American System assignment due Friday 11/21

These sites will help with this assignment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economic_plan)

http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~jleahy/6_6.html

Homework 11/18

Read "Progress in Transportation" (pp 130-132) and answer the following question:

What new transportation methids were developed in the first half of the 19th c. and what impact did the have?

Homework 11/14

Read "The Beginnings of Indsustrialization" (pp 127-130) and answer the following question:

What were the factors that contributed to the early 19th c. industrial "revolution" and how and why were the North and South affected differently by them?

Unit 3 Review Guide...Test Friday 11/7

We will have a test on Unit 3 (Ch. 5 & 6) on Friday. There will be a Matching, Multiple Choice, and Short Answer sections, and all questions will come from the list of people and terms below.

- Articles of Confederation
- Northwest Territory
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- Great Compromise
- Bill of Rights
- Alexander Hamilton
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Adams
- XYZ Affair
- Alien & Sedition Acts
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Excise Tax
- Tariff
- Loose Construction
- Strict Construction
- Hamilton’s Plan
- Jay’s Treaty
- Federalist Party
- Democratic Republican Party
- Marbury v. Madison
- John Marshall
- Louisiana Purchase
- War of 1812: Causes and Effects
- Treaty of Ghent
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Monroe Doctrine

Election 2008 Project

Complete a brief candidate/party profile for two of the candidates for President in tomorrow's general election. One of the two must be either the Repbublican (McCain) nominee or the Democratic (Obama) nominee, and the other must be from one of the third parties, preferably either the Libertarian or the Green parties.

Answer these questions in your profile:

What is this candidate's view on the following issues?

1. the Iraq War
2. healthcare
3. education
4. taxes
5. global warming/the environment
6. nuclear wepaons
7. the economy

Do the candidate's views on these issues closely match the views of the party he or she represents? If not, how do they differ?

Go to the follwing site to get started, and bring your profiles to class tomorrow.

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

Current Events 10/30

Go to the site linked below and select an article to read for homework tonight. Come to class tomorrow with a summary of the article and at least one question about it for class discussion.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Week 11

Week 11 -

Monday 10/27: Federalist Era Wrap-Up…finish chart, 5 IDs in groups
Collect Federalist #10 Answers
HW: Ch. 6 pp. 107-111 & notes on election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis

Tuesday 10/28: Watch National Geographic’s Lewis and Clark
HW: Ch. 6 pp. 107-111 & notes on election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis

Wednesday 10/29: Go over HW notes
ID notes: The Embargo Act
HW: Ch. 6 pp 112-117

Thursday 10/30: The War of 1812
HW: current events assignemt

Friday 10/31: Current events day
HW: Collate notes with IDs from Unit Syllabus and take notes on missing terms