AP/IB US HISTORY - Mr. Ludlam
ASSIGNMENT SHEET #8: American Character and Culture, 1800 - 1850
AMERICAN PAGEANT: Chap. 14,15, 16 Read pp. 287-347, 362-366
Pair up with a partner for a presentation by choosing ONE topic, and presenting it for discussion in class.
First come - first served for topic choices. Answer the SQH. Why is it important! Think Significance!
All necessary information is in the textbook!
Your goal is to inform the class of the 6 most important things someone should know about the topic.
Try to connect to other topics if applicable.
Student Work
- Complete Flow map – use as a guide for class presentation
- Answer the appropriate question(s) and incorporate into presentation
- Presentations and information must meet the standards of the class for interest, usefulness, and thoroughness.
- Presentation times must be between 3-5 minutes. Time penalties will be assessed. (Practice)
- All students are responsible to know all the information. Bad presentations hurt the entire class.
Presentations begin and end 10/29,30 – 10/26,27 will be a preparation days – bring your book
TOPICS
- Westward movement, pioneers, frontier life
- Nativism
- Workers and labor
- Transportation of goods and people
- Religion, Second Great Awakening, Mormons
- Reform of prisons and asylums
- Women’s rights movement
- Science, naturalists, medicine
- Communication
- Mechanization, Manufacturing, inventions
- Immigration - Irish and German
- Women's roles at work and home
- Literature and writers (not transcendentalists)
- Transcendentalism and transcendentalists
- Education
- History and historians
- Prohibition and temperance
- Utopias
- Art and music
- Abolitionism
THEMATIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES (TLO)
- American and National Identity (NAT)
- Politics and Power (POL)
- Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
- Culture and Society (CUL)
- Migration and Settlement (MIG)
- Geography and the Environment (GEO)
- America and the World (WOR)
KEY THEMES
- Development of American character and culture
- Growth of reform movements
- Expansion of American democratic ideals
- Creation of the market economy
QUESTIONS: think about and answer - These should be addressed in the presentations
- What does Emerson mean by his quote on the West on p. 287?
- What conclusions can be drawn from the demographic map on p. 290?
- Why was America attractive to European immigrants?
- Compare and contrast the quotes on pp. 292-293.
- Why did Catholicism alarm nativists?
- What was the relationship between land, labor, and the factory system in the US?
- How did the principle of interchangeable parts influence mass-production?
- Compare and contrast the pictures on pp. 304, 306, 309. How is the workplace changing?
- Describe the “cult of domesticity”.
- How did the steamboat revolutionize transportation in the US? What effect did this have?
- What do the maps on p. 313 have in common? What conclusion can you draw from this?
- What was the economic relationship between the North, South, and West?
- How did the market economy transform the daily life of most Americans?
- What is the meaning of Emerson’s quote on p. 320?
- Why did a greater interest in reform develop during the time period of 1820-1860?
- Compare and contrast the key ideas behind the First and Second Great Awakenings.
- How did religious diversity reflect Americanism?
- How did the idea of free public education connect with the rights and duties of citizenship?
- How did Dorothea Dix influence the reform movement?
- What did leaders of the temperance movement believed would be gained by banning alcohol?
- How did the Seneca Fall Convention launch the women’s rights movement?
- What conditions led to the establishment of many utopias during this time period?
- How did the art of the time period reflect American culture and character?
- What did the literature of the time period reflect about American culture and character?
- Who among the many writers listed would you want to read and/or learn more about? Why?
- Why were women prominent in many diverse reform movements in the US during this time?
- How were abolitionists able to grow in influence? What methods were most effective?
Practice
- Describe the key ideas in the Varying Viewpoints section from Chapter 15.
- Choose any three topics and explain the effect each had on the development of American character and culture.
- Explain the relationship between reform movements in the US and its democratic ideals?
- Quiz and DBQ on the information from this sheet and student presentations