Homework for Vacation

Read Don't Know Much About History and chapters 19 and 20 in The American Pageant.  Outline each according to the Key Concepts and Themes of Unit 5.  Also, watch Crash Course #18, #20, and #21.   If you want to look at the battles of the Civil War you can also watch Crash Course #19.

UNIT 5

Unit 5: 1844-1877 – The American Pageant, chapters 17-22; Don’t Know Much About History pages 127-165

Content: As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional tensions, especially over slavery, led to a civil war – the course and aftermath of which transformed American society.  Tensions over slavery; reform movements; imperialism; Mexican War; Civil War; and Reconstruction.

Key Concepts:

5.1 The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere and emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries.

5.2 Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues led the nation into civil war.

5.3 The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested Reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about federal government power and citizenship rights.

Activities:

History Log – notes and short answers to reading assignments.

Primary Source Analysis: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Accounts about poor Whites, Fugitive Slave Law, Dred Scott v. Sanford, The Impending Crisis in the South, the Lincoln –Douglas debates, Lincoln’s 2^nd Inaugural Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Mississippi Black Codes, map delineating southern session, two paintings of Manifest Destiny, Civil War photos.

Viewpoints: John Brown – Terrorist or Hero?

 

Viewpoints: Who Freed the Slaves – Students will present their viewpoint on who freed the slaves from one of the following groups: Congress, Lincoln, Military, or African-Americans.  In addition students will explain why the other three groups were not as effective.

Students read the sources in a document-based question on the Mexican-American War and engage in a classroom debate on President’s Polk’s motives for entering the war.

Students will read “Popular Sovereignty Should Settle the Slavery Question” by Stephen A. Douglas; “Slavery Should Not Be Allowed to Spread” by Abraham Lincoln from Opposing Viewpoints.  Students will identify major arguments of each man, and then debate whose argument was most persuasive.  Their analysis should address at least two of the following features from each of the documents: audience, purpose, point of view, format, argument, limitations, and content germane to the evidence considered.

Six Degrees of Separation: From 1776 to the Compromise of 1877.

Chronological Reason: Students look at the evolution of public policies related to slavery and racial inequality to 1877. 

UNIT Test – multiple-choice questions, short answer questions, DBQ and Long Essay (on public policies related to slavery).

During this unit students will discuss possible answers to the following essential questions:

Identity: How did migration to the United States change popular ideas of American Identity and citizenship as well as regional and racial identities?  How did the conflicts that led to the Civil War change popular ideas about national, regional, and racial identities?  How did the conflicts that led to the Civil War change popular ideas about national, regional, and racial identities throughout this period?

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did the maturing of northern manufacturing and the adherence of the South to an agricultural economy change the nation economic system by 1877?

Peopling: How did the growth of mass migration to the United States and the railroad affect settlement patterns in cities and the West?

Politics and Power: Why did attempts at compromise before the war fail to prevent the conflict?  To what extent, and in what ways, did the Civil War and Reconstruction transform American political and social relationships?

America in the World: How was the American conflict over slavery part of larger global events?

Environment and Geography: How did the end of slavery and technological and military developments transform environment and settlement patterns in the South and West?

 

Ideas, Beliefs, and Cultures: How did the doctrine of Manifest Destiny debates over territorial expansionism and the Mexican War?  How did the Civil War struggle shape Americans’ beliefs about equality, democracy, and national destiny?

REVEIW

Unit 4: 1800-1848 – The American Pageant chapters 11-17; Don’t Know Much About History pages 141-195.  A People's History of The United States  pages 103-170.

Content: Definition of democratic practices; expansion of the vote; market revolution; Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, territorial and demographic growth; two-party system; Andrew Jackson; and role of the federal government in slavery and the economy.

Activities:

History Log – notes and short answers on reading assignments.

Primary Sources Analysis: Letter to Mercy Otis Warren, Monroe Doctrine, The Nullification Proclamation, Self Reliance, Jackson’s First Message to Congress, Jackson’s Veto of the Bank, John O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, William B. Travis Letter from the Alamo, contrasting illustrations of the “Trail of Tears”, James Madison’s War Message. 

Students will complete a concept map on the following four Marshall Court Decisions: Marbury V. Madison; Mcculloch V. Maryland; Dartmouth College V. Woodward; Gibbons V. Ogden. 

Viewpoints: Looking at various sources students will decide whether the War of 1812 was the 2^nd War for Independence or a War for Territory.

Six Degrees of Separation: From Jefferson to the Reform Era.

Students will reflect on Seneca Falls – in what ways was it a consequence of pre-1848 reform activities and what did it contribute to the movement for women’s rights afterward?  Students will write an essay that makes an argument in response to this question.

During this unit students will discuss possible answers to the following essential questions:

Identity: How did debates over American democratic culture and the proximity of many different cultures living in close contact affect changing definitions of national identity?

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those for whom they worked?  How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern social, political, and economic life?

Peopling: How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old communities?

Politics and Power: How did the growth of ideas of mass democracy, including such concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy affect political life and discourse?

America in the World: How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its power in the western hemisphere?  How did foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new America Nation?

Environment and Geography: How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economics and identities?

Ideas, Beliefs, and Cultures: How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?

Chapter 15 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture

Know:    Alexis de Tocqueville, The Age of Reason, Deism, Unitarians, Second Great Awakening, Camp Meetings, Charles Grandison Finney

1.        In what ways did religion in the United States become more liberal and more conservative in the early decades of the 19th century?

Denominational Diversity

Know:    Burned-Over-District, Millerites (Adventists)

2.        What effect did the Second Great Awakening have on organized religion?

  

A Desert Zion in Utah

Know:    Joseph Smith, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young

3.        What characteristics of the Mormons caused them to be persecuted by their neighbors?

Free Schools for a Free People

Know:    Three R's, Horace Mann, Noah Webster, McGuffey's Readers

4.        What advances were made in the field of education from 1820 to 1850?

Higher Goals for Higher Learning

Know:    University of Virginia, Oberlin College, Mary Lyon, Lyceum, Magazines

5.        In what ways did higher education become more modern in the antebellum years?

An Age of Reform

Know:    Sylvester Graham, Penitentiaries, Dorthea Dix

6.        How and why did Dorthea Dix participate in the reform movements?

Demon Rum--The "Old Deluder"

Know:    American Temperance Society, Neil S. Dow, Maine Law of 1851

7.        Assess the successfulness of the temperance reformers.

Women in Revolt

Know:    Spinsters, Alexis de Tocqueville, Cult of Domesticity, Catherine Beecher, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Amelia Bloomer, Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments

8.        Describe the status of women in the first half of the 19th century.

Wilderness Utopias

Know:    Utopias, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Oneida Community, Complex Marriage, Shakers

9.        In what ways were utopian communities different from mainstream America?

 

The Dawn of Scientific Achievement

Know:    Benjamin Silliman, John J. Audubon

10.        Was the United States a leader in the world in scientific pursuits?  Explain.

Makers of America: The Oneida Community

Know:    John Humphrey Noyes, Bible Communism, Mutual Criticism

11.        The word "utopia" is a word that is "derived from Greek that slyly combines the meanings of `a good place' and `no such place'."  Does the Oneida Community fit this definition?  Explain.

Artistic Achievements

Know:    Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale, John Trumball, Hudson River School, Daguerreotype, Stephen C. Foster

12.        "The antebellum period was a time in which American art began to come of age."  Assess.

The Blossoming of a National Literature

Know:    Knickerbocker Group, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant

13.        In the early 1800's American writers emerged, who were recognized world-wide for their ability.  What made them uniquely American?

Trumpeters of Transcendentalism

Know:    Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or Life in the Woods, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walt Whitman

14.        Which of the transcendentalists mentioned here best illustrated the theory in his life and writings?  Explain.

Glowing Literary Lights

Know:    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson

15.        Name six important American writers and explain the significance of each.

Literary Individualists and Dissenters

Know:    Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

16.        Why do you think Poe and Melville were not appreciated as much in America at the time as they were in other times and places?

Portrayers of the Past

Know:    George Bancroft, William H. Prescott, Francis Parkman

17.        How did the geographic background of early historians affect the history they wrote?

Varying Viewpoints:  Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?

18.        Were 19th century reformers compassionate, religious people; fanatics who didn't care if their actions had negative results; or conservatives who wanted to control the lower classes?  Explain.

Manifest Destiny

Today we are going to 1) take a brief quiz; 2) go over some of your answers from chapter 13; 3) Look at a letter from Colonel W. B. Travis (SOAPstone for homework); and 4) Begin chapter 17 - don't worry we will return to chapters 14, 15, and 16.

Study Questions

CHAPTER 17:  MANIFEST DESTINY AND ITS LEGACY

The Accession of "Tyler Too"

Know:    William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

14.        "Yet Tyler...should never have consented to run on the ticket."  Explain this quote from your text.

John Tyler:   A President Without a Party

Know:    "His Accidency,"  Henry Clay

15.        What proof can you give of Tyler's unpopularity?  What did Tyler do that made Whigs so angry with him?

A War of Words with England

Know:    Caroline, Creole

16.             Explain at least four causes of tension between the US and Great Britain in the 1830's and 1840's.

Manipulating the Maine Maps

Know:    Aroostook War, Lord Ashburton, Daniel Webster

17.        What was the result of the Ashburton-Webster Treaty?

The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone

Know:    Lone Star Republic

18.        How did Mexico view Texas from 1836 to 1845?

The Belated Texas Nuptials

Know:    Conscience Whigs

19.        Why did some hesitate to annex Texas?  Why was it finally admitted to the Union?

Oregon Fever Populates Oregon

Know:    54 40', Willamette Valley, Oregon Trail

20.        What change with Oregon from 1819 to 1844 caused the British to become more willing to negotiate a final boundary?

A Mandate (?) for Manifest Destiny

Know:    James K. Polk, Dark Horse

21.        What part did Manifest Destiny play in the 1844 election?

Polk the Purposeful

22.        What were Polk's four goals?  Assess his degree of success.

Misunderstandings with Mexico

Know:    John Slidell, Nueces River

23.        What were the sources of the strained relationship between the U.S. and Mexico?

American Blood on American (?) Soil

Know:    Zachary Taylor, Spot Resolutions

24.        Explain some of the reasons Congress declared war on Mexico.

The Mastering of Mexico

Know:    Stephen Kearney, John C. Fremont, Bear Flag Republic, Winfield Scott

25.        What battles were fought to defeat Mexico?

Fighting Mexico for Peace

Know:    Nicholas P. Trist, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

26.        Why did some people oppose the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Profit and Loss in Mexico

Know:    Wilmot Proviso

27.        What positive and negative outcomes resulted for the United States from the Mexican-American War?

Makers of America: The Californios

Know:    Californios, Father Junipero Serra, Franciscans, Secularization, Anglos
28.        How did the Californios gain and then lose power?

Jackson

Today - we will look at Jackson's first message to congress (also known as the Indian Removal Act) and Jackson's veto of the bank.  We will also finish chapter 13.

 

Andrew Jackson - The President who liked Dueling

Today we will look at primary sources: "The Monroe Doctrine" and "The Missouri Compromise".  We will also read chapter 13.

CHAPTER 13:  THE RISE OF A MASS DEMOCRACY

The "Corrupt Bargain” or 1824

Know:    Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, King Caucus, Corrupt Bargain

1.         What was unusual about John Quincy Adams's victory in the presidential election of 1824?

A Yankee Misfit in the White House

Know:    John Quincy Adams

2.         Was John Quincy Adams well suited to be president?  Explain.

Going "Whole Hog" for Jackson in 1828

Know:    Old Hickory, Mudslinging, Rachel Robards

3.         Describe the tone and tactics used in the 1828 election.

“Old Hickory” as President

Know:    Inaugural Brawl, King Mob

4.         What was there about Andrew Jackson which made him a man of the people?

The Spoils System

Know:    Spoils System, Rotation in Office

5.         Defend Andrew Jackson's use of the Spoils System.

The Tricky “Tariff of Abominations”

Know:    Tariff of Abominations (of 1828), Denmark Vesey

6.         What circumstances led to the passage of the Tariff of Abominations?

"Nullies" in South Carolina

Know:    Nullies, Henry Clay, Tariff of 1833, Force Bill

7.         Describe the nullification crisis.

The Trail of Tears

Know:    Cherokees, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Indian Territory, The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seminoles

8.         What was particularly unfair about the treatment of the Cherokee Tribe?

The Bank War

Know:    Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle

9.         Do you agree or disagree with Nicholas Biddle’s nickname, “Czar Nicholas I?”  Explain.

"Old Hickory" Wallops Clay in 1832

Know:    Anti-Masonic Party

10.        What two things were unique about the election of 1832?

Burying Biddle’s Bank

Know:    Mandate, Pet Banks, Specie Circular

11.        "Andrew Jackson's killing of the BUS forced him to issue the Specie Circular."  Assess.

The Birth of the Whigs

Know:    Democrats, Whigs

12.        What is so alluring about being associated with “the common man?”

The Election of 1836

Know:    Favorite Son, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren

13.        Describe the development of the second party system from 1828-1836.

Big Woes for the "Little Magician"

Know:    Martin Van Buren

14.        Why was Martin Van Buren unpopular?

Depression Doldrums and the Independent Treasury

Know: Panic of 1837, Speculation, Divorce Bill, Independent Treasury

15.        What caused the Panic of 1837, and what was done by the president to try and end it?

Gone to Texas

Know:    Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett

16.        What made Texas so appealing to Americans?

The Lone Star Rebellion

Know:    Sam Houston, Santa Anna, Alamo, W. B. Travis, Goliad, Lone Star Republic, San Jacinto

17.        How did Texas, a part of Mexico settled by Americans, become independent of both?

Makers of America: Mexican or Texan?

Know:    Moses Austin, Stephen Austin, Anglos

18.        Did Texans ever really intend to become Mexican citizens, or did they feign allegiance to get land?

The Log Cabins and Hard Cider of 1840

Know:    Log Cabin, Hard Cider, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"

19.        What does the election of 1840 tell you about politics and voters in America at that time?

Politics for the People

20.        Is the federal government today more concerned with the “common man” or “aristocracy?”  Explain.

The Two-Party System

21.        Who were the Democrats and what did they believe?  The Whigs?

Varying Viewpoints: What Was Jacksonian Democracy?

Know:    Frederick Jackson Turner, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter

22.        Explain at least three theories about what motivated the followers of Andrew Jackson.