Performance Tasks/Essential Questions:

• Based on evidence complied from a background reading and primary sources, students will craft an argument in response to the prompt: Is conflict (violent or nonviolent) a necessary catalyst for change?
• Students will use complex sentences to compare and contrast the perspectives of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and explain how these differences lead to the creation of a two party political system in the United States.

Standards:

• History Social Studies Standard 8.3.4 Understand how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt)
• Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12

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• Debate