The Constitution and its Foundations
Greece and Rome
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights
Colonial Experiences
Virginia House of Burgesses, colonial legislatures, Connecticut Fundamental Orders
Salutary Neglect, Colonial Mercantilism, Taxation without representation
Proclamation of 1763 ------àRevolution
Petition, protest, boycott, Boston Massacre, Tea Party, Revolution
American Revolution
Causes/effects
Loyalists, Patriots --Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
The Enlightenment
Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu
Natural rights, social contract
Consent of the governed
declaration of war
short term and long term impact
Ø To what extent was 1763 a turning point in colonial America?
Ø Were the colonists justified in declaring and fighting for their independence?
Ø The Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary document. Agree/disagree.
Ø Has the United States fulfilled the ideals of the Declaration of Independence?
Critical period
Articles of Confederation
strengths and weaknesses
Shays’ Rebellion - causes/effects
Ø To what extent did the Articles of Confederation provide an effective system of government for the new nation?
Ø Why was Shays's Rebellion significant?
The Constitution
Constitutional Convention - goals and compromises
Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Presidency, Tariff
Preamble to the Constitution
Federalism
Delegated powers – Article 1, Section 8
Reserved powers – 10th amendment
Implied powers – elastic clause
Concurrent powers
Separation of power – what are the branches? what do they do?
Checks and balances – examples of how each branch checks up on the others
Ratification of the Constitution
Federalists and the Anti-Federalists (arguments of each!!)
Strict construction v. Loose construction
Roles of the president
Indirect election – Electoral College – how can it be reformed?
2000 election
Judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
The unwritten Constitution
Cabinet
Political parties
Bill of Rights
Why was it added to the Constitution?
Federalist v. Anti-federalist
What rights are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? (especially 1,2,4,5,6,8)
Bill of Rights Issues Raised in Court Cases:
Supreme Court cases –
Schenck v. US
Tinker v. DesMoines
Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico
Texas v. Johnson
Hazelwood Schools v. Kuhlmeier
West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnett
Lee v. Weissman
Mapp v. Ohio
Veronia School District v. Acton
Pottawatomie v. Earls
Gideon v. Wainright
Miranda v. Arizona
Escobedo v. Illinois
Morse v. Frederick
Ø What issues needed to be compromised at the Constitutional Convention? How did the issues reflect early sectionalism in the United States?
Ø How did the Founders attempt to form a more perfect union? Analyze how the Constitution stregnthened and limited the power of the federal government.
Ø To what extent is the Constitution relevant today?
Evaluate the arguments made for and against the ratification of the Constitution.
Ø Analyze the impact of the Marshall Court in US History.
Ø Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution? How are the fundamental rights that are listed in the Bill of Rights be applied in everyday situations?
Ø What are civil liberties? Why have people's rights periodically expanded and restricted?
Ø How does the government balance the rights of individuals with the common good? When should freedom be sacrificed for the common good?
Ø How does government both reflects society and shape society?
Ø Analyze theimpact of the Supreme Court decisions throughout U.S. history.
Early Nation
George Washington
Proclamation of Neutrality – background, description, results
Farwell Address -- warnings
Precedents – two terms, cabinet
Early financial issues
The assumption plan
The National Bank – Alexander Hamilton
Protective Tariffs
Whiskey Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
National Bank
McCulloch v. Maryland
Supremacy clause
Elastic clause
Jefferson -- Louisiana Purchase
Background, Description, Results
Strict construction v. Loose construction
Lewis and Clark
Monroe Doctrine
Ø Analyze George Washington's legacy in American history.
Ø Was the emergence of political parties in America inevitable? Have political parties been good for America?
Evaluate George Washington's foreign policy of neutrality.
Ø Hamilton's financial Plan set the new nation on the road to economic stability. Agree/Disagree.
Ø How did thecompetition for power between the federal government and state goverments manifest itself in the new nation?
Unwritten Constitution – custom and tradition – two term presidency (until the 22nd amendment), political parties (Federalists and Republicans), judicial review
War of 1812 – US role in the world?
Market Revolution
Technological changes (and the effects of those changes
Transportation developments (and the effects of those developments)
How did the US government encourage expansion?
End of Property requirement for voting (expands democracy)
The election of 1828 -- Jackson – impact on politics – president of the common people?
Jacksonian Democracy
Spoils system (ultimately leads to civil service reform)
Tariff issue – South Carolina – Nulllification Theory and Crisis
Veto of the Bank Charter – why?
Pet banks
Cherokee – assimilation
Indian Removal Act
Worcester v. Georgia
Trail of Tears
Settling the West – frontier --Manifest Destiny
Indian policies
How did the government promote westward expansion?
Early Reform Movements
Women
Cult of Domesticity – changing roles in the early 19th c
Life at the Lowell Mills
Class Issues)
Inequality – property, children, marriage, suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Seneca Falls 1848
Declaration of Sentiments
Mentally Ill – Dorothea Dix
African Americans –
abolition
Missouri Compromise
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman,
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Conditions of Slavery
Underground RR
Emancipation
Suffrage
Women’s Movement and Abolition – split – why
Ø To what extent did the United States live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence by 1850?
Ø Evaluate the presidency or Andrew Jackson -- how should he be remembered in history?
Ø Analyze the treatment of Native Americans in the period prior to 1850. Be sure to discuss the Cherokee in particular.
Ø Analyze the impact of the Market Revolution in the first half of the 19th century especially with regard to the role of women.
Ø Analyze the relationship between the growth of cotton mills in New England with the introduction of women and children into the factory system.
Ø Why did the early 1850s give rise to the abolition, suffrage and temperance movements?
Evaluate the impact of early social reformers -- to what extent were they able to achieve their goals?
Ø Why was the Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1848, important?
Ø Why did Americans feel compelled to move westward in the 1800s? What beliefs and attitudes fueled American Manifest Destiny?
Ø Analyze the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans and women (and the nation as a whole).
Ø How did the US government promote westward expansion? Should westward expansion be considered foreign policy?
Ø To what extent did westward expansion fuel the growing sectional divide in the United States?
Ø How did the events of the 1850s (Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, John Brown's Raid, Election of Lincoln) contribute to the start of the Civil War?
Ø To what extent was the Civil War inevitable?
Civil War and Reconstruction
Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
The Dred Scott case
Abolitionists
Tactics – Garrison, Brown, Tubman, Douglass, etc.
The election of Lincoln
Lincoln during the war
Suspension of Habeus Corpus
Ex Parte Milligan
Military funds
Emancipation Proclamation
Role of African Americans during the war
Reconstruction
The President’s plan
Radical Republicans (Congressional Plan)
13th Amendment
Black Codes
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Southern governments during Reconstruction – who has power, why?
The end of Reconstruction
Election 1876
“Solid South”
White control in the south
Black Codes
KKK
Poll Taxes
Literacy Test
Grandfather clause
sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Fergusson (1896)
Ø How did Lincoln's views on race evolve in his lifetime?
Ø How did Lincoln attempt to preserve the union? Analyze his actions and policies during the war?
Ø Evaluate Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War. Should he be remembered as a great president?
Ø What is the legacy of the Civil War?
Ø What political, economic and social issues /questions had to be resolved at the end of the Civil War?
Ø What was the vision of the ex-slaves in the post-Civil War period? What was the vision of the ex-slaveowner in the post-Civil War period?
Ø How did Presidential Reconstruction plans compare with the Reconstruction plans of the Radicals in Congress?
Ø How did the Radical Republicans attempt to secure rights for African Americans during Reconstruction?
Ø How did the promise of equality for African Americans turn into a reality of inequality?
Ø How did the balance of power shift between the branches during the Civil War, Reconstruction and in the Post-Reconstruction time period?
Ø To what extent was Reconstruction a success (or a failure)?
Ø Some historians refer to Reconstruction as an 'unfinished revolution'. What do you think that means? Do you agree? Why/why not?