Homework
Assignment date Assignment Due Date
Sept. 16 Salem Witch trials Newspaper Sept 30
Sept. 16 Salem Witch trials Newspaper Sept 30
Homework 9/16 Due 9/30
Salem Newspaper
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Homework 9/16-9/28
Founding Fathers Speed Dating Biography
founding_fathers_speed_dating.docx | |
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Homework 9/30
Stamp Act
Due 10/4/16
stamp_act_original_documents.doc | |
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stamp_act_original_documents_annotated.pdf | |
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stamp_act_guiding_questions_doc_c.docx | |
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Homework 10/19/16 Due 10/25/16
Use your knowledge from the text book and the documents provided to answer the following questions.
Articles of Confederation Link North West Ordinance Link
Letter From Benjamin Lincoln.
Articles of Confederation Link North West Ordinance Link
Letter From Benjamin Lincoln.
- Characterize the types of state governments formed immediately after Americans declared independence.
- How was the government under the Articles of Confederation organized?
- What was wrong with the system of government under the Articles of Confederation? Did it have any redeeming features?
- What would have happened had the Articles remained the framework for the government of the US?
- Why was western land such a major problem for the nation? How did the government under the Articles systematize the settlement of western lands?
- What were the main provisions and the significance of the Land Ordinance of 1785?
- What were the main provisions and the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? Why do historians believe it was the most important contribution of the government under the Articles besides winning the war against the British?
- What was the significance of Shays' Rebellion for the drafting of the Constitution? Do the circumstances surrounding the rebellion and the reaction support or undermine the neo-Progressive approach?
Constitution Homework 10/19/16 Due 10/25/16
Fill in Constitution Outline--Below is a Word document you can fill in here is a link to the Constitution
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Homework 10/25/16 Due 10/27/16
Publius (James Madison), “The Federalist No. 10: The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection” Daily Advertiser, Thursday, November 22, 1787. _
George Clinton, "An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution"
George Clinton, "An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution"
fed10questions.doc | |
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Homework Interpreting the Constitution
10/27/16 Due 11/2/16
Alfred Young, "The Framers of the Constitution and the 'Genius' of the People," Radical History Review, vol. 42, (Fall 1988), 8-18.
- What was Hamilton’s proposal at the constitutional convention? What did the delegates think of it?
- According to Young, what accommodation was taking place inside the convention??
- Who were the 4 “ghosts” haunting the convention?
- What were the elite divisions that characterized the period?
- What were the democratic divisions characterizing the period?
- What was the second accommodation?
- What’s the moral of Young’s narrative of the convention?
- How does Young’s interpretation differ from a conventional Progressive interpretation as put forward by Charles Beard?
- What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights? Why were they added?
Jefferson Essay 10/27/16 Due 11/15/16
The Election of 1824
Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
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