In-class assignments
Primary Source Analysis
Varying Viewpoints
Bell Ringers
CHAPTER 4. Bell Ringer: Copy down the following questions.
• The following questions will be used at the end of our lecture for your assignment. Copy them
down. (DO NOT ANSWER THEM NOW. This will begin to make sense once you do today’s
assignment):
• 1. What might the master’s trade be described as a “mystery”?
• 2. From the evidence of this contract, what are the principal objectives of each of the parties to
it?
• 3. What problems does each anticipate?
• 4. What obligations does each assume?
• 5. What does the consent of Clayton’s mother to the contract suggest about the young man’s
situation?
• Legal documents, such as this contract signed in the Virginia in 1746, furnish
rich information about the conditions of life an the terms of human
relationships in the past. This agreement between Thomas Clayton and
James Griffin provides a reminder that not all indentured servants in early
America came from abroad. Indentured servitude was much like an
apprenticeship. Here, Clayton pledges himself to five years in Griffin’s employ
in return for a promise to initiate the young man into the “Mystery” of the
master’s craft.
Bell Ringer
• Make some connections from your readings to the American
Revolution.
CH 6 Bell Ringer
• Explain what “caused” the American Revolution (in your opinion)?
Provide evidence.
CH 7 Bell Ringer
• List the Pros and Cons of mercantilism in Colonial America
CH 8
• What was the importance of the outcome of Bunker Hill?
CH 9
• What were some weaknesses and strengths of Articles of
Confederation?
CH 11 Bell Ringer
• List some positive and negative results of the Embargo Act. What was
so ironic about these results?
CH 12 Bell Ringer
• Why was it called the “Era of Good Feelings”? Was it really an era of
good feelings? Explain.
LEQ Practice. Pg. 224 in AMSCO #1.
CH 13 Bell Ringer
• Explain how Andrew Jackson expanded the role of the Presidency?
AND
• How does Jackson usher in a new era of democracy?
CH 14 Bell Ringer
• Name some positive and negative characteristics of life in the west.
Test Day
• Turn off cell phones and place them in cell phone station
• Use the first few minutes of class to study for today’s class (10
minutes) you will need the class time!
• Turn in summaries.
LEQ
• Explain and analyze the impact of ONE of the following on the social
and political life during much of the first half of the 19th century.
• Education
• Immigration
• Religion