Student Objectives: Students will understand how the newly independent states of North America created a Constitution that established a radically new form of government. Students will understand how a Bill of Rights was created to guarantee the individual civil liberties of American citizens to protect them from their new government. Students will be able to explain the concept of checks and balances and how the Constitution of the United States establishes those checks and balances so that no single branch of government can assume overwhelming power. Students will be able to analyze how specific amendments outlined in the Bill of Rights have relevant, present day applications that are regularly argued in courts across the United States. KNOWLEDGE The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance (1787). Rebellion Shays’s Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention (Plans and Compromises) Federalists v. Antifederalists The Constitution of the United States The of and Amendments 11-27 “Bill Rights” The system of checks and balances SKILLS Analyze political and social concepts
Student Objectives: Students will understand how the newly independent states of North America created a Constitution that established a radically new form of government. Students will understand how a Bill of Rights was created to guarantee the individual civil liberties of American citizens to protect them from their new government. Students will be able to explain the concept of checks and balances and how the Constitution of the United States establishes those checks and balances so that no single branch of government can assume overwhelming power. Students will be able to analyze how specific amendments outlined in the Bill of Rights have relevant, present day applications that are regularly argued in courts across the United States. KNOWLEDGE The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance (1787). Shays’s Rebellion Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention (Plans and Compromises) Federalists v. Antifederalists The Constitution of the United States The “Bill of Rights” and Amendments 11-27 The system of checks and balances SKILLS Analyze political and social concepts
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