US History 1


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Syllabus

Assignments   

   Assignment Instructions for Republic Unit

Read text Ch7, Ch8, Ch9 and Ch10

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch7, Ch8, Ch9 and Ch10.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Republic Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.


For each week, 7 through 9, post

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic


By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Outline

Discussion 

Resources

People

Timelines


 

Some Suggested Terms related to Republic for your weekly assignments

 

Definitions

Bill of Attainder

Privateering 

Continental System

Capitation

strict constructionism

judicial review

(Writ of) Habeas Corpus

Loose Constructionism

neo-Hamiltonianism

quitrent

Orders in Council War Hawks
  spoils system Choose your own term and define it

 

Identifications

Alien and Sedition Acts

Pinckney's Treaty  SC ordinance of nullification.
Alexander Hamilton  John C. Calhoun,  John Marshall

Jay's Treaty

Adams-Onis Treaty States Rights
Northern Confederacy American System Daniel Webster

Era of Good Feelings

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Henry Clay,  
Whig party National Republican party Anti-Masonic party
  Thurlow Weed  Robert Fulton Virginia dynasty

nullification doctrine

Specie Circular Tariff of Abominations
Napoleonic Era   Choose your own term and ID it.

 

Narratives

Electoral College

McCulloch v. Maryland

Louisiana Purchase

Hartford Convention of 1814–15 Fletcher v. Peck Marbury v. Madison

Gibbons v. Ogden

Missouri Compromise

Whiskey Rebellion

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia Trail of Tears XYZ affair

corrupt bargain

French Revolution

Choose your own story and tell it

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.


Conquest Colonization Revolution

Republic

Slavery Reform Regions Civil War