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Nation Builders

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LENGTH

25 Minutes

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Description

Nation Builders With "Nation Builders," you can delve into the early 19th century and help forge a burgeoning nation. Set in the aftermath of the War of 1812, this game allows players to explore, make decisions, and build cities, experiencing how art, literature, government, and economics united a young country. From constructing the Capitol and the National Bank to supporting Hudson River School artists and participating in landmark Supreme Court cases, players make choices that reveal how culture and politics defined what it meant to be American. Players don't just read history; they build it.

Vocabulary Words

Assembly

National Bank

Tariffs

Patriotism

National Identity

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Defining National Identity. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Compare how national pride and growing sectionalism coexisted and clashed during this period.

Discuss the long-term effects of Supreme Court rulings that promoted nationalism through judicial power.

Analyze how the American System influenced debates about the role of government in economic development.

Assess how the arts were used to promote national values such as individualism, nature, and democratic ideals.

Evaluate how American fiction writers like Irving and Cooper contributed to the creation of a unique cultural identity.

Explain how economic and regional interests led to divisions among Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners.

Describe the debate over the Missouri Compromise and how it challenged national unity.

Discuss the tensions between nationalism and sectionalism emerging in the early 1800s.

Analyze how the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden supported federal power.

Explain how infrastructure development (roads, canals, etc.) contributed to the sense of a unified national economy.

Describe the goals of Henry Clay’s American System and how it aimed to strengthen national unity and economic independence.

Interpret Tocqueville’s observations on American democracy and culture.

Evaluate how American art, literature, and architecture reflected pride in national identity during the early 1800s.

Analyze the emergence of national symbols such as the flag, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Uncle Sam.

Explain how the War of 1812 fostered a stronger sense of American national identity.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What symbols help you feel united as an American today? In the 1800s, do you think you would feel connected to America as a nation?

After the Game

Why did the War of 1812 increase national identity in America? Even with this increase nationalism, what cased the different regions of the United States to separate from each other or caused conflict between them?

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