Unit Three: The Early Republic (1796-1836)
increased settlement in upstate New York; creation of separate Madison and Chenango counties (1807),
local history
English/Irish immigration
Federal and Greek Revival architecture
manufacturing (farm equipment, tanneries, textiles, cast iron)
construction of Erie Canal (1817-25), Chenango Canal begun (1834)
“Burned Over” district – Protestant revival
text 6.2 (p202 - 03), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1
reading
Supreme Court cases of the Marshall Court
excerpts – Washington Irving, American poetry
writing
thematic essay practice
dbq practice,
lecture / p.p Political Parties and The Elections of 1800 and 1824 (two parts)
Developments in Transportation as Americans Go West
listening
looking
doing
The Wars of 1812,
Andrew Jackson
Gilbert Stuart and the Founders, Hudson River School
graphic organizer: Geography, Technology & Economy
How might frontier living affect a society?
Essential
Questions
What can happen to a society when it grows large enough geographically to develop separate
regions and sub-cultures?
How much might individual personalities impact an entire nation’s history?
What does technological development do to a culture and society?
How did ‘geography’ lead to differing economic and social conditions in the United States?
questions to consider
Why did (and do) Americans have such recourse to “technological fixes”?
In what ways did Andrew Jackson introduce Americans to a very modern politics?
How did a relatively powerless Supreme Court take on such significance in American life?
questions needing
answers
What happened to transform the presidency from a ‘secondary’ to a ‘primary’ branch of gov’t?
How did the United States survive its ‘infancy’?