Homework, due January 5!

Please read pages 149 (The Creation of State Governments) to 155, and answer the following questions:

1. What was it about the concept of a republican government that so appealed to Americans?
2. How did Americans propose to avoid what they considered to be the problems of the British system they were repudiating?
3. How did these new constitutions deal with the question of religious freedom? How did they deal with slavery?
4. What type of government did the Articles of Confederation create? What were its major features?
5. Why was the Confederation government organized as it was?
6. Why was there a delay in its ratification? How were the obstacles to its ratification overcome?
7. How did the Confederate Congress attempt to solve the problem of the status of western territory that the states had ceded to it?
8. Which interest groups favored which plans for the sale and distribution of land?
9. How was paper money seen as a solution to the economic problems of one element in American society? Who opposed this, and why?
10. How did the action of Daniel Shays and his followers relate to the economic problem of the Confederation period? What was the significance of the movement he led?
    

2010 Black History Month Contest for NJ High School Students

The New Jersey State Bar Association is sponsoring an essay contest.
See here for more info, or ask Ms. Roy!

In class essay rubric

This is the rubric by which your in class essay will be assessed.

In Class FRQ

Test on Thursday

Your test on the American Revolution will occur on Thursday. As discussed in class, this test will take the form of an in-class essay, for which you will have one hour. Key to success on this essay will be to write an arguable, analytical thesis statement, which you prove with at least three well supported examples and evidence.

Key ideas:

• Examine the ideals found in the Declaration of Independence, and assess the extent to which they were fulfilled for women, African Americans, and Native Americans during this time period.
• Evaluate the impact of geography on the execution and outcome of the American Revolutionary War.
• Explain why New Jersey’s location played an integral role in the American Revolution.
• Explain why the Declaration of Independence was written and how its key principles evolved to become unifying ideas of American democracy.
• Analyze the impact of George Washington as general of the American revolutionary force.
• Analyze how prominent individuals and other nations contributed to the causes, execution, and outcomes of the American Revolution.
• Examine the roles and perspectives of various socioeconomic groups (e.g., rural farmers, urban craftsmen, northern merchants, and southern planters), African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution, and determine how these groups were impacted by the war.
• Analyze from multiple perspectives how the terms of the Treaty of Paris affected United States relations with Native Americans and with European powers that had territories in North America.