One Additional Assignment

Students - sometime tomorrow evening I will post the remainder of today's class along with the answers and some comments to the Missouri Compromise and the Nullification Questions.  Please make sure you have filed those assignments in your notebook next week.

I would like to add to your assignment list for this week one item.  I was not able to get to 'Jackson's response to the People of SC' in class today and I think that's an important document for you to read to round out this lesson.  So, please open the link to an excerpt from this document HERE and print out pages 2, 3, and 4 only.

Read the excerpts and answer only the first and last questions on the chart at the end.  Once you have finished that  read the  following paragraph from Jackson's response:

"How is it that the most perfect of these several modes of union should now be considered as a mere league that may be dissolved at pleasure?  It is from an abuse of terms.  Compact is used as synonymous with league, although the true term is not employed, because it would at once show the fallacy of the reasoning.  It would not do to say that our Constitution was only a league, but it is labored to prove it a compact (which, in one sense it is), and then to argue that as a league is a compact, every compact between nations must, of course, be a league, and that from such an engagement every sovereign power has a right to recede.  But it has been shown that in this sense the States are not soverighn, and that even if they were, and the national Constitution had been formed by compact, there would be no right in any one State to exonerate itself from the obligation."

Think about what you have learned in logic class thus far this year.  See if you can find and identify the faulty logic at work here.  Be prepared to discuss this paragraph during the first part of logic on Tueday.  I hope ot sit in on the discussion to hear your thoughts and learn from you all!

Questions for Chapter 7

You can print out this assignment - due Tuesday December 13th -  HERE.  Please follow the instructions AND I suggest you start on these this week and do a few a day.  There are 30 questions in all.  Please place the completed assignment in Chapter 7 tab.

Assignment Guide/Checklist Through Christmas Break

Due Tuesday Dec. 6^th ALL STUDENTS

____Finished Missouri Compromise Questions

____Finished Nullification Treaty Questions

____Finish Reading the Chapter

____2 written narrations – one of your choice the other on Jackson’s War on the Bank.

(8^th and 9^th grade students narrations should be typed and be no less than 250 words each).  Students not using a journal for narrations should place them in the chapter 7 tab.  THERE ARE NO OPPORTUNITY QUESTIONS UNTIL NEXT YEAR - all students will complete the written narration assignment intead :)

In class we will use the completed questions that you have answered in a group discussion regarding the sectionalism that was quickly taking the whole nation captive. 

Online Friday Class (8^th and 9^th grade only)

We will finish up where we left off last on how to use Historical Documents.  Please have all of the materials with you for class – this was the timeline of the Louisiana Purchase handout and the letters – remember?  It’s been awhile!  I’ll try and dig out the email and send it again before class in case anyone has misplaced materials.

Due Tuesday Dec. 13^th

ALL STUDENTS

____Completed Short Answer/Essay Questions for Chapter 7

____Timeline and Key People completed in notebooks for Chapter 7

____Make sure you remember to bring some kind of technology device that has internet capability for our multiple-choice ‘test’.  Let me know ASAP if you need to borrow/share.

8^th & 9^th Graders

____PSH Lincoln on the Mexican War - (A typed narration of this reading in Chapter 7's tab)

____Make sure you are caught up on Penny Candy Readings

____Review Economics Handouts/Notes we’ve covered thus far.

____Send to me questions that you have regarding economics and any economic issues that we’ve covered in the class - or haven’t covered in class for that matter.  We will have a guest speaker/teacher in January and I would like to present to him questions that we have as a class.  You must submit at least one question!

No Online Class Friday Dec. 16^th!

Assignments over Christmas Break

____Read pp 269-292 in Bennett

____Complete Accompanying Questions

____Timeline/Key People in Notebook

____For second semester, make sure you have a copy of  My Folks Don’t Want me to Talk About Slavery by Belinda Hurmence

____Those of you who are reading the autobiography should have that completed when you return.  We will schedule a group discussion after break.

____Since you will be with family again over the holidays please consider this as a time to get some idea/start on your final project for the year – the Oral Family History!

____One last thing – if you are so inclined I recommend viewing Amazing Grace and Amistad.  Both of these films have to do with the abolition of slavery and I wish there was a way we could watch them together, but I can’t squeeze it in.  (WARNING – Amistad is rated R for some nudity and for violence so please make sure you discuss it with your parents first!)

After Christmas Break

____We will have a special class covering the Trail of Tears and the Indian Removal sometime during the week of January 3^rd.  There’s no preparation for this – just show up.  It will be a longer class – we’ll watch a video during part of it.  Why don’t we plan to bring a snack to share?

____We will also schedule our trip to the Andrew Jackson Museum (and it may make sense to do those in the same day?)

Nullification Crisis Assignment

This assignment is similar to the Missouri Compromise assignment in that to answer the questions you will need to use interactive maps, text of actual documents, and this time I'm also going to provide you with a chart.

In class we will put what you've learned from both of these assignments together and further discuss the commercial differences of the North and South and the widening rift that was continuing to grow between them.  We will focus especially on South Carolina and Calhoun (who Jackson did not murder, btw - he said one of the things he regretted in his life was NOT hanging Calhoun!).  We will strive to really understand why these tariffs made more serious than ever the threat of secession.  I want also to make sure you have a clear understanding of what 'nullification' means - this was not the first appearance of the idea of nullification, but it was the most serious.

Print out the assignment HERE.

Tariff of 1828 is HERE - the tariff begins at the bottom of the page.  You'll have to click 'next image' to page through the book containing the text of this tariff.

Tariff of 1832 is HERE - also beginning at the bottom of the page.

Interactive Maps of Slave Crops in the American South are HERE.  There are 5 pages of this website for you to go through and use as a reference for your questions - just click "Next" at the bottom of the page.  You have to click the timeline at the bottom of each image to reveal the changes over time.

Chart showing Occupational Distribution of 1820-1860 is HERE.

The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification can be found HERE.

New Multiple Choice Question

I posted the new question.  This is a much harder question than last week's, but I encourage you to answer this WITHOUT looking up the answer or doing any research.  (It's ok to look it up afterward- but don't discuss the question with someone who hasn't voted...)  Before reading the answers think about what you know of The Great Awakening.  Once you have that in mind THEN read over the answers and go through a process of elimination. 

There use to be a slight penalty for guessing on the AP exam - you could skip a few questions without them being considered wrong, but that is currently suspended.  A skipped question is a missed question, so it's to your advantage to guess.  You just have to increase your skill at guessing (not to mention increasing the amount of US History you know)!!

Missouri Compromise Assignment

I noticed as I reviewed notebooks that many of you had some difficulty with Part III of this assignment.  The answers to Part III can be found in the actual text of the Missouri Compromise - I provided you a link to the text in a previous post to bring to class.  I also noticed that a few of you did not have this assignment in your notebooks - please bring this completed assignment and the one I am assigning this week on the Nullification Crisis to class with you next week.  Our class discussion and activities require that you have these completed!

French Settlement of North America

(Map from Wikipedia)

Three of you answered this weeks multiple choice question, "Thanks!"  As you can see from the map above (French settlement is indicated in blue) the French claimed and settled the Mississippi Valley and Canada.  They sent Giovanni da Verrazzano (he was Italian) to explore this region between Florida and Canada.  He was to look for a route to the Pacific.  Cartier was another French explorer and he attempted North America's first settlement, but it failed. 

While the French explored and attempted settlement in North America earlier, remember though, that their settlement was different than that of the English - it was not as dense consisting mostly of male coureurs and voyageurs and of scattered forts.  (As a side note the French and Spanish had more of a mission focus than did the English, did, so there were traveling missionaries from both of these European countries.  A French missionary that Bennett mentions is Father Jogues - remember the one whose fingers were eaten by the Mohawks?)  French settlement was built essentially upon the fur trade.  These factors contributed to them having more successful indian relations than much of the English colonies.  It was one advantage they had during the French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years War).

Make note of any of this information that either you don't have in your notebook or that you felt like you didn't know well.  Place it in your Chapter 1 tab.  (Don't, however, just print out this post and put it in your notebook!  Pick up your pencil and put it to paper...you'll be more likely to remember it...)

I'll post a new question tonight - take the time to attempt it this week!