homework due 3/30-4/13

The pages below are not from the Brinkley book.  You can find them in one of these two documents: Part 1 and part 2.

Due Monday 3/30:  1 page of notes based on pages 228-232
(the rest of the week is MCAS, so no homework due - huzzah!)

Due Tuesday 4/7:  1.5-2 pages of notes based on pages 233-241
Due Wednesday 4/8:  1.5-2  pages of notes based on pages 243-245 and 267-273
Due Thursday 4/9:  1 page of notes based on pages 274-277
Due Friday 4/10:  1.5-2 pages of notes based on pages 278-285

Due Monday 4/13:  1 page of notes based on pages 286-291

presidents DVDs

Here's the link to the presidents' series.  The Jackson segment starts at almost 12 minutes in.  The Tyler segment starts around 34 minutes in.

1840 election images

From class Tuesday/Wednesday - here they are.

Democrat/Whig Party Symbol Assignment

A Block: Due Wednesday, 3/25
G Blcok: Due Tuesday, 3/24

Using the following information about the 2 political parties, along with any knowledge from the text (pg 251-252), create a symbol that represents what each of the 2 major parties stands for.


Democrats 

•Role of the government should be limited

•Government should remove obstacles to opportunity

•Encouraged westward expansion

•Attack on the corrupt and privileged – fearful of giving too much power to banks and corporations

•Appealed to: smaller merchants and workers in East, Southern planters suspicious of growth, those who favored agrarian economy 

Whigs

•Favored expanding power of Federal Govt.

•Encouraged industrial development

•Cautious about Westward expansion

•Though America Should rise as an economic power through industry.

•Appealed to: New England wealthy manufacturers, wealthy Southern planters, Rising Western commercial class

A+G Block: Test

Test next Friday, 3/27 on Chapter 9.  Here are your study questions.  Format will be the usual (multiple choice and a free response prompt).

reading due this week - chapter 9/Age of Jackson

Due dates for both classes:

p. 240-244 for Tuesday 3/17
p. 244-248 for Wednesday 3/18
p. 248-251 for Thursday 3/19
p. 251-259 for Friday 3/20

Chapter 9 Reading

A+G Block - For Thursday, 3/12: Read & outline pg 235-240

For Monday, 3/16: Finish election of 1828 ads, Read & Outline 241-244

chapters 7 and 8 test (Jefferson, War of 1812 and Era of Good Feelings) next Wednesday 3/11 - both classes

Here are your study questions to help you review.