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HW for 2/5/10

Please read pages 193-200 for Friday's class. Take reading notes.

HW for 2/3

Please read pages 181-193, and take reading notes. If you prefer, here are the questions,

1. Why was education "central to the Republican vision of America?"
2. What effect did Republican ideology have on education in the United States?
3. Explain the "cultural independence" that Jeffersonian Americans sought. What means of expression did this "independence" find?
4. What were the obstacles faced by Americans who aspired to create a more elevated national literary life? What efforts were made to overcome these obstacles?
5. What sort of works by American authors were most influential? Why?
6. How did the American Revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice? What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period?
7. What caused the Second Great Awakening?
8. Why were the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians so successful on the frontier?
9. What was the "message" and the impact of the Second Great Awakening? What impact did it have on women? on African Americans? on Native Americans?
10. Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism. What technological advances helped change this attitude?
11. What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution? What impact did his inventions have on the South? on the North?
12. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
13. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?

HW for 2/3/10

Please read pages 172-178, and take reading notes.
If you prefer having questions to help guide your notes, you may consider the following:

1. What were the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion? Who was it aimed at particularly?
2. How did Washington's reaction to the Whiskey Rebellion underscore the difference between the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation?
3. How did the government under the Constitution guarantee that people on the frontier would be loyal to it? What was the impact on Native Americans?
4. What diplomatic problems did the French Revolution and the war that followed pose for the United States? How did Washington and Congress deal with this problem?
5. What were the circumstances that sent John Jay to England? What were the results of his mission?
6. How did Jay's Treaty affect American relations with Spain?
7. Why was John Adams selected as the Federalist candidate in 1796?
8. What circumstances led to an administration with a Federalist president and a Republican vice president?
9. What caused the "quasi-war" with France during the Adams administration? What was the result of this struggle?
10. How did the Federalists attempt to silence those who opposed the undeclared war, and what groups did these attempts most affect?
11. What gave rise to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? What attitude toward the nature of the federal government did these Resolutions reveal?
12. What were the key issues in the 1800 presidential election? Why is it called the "Revolution of 1800?"

Homework for 2.25, Part II

Please read pages 200-204, and answer the following questions:

1. What were Napoleon's reasons for selling Louisiana to the United States?
2. How did Jefferson go against core D-R principles in acquiring the Louisiana territory?
3. How did the Aaron Burr case show the weaknesses of democracy under President Jefferson?
   

Jeffersonian America; where are we heading?

Our focus on the Jeffersonian era (which includes not only the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, but also those of his "disciples"--James Madison and James Monroe) includes:

• Does the Jeffersonian era follow the principles of the Democratic-Republican party? HOW?
• Discuss the political interests and views of the War of 1812 (NJ State Standard)
• Analyze American territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, including the reasons for and consequences of the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny... (NJ State Standard)
• Analyze the political, economic, and social changes in NJ prior to the Civil War (NJ State Standard)
• Compare and contrast the characteristics of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period, including the abolition movement, the public school movement, the temperance movement, and the women's rights movement (NJ State Standard)
• What were federal and state Indian policies? What strategies for survival were used by Native Americans? (National History Standards)
• How did the factory system and transportation and market revolutions shape regional patterns of economic development?
• How did antebellum immigration shape American society?
• How and why did slavery grow after 1800? What were the various experiences of African Americans during this time?

Homework for Thursday

Read pages 188-193. Answer the following:

Identify these terms:
· Eli Whitney
· Robert Fulton
· Clermont
· "Turnpike Era"

1. Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism. What technological advances helped change this attitude?
2. What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution? What impact did his inventions have on the South? on the North?
3. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
4. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?

Current Events due date

Hi everyone,
I hope you're enjoying your long weekend.

Because of the snow day we had a few weeks ago, the current events due dates previously posted on the blog refer to B days rather than A days. So, we'll push all due dates back so they are due on class meeting days. So, instead of being due on February 18, your next set of CEs are due on February 19.

See you all on the 17th. :)

Political Cartoon 2.6.09

NJ Eminent Domain

Go here to see a press release regarding NJ's limits on Eminent Domain.

W/o 2.9.09

Homework for 2/9/09 is to read and take general notes on pages 168-178 (last ten pages of chapter 6)