Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.9c
The Standard
- SS24.US1.9
- Explain how economic and social divisions led to heightened sectionalism between the North and the South, examining their geographical and economic distinctions and the disparities between agrarian and industrial interests.
Compare and contrast political and sectional views on economic policies, and explain how these views led to political conflict during the early to mid-nineteenth century.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare arguments about protective tariffs, a national bank, and federal spending on roads. They explain how party positions and regional interests led to the Bank War and the Nullification Crisis.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why many Whigs backed a national bank while Jacksonian Democrats opposed it. They can also show why a tariff helped some Northern manufacturers but angered many Southern planters, and connect that dispute to nullification.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume everyone in one region held the same view. Some think tariffs were taxes on exports, or mix up the Bank War with the Nullification Crisis.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats disagree about the national bank? Then explain why a protective tariff led to conflict between South Carolina and the federal government.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four claim cards from a mill owner, planter, western farmer, and banker to sort by support for tariffs or the bank.
Ask students to write why a cotton planter might reject a tariff that a New England mill owner supported.
Play four rounds of Who Said It? using claims about tariffs, the bank, roads, and canals; students defend each speaker choice.
Use a state highway map to find a local route, then ask who pays for it, who benefits, and who might oppose funding.
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