Assignments

//Unless otherwise noted, answer these questions in your notebook. We will discuss them in class// .

1. How did the issue of slavery affect the political parties of the United States? 2. What was the Wilmot Proviso and what was the reaction to it? 3. Explain the concept of popular sovereignty. 4. What was the Compromise of 1850? Why was it so significant? ||
 * __**Ch. 15 - Reading Questions **__


 * **__Ch. 14 - Reading Questions __**

1. (pp. 527-29) What kind of president was President Tyler? 2. (p. 530) Define Manifest Destiny. 3. (pp. 530-32) What were the challenges that limited westward expansion for white settlers? 4. (pp. 532-33) What effect did Mexican independence have on white settlement in the Southwest? 5. (pp. 533-35) What led to the settlement of the Northwest areas? 6. (pp. 536-38) What led to the settlement of California? 7. (pp. 545-48) How did Texas become part of the United States? ||


 * __**Essay Question for Ch. 12 **__


 * <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">How did the explosive growth of industry, agriculture, and transportation change America? Be sure to include the role played by immigration and unions, as well as how American culture was affected by this growth. **


 * <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Your answer should be a page and a half long, typed, and double-spaced, and should follow the rules of grammar and spelling. ** ||

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 * **__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Research Paper Project __**

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. To what extent did Andrew Jackson's election initiate a new era in American politics? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why might Jackson's background (his experiences in early life) have given people hope that he would be a good president? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How was Jackson's approach to governing different from that of his predecessors? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What was Jackson's attitude toward federal involvement in the economy? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How did Jackson respond to the nullification controversy? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What was Jackson's attitude toward the Native Americans? How did this affect his policies regarding Native Americans and their rights to landownership?
 * **__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 11 - Reading Questions __**

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Who were the Five Civilized Tribes, and what challenges did they face from whites?

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What was the Indian Removal Act (1830) and what were the results of it? How did Jackson justify this act? ||


 * **__<span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 10 – Nationalism & Sectionalism – Reading Questions __**

__<span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Economic Nationalism (pp. 384-89) __ <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What is economic nationalism and how did President Madison attempt to create it after the War of 1812? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why did Madison and the Republicans come to see a national bank as a financial necessity? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What was the Tariff of 1816 intended to do for the country? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why were improvements in transportation important for the future of the United States? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How would the three parts of the American System help to make the country self-sufficient?

__<span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">“Good Feelings” (pp. 389-94) __ <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why was the time of the Monroe Administration referred to as the “Era of Good Feelings”? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. How did the United States improve relations with Britain? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why was the acquisition of Florida by the United States so controversial?

__<span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Crises & Compromises (pp. 394-97) __ <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What factors led to the Panic of 1819? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. What was the Missouri Compromise and how did it resolve a conflict between the North and the South? <span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. Why was it so important to Southerners that Missouri be admitted as a slave state? ||


 * **__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 9 - The Early Republic - Reading Questions __**

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What were the main achievements of Jefferson's administration? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What was the impact of the Marshall court on the US government? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What were the causes of the War of 1812? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What were the effects of the War of 1812? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 8 - The Federalist Era - Reading Questions **__

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp300-307) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What did Madison mean when he said, "We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us." <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Describe America in 1789. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why was George Washington the unanimous choice for first President of the United States? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What were the main challenges facing Washington's administration? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Why was religious freedom considered to be so important in the new republic? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What questions arose as the leaders of the new republic debated how to raise revenue for the country?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Hamilton’s Vision (pp. 307-15) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What was Alexander Hamilton’s vision of the new American republic? (Be sure to include information his overall vision as well as a summary of his economic plan.) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why was James Madison opposed to Hamilton’s economic plan?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Republican Alternative (pp. 315-17) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. Explain how the Federalist and Republican parties were formed in the early republic period. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. How did Jefferson’s vision for the new republic differ from Hamilton’s?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Crises Foreign and Domestic (pp. 317-26) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. How did the French Revolution create problems for the United States? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. How did the actions of Ambassador Genet influence the relationship between the United States and France? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. What were the terms of Jay’s Treaty, and why was this such a significant agreement? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Why was Jay’s Treaty so unpopular? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. What was the Whiskey Rebellion, and why was it a significant event? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. What was Pinckney’s Treaty and why was it more popular than Jay’s Treaty?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Settlement of New Land (pp. 326-29) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. What challenges were created for the US government by the suppression of Indians in western lands? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. Explain the Federalist land policy. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. Describe the role played by Daniel Boone in the settling of western lands by Americans.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Transfer of Power (pp. 329-331) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. What advice did Washington give to America in his farewell address? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. Why was the Presidential Election of 1796 such a complicated one? Who won the election?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Adams Years (pp. 331-41) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. How did Adams attempt to deal with the tense relationship between the United States and France? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. What was the XYZ Affair and how was it resolved? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. Explain how the “war at home” came about. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. How did these tensions lead to repressive laws? What were these laws? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. What was the Republican response to these laws? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">27. How did the partisan tensions affect the Presidential Election of 1800? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">28. What did Adams and the Federalists do to protect their party from a new Republic administration under Jefferson? ||

__**<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Part II: **__ __<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Separation of Powers (pp. 289-92) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">29. Explain the different original purposes of the House and Senate. <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">30. What powers did the President have? What powers did he not have? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">31. What was the role of the Supreme Court? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">32. How do amendments work?
 * __**<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 7 – Reading Questions **__

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Fight for Ratification (pp. 292-93) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">33. Explain how people took sides in the debate over the ratification of the Constitution. (What were the sides and on what were those divisions based?)

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Federalist (pp. 293-95) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">34. What was The Federalist? Why was it important? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">35. What was Madison’s argument in Federalist No.10? Why was it a significant argument? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">36. What is one argument that the Federalists made in support of the government defined by the new Constitution? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">37. What argument did the anti-Federalists make against the new Constitution?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Decision of the States (pp. 295-97) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">38. How many states were needed to ratify the Constitution before it could be enacted? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">39. Why did several of the small states ratify the Constitution before the larger states? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">40. Why was it important for Virginia and New York to ratify the Constitution? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">41. What about the Constitution has made it such a distinctive government document?

__**<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Part I **__ __<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Confederation & Finance (pp. 270-72) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. The government defined by the Articles of Confederation was weak, but it managed to make one significant achievement. What was it? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What plan did Robert Morris develop to deal with the new nation’s finances? Was his plan a success? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What qualities of leadership did George Washington display in March of 1783?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Land Policy & the Northwest Ordinance (pp. 272-77) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What challenges confronted the government in terms of western lands? How did they deal with these issues? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain the terms of the Land Ordinance of 1785. <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What provision were made to prepare new areas to become new states? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. How did the Northwest Ordinance address the issue of slavery? Why was this significant? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. How did the government’s land policy affect Native Americans?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Trade & the Economy (pp. 277-78) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What impact did the Revolutionary War have on commercial agriculture? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. How did the rebounding of American trade after the war help with the recovery of commercial agriculture?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Diplomacy (pp. 278-79) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. What diplomatic problems faced the new government in relation to England? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What diplomatic problems faced the new government in relation to Spain?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Confederations Problems (pp. 279-81) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. How did merchants hope their state governments would help them compete against British goods and trade? Why did these efforts prove ineffective? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. How did the issue of currency effect the colonies after the war?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Shays’ Rebellion (pp. 281-282) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. What led to the revolt called Shays’ Rebellion? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. What did the rebels under the leadership of Daniel Shays want from the government? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. Was it a successful uprising? Why or why not?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Calls for a Stronger Government (pp. 282-83) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. Why did some leaders begin to call for a stronger government than the one created by the Articles of Confederation?

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Constitutional Convention (pp. 283-86) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. What was the main purpose of the Constitutional Convention? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. How did the issue of unity affect the Convention? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. How would you describe the group of men who served as delegates to the Convention? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. Who were the main participants in the debates and writing of the new Constitution? <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. On what fundamentals did the delegates agree?
 * <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Adopting the Constitution__ **

__<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Virginia & New Jersey Plans (pp. 286-89) __ <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. Explain the Virginia Plan. <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. Explain the New Jersey Plan. <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. What two major issues did these plans present to the Convention? ||

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Negotiations (pp. 253-54) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Why do you think the House of Commons in February 1782 voted against continuing the war? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What complicated the treaty negotiations at the end of the war? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What were the major terms of the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783?
 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 6 – The American Revolution (continued) **__

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Political Revolution (pp. 254-58) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How did the American Revolution lead to a “political revolution” for the American people? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What major challenge faced the newly formed states of America after the war ended? What issues did they have to make decisions about? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What was the basic structure of the state governments created between 1776 and 1787? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. How did the issue of unity affect the ratification of the Articles of Confederation? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Why was the new government, as defined by the Articles of the Confederation, relatively ineffective.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Revolution (pp. 258-67) __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. How did participation in the Revolutionary war affect political participation? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. Why was there a paradox of slavery? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. How did the war affect the lives of slaves? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Why did the call for emancipation of slaves originate in the northern states? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. What role did women play in the Revolution? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. Why might women have expected more rights and freedoms after the war? Were their expectations met? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. How did the Revolution change the lives of Native Americans? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. What effect did the Revolution have on the issue of freedom of religion? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. How did independence lead to the development of a sense of mission for the new United States? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. What was the mission? ||


 * **<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 6 – The American Revolution **

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(231-32) <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What were the challenges facing both the British and the Americans at the beginning of the war? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why would outsiders (foreign countries) have been surprised that the Americans were able in the end to defeat the British?

__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Choosing sides (pp. 236-9) __ <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why was choosing sides such a serious issue for the colonists? What were the three groups into which the colonists divided themselves? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Explain why people might have favored the British or sided with them outright. <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain the basic function of the American militiamen. How did the Continental Army compare to the militiamen? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why did the Congress find it difficult to provide sufficient materials/supplies for the army? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Why did George Washington come to view small pox as worse than “the Sword of the Enemy?” ||

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Heritage of War __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Explain the conflicts felt by the colonists in terms of how they identified themselves during the post-war period. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Describe the American colonists’ relationship with England in terms of economy after the war. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What were the major issues facing the English government in London as regarded the colonies?
 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 5 – Reading Questions **__

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">British Politics __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Describe the rule of King George III. Was he an effective or ineffective ruler?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Western Lands __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 intended to do? How might the colonists have reacted to it?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Grenville and the Stamp Act __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Explain Grenville’s colonial policy. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Explain each of the following – what were the terms of each and what was the purpose of each: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> The Molasses Act of 1733 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> The Revenue Act of 1764 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> The Currency Act of 1764 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why would the colonists have reacted negatively to these laws? (Be specific in your answer.) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What was the Stamp Act and why was it created? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Explain the ideological response to the Stamp Act by the colonists. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. How did the colonists protest against the Stamp Act? (Explain the different forms of protest) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. Why was the Stamp Act viewed differently than the Sugar Act? (Why did it lead to more widespread protest than that against the Sugar Act?) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. What was the Stamp Act Congress and what was it attempting to accomplish? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Why was the Stamp Act repealed? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. What replaced the Stamp Act?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Fanning the Flames __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. What were the Townshend Acts and what were they intended to accomplish? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. What was the colonial response to the Townshend Acts? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. What role did Samuel Adams & the Sons of Liberty play in the response to the English government’s continued attempts to get revenue from the colonies? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. What was the cause of the Boston Massacre? What were the potential results? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. John Adams, a Massachusetts lawyer, defended the British soldiers at their trial after the “massacre.” What message might he have been trying to send to the British government by defending the British soldiers? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. Which of the Townshend Acts was the only one not repealed and why were the colonists initially not upset about it? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. Which laws were still in place in the colonies?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Discontent on the Frontier __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. Why was there discontent on the frontier? (What was the source of the discontent?) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. Who were the Paxton Boys and the South Carolina Regulators? What complaint did they have in common? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. What complaint did the backcountry settlers of North Carolina have and what larger issue did their complaint illustrate?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A Worsening Crisis __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. Why did the colonists destroy the ship the //Gaspee// and what was the British response to that action? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">27. Why were the Committees of Correspondence important? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">28. Explain the causes of the Boston Tea Party. How did the British government view the Boston Tea Party? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">29. Explain the response of the British government to the Boston Tea Party. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">30. In what way did the British government’s attempt to isolate Boston backfire? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">31. Explain what the Continental Congress accomplished. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">32. What was the Continental Association and why was it important for the revolutionary movement? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">33. What role could common people play in the period leading up to the Revolution? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">34. King George III said of the colonies that “blows must decide whether they are to be subject to this country or independent.” In spite of this statement, why did many colonists not think that the tensions between themselves and Britain would lead to war? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">35. Why did Patrick Henry feel that war was inevitable? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">36. The Continental Congress urged the colonies to mobilize their militias. Why did the British not feel that this was something to worry about?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Shifting Authority __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">37. What factors led to the battles at Lexington and Concord? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">38. Were these conflicts a success or failure for the colonists? Why? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">39. If the Second Continental Congress had no legal authority and no resources, why did they decide to meet on 10 May 1775? What was the value of the meeting? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">40. The Battle of Bunker Hill was ultimately a colonial defeat, but it had two important effects. What were these?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">41. Why do you think the king refused to accept the Olive Branch Petition?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">42. Until the pamphlet Common Sense was published, many colonists were still uncertain whether they could split with their “mother country.” Why do you think Paine’s writing had such an impact on colonial public opinion?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Independence __

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">43. What influences did Thomas Jefferson draw upon to create the document that became known as the Declaration of Independence?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">44. Once the Continental Congress had adopted the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776, could the colonies have backed down from their demand for independence?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">45. Explain why the causes of the American Revolution were so complex. ||

__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">English Administration of the Colonies (pp. 162-68) __ <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Why did the English government allow for self-rule in the colonies in the early stages of colonization? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What event caused this situation of self-rule to change? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. The English colonies in America exercised a great deal of self-rule, but the source of legal authority remained with the monarchy. Explain this statement. <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Explain the mercantile system. <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What were the Navigation Acts? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why would the Crown have found enforcement of the Navigation Acts to be difficult? What might colonists have done to ignore the Navigation Acts? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What did the Crown do to better enforce the Navigation Acts? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What changes were made to the government of New England in 1684? Why were these changes focused on New England specifically? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What was the long-term significance of the Glorious Revolution in America? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. How might the changes made by King William (writs of assistance and the Board of Trade) have been viewed by the colonists? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. What was salutary neglect and what were the results of this policy?
 * **<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 4 – The Imperial Perspective **

__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Habit of Self-Government __ <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What was the role of royal governors in the colonies? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. What was the source of the power of the colonial assemblies? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. What important powers did the assemblies have?

__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Troubled Neighbors __ <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. Why did Spain fail to create thriving colonies in the American Southwest? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. Explain how the type of colony created in New France led the French to develop a different relationship with the Indians than the English did. <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. How did New France as a colony differ from the British colonies? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. Why was religious conversion of the Indians important to the French? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. How did France come to control the interior of North America?

__<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Colonial Wars __ <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. After the Restoration of 1660 there existed a peaceful coexistence between France and England. What ended that peaceful situation? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. What effect did this have on the colonies? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. What led to the French & Indian War in America? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. How did the government back in London react to these conflicts? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. What plan was proposed by the colonists? Why was it significant? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. Explain how the war proceeded. Did the English fare well in the early stages of the war? Why or why not? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. Why could the Seven Years’ War be called a “world war”? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">27. How did William Pitt gain significant colonial participation in the American part of the Seven Years’ War? And what were the long-term consequences? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">28. What were the results of Treaty of Paris (1763) <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">29. What was the reaction by the native tribes to this agreement? <span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">30. What were the long-term effects of the British victory over the French in North America? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #050529; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Comparison of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening **__

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening were both movements that developed in response to changes in society and in the understanding of the world and the place of humans within it, though with different responses to those changes.

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Using the primary sources provided, write a brief essay explaining the differences between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening to the issue of religion.

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The assignment is to be written in essay format, with an introductory paragraph with thesis statement, at least two body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Proper grammar and correct spelling are to be used, and examples from the sources should used to support your essay.

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Source #1: Pascal & the Existence of God: <span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Source #2: Voltaire on Religious Tolerance: <span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Source #3: Great Awakening Sermons: ||

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What kinds of stereotypes are featured in the novel? Explain what role stereotypes play in the novel?
 * __**<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for The Scarlet Letter ****<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(Due Monday, October 29) **__

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Based on your reading of the novel, what were the strengths and weaknesses of the Puritan community?

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. In Puritan society women were seen as the weaker sex, and they were to hold a position subordinate to men. Do the women of The Scarlet Letter fulfill this view of women?

<span style="color: #062806; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Hester Prynne has been compared to Anne Hutchinson. How would you compare the two women? How might Hester Prynne’s life have been different if she had responded to the Puritan authorities as Anne Hutchinson had done? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 3 – Colonial Ways of Life – Questions **__

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__The Shape of Early America (For discussion on Tuesday, Oct. 16)__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 109-117) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Was early colonial America a true melting pot? Why or why not? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What impact did the natives and settlers have on the ecology of America? Why was this significant? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why were birthrates and death rates different in America than in England? What long-term effects would that have on their relationship? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What was the position/status of women in colonial society? Did all women accept the limitations placed on women in colonial society? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Briefly describe the type of work done by women in colonial society.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp.117-129) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. On what was the economy of the Southern Colonies primarily based? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Why was large-scale agricultural production vital to areas like Virginia? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What were the benefits of indentured servitude? What were the disadvantages? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What led to an increase in the number of slaves in the American colonies? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. How did the social customs of Africa differ from those of white colonists? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. How did slaves resist their enslavement? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What impact did the economy of the Southern colonies have on the social structure of the area?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Society and Economy in New England__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. Explain how New England townships were organized. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Describe what family life was like for most New Englanders. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. Explain what role the sea played in the New England economy. Why did large-scale agriculture not take hold in New England? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. What was the triangle trade? Why did it develop? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. Explain how religion influenced daily life of New England. How did religion affect government in New England? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. How did Puritan New Englanders deal with non-believers? Why? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. What had begun to threaten the Puritan utopia in New England in the 1660s? How did they confront the situation?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 142-45) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. How did the Middle Colonies differ from the New England colonies? How were they similar? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. Explain why the Middle Colonies became so ethnically diverse.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Colonial Cities__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 145-48) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. Describe the social order of the colonial cities. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. Explain what role (or roles) taverns played in colonial life.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Enlightenment __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 150-53) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. What were the main characteristics of the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. Although Newton’s writing dealt with the natural world, how could his ideas have been applied to life in the colonies? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. In the minds of Enlightenment thinkers, what caused evil in the world? How might this have affected life in the colonies? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">27. What did John Locke say was the best way to improve society? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">28. How did Benjamin Franklin epitomize the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">29. How did Deists like Franklin and Thomas Jefferson think that the Enlightenment could improve life in the colonies? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">30. Why was such a large percentage of the colonial population literate?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Great Awakening __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">31. What was the main way the Great Awakening differed from the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">32. What was the Great Awakening? What role did Jonathan Edwards play in the Great Awakening? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">33. Why were the Tennents considered so controversial? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">34. What role did women play in the Great Awakening? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">35. What problems and changes were created by the Great Awakening? ||

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 90-94) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">29. How did New York become an English colony?
 * __**<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 2 – Questions (continued) **__

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">30. The Dutch were the original owners of New York. What enduring influence did that have on the colony and its population?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 95-97) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">31. What was the Iroquois League and why was it significant to the political relationships of Eastern North America?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 97-98) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">32. Explain how the New Jersey colony was created.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 98-100) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">33. What role did the Quakers play in the settling of Pennsylvania and Delaware?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">34. What hopes did the leaders of PA and DE have for the people who settled there?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 100-104) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">35. Why was the colony of Georgia created? Did the colony remain true to the original goals of the founders? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Essay Question - due Wednesday, October 10 **__

<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Explain the role that religion played in the Massachusetts Bay colony. Be as thorough as you can and include details to support your answer.

<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Your answer should be in full essay form with the correct heading (see below) and following with the rules of grammar and spelling. Please double-space the essay, which may be either typed or hand-written.//

<span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Heading - should be in the upper left corner of the first page:// <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Your Name <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">US History I <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ms. Leonard <span style="color: #4d074d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Date ||


 * **__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A Modell of Christian Charity - by John Winthrop __**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Using the SOAPS model (see ) break down the document handed out in class.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Make a heading for each letter, and then identify/explain each in terms of the document. ||

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What were Britain’s reasons for establishing colonies in North America?
 * __**<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 2 – Questions **__

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What role did personal liberty play in the colonization efforts of the English?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What effect do you think the political situation in England during the early to mid-1600s had on colonization efforts?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did English colonization efforts compare to those of Spain?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Why did the first English colony, at Jamestown, experience hardships in its first decades?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 62-65) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why did Thomas Gates feel it was necessary to inflict harsh punishments on wrongdoers in Virginia?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Explain how John Rolfe and tobacco helped to turn things around for the Virginia colony.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why was Pocahontas an important figure in Virginia?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What reforms did Sir Edwin Sandys institute in Virginia? What was the result?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Virginia became a royal colony in 1624. What effect did that have on the colony?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 65-67) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. Explain the causes of Bacon’s Rebellion. <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What were the results of the rebellion?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 67-8) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. What was significant about the colony of Maryland as compared with the other early English colonies?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 68-75) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Explain the differences between the Virginia Colony and the New England colonies. Include information about type of settlers, occupation, and climate of the regions.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. Why did the Puritans choose to settle in New England?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. Briefly describe the route taken by the Pilgrims to New England.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. What is the Mayflower Compact? Why was it created?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. Why was Squanto a significant contact for the Pilgrims?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony differ from the Plymouth Colony? How were they similar?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. What was John Winthrop’s vision for the Mass Bay Colony? Did he achieve his goals?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 75-79) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">21. Why were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson significant? How did their religious views affect their lives?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">22. Explain how the colony of Connecticut was founded.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">23. Why did the creation of New Hampshire and Maine cause such contention?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp.80-4) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">24. What were some of the causes of King Philip’s War? What were the results of the war?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 84-91) <span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">25. What effect did the English Civil War have on sovereignty/self-government in the American colonies?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">26. Briefly explain how the Carolinas were founded.

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">27. What did the original owners of the colony of South Carolina hope would make it a financially successful colony?

<span style="color: #075d07; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">28. What wider problems were created by the use of Indians as slave labor in South Carolina? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for Chapter 1 **__

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations (pp. 5-14)__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Who discovered the Americas?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What kind of civilizations existed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What factors led to changes in the lifestyles of the various peoples who lived in the pre-Columbian Americas?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did the cultures of North America compare to those of Middle America and South America?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__European Visions of America (pp. 14-26)__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What fueled European exploration efforts?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What factors led to the voyages of Columbus?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What was the Columbian Exchange? (Be detailed in your answer.) Was it an equal exchange?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What effect did Columbus have on European exploration? What areas did Europeans explore during this time?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Spanish Empire pp. 26-40 __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Explain how Spain was able to create an empire in the Americas.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Define “imperial arrogance” and “crusading religiosity”.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Explain this statement: “The onslaught of soldiers and microbes from Europe perplexed and overwhelmed the Indians.”

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why were native societies unable to hold off European invasions?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. The Aztecs had built a large and very powerful empire in Central America. How was Cortés able to defeat them?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What approach did the Spanish government take in dealing with their new American holdings?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Describe the Spanish exploration efforts in North America.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What is the legacy of the Spanish presence in North America

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Challenges to the Spanish Empire pp. 44-49__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What challenges did the Spanish face as they tried to maintain their dominance in the Americas?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada important to the history of English exploration? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Current Events Assignment **__

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. There are many areas of the world that are in conflict. What are two countries/regions in which the United States is involved in a conflict. Why is the U.S. involved in those areas?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Name two countries with whom the U.S. has good relations and two with whom the U.S. does not have good relations.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Some politicians have argued that the U.S. should become an isolationist country. Do you agree or disagree with these politicians? Why?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What role does the United States play in the global community? Is this a good thing for the US? Why or why not?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What do you think the future holds for the U.S.? ||

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">questions listed at the end of the document.
 * <span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read the attached essay by Howard Zinn, and answer the

<span style="color: #050535; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">See the calendar for due dates for your section. ||

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; margin-left: 0.25in; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -0.25in; top: -25px; width: 1px;">How did the distance between England and her colonies have added to the problems with the relationship between them? <span style="color: #050535; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">//Answer these in your notebook. We will discuss them in class.//

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; margin-left: 0.25in; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-indent: -0.25in; top: 7378.5px; width: 1px;"> Why might Jackson's background (his experiences in early life) have given people hope that he would be a good president?