Early Republic, Markets & Migration — Chapter overview · U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
Five focused units, a three-session source workshop, chapter review, and chapter quiz.
Chapter question
How did political and economic choices change authority, work, transport, and communities?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 5.1 · The Early Republic: Finance, Parties & National Authority
I can explain Hamilton’s financial program and why it produced the first parties.
- Unit 5.2 · War of 1812: Maritime Rights, Native Nations & Consequences
I can name the causes of the war and say which were real grievances.
- Unit 5.3 · Erie Canal: Engineering, Markets & New York Communities
I can explain why the canal was built and why critics called it folly.
- Unit 5.4 · Market & Industrial Change: Production, Labor & Technology
I can explain what dividing labour does to output and to the worker.
- Unit 5.5 · Migration, Immigration & Growing Towns
I can explain what pushed the Irish and German migrations of the 1840s and 1850s.