Content Specification - SS.11.3.a.1:
Students will examine how the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the Monroe Doctrine strengthened nationalism.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.a.2:
Students will examine the market revolution, including technological developments, the development of transportation networks, the growth of domestic industries, the increased demands for free and enslaved labor, the changing role of women, and the rise of political democracy.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.a.3:
Students will examine Jackson’s presidency noting the ways it strengthened presidential power yet challenged constitutional principles in the case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), including the controversy concerning the Indian Removal Act and its implementation.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.1:
Students will compare different perspectives on States rights by examining the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the nullification crisis.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.2:
Students will investigate the development of the abolitionist movement, focusing on Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator), Frederick Douglass (The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and The North Star), and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin).

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.3:
Students will examine the emergence of the women’s rights movement out of the abolitionist movement, including the role of the Grimké sisters, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and evaluate the demands made at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848).

Content Specification - SS.11.3.b.4:
Students will examine the issues surrounding the expansion of slavery into new territories, by exploring the Missouri Compromise, Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican‐American war, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas‐Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.c.1:
Students will compare the relative strengths of the Union and the Confederacy in terms of industrial capacity, transportation facilities, and military leadership, and evaluate the reasons the North prevailed over the South and the impact of the war.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.c.2:
Students will examine the expansion of executive and federal power as they relate to the suspension of habeas corpus within the Union and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Content Specification - SS.11.3.c.3:
Students will analyze the ideas expressed in the Gettysburg Address, considering its long‐term impact.