Unit 4 Project
Each group should read the following pages and sections from the textbook for your topic. You
should take notes to understand the following terms, people and events for this topic. I STRONGLY
recommend taking notes from the book instead of looking them up on the computer to define. YOUR
GROUP WILL BE TESTED OVER THIS MATERIAL – so it is your job to get it done! You may type these
notes so you can share one copy with your entire group. You need to know the information that is in
the book, plus you will need to use internet resources to complete the assignment (some listed below,
but you aren’t limited to those ideas alone).
1. Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny:
- Chap 12: “Slavery and the Sectional Balance” (234), The Uneasy Missouri Compromise”
(234-238), “Judicial Dikes Against Democratic Excesses” (238 only the 2nd paragraph),
“Sharing Oregon and Acquiring Florida” (239-241)
- Chap 13: “Trail of Tears” (256-259), “Gone to Texas” (265-266), “Lone Star Rebellion” (266270), “Mexican or Texan” (268-269)
- Chap 14: “The Westward Movement” (276-277), “The March of the Millions” (278-280),
“Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine” (285- 288), “Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the
Fields” (295-296), Pony Express (301-302)
- Chap 15: “Cotton is King” 338
- Chap 17: “The Belated Texas Nuptuials” (364), “Oregon Fever Populates Oregon” (365366), A Mandate (?) for Manifest Destiny (366-367)
- Chap 18: “Californy Gold” (380-381), “Breaking Logjam” (384-385)
- Chap 19: Pacific Railroad” (391-392)
Unit 4 Project
Each group should read the following pages and sections from the textbook for your
topic. You should take notes to understand the following terms, people and events for this
topic. I STRONGLY recommend taking notes from the book instead of looking them up on
the computer to define. YOUR GROUP WILL BE TESTED OVER THIS MATERIAL – so it is your
job to get it done! You may type these notes so you can share one copy with your entire
group. You need to know the information that is in the book, plus you will need to use
internet resources to complete the assignment (some listed below, but you aren’t limited to
those ideas alone).
2. Anti-Slavery/Abolitionist:
- Chapter 12: define “Peculiar Institution” (234)
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Chap 16: “Slaves of the Slave System” (340-341), “Plantation Slavery” (344-345), “Life
Under the Lash” (346-348), “The Burdens of Bondage” (348-349), “Early Abolitionism”
349-350), “Radical Abolitionism” (350-353), “The South Lashes Back” (353-356), “The
Struggle to Abolish Slavery” (354-355), “Abolitionist Impact in the North” (356-357),
“What was the True Nature” (357-358)
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Use the “Slave Narratives” archives online to complete an article interviewing a former
slave. http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/asn00.htm or
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
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Look up http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-liberator/ to research
Garrison’s paper for quotes, story on Garrison, and or examples of “Abolitionist wrutings
etc
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Look up one additional web resource to learn more about abolitionists and the issues of
slavery.
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Unit 4 Project
Each group should read the following pages and sections from the textbook for your topic. You
should take notes to understand the following terms, people and events for this topic. I STRONGLY
recommend taking notes from the book instead of looking them up on the computer to define. YOUR
GROUP WILL BE TESTED OVER THIS MATERIAL – so it is your job to get it done! You may type these
notes so you can share one copy with your entire group. You need to know the information that is in
the book, plus you will need to use internet resources to complete the assignment (some listed below,
but you aren’t limited to those ideas alone).
3. Natives in the Face of Expansion/Anti-Indian Removal:
- Chap 11: “Tecumseh and the Prophet” (219-220)
- Chap 13: “A Yankee Misfit” (last paragraph 249), “The Trail of Tears” (256-259),
- Look up Worcester vs Georgia
- Look up stories of the 5 Civilized Tribes and Removal
- Look up Seminole Wars
- Look up stories of reservation life for the 5 tribes
- Chap 26: “The Clash of Cultures on the Plains” (575-577), “Receding Native Populations
(577-580), “Bellowing Herds of Bison” (580)
Unit 4 Project
Each group should read the following pages and sections from the textbook for
your topic. You should take notes to understand the following terms, people and events
for this topic. I STRONGLY recommend taking notes from the book instead of looking
them up on the computer to define. YOUR GROUP WILL BE TESTED OVER THIS
MATERIAL – so it is your job to get it done! You may type these notes so you can share
one copy with your entire group. You need to know the information that is in the book,
plus you will need to use internet resources to complete the assignment (some listed
below, but you aren’t limited to those ideas alone).
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Topic: Jacksonian Democracy and Politics in America
Chap 13: “The Corrupt Bargain” (246-248), “Going Whole Hog for Jackson in 1828” (249250), “Old Hickory as President” (250-251), “Spoils System” (251), define Tariff of
Abominations (254), “Nullies in SC” (255-256), “The Trail of Tears” (256-259), “Old
Hickory Wallops Clay in 1832 (260-262), “The Birth of the Whigs” (262-263), “Election of
1836” (263), define pet banks, “Politics for the People” (271-272), “The Two-Party
System” (272-273), “What Was Jacksonian Democracy?” (273-274)
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Chap 18: “Twilight of Senatorial Giants” (383-384), “Deadlock and Danger on Capitol
Hill” (384), “Breaking the Logjam” (384-385), “Balancing the Compromise Scale” (385386)
Unit 4 Project
Each group should read the following pages and sections from the textbook for
your topic. You should take notes to understand the following terms, people and events
for this topic. I STRONGLY recommend taking notes from the book instead of looking
them up on the computer to define. YOUR GROUP WILL BE TESTED OVER THIS
MATERIAL – so it is your job to get it done! You may type these notes so you can share
one copy with your entire group. You need to know the information that is in the book,
plus you will need to use internet resources to complete the assignment (some listed
below, but you aren’t limited to those ideas alone).
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Topic: Industrialization, Reform and Culture
Chap 14: from “Creeping Mechanization” (285) to “The Market Revolution” (304)
Chap 15: “Free Schools” (312) to “Wilderness Utopias” (320)
Chap 15: “Trumpeters of Transcendentalism”