Chapters 7 & 8 Study Guide

Chapters 7 & 8 Study Guide

How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to the growing sectionalism in the United States?

What were the consequences of the invention of the cotton gin?

Describe Henry Clay’s American System.  What was it? How was it supposed to  help the nation overcome sectionalism?

John Quincy Adams

Nationalism

Adams-Onís Treaty

What was the Monroe Doctrine? What motivated it? What role did the British play in its creation?

What motivated the Missouri Compromise?  Who promoted it?

Andrew Jackson

                Election of 1828

                Democratic Party

                Spoils system

                Indian policy:

                                Removal

                                Assimilation

                                “Treaties”

                                Washington’s intended policy of treaties

                                Jackson’s policy of removal (Indian Removal Act of 1830)

                Trail of Tears

                Nullification

                The Bank War

                Jacksonian Democracy

                Autocratic-democrat

What were the trends in the slave population of the South?

Who were the key leaders of the abolition movement? How did they disseminate their ideas?

In what ways did slaves resist slavery?

What was the Second Great Awakening? Describe the unique religious practices and beliefs of the following:

• ·         Seventh-Day Adventists
• ·         Christian Scientists
• ·         Methodists
• ·         Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• ·         Shakers

How did immigration reshape America’s workforce during the first half of the 19^th century?

How did employers and the law respond to workers’ strikes?

Describe working and living conditions for girls at the Lowell Mills.

Who were the key leaders of the feminist movement and what role did they play?  What was the relationship between the feminist movement and other reforms (abolition and temperance)?

What was the Seneca Falls Convention? What was the Declaration of Sentiments?

What was McCulloch v. Maryland about? In Part I of the decision, the Supreme Court explains why the people are sovereign and not the states.  What is the reasoning for this? In Part II, the Supreme Court interprets the meaning of the “necessary and proper” clause because it is trying to determine whether the Bank of the United States is constitutional.  Explain the Court’s argument about the meaning of the “necessary and proper” clause.

Explain the mudsill theory. Why does Hammond argue the North is in a more precarious situation than the South?

What specific evidence does Frederick Douglass give to overturn misconceptions about slavery? Give several examples.

Understand the arguments in favor of slavery put forward by Thomas Dew.

Be able to interpret passages from Walden.

What is the proper role of books, according to Emerson? What is the relationship between thought and action, according to Emerson? What is nature?

Explain the concept of the Oversoul.

Identify the following:

Martin Van Buren

Whig Party

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

Henry Clay

John C. Calhoun

Sojourner Truth

Lucretia Mott

Sarah and Angelina Grimké

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nat Turner

Gag rule

William Lloyd Garrison

Frederick Douglass

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism

Charles Grandison Finney

Brook Farm

Perfectionism

Communalism

Political Parties Paper (Explanatory Writing)

The first American political parties emerged during Washington’s first term as president.  Since then, the United States has seen political parties come and go, but always with two dominant political parties.  The current two party system has dominated American government since the 1850s.  Your job is to write a clear and accurate explanation of the key differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Audience

Maeser Seniors will be graduating at the end of the semester.  Many will be registering to vote for the first time and deciding whether to join a political party.  Many of the Seniors either do not know much about the political parties or have been misinformed by biased sources.  Your paper will help provide an unbiased explanation of the key differences between the parties.  The Seniors may not understand much yet about the U.S. party system, but they want to be educated and conversant in the topic.

Use examples, analogies, similes, and/or metaphors that will help make the differences between the two political parties clear to Seniors.

Appropriate Voice

• Formal and objective
• Use political jargon appropriately.  You will need to define and use terms such as the following:
•  Political spectrum, center-left, center-right, liberalism, conservativism, libertarian, progressive, social liberalism/conservativism, etc.

Other Specifications

• MLA formatting required
• Length: 500-600 words (include word count in MLA heading after the date)
• Include a graphic (table or figure) to help Seniors understand the political parties.  Cite the table using appropriate MLA conventions.
• Use headings to help your reader follow the organization of your paper.

Due Date: Wednesday, February 1

History Final Study Guide

11^th Grade Final Exam Study Guide

Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet

People

Leif Erikson

Queen Isabella/King Ferdinand

Prince Henry “The Navigator”

Columbus

Taino

Aztecs

Cortes

Amerigo Vespucci

Balboa

Coronado

Ponce de Leon

De Soto

Cartier

Cabot

Hudson

Bering

Ribault

Map

Iberian Peninsula

Bering Straight

Bahamas (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti)

Dates

1492 (3 events in Spain)

22,000 years ago (in the Americas)

10,000-5,000 years ago (in the Americas)

3,000 years ago (in the Americas)

Concepts

Triangular trade route

Columbian Exchange

Cosmogony

Treaty of Tordesillas

Castas

Mestizo

Motives/Roots of Exploration

Renaissance

Crusades

Protestant Reformation

Technological advances

Rise of the merchant class/urban life

Chapter 2: The American Colonies Emerge

People

Anglicans

Puritan separatists

Quakers

Anne Hutchinson

John Smith

John Winthrop

Pocahontas

Powhatan

Roger Williams

William Penn

William Bradford

Map

Chesapeake Bay

Jamestown

Massachusetts Bay Colony

New Netherland

Plymouth

13 Colonies (Names and locations)

3 colonial regions (Which colonies are in each?)

Dates

Jamestown settled 1607

Plymouth Plantation 1620

Events

Bacon’s Rebellion

Pequot War

King Philip’s War (Metacom)

Concepts

“Model of Christian Charity” (Explain the “City Upon a Hill” concept.)

 “Starving Time” at Jamestown

First African laborers

Indentured servants

Headright System

Virginia Company

Chapter 3:The Colonies Come of Age

People

King Charles II

King James II

Sir Edmund Andros

William and Mary

Jonathan Edwards

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

Map

New France

Ohio Valley

Appalachian Mountains

Ohio River

Mississippi River

Date

French and Indian War (1756-1763)

 

Events

Glorious Revolution

The Great Awakening

Enlightenment

French and Indian War

George Washington at Fort Necessity, Fort Duquesne

Concepts

Mercantilism (How does it define wealth? How should a government promote a nation’s wealth? What role do colonies play in accumulating wealth?)

Navigation Acts

Dominion of New England

Salutary neglect

Cash crop

Triangular Trade

Middle Passage

Slave resistance and coping strategies

Compare and contrast Southern and Northern colonial culture

Proclamation of 1763

Sugar Act

Chapters 4: The War for Independence

People

George Washington

John Adams

Abigail Adams

Samuel Adams

John Hancock

King George III

Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott

Minutemen

Thomas Paine

Friedrich von Steuben

Marquis de Lafayette

Charles Cornwallis

John Locke

Dates

American Revolution (1775-1781)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

 

Events

Boston “Massacre”

Boston Tea Party

Concord & Lexington

Battle of Bunker Hill

Trenton

Saratoga

Loyalists/patriots (motivations for selecting sides)

Valley Forge

Yorktown

Concepts

Stamp Act

Declaratory Act

Townshend Acts

Committees of Correspondence

Intolerable Acts

Second Continental Congress (accomplishments)

Common Sense

Olive Branch Petition

Declaration of Independence

Social contract

Treaty of Paris

Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation

People

George Washington

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

Benjamin Franklin

Roger Sherman

Federalists

Antifederalists

Concepts

Separation of powers (3 branches and bicameral congress)

Checks and balances

Liberty (freedom + security)

Human predicament cycle

Articles of Confederation (Why were they insufficient?)

Sovereignty

Slave Trade Compromise

Great Compromise

Three-Fifths Compromise

Federalism

Ratification

Bill of Rights

Essay Questions

1. In what ways was mercantilism responsible for the American Revolution?
2. What were the unique accomplishments and failures of the American Revolution and Founding? Consider ways in which the American Revolution was evolutionary. Compare and contrast with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
3. How is “The Declaration of Independence” a liberal document and “The Constitution” a conservative document?  How does their partnership establish liberty?

Culture of Liberty Writing Assignment & Final Exam

Please prepare an essay to enter in the Being An American Essay Contest (http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/Contest).  Not only is this an opportunity to win a little money ($1000), but it is also an opportunity to prepare to be an educated citizen as you enter college.

1. For class, format your essay using MLA guidelines.
2. Your essay should be 750-1000 words in length.  Please indicate the word count in the heading of your paper.
3. Please use the student resource page (http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/page.aspx?pid=1198) to access the Founding Principles List, the scoring rubric, and daily news headlines link.  To see samples of winning papers from previous contests, please use the following link (http://blog.billofrightsinstitute.org/2011/03/meet-the-being-an-american-essay-contest-winners/).
   
4. In addition to using primary source documents considered in class, you will need to research some of your own.  Please include an MLA formatted Works Cited Page following your essay.
5. Your essay will be graded using two rubrics: the contest rubric which focuses on your ideas and the six traits rubric which focuses on your writing. Please have multiple people review your writing and use their feedback to improve before turning in the assignment. This assignment is worth 200 points.
6. On the day of the final exam, you will be presenting your writing to your peers.  Please prepare to read aloud1-2 of your strongest paragraphs from the essay.
7. Because these essays are being submitted for a contest, they must be flawless in terms of editing.Your essay must be submitted to the contest before the day of your language arts final exam.
   

Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Young Goodman Brown" link

"Rappaccini's Daughter" link

Voter Education Service Learning Project

Introduction

For this assignment, you will be serving the city in which you live by helping educate registered voters about upcoming general elections.  In order to educate others, you will first need to educate yourself.  This project will be completed in three steps: Research, Educate Others, Reflect.

The reflection paper for this project is due on Tuesday, October 25 (the day after we return from Fall Break).  Please submit your reflection paper by Googledocs.

Research

Research the following information.   Take notes to help you as you prepare to educate voters about the upcoming elections.

A.      Find your parent/guardian’s voting precinct, voting location, and voting times.

B.      What issues have been recently debated by the city council and/or by candidates? You should look for specific issues in the following areas:

a.       Taxes

b.      Zoning

c.       Services (waste, utilities, parks and recreation, snow removal, education, etc.)

d.      Safety & Law Enforcement

e.      Local ordinances (noise, loitering, etc.)

C.      Select a specific race and learn about both candidates.  Do two of the following to learn about the candidates:

a.       Conduct a brief phone interview of both candidates

b.      Talk to the candidates’ election committees

c.       Review brochures

d.      View the candidates’ websites

D.      Briefly compare and contrast the stances of both candidates on one of the major issues.

E.       Identify reasons people give for not voting

F.       Identify reasons people give for voting

Educate Others

You will first practice your presentation with your own parent(s)/guardian(s). With your parent, complete the steps below.  Then have your parent approve the list of adults you plan to visit/educate.

List Interviewees Below (Must be of voting age, live in the same voting precinct as you, and be from 5 different households)

Name                                                                              Phone Number                              Initials

__________________________________                     ________________________   _____
__________________________________                     ________________________   _____
__________________________________                     ________________________   _____
__________________________________                     ________________________   _____
__________________________________                     ________________________   _____

Parent Signature____________________________________________

During the Interview:

1.       Before sharing information with your interviewee, ask these survey questions.  Write down the answers to these questions.  Simple yes/no answers are acceptable.  If the interviewees wants to provide additional comments, write down a very brief summary of the comments.  After the interview, RECORD the responses to the survey questions in the class Googledoc spreadsheet.

1.       Do you know where to vote during the upcoming city election?

2.       Do you know what day to vote during the upcoming city election?

3.       Are you going to vote in the upcoming city election?

4.       Do you know the candidates for the upcoming city election?

2.       Educate your interviewee by doing several of the following:

1.       Share some statistics about how many people attend city elections.

2.       Share some statistics about the number of votes separating the winners from the losers in recent city elections.

3.       Discuss some of the ways city governments influence our day-to-day lives.

4.       Discuss the specific issues for your city that you researched.

5.       Share what you have learned about the candidates for the specific race you investigated.

6.       Give your interviewee a handout indicating where he/she can find more information about candidates and city issues.

Reflect

Write a reflection paper on your experience.  Your reflection should be 300-400 words and in MLA format.

1.       What was your first impression of the candidates? Which candidate would you vote for and why?

2.       Do you think the issues the candidates are dealing with are even important?

3.       What did you learn about people of voting age?

4.       How do you think this project will influence you when you turn 18 and can vote?

a.       Is voter apathy a problem?

b.      Does voting make a difference?

c.       Are there other reasons to vote besides changing the outcome of an election?

cosmogony

Gruff

by Bradley

    It all started with a person named Gruff. He saw that there was nothing so he decided to make something so he wouldn’t be bored.
    He didn’t know how to make water though. So he cried because he couldn’t make water and also because of his boredom. Then he stopped crying and saw that his tears had made water. He decided to call this water Ocean.

He was satisfied with the Ocean for a while then became weary of it. “How can I make this better?” he thought. So he decided to make creatures to inhabit the water. He named these creatures fish.

He was satisfied of his achievements for a short period of time, but quickly got bored. So he came to the conclusion that he should make creatures that lived out of the water. “How would they survive?” he asked himself. Then, he decided to give these creatures wings and he called them birds. “They have no place to rest,” decided Gruff. So he decided to make land.

These creatures couldn’t see, so he made a bright light, which was called day and lesser lights, which were the moon and her stars.

He was satisfied for awhile. Then he got lonely so he decided to create a woman to inhabit the land. After she was created he saw that she had no food for nourishment. So he created the trees that bear fruit and animals with their meat and every other thing that the women would need to survive.

He saw what he accomplished and was pleased. Then he saw that the women was lonely so he went down from the sky to join her and they became the mother and father of all children.