SS084.2

Social Studies Standard 4.2 - Level 8

Students understand how economic factors have influenced historical events.

KNOW

Economies of European countries are based on resources from the Americas.
- France - Furs
- Spain - Gold
- England - Tobacco

Resources and conflict of the North American continent resulting in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Texas Annexation, the Mexican/American War, and the Civil War

ABLE TO DO

Discuss how the economies of France, Spain and England depend on raw resources from Europe.
Discuss how the more wealth a nation got from the Americas the more powerful it was in Europe. (The idea of "Mercantilism.)
Discuss how each of the three countries continually stripped the Americas of their raw resources.
Discuss how slavery helped the colonies to gain wealth.
Discuss how the French and Indian War was a fight between France and England for power over the resources of North America.
Discuss how the American Revolution was a fight against Great Britain so the U.S. could be independent of Great Britain and their need of all the raw resources.
Discuss the U.S.'s want of Texas lands to grow tobacco and perpetuate slavery.
Discuss the Mexican/American War and the need for more land and resources and Manifest Destiny.
Discuss the Civil War and the need for industrial areas and agricultural areas to pull together and not fight against each other.

Colonial Poster Contest "Come to the Americas" Must have resources available
Watch Last of the Mohicans and discuss the fight between France and Great Britain
Identify factors that influence location and distribution of economic activities and explain why and how the North and the South had to continually compromise in order to keep their economic status in the world.
- Constitutional Convention
- Slavery Unit
- Lead-up to the Civil War

Textbook charts and graphs in the textbook and other various places