Calendar of Activities & Assignments
Monday / Tuesday / Thursday
10/5
Overview of Second Great Awakening & Republican Motherhood
ToquevilleDocuments
HW: Read Chapter 9 / 10/6
Nationalism after War of 1812
Antebellum Economic Trends/Docs
Crash Course: Market Revolution
HW: Finish Chapter 9 / 10/8 Chapter 9 Due
Short Answer (on Ch. 8 concepts)
Intro to Andrew Jackson
HW: Read Chapter 10;
10/12 1-4 Block Day
Jacksonian Era
Jacksonian Document Activity
HW: Read Chapter 10; Read Jacksonian essays / 10/14 Wednesday
All juniors take PSAT / 10/16 Chapter 10 Due
Review Legacy of Jackson/Era
Review 1790-1840 Charts/P/E/S
HW: Prepare for Ch. 9/10 MC Test Read Chapter 11
10/19
No School for Students
Staff Development Day / 10/20
Ch. 9 & 10 MC Test
Intro to Antebellum Reform
HW: Review Chapters 8-10 for LEQ; / 10/22
In Class Essay (LEQ)(1790-1840) (45 min)
Antebellum Reform Groups
HW:Read Ch. 11 for 10/26
10/26 Chapter 11 Due
Reform Presentations
HW: Chapter 12 / 10/27
Finish Reform Presentations
Abolitionism Documents/Discussions
HW: Finish Chapter 12 / 10/29 Chapter 12 Due
SDLA (Ch. 12) & Debrief
Sectionalism
HW: Prepare for Ch. 11/12 Test
11/2
Ch 11 & 12 Test
HW: Read Chapter 13 / 11/3
Short Answer
Manifest Destiny
Expansion & Conflict PowerPoint
Mexican War docs
HW: Read Chapter 13 / 11/5 Chapter 13 Due
SDLA (Ch 13)
HW: Chapter 13/14 will be a partner test
Chapter 9 –Economic Transformation, 1820-1860
Industrial & Market RevolutionsCyrus McCormickSamuel Slater
Women’s Workers/Lowell, Mass.Journeymen Artisansunions & blacklists
Working Men’s PartyEli Whitney/Mass productionCommonwealth v. Hunt
Labor Theory of ValueComparative AdvantageErie Canal
Robert FultonJohn DeereInternal Migration Patterns
Middle Class Social Trends “Benevolent Empire”Irish & German Immigration
NativismCharles FinneyTemperance movement
Chapter 10 –A Democratic Revolution 1820-1844
Alexis de Tocqueville“New” DemocracyElection of 1824 (“Corrupt Bargain”)
Political machineClay’s American systemJohn Quincy Adams as President
Tariff of “Abomination”King “Mob” & King “Veto”National Appeal of “Old Hickory”
Jacksonian DemocracyAndrew Jackson as President“Kitchen” Cabinet & “Spoils” System Nullification & South Carolina Nicholas Biddle & the “Bank War” Jackson’s “Pet Banks”
Indian Removal Act of 1830“Trail of Tears”Five “Civilized Tribes”
Worcester v. GeorgiaThe Taney CourtCharles River Bridge Case
Whig PartyAnti-Masonic PartyMartin Van Buren
Panic of 1837Independent Treasury ActWorking Men’s Party
Election of 1840 (“Tippecanoe & Tyler Too” & “Log Cabin & Hard Cider”)
Chapter 11: Antebellum Religion & Reform, 1820-1860
For this chapter, you will be assigned to a specific reform group. Skim p.331-344 and read the sections on Abolitionism and the Women’s Movement more carefully.
Second Great AwakeningGeorge WhitefieldBenevolence/Good Works
Ralph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalismTemperance movement
Henry David ThoreauWalt WhitmanNathaniel Hawthorne
Herman MelvilleUtopian CommunitiesMormons
NativismAbolitionist StrategiesNat Turner’s Rebellion William Lloyd Garrison Grimké Sisters Underground Railroad
“Gag” RuleAmerican Anti-Slavery Societyseparate spheres
Dorothea DixHorace MannHarriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner TruthSeneca Falls ConventionElizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery & Society, 1800-1860
This is a thematic chapter on slavery. Focus on the larger themes and trends and pay attention to how the institution of slavery and the experience of slaves changes over time.
Internal Slave TradeKing CottonSocial Impacts on Slaves
Slave Marriage trendsOld South gentry cultureSlave-holding trends
Southern Defenses of SlaveryPlanter elite/aristocracy“necessary evil”/“positive good”
Small planters/yeomenproperty-less whitesgang-labor system
Demographics on slave ownershipTexas annexationSouthern Economic Division
Regional economic differencesBlack ProtestantismOrigins of African American culture
Forms of slave resistanceNorthern Free Black SocietySouthern Free Black Society
Chapter 13: Expansion, War, & Sectional Crisis: 1844-1860
Manifest DestinyOregon FeverPlains Indian Lifestyle
“54° 40” or Fight!”James PolkElection of 1844
Mexican-American WarZachary Taylor“conscience” Whigs
Wilmot ProvisoTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo“Free Soil” Party
Popular SovereigntyCalifornia Gold Rush“higher law”/”fire eaters”
Compromise of 1850Fugitive Slave Act & Personal Liberty LawsGadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska ActCreation of Republican Party“Bleeding” Kansas
Dred Scott v. SanfordStephen Douglas & Freeport DoctrineJames Buchanan
John Brown & Raid at Harper’s FerryAbraham LincolnElection of 1860