Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.3b
The Standard
- SS24.US1.3
- Analyze the major policies and political developments of the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.
Analyze the development of economic infrastructure during the Early Republic, including the effects of Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how federal debt payments, a national bank, and taxes changed credit and trade. They trace how roads and canals linked inland farms to markets, and identify who benefited or paid.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why paying state debts helped federal credit and why the whiskey tax angered western farmers. They can use a map to show how a turnpike helped farmers reach buyers.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think tariffs taxed exports rather than imports. Some think the national bank paid off all debt at once, or that Hamilton built the roads and canals.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A western farmer sells whiskey in an eastern town. Explain how a new road could affect sales, why the farmer might oppose the whiskey tax, and how the national bank could help trade.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs bank, debt, tax, and turnpike cards; have them place each on a trade-flow map with one benefit and one cost.
Ask, “Would a western whiskey maker support a tax used to pay federal debt?” Have students defend an answer with two facts.
Play a matching round: students pair bank, debt assumption, tariff, and excise tax cards with likely effects and affected groups.
Put a Lancaster Turnpike map beside a local road map; students trace how each route moves goods to market.
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