Enrichment 8.11 Political Developments in the Early Republic
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Investigating History, p.
436, HA text
A Policy of Peaceful
Transition, excerpt from
Jefferson’s inaugural
address.
Student Product
Create a table with
information about all the
presidents up to 1800 and
answer questions about it and
Jefferson’s address.
Comments
The goal is for students to
understand how the
Constitution allows for a
peaceful transfer of power
through elections.
Daily Life in the New Nation
(Includes 7 perspectives:
farm, city, frontier, women,
free and enslaved African
Americans, Native
Americans).
Students are instructed to
create a three-column matrix
of notes with the name of the
7 sections, details about their
daily life, and how life has
changed since 1800.
This is completely
supplemental to the content
in the textbook. In other
words it’s not assessed. But
it would be useful as an
extension reading for
selected students.
1. Independent and high level
learners could create a PP
presentation with a slide for
each perspective.
2. The artisticly inclined might
create a series of graphics
with text, one for each
perspective, identifying point of
view.
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1. Hal Bidlack, Ph.D. as
Alexander Hamilton
http://www.hamiltonlives.co
m/
2. Monticello: The Home of
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.monticello.org/
3. Thomas Jefferson, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson
/
4. Thomas Jefferson,
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/j
efferson/
1. Chronology of Hamilton’s
life and good quotations.
2. Info on the life and times of
Jefferson.
3. Companion to the Ken Burns
documentary; student activities
on the spirit of the
Enlightenment, interviews with
scholars, many of Jefferson's
important writings, and an
intriguing photo essay on the
"Pursuit of Happiness."
4. The site includes images
and transcriptions of many of
Jefferson's writings, as well as
information about Jefferson's
life.
Alternative Ideas
Read the inaugural address
of a different president.
What does he say about the
previous presidency? What
tone is used for the transfer
of power?
 Praise for the previous
presidency or critical?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.e
du/inaugurals.php