Extra Credit Reading and Response

Eager for extra credit?

Read and highlight this article about the fate of one of the underground railroad stops on Long Island and answer the questions on the bottom of the sheet.

What were the greatest challenges on The Oregon Trail?

Complete the webquest below by using the provided links to answer the questions.  Make sure your answers are complete, thorough and written in complete sentences.  Most questions will require answers of more than one sentence.  This assignment will be graded.

1.  How did the idea of manifest destiny encourage an appetite for expansion?

2.  What territories did the U.S. take in the mid-1800s?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module.php?module_id=230



3.  How did the U.S. obtain parts of Oregon Country?
4. What role did fur traders and missionaries play in opening Oregon to settlers?
5.  Why was President Polk less excited about going to war with England over Oregon than he was about going to war with Mexico to gain Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module_pop_intro.php?module_id=230&reading_id=98

6.  Who were the mountain men?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module_pop_intro.php?module_id=230&reading_id=89

7.  Who were the early explorers in Oregon Country?
8.  What are the reasons they chose to make the trip?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Discoverers.html


9.  What was it like to travel along the overland trails?
10.What are some challenges that they faced?
11. How did the relations between the American settlers and the Native Americans change over time?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

 Read a diary or memoir about someone who took the Oregon Trail and settled west.
12. What is the difference between a diary and memoir and which is a more reliable historical source?
13.  What was the biggest challenge faced by the author of the primary source that your read?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.n.trailarchive.html

What caused the U.S. to get involved in the War of 1812?

Read these articles about the War of 1812 to find out.

The articles you should read are entitled:

A Second War of Independence


The War of 1812

The War’s Significance

How did the differences between Jefferson and Hamilton lead to the creation of political parties?

Read this article, then answer this question.

What influence did George Washington have on the future of the Presidency?

Did the founders create a true democracy?

Is everyone's voice equally heard?  Do you agree with this definition of democracy?

According to the preamble, what were the goals of the founders?

Did they create a government that lived up to these goals? Explain your opinion with facts or text.

Homework:

Read, highlight, and complete questions for pages 1-7 in packet.

What compromises did the founders make to fix the problems with the Articles of Confederation?

How did the founders solve the problems under the Articles of Confederation?

Watch this cartoon to see.

Watch this cartoon to see some of the solutions agreed to at The Constitutional Convention.


Homework:

Use the following links to answer the following questions on loose leaf paper.
Remember to put a proper heading on your paper and to answer using complete sentences.

Link 1:

1.  Who attended the Constitutional Convention?

2.  Do you think it was possible for this group of delegates to create a true democracy?

Link 2:

3.  In the 18th century (1700s), what was meant by a "republican form of government?"

4.  According to the article, what type of government were the delegates at the Constitutional Convention looking to create?

Link 3:

5.  What was the main idea in Edmond Randoph's Virginia Plan?

6.  What did the New Jersey Plan state?

Link 4:

7.  What did the "Three-Fifths Clause" do?  Why?

8.  How did the founders at the Constitutional Convention deal with the issue of slavery?

Review American Revolutionary War

Hip Hop American History Review

How was George Washington able to win the American Revolutionary War?

Watch this scene from "George Washington."

Declaration of Independence

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

What were some of the issues discussed while it was being drafted?

Watch scene from HBO's John Adams.

Watch scene of Declaration being voted on.

How effective were colonial protests against the Stamp Act?

How did the colonists react to the Stamp Act?

Was the Stono Rebellion justified?

Watch Who became a slave?

Was the Stono Rebellion justified?



Homework:

Read over New York Slave Laws and answer the four questions that follow.

9/20 - Homework: Talk Back Journal

Talk Back Journal

Directions: 

1.    Read the article about Emmanuel Driggus.  

2.    Find three statements in the reading that evoke emotion:  surprise, upset, anger, or impress you.

3.    On a sheet of loose leaf paper, write those statements and explain your reaction to them and why you chose them for your journal.

4.    Remember to use your proper heading:   

Name

Date

U.S. History

Borzone

Talk Back Journal:  Emmanuel Driggus

Would you have emigrated to Plymouth, MA or Jamestown, VA?

HOMEWORK:


Imagine that you are a young teen wanting to leave England for the New World. Your mom recommends you go to Plymouth; your Dad recommends that you go to Jamestown. To which colony do you decide to emigrate? Why? Write a letter to a friend explaining your dilemma, your thought process, and the reasons for your decision. Be sure to include some facts about Jamestown or Plymouth in your letter. (20 points)

Click here to get the homework assignment in google.docs.

Which Native American Nations did Mrs. B visit?

See Slide Show here.

To which region of the U.S. would you most like to travel? Why?

Use the following websites to make your travel brochure.

You can choose a park or a place in a particular state.

http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

Here's a template of the brochure.  

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