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Learning Checkpoints #3 and #4 (worth 20 points each on Assessments which are 60% of grade; Assignments worth other 40%).

Students who choose to use the textbook during checkpoint will earn a maximum grade of 15/20 or 75%. Handed out in class December 4, 2017

Directions: Students will choose one or more topics from 2 of the 3 chapters to write about. Answers should be written in complete sentences. Each paragraph answer should contain between 6-11 sentences.

Test on: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (day after MLK)

  • Chapter 7:The American Revolutionpages 118-139-topics: American Strengths/Weaknesses, British Strengths/Weaknesses, African Americans and the War, Victory at Trenton, Winter at Valley Forge, the Battle of Monmouth, Yorktown, the Treaty of Paris, the Impact of the American Revolution.
  • Chapter 8:Creating the Constitutionpages 144-163-topics: What compromises emerged from the Constitutional Convention (?), the Northwest Ordinance, Shay’s Rebellion, What occurred during the opening of the Constitutional Convention (?), the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan, the Great Compromise, Slavery, the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Electoral College, Federalists, Anti-Federalists.
  • Chapter 9: The Constitution: A More Perfect Union pages 164-181-topics: the Preamble, Explaining the three Branches of Government: Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Checks and Balances, the Amendment Process, Powers belonging to the National Government, popular participation in Government.

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Test on: Monday, March 5, 2018

  • Chapter 10:The Bill of Rightspages 182-203-topics: First Amendment rights, Citizen Protections: Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Legal Rights and Protections: Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Other Rights and Powers: Ninth Amendment and Tenth Amendment.
  • Chapter 11:Political Developments in the Early Republicpages 204-223-topics: the Whiskey Rebellion, the French Revolution, Washington’s Farewell Address, Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Party, Thomas Jefferson and the Republican Party, the Presidency of John Adams: the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Election of 1800, a Deadlock and a New Amendment (section 11.8).
  • Chapter 12:Foreign Affairs in the Young Nationpages 224-241-topics: Washington’s Foreign Policy, the Jay Treaty, the XYZ Affair, President Jefferson’s Dilemma: Dealing with Pirates, President Madison’s Dilemma: Protecting Sailors and Settlers, the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans, Latin America’s Revolutions, the Monroe Doctrine.