Lesson 1 FOCUS QUESTIONS: Ch. 11 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why did Americans take different paths in the early 1800s? (pp. 380-381) Ch. 11, Lesson 1 Lesson 1 FOCUS QUESTIONS: 1) How did the new technology of the Industrial Revolution change the way Americans lived? 2) What were some disadvantages for children who worked in early American factories?
Ch. 11, Lesson 2 Lesson 2 FOCUS QUESTION: 1) How did urbanization, technology, and social change affect the North? A painting of Broadway, New York City, in the winter of 1840
Ch. 11, Lesson 3 Lesson 3 FOCUS QUESTION: 1) How did cotton affect the social and economic life of the South? Painting of a Southern cotton plantation in the 1840s.
Ch. 11, Lesson 4 Lesson 4 FOCUS QUESTION: 1) How did Americans move west, and how did this intensify the debate over slavery? BONUS: What was the first federally-funded road in the U.S.? The National Road, which started in Cumberland, MD in 1818, and finished in Vandalia, Illinois, in 1850.