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Period 4: 1800-1848

APUSH: ARC (Theme), GEO (Theme), PCE (Theme), SOC (Theme), WOR (Theme), WXT (Theme)

The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson

APUSH: KC‑4.1.I.A (KC), KC‑4.1.I.B (KC), KC‑4.3.I.A.i (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective B
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Jefferson's presidency and the turn of the nineteenth century
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The election of 1800
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The War of 1812
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The Louisiana Purchase and its exploration
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Politics and regional interests

APUSH: KC‑4.1.I.D (KC), KC‑4.2.III.D (KC), KC‑4.3.II.C (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective C
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The presidency of John Quincy Adams
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Indian Removal
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America on the world stage

APUSH: KC‑4.3.I (KC), KC‑4.3.I.A.ii (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective D, WOR (Theme)
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The Monroe Doctrine
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Market Revolution: industrialization

APUSH: KC‑4.2.I.A (KC), KC‑4.2.I.B (KC), KC‑4.2.I.C (KC), KC‑4.2.III.B (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective E, WXT (Theme)
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The Market Revolution - textile mills and the cotton gin
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The Market Revolution - communication and transportation
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Market Revolution: society and culture

APUSH: KC‑4.2.II.A (KC), KC‑4.2.II.B (KC), KC‑4.2.II.C (KC), KC‑4.2.III.A (KC), SOC (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective F
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The Market Revolution - impact and significance
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Irish and German immigration
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Women's labor
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Expanding democracy

APUSH: KC‑4.1.I (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective G
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Jackson and federal power

APUSH: KC‑4.1.I.C (KC), KC‑4.3.I.B (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective H
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Jacksonian Democracy - background and introduction
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Jacksonian Democracy - the "corrupt bargain" and the election of 1824
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Jacksonian Democracy - mudslinging and the election of 1828
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Jacksonian Democracy - spoils system, Bank War, and Trail of Tears
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The presidency of Andrew Jackson
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The Nullification crisis
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The development of an American culture

APUSH: ARC (Theme), KC‑4.1.II.B (KC), KC‑4.1.II.C (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective I
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Transcendentalism
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The Second Great Awakening

APUSH: ARC (Theme), KC‑4.1.II.A.i (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective J
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The Second Great Awakening - origins and major ideas
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The Second Great Awakening - influence of the Market Revolution
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The Second Great Awakening - reform and religious movements
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An age of reform

APUSH: ARC (Theme), KC‑4.1.II.A.ii (KC), KC‑4.1.III.A (KC), KC‑4.1.III.B.i (KC), KC‑4.1.III.C (KC), KC‑4.3.II.B.i (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective K
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The early temperance movement - origins
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The early temperance movement - spread and temporary decline
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Women's rights and the Seneca Falls Convention
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African Americans in the early republic

APUSH: KC‑4.1.II.D (KC), KC‑4.1.III.B.ii (KC), SOC (Theme), Unit 4: Learning Objective L
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The society of the South in the early republic

APUSH: GEO (Theme), KC‑4.2.III.C (KC), KC‑4.3.II.A (KC), KC‑4.3.II.B.ii (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective M
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Causation in Period 4

APUSH: KC‑4.1 (KC), KC‑4.1.I (KC), KC‑4.1.II (KC), KC‑4.1.III (KC), KC‑4.2 (KC), KC‑4.2.I (KC), KC‑4.2.II (KC), KC‑4.2.III (KC), KC‑4.3 (KC), KC‑4.3.I (KC), KC‑4.3.II (KC), Unit 4: Learning Objective N
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Developing an American identity, 1800-1848
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About this unit

In the early nineteenth century, the United States expanded rapidly, fueled by new technology, growing markets, and the extension of democracy to all white men. But this prosperity came at a cost, gobbling up the lands of Native Americans in the West and the labor of enslaved people in the South.