Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.6

SS24.US1.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.US1.6a

  Describe the changes in political culture during the Age of Reform, including the concept of Jacksonian democracy.

• SS24.US1.6b

  Investigate and share information on the influence of individuals and movements of art, religion, education, and literature on the emergence of a national ident...

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how voting and party politics changed during Jackson’s presidency. They examine how reformers, artists, writers, preachers, and educators shaped ideas about being American. They ask whose voices counted and whose were left out.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain that voting expanded for white men but not for everyone. They can connect Horace Mann’s schools and Hudson River School paintings to different ideas of a shared American culture. They can name a group excluded from voting.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may assume Jacksonian democracy gave everyone the vote. They may miss that abolitionists and supporters of Indian removal had sharply different ideas about who belonged in the nation. They may see paintings and books as decoration rather than evidence of those ideas.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Explain how wider voting for white men and common schools shaped national identity. Name one group excluded from voting.

1. 01

   Give groups index cards labeled white male suffrage, Indian removal, abolition, and common schools; sort them by whose belonging each expanded or denied.

2. 02

   Ask: Could Jacksonian democracy claim to represent all Americans? Write three sentences using white male suffrage and Indian removal as evidence.

3. 03

   Match Horace Mann, Frederick Douglass, Hudson River painters, and revival preachers to school reform, abolition writing, national landscapes, and religious reform.

4. 04

   Show New York’s current voter registration form; compare its eligibility rules with the state’s 1821 rules for white and Black men.

• SS24.US1.16

  Describe the transformation of American society and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• SS24.US1.16a

  Analyze how the growing awareness of economic and political corruption during the Gilded Age led to reform efforts on both state and national levels.

• SS24.6.11c

  Assess the arguments made by groups and individuals seeking greater inclusion and advancement of fundamental values in the late 1700s, including women and Black...