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Depression of 1857, capitalists use the depression and immigration to divide workers
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Immigrants mostly populate the North (not the South)
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Enslaved people continue to revolt in the South
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Western Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Mex-Am War, Indian Removal Act all pressure slavery
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Democrats vs. Whigs (who took over from Federalists) are challenged by Republican newcomers
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John Brown revolts against slavery
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Abraham Lincoln is elected
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Chapter 11Civil War, workers fought and the rich paid $300 each to get out of it#10 Civics
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BUSTED DREAMSHomestead Act gives most land to corps/speculators, ending worker hopes of returning to farmingYou are a citizen in a nation. What does this mean? Rights and responsibility. Rights are not a sure thing. Do we have an individual responsibility for keeping them secure?
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SECTION TWOTHE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO THE GILDED AGE 1873–1900
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Chapter 12The Act to Encourage Immigration of 1864…Indentured Servants 2.0#2 Time, Continuity, and Change
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WELCOME TO THE NEW HOT MESSEminent domainDevelop an understanding of ethical and moral issues as they learn about important events and developments. Begin to recognize that stories can be told in different ways, and that individuals may hold divergent views about events in the past. Recognize that human decisions have consequences.
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Reconstruction and Jim Crow
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NLU and KoL- two new National Unions rise
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Jay Cooke lock his bank, setting off the Depression of 1873
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1873 depression kills unions…unemployment, company militaries, corporate spy rings all rise
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Chapter 13Great Upheaval of 1877 in response to years of depression#5 Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
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ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSEThe upheaval begins with railroads and blossoms into a general strikeWe organize ourselves around common needs, beliefs, and interests.Schools, religious institutions, families, government agencies, and the courts (institutions) take their core social values from us because they are us and we, them. We both form them and are formed by them. How am I influenced by institutions? How do institutions promote social conformity and influence culture. How do we encouraged institutional change for the common good. What is my role in institutional change?
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The US Army marches on civilians for the first time
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Corps and gov tighten bonds after putting down the strike, ushering in the Gilded Age
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Chapter 14The Gilded Age, a time of great inequality#7 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
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EAT THE RICHCorps receive huge gov handouts, engage in theft, and strengthen the pyramid of oppresionWhat is to be produced? How is production to be organized? How are goods and services to be distributed and to whom? What is the most effective allocation of the factors of production (land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship)?
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Chapter 15Socialist books and clubs begin#2 Time, Continuity, and Change
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HOPE BETWEEN THE PAGESDespair births anarchism and unionismDevelop an understanding of ethical and moral issues as they learn about important events and developments. Begin to recognize that stories can be told in different ways, and that individuals may hold divergent views about events in the past. Recognize that human decisions have consequences.
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Two national unions rise: ILU and KoL (KoL again), with the AFL forming on the side
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Chapter 161886 arrives with the pyramid of oppression in full swing#6 Power, Authority, and Governance
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1886Socialism building What are the purposes and functions of government? How do we establish order and security that is fair and just? What is a just society? How do people work to promote positive societal change? What are the limits of authority? How are individual rights protected and challenged within the context of majority rule? What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a constitutional democracy?
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May Day introduced by budding AFL
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First May Day turns into a general strike, and then into Haymarket