Compelling Question: What Happens When People Don't Like the Rules They're Forced to Follow?
Supporting Questions:
1) How did people change laws under the Articles of Confederation?
2) How do people change laws under the Constitution?
3) How did citizens gain individual rights?
Compelling Question: Did colonization of North America level the playing for those who came from their home countries?
Supporting Questions:
1) What was life like for people prior to colonization?
2) Were some lives changed in a positive way by colonizing America in the 1700s?
3) Were some lives changed in a negative way by colonizing America in the 1700s?
Compelling Question: When is it the right time to break the rules?
Supporting Questions:
1) Why did colonists feel they had individual rights?
2) How did colonists suffer under British Rule?
3) What are some consequences of going against British Rule?
Compelling Question: Does greed drive exploration?
Supporting Questions:
1) Why do people explore?
2) What are the different perspectives on exploration?
3) What was the impact of exploration on the new world?
Compelling Question: Do my ideas matter?
Supporting Questions:
1) What are the core ideas on the nature of the union among the states of Calhoun, Clay, and Webster?
2) How did Calhoun, Clay, and Webster's ideas on the nature of the Union among states play out in political compromises?
3) Explain how Calhoun, Clay, and Webster's ideas connect to the natural rights of equality and freedom represented within the Declaration of Independence and the legal framework of the Constitution.
Compelling Question: How did slaveholders justify their personal liberty as more important than another's?
Supporting Questions:
1) What issues relating to personal liberty and states rights were debated at the Constitution?
2) How do the founding documents protect people's rights to liberty and property?
3) What beliefs did different regions have about slavery and where did those beliefs come from?
Compelling Question: When Does Competition Turn Into Conflict?
Supporting Questions:
1) What types of arms were being produced and what would the impact of their use be?
2) What disasters are associated with the arms race?
3) Where were missiles placed and toward which countries were they aimed?
Compelling Question: Is Democracy available to all U.S. citizens?
Supporting Questions:
1) What arguments exist that support equal opportunity being available to all U.S. Citizens?
2) What claims are made that the democratic system in the U.S. is broken and leaves some groups marginalized?
3) What are problems that have hindered the U.S. Democratic System?
Was the Cold War really cold?
Supporting Questions:
1) Identify and explain events that could be described as "cold" during the Cold War Era
2) What were the "Hot" wars during the Cold War?
3) How did the Cold War end?
Compelling Question: How did the people of West Africa overcome the challenges of the region to create great kingdoms and empires?
Supporting Questions:
1. In what ways did the environment present challenges to the people of West Africa?
2. How did West African rulers use natural resources and trade to build strong empires?
3. What can we learn about th elives and culture of West Africans from the oral traditions of this region?
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Compelling Question: How should we remember Columbus?
Supporting Questions:
1) Who was Columbus?
2) How has Columbus been remembered over time?
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Compelling Question: Should we keep, abolish, or reform the Electoral College?
Supporting Questions:
1. What is the Electoral College, and why was it created?
2. What are some of the strongest arguments for and against the Electoral College?
3. What are some options for reforming the Electoral College?
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Compelling Question: What was the human cost of the United States’ history of enslaving people?
Supporting Questions:
1. Where did enslaved populations grow?
2. How was slavery driven by capitalism?
3. How did enslaevd people describe their treatment, and how did slavery tear families apart?
4. How did enslaved people resist?
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Compelling Question: How should the history of the women’s rights movement be remembered?
Supporting Questions:
1. What legal limitations did women face in the early to mid-1800s?
2. What were the goals of the women’s rights movement, an dhow did it intersect with other movements?
3. What strategies/tactics did women use to obtain rights?
4. What are the existing narratives about the women’s rights movement?
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