Unit 3: 1754-1800 Assignments and Due Dates

Brinkley: Chapters 4, 5, and 6

 

9/28/15: Edsitement activity, “Empire & Identity in American Colonies”

Homework: Brinkley 109-114, continue essential terms. Read Digital History Social Class in Colonial America.

9/29/15: Continue Edsitement activity from previous day

Homework: Brinkley 115-124, continue essential terms. Read the Proclamation of 1763.

9/30/15: Research John Locke and Adam Smith, explain how both influenced mainstream American political and economic values. Read Digital History Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson.

            Homework: Brinkley 124-129, continue essential terms. Chapter 4 discussion questions due 10/5

10/1/15: Read “Consider the Source” and answer questions. Read Chapter 4 Patterns of Popular Culture, “Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts”.

Homework: Read Digital History causes of the Revolution. Use this to help create an illustrated timeline of 10 events that led directly to the Revolution (you will need to defend your choices and pick the one event that made the Revolution inevitable) **Think of taxes and acts that were passed during this time**

10/2/15: Essential Terms due. Continue working on the illustrated timeline.

Homework: Edsitement. Common Sense. Complete Essential Terms and Chapter 4 Discussion questions

10/5/15:  Review timelines and Common Sense.

Homework: Read Brinkley 131-136 and begin Chapter 5 essential Terms. Complete Chapter 4 Connect.

10/6/15: Declaration of Independence Analysis Assignment and SOAPStone on Declaration of Independence and identify the four references within the Declaration to a higher power. Does the Declaration invoke one specific religion? Why do you think Jefferson and the committee that edited his draft wrote the Declaration in a way that invokes religious ideas yet does not ground itself in any one specific religious tradition?

Homework: finish SOAPSTone. Begin Great Awakening Activity

10/7/15: “Great Awakening” activity

Homework: Brinkley 136-145, continue essential terms. List 3 battles that were most important in Revolutionary War and explain why you believe so (due 10/9). Look at Edsitement.com and review Revolutionary War Lessons, “The American War for Independence.”

10/8/15: continue “Great Awakening” activity

Homework: Brinkley 145-151, continue essential terms. Continue to look at “The American War for Independence” on Edsitement

10/9/15:  Review battles. “Treaty of Paris” activity from Edsitement

Homework: Brinkley 151-158, finish Chapter 5 essential terms. Chapter 5 Discussion Questions and Chapter 5 Connect

10/12/15: Inservice day. No School. Articles of Confederation Document Analysis

Homework:  Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution. Begin debate of anti-federalist and federalists.

10/13/15: Essential terms due. Notes. Continue debate.

            Homework: Brinkley 161-170, begin essential terms chapter 6.

10/14/15: Finish debate. Articles vs. Constitution Document Analysis

            Homework: Brinkley 170-175, continue essential terms

10/15/15: Constitution Scavenger Hunt

Homework: Finish Scavenger Hunt.

10/16/15: Review Constitution scavenger hunt. Begin Chapter 6 Discussion Questions

Homework: Brinkley 175-180. Finish essential terms, Chapter 6 Discussion Questions. Begin Unit 3 DBQ (due 10/23)

10/19/15: Essential Terms due. Presidential election activity (1792, 1796, 1800).

Discuss the three presidential elections that occurred during the time covered in the chapter: 1792, 1796, and 1800. How were they alike? Different? Why has the election of 1800 often been referred to as a political revolution within the new republic? What was revolutionary about the results?  

**Research each election. Who were the major candidates? What issues did they support? How did the election impact the United States? How were the elections carried out?

Homework: work on Presidential election activity and DBQ

10/20/15: Continue activity from 10/19.

            Homework: finish Presidential election activity. Chapter 6 Connect

10/21/15: Notes. Review Presidential election activity. Work on DBQ

Homework: In reviewing this historical period, students should create an illustrated timeline, highlighting the top twenty events.

10/22/15: Continue illustrated timelines.

            Homework: Finish illustrated timelines and finish DBQ

10/23/15: Review timelines and the time period/Gilder Lehrman Unit 3 Videos.

            Homework: Unit 3 Exam. Brinkley 183-191, begin Chapter 7 essential terms.

 

Recommended Further Reading:

Washington’s Farewell Address, Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Speeches at Fort Pitt by Tecumseh, Letters from a PA Farmer, Common Sense, The Federalist #45, Jefferson’s First Inaugural, complete your own independent research

 

Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=3&smtID=11

                        http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=4&smtID=11

Gilder Lehrman Unit 3: http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/3

 

Extra Info:

http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/lecturesok.html

 

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 

Naturalization Act	Required an immigrant to live in the U.S. for l4 years before becoming a citizen
Alien Act	Allowed the President to expel foreigners from the U.S. if the President believes they are dangerous to the nation's peace and safety
Alien Enemies Act	Allowed the President to imprison or expel foreigners considered dangerous in time of war or invasion
Sedition Act	Barred American citizens from saying, writing, or publishing any false, scandalous, or malicious statements about the U.S. government, Congress, or the President