Calendar of Activities & Assignments
Monday /
Tuesday
/ Thursday9/7
Labor Day holiday
No School! / 9/8 Chapter 5 DUE
- Chapter 5 Discussion Questions
- Federalist vs. Anti-Federalists
Chapter 4 & 5 Partner Test (Multiple Choice)
- Lecture: American Rev. & Ideas
- Intro. To Historiography
9/14 Rosh Hashanah holiday
Watch Liberty!
HW:Read Chapter 6 / 9/15
Primary Source Activity—feds vs. anti-feds
HW: Finish Chapter 6; prepare for Chapter 6 discussions / 9/17 Chapter 6 DUE
Chapter 6 Harkness Discussions
Historiography of Constitution
HW:
9/22 Monday is a 1-4 block
Politics of 1780s & 1790s
Legacy of George Washington / 9/23
Wednesday is a staff development day.
No school for students! / 9/24 Chapter 7 Due
Concerns of the Early Republic activity
Lecture: Jeffersonian Democracy
HW:
9/28
Chapter 6/7 MC Test & Short Answer
HW: Prepare for DRQ (Chapters 5, 6, 7) / 9/29
In Class DBQ
HW: Prepare for Jefferson seminars / 10/1 Chapter 8 Due
Jefferson Socratic Seminars
HW: Read Marshall Court docs
Chapter 6 – Making War & Republican Governments (1776-1789)
General WashingtonPatriots, Loyalists, and “non-associators”
Battle of SaratogaValley ForgeNative Americans & the War
Treaty of Alliance w/France“War of Attrition” in the SouthBattle of Yorktown
Continental currencyAfrican Americans & the War Treaty of Paris of 1783
RepublicanismJohn & Abigail AdamsArticles of Confederation
Women & the Revolution“Republican Virtue” Republican Motherhood (not in text)
Land & Northwest OrdinancesShays’ RebellionPhiladelphia Convention
James MadisonThe Great CompromiseThe 3/5ths Compromise
“necessary & proper” clauseFederalists & Anti-FederalistsThe Federalist Papers
Alexander HamiltonRatification of ConstitutionBill of Rights
Questions:
- How effective was the Articles of Confederation? What were its strengths and weaknesses in solving the problems that faced the new nation?
- What were the causes of Shays’ Rebellion and what does that reveal about post-war America?
- What were the main disagreements between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists regarding the Constitution? How did they resolve their differences? Which group do you think represented the “true” spirit of the revolution?
- How revolutionary was the American Revolution? What political, social, and economic changes did it produce? What remained the same?
Chapter 7: Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820
Hamilton’s Financial PlansPresidential Cabinet Bill of Rights
Washington’s Farewell AddressThomas JeffersonWhiskey RebellionJay’s Treaty
“XYZ Affair”John Adams Alien & Sedition Acts
“Revolution of 1800”Kentucky & Virginia ResolutionsRelations w/ Indians in Ohio Valley
Expansion of Slavery in SouthwestMarbury v. MadisonBarbary “Pirates”
Louisiana PurchaseLewis & ClarkImpressment
Embargo Act of 1807“War Hawks”Tecumseh
War of 1812Battle of New OrleansBattle of Horseshoe Bend
Hartford ConventionTreaty of GhentAdams-Onis Treaty
John Marshall“The Marshall Court”McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. OgdenFletcher v. PeckDartmouth College v. Woodward
“Era of Good Feeling”
Chapter 8: Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820
Second Bank of the U.S.Eminent Domain & Limited Liability
Commonwealth system (mercantilism)capitalism/market economybusiness cycle
Universal White Manhood Suffrage“companionate” marriageRepublican Motherhood
Vindication of the Rights of WomenNoah WebsterHaitian Slave Revolt
ManumissionInternal Slave Trade Slave Society & Culture
American Colonization Society growing split between North and South
Free BlacksMissouri CompromiseHenry Clay
Second Great AwakeningRevivalismBaptists & Methodists
Women in the 2nd Great Awakening UnitariansCamp Meetings
Religious connection to Reform
Questions for Chapters 7 & 8
- What was the impact of the Marshall court on the U.S. government?
- How and why was the War of 1812 fought? What was the significance of its outcome?
- Explain the rise and fall of the First Party System. How did the policies pursued by Republican presidents between 1801-1825 differ from those implemented by Hamilton and the Federalists during the 1790s? Why did the Federalist agenda fall out of favor? What legacy did the Federalists leave?
- How did the republican ideas of the Revolutionary era shape American society and culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries? What regional differences in the social development of republicanism emerged? How can we account for these differences?
- What is the relationship between America’s republican culture and the surge of evangelism called the Second Great Awakening? In what ways are the goals of the two movements similar? How are they different?
- The text argues that a distinct American identity had begun to emerge by 1820. How would you describe this identity? What were the forces that helped create unity? And what were the points of contention?
- Using the acronym SPEDI (Social, Political, Economic, Diplomatic, Intellectual) to sort the Key Terms from Chapter 7 & 8. Some terms will fall into multiple categories. What trends do you notice? What questions does this raise for you? What predictions can you make about upcoming controversies?