America: Land of Principles and Promise

Chapter Resources

Teaching Prompt: Discuss the following questions with students as they examine John Trumbull’s “The Declaration of Independence” (CLICK HERE)

  • Do you recognize any of the people in the painting?
  • How does this painting depict our country’s charge to be a land of the free and home of the brave?

Primary Source Extension: The full-text of Noah Webster’s Education of Youth in America (1788) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Search this collection to personally get aquainted the Founders of our country – CLICK HERE

Teaching Activity: Cartographers Across Time – North & South America (1500’s-1800’s) – CLICK HERE

Teaching Assignment: Students create geography passports – CLICK HERE

Presentation: Five Themes of Geography – CLICK HERE

Reference Sheet: One page chart showing the Five Themes of Geography – CLICK HERE

Visual Graphic: The Balanced Center (Teaching Diagram) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Journal of Christopher Columbus (1492) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Exploring the Americas – Columbus and the Taino – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Pauline Moffitt Watts, Prophecy and Discovery On Spiritual Origins Christopher Columbus’s Enterprise of the Indies (American Historical Review, 1985), 95.
  2. John S. C. Abbott, The Life of Christopher Columbus (New York: Dodd & Mead, 1875), 14.
  3. Ibid., 19.
  4. Ibid., 19.
  5. Ibid., 41.
  6. Columbus’s Own Story of His Voyage of Discovery, America, Great Crises In Our History Told by Its Makers, vol. 1, 169.
  7. Ibid., 159.
  8. From Mundus Novus. Varying wordings of the English translation exist. This version may not be precise, but conveys the essential thought.

Formative Assessment: Fill-in-the-blanks map of European Exploration to North America – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Activity: The Founding of Quebec (1608) drawing activity and discussion – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Early Americas Digital Archive – CLICK HERE

Lesson Plans: Jamestown Rediscovery’s collection of lesson plans and other helpful teaching resources – CLICK HERE

Formative Assessment: Early Colonization Timeline with Fill-in-the-Blanks – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Early Americas Digital Archive – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes On Virginia, from Adrienne Koch & William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 215. See 213-16.
  2. quoted from a colonist, by Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, Volume 1, The Colonial Experience, 1607-1774 (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1983), 65.
  3. Jefferson, Notes On Virginia, Koch & Peden, op. cit., 216-17.
  4. Ibid., 216.
  5. Ibid., 216.

Primary Source Extension: Three original excerpts from William Penn’s The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (1670) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read Thomas Hooker’s Fundamental Orders of Connecticut of 1639 (the first written constitution of the modern world) – CLICK HERE

Video: What really happened at the Salem witch trials? Why? Discuss how the scale was tipped and People’s Law became obsolete.- CLICK HERE

Endnote

  1. Letter of Richard Scott, friend of Williams, referred to by William R. Staples, Annals of the Town of Providence, referred to by William Cullen Bryant, Picturesque America (New York: Appleton, 1872), 502. Edward Underhill, Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty, cited in William F. Anderson, Apostasy or Succession, Which?, 238-39. James D. Knowles, Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island (Boston: Lincoln, Edmands and Co., 1834), 173. W. Clark Gilpin, The Millenial Piety of Roger Williams (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 59.
  2. Howell’s State Trials, vol. 6, 999.
  3. Penn’s Own Account, Penn’s Treaty With the Indians, America, Great Crises in Our History Told by Its Makers, vol. 2, 1562-1753, 245-55.

Summative Assessment: Thirteen Colony Jeopardy covering Chapters 5 & 6 – for ppt version  CLICK HERE, for pdf version CLICK HERE

Extension Resource: Online exploration of Colonial Williamsburg – CLICK HERE

Extension Resource: Online exploration of 18th century New England village Deerfield – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Comprehensive list of important colonial documents and other historical sources – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, see for instance, Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 7.
  2. Ibid., 8.
  3. Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, see for instance, L. Jesse Lemisch, Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings (New York: The New American Library, 1961), 212. The list following of subjects condensed from pages 212-215.
  4. Quotes from Franklin’s Autobiography, Lemisch, Ibid., 22, 23, 26, 33, 70. Some information also taken from pages 27 and 32.
  5. For discussion and documentation on the colonial charters see Philip W. Winkler, America’s History Revealed (Northglenn, Colorado: Liberty & Independence Press, 2010), 31-40. “Charters for at least nine colonies contain language making each charter’s promise binding on the king’s heirs or successors.” Page 33. To see the charters themselves, see Francis Newton Thorpe, American Charters, Constitutions and Organic Laws 1492-1908 (sometimes given a longer slightly different title), 7 vols.

Teaching Activity: Reader’s theater news report of the French & Indian War – CLICK HERE

Teaching Ideas: Different ways to teach multiple perspectives on the French & Indian War using primary sources – CLICK HERE

Extension Resource: Fort Necessity and the beginnings of the French & Indian War – CLICK HERE

Formative Assessment: French and Indian War Timeline with fill-in-the-blanks – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Quoted from Philip W. Winkler, This Miracle Nation, an unpublished speech from 2011, used by permission.
  2. Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, America, Great Crises in Our History Told by Its Makers, A Library of Original Sources, vol. 3, 13.
  3. Ibid., 25.
  4. Ibid., 33.
  5. John C. Fitzpatrick, George Washington Himself (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933), 1:73.
  6. Benjamin Franklin, Reasons and Motives for the Albany Plan of Union, The Founders’ Constitution, July 1954, Paper 5: 319-417, www.press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
  7. George Washington, Letter to Mary Ball Washington, July 18, 1755.
  8. George Washington, Letter to John Augustine Washington, July 18, 1755. See John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799, vol. 1.
  9. Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, America, Great Crises in Our History Told by Its Makers, A Library of Original Sources, vol. 3, 89.
  10. Edmund Randolph in William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1817), 45.

Presentation: The Collusion Presentation explains how the collusion diagram connects to the American Revolution – CLICK HERE

Presentation Activity: A play that is performed by a couple students at the beginning of the Collusion Presentation – CLICK HERE

Presentation Handout: Students fill out this handout during the Collusion Presentation – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: The Declaration of Rights in Congress sent to Great Britain in 1765 by the Continental Congress – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes On Virginia, Query XIII. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 219-20.
  2. Thomas Fleming, The Man Who Dared the Lightning (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971), 177, 261-62. On corruption in the British government, see Philip W. Winkler, America’s History Revealed (Northglenn, Colorado: Liberty & Independence Press, 2010), 42-43.
  3. Thomas Jefferson, The Anas. Koch & Peden, op. cit., 117.
  4. The Declaration of Independence.
  5. Jefferson, Notes On Virginia, Koch & Peden, op. cit. 219.
  6. Donzella Cross Boyle, Quest of a Hemisphere (Appleton, Wisconsin: Western Islands, 1970), 100-101.
  7. Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1983), 1:149. John Clark Ridpath, James Otis, The Pre-Revolutionist, A brief interpretation of the life and work of a patriot (Chicago: The University Associatioin, 1898), 53.
  8. Fleming, op. cit., 137-39.
  9. Norine Dickson Campbell, Patrick Henry—Patriot & Statesman (Old Greenwich, Connecticut: Devin-Adair Company, 1969), 55.
  10. , 33-34, about the Parson’s Cause; 48-51, 55, 60, about the Stamp Act.
  11. Jefferson, Autobiography, Koch & Peden, op. cit., 10.
  12. Fleming, op. cit., 151-57; L. Jesse Lemisch, Benjamin Franklin—The Autobiography and Other Writings (New York: The New American Library of World Literature, 1961), 255-60.
  13. Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, February 17, 1826, Koch & Peden, op. cit., 663.

Teaching Activity: Memorization challenge that covers the last portion of Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech (1775) – CLICK HERE

Audio Recording: Listen to a modern rendition of Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech – CLICK HERE (scroll down to the middle of the page)

Primary Source Extension: Eyewitness account of The Boston Tea Party by Samuel Cooper (printed between 1838-1852) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Eyewitness account of The Boston Tea Party by George Hewes – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read the full-length text of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read the Tea Act of 1773 issued by Parliament – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Norine Dickson Campbell, Patrick Henry, Patriot and Statesman (Old Greenwich, Connecticut: The Devin-Adair Company, 1969), 70-72. Thomas Fleming, The Man Who Dared the Lightning (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971), 181. Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1983), 1:161.
  2. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 10. Campbell, op. cit., 73-74.
  3. Fleming, op. cit., 166.
  4. Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, America, Great Crises In Our History Told by Its Makers, 3:85.
  5. David McCullough, John Adams (Simon & Schuster, 2001), 66.
  6. Ibid., 183. Carson, op. cit., 162.
  7. Fleming, op. cit., 184-85, 186, 194-95.
  8. Jefferson, Autobiography. Koch & Peden, op. cit., 10-11. Carson, op. cit., 163.
  9. David Saville Muzzey, A History of Our Country (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1936), 121.
  10. Fleming, op. cit., 228.
  11. Jefferson, Autobiography. Koch & Peden, op. cit., 11-13. Campbell, op. cit., 81-83. Fleming, Ibid., 265.
  12. Campbell, Ibid., 109-110.
  13. Peter D. G. Thomas, Tea Party to Independence—The Third Phase of the American Revolution 1773-1776 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 261.
  14. Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, and Autobiography. Koch & Peden, op. cit., 278, 289, 13-14.
  15. Fleming, op. cit., 147, 165, 254, 282-83.
  16. Muzzey, op. cit., 124.
  17. Campbell, op. cit., 128-31, 166.
  18. Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, op. cit., 3:119-20.
  19. Ethen Allen, Ibid.
  20. Thomas, op. cit., 262.

Teaching Assignment: Students prepare an one-page report and presentation of an unsung hero from the American Revolution – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Analysis: Students read a letter from Washington to Martha and answer questions using supportive material – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read the entire letter written by Washington to Martha after he was appointed as Commander in Chief – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Jay A. Parry and Andrew Allison, The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991, 2008), 126.
  2. Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars, America, Great Crises In Our History Told by Its Makers, 3:125.
  3. Parry and Allison, op. cit., 525.
  4. Thomas Fleming, The Man Who Dared the Lightning (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1971), 156-57.
  5. Philip W. Winkler, America’s History Revealed (Northglenn, Colorado: Liberty & Independence Press, 2010), 50.
  6. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Randolph, Esq., November 29, 1775. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 335-36.
  7. Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris, The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958), 2:174-75.

Formative Assessment: Declaration of Independence (opening paragraphs) fill-in-the-blanks quiz – CLICK HERE

Teaching Activity: Readers theater of the 2nd Continental Congress – CLICK HERE

Teaching Assignment: Students describe the list of grievances found in the Declaration of Independence in their own words – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Compare and contrast the different drafts of the Declaration of Independence – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography. Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 17 [hereafter Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson].
  2. Richard Henry Lee and James Curtis Ballagh, The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1911) vol. 1, 198
  3. Jefferson, Autobiography, Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson, 19.
  4. Ibid., 19.
  5. Ibid., 22.
  6. Ibid., 22.
  7. Andrew M. Allison, et al. The Real Benjamin Franklin, The True Story of America’s Greatest Diplomat, (Washington, D.C.: The National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1987), 202. See also, Thomas Fleming, The Man Who Dared the Lightning, (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1971), 329.
  8. David McCullough, John Adams, (Simon & Schuster, 2001) 130.
  9. John Adams, “Letter to Timothy Pickering,” August 6, 1822. Charles Francis Adams, ed., The Works of John Adams, vol. 2, 514.
  10. Jefferson, “Letter to Henry Lee,” May 8, 1825. Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson, 656.
  11. Jefferson, Autobiography, Koch and Peden, Ibid., 23.
  12. Ibid., 29. Some historians do not believe Jefferson about the signing on July 4. This writer does not find their arguments persuasive. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin were all there, and they all agree. Jefferson took written notes at the time that he referred to later.
  13. Koch and Peden, Ibid., xxiv, quoting Jefferson’s daughter Martha.
  14. William Eleroy Curtis, The True Thomas Jefferson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1901), 358-59.
  15. Charles Francis Adams, Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams: During the Revolution (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876), 265.
  16. Quoted in Piers Mackesy, The War for America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965), 91. Also, Parry, et. al., The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991), 174-75.

Teaching Worksheet: Students tally up the winners of key battles during the Revolutionary War – CLICK HERE

Formative Assessment: Fill-in-the-blanks map of American Revolution Battles – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Full length text of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis (1776) – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Jay A. Parry and Andrew Allison, The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991, 2008), 184 [hereafter Parry and Allison, Real Washington]. Quoted from Noemie Emery, Washington: A Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976), 195-96.
  2. Thomas Fleming, The Man Who Dared the Lightning (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1971), 338 [hereafter Fleming, Man Who Dared].
  3. Parry and Allison, Real Washington, 167. Letter to Joseph Reed (1 April 1776).
  4. Ibid, 171. General Orders (28 June 1776).
  5. Fleming, Man Who Dared, 371.
  6. Ibid, 372.
  7. Quotes in this section from Marquis de Lafayette, Memoirs.
  8. Fleming, Man Who Dared, 343.
  9. James Thomas Flexner, Washington – The Indispensable Man (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), 111.
  10. Parry and Allison, Real Washington, 273.
  11. Found at http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/washington/prayer.html
  12. Parry and Allison, Real Washington, 280-81.
  13. Fleming, Man Who Dared, 443.
  14. Quotes taken from the Treaty of Paris.
  15. Worthington Chauncey Ford, editor, Writings of George Washington (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1891), 10:21-22.
  16. Parry and Allison, Real Washington, 434.
  17. Flexner, Washington – The Indispensable Man, 175.

Teaching Assignment: Students make an educated guess of the meaning of Articles of Confederation I-VI (1781) – CLICK HERE

Teaching Assignment: Students make an education guess of the meaning of resolutions found in the Virginia and New Jersey Plans of 1787 – CLICK HERE

Summative Assessment: Compare and contrast the principle roles found in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read the full-length text of the Articles of Confederation (1781) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Online collection of primary sources related to the drafting, and passing of the Articles of Confederation (1781) – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. From the Declaration of Independence.
  2. John Fiske, The Critical Period of American History (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), 145.
  3. Cleon Skousen, The Making of America – The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1985, 2007), 112.
  4. From Letter to Henry Knox, December 26, 1786.
  5. Resolution of the Continental Congress, February 21, 1787. Quoted, Philip W. Winkler, America’s History Revealed (Northglenn, Colorado: Liberty & Independence Press, 2010), 77.
  6. Jay A. Parry and Andrew M. Allison, The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991, 2008), 492. There cited as proposed address to Congress never delivered. John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, 39 vols. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1931-44), 30:299-300.
  7. Philip W. Winkler, America’s History Revealed, 58.
  8. Ibid., 60.
  9. Albert Ellery Bergh, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 vols. (Washington: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1907), 15:449 (1823).
  10. Bergh, 10:418. Letter to Wilson C. Nicholas, September 7, 1803.
  11. Winkler, America’s History Revealed, 77.
  12. Ibid., 65.

Teaching Assignment: Students compare and contrast words found in the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary and the current Merriam-Webster Dictionary – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read seven excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Read an original publication of Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: This vast collection of letters were written by George Washington and his family – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Jay A. Parry and Andrew M. Allison, The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991, 2008), 522-23.
  2. Thomas Jefferson, The Anas, Koch & Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 112-13.
  3. Thomas Jefferson, The Anas, Albert Ellery Bergh, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 vols. (Washington: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1907), 1:290-91.
  4. Second Report
  5. Regarding the conflict of interest, Jefferson, The Anas, Koch & Peden, 116, and Bergh 1:332.
  6. Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787. Koch & Peden, 407, or Bergh 6:392.
  7. Jefferson, Letter to C. W. F. Dumas, March 24, 1793, Bergh 9:56.

Primary Source Extension: Read the Sedition Act of 1798 – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: The full text of James Madison’s opposition to nullification of the US Constitution (Report of 1800) – CLICK HERE

Extension Resource: Website created by Boston University Graduate History Club that provides “in-depth research about the American Patriot and second President of the United States” John Adams – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Albert Henry Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 10 vols. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905-7), 9:62 (1783).
  2. Statutes at Large, Fifth Congress, Second Session, 596.
  3. Oration in Philadelphia, 26 December 1799, quoted in Albert Bushnell Hart, comp., “Tributes to Washington,” from Honor to George Washington, ed. Hart (Washington: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932), 30.
  4. Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811, Koch and Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1944, 1972, 1993), 559.

Primary Source Extension: Full text of Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Explore primary sources and a teaching activity related to the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1805-1806) – CLICK HERE

Teaching Resource: This interactive online map follows the Lewis & Clark Expedition while connecting primary sources to specific locations on the trail – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Utilize this chronological collection of primary sources written by Thomas Jefferson – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801, Koch and Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 297-301.
  2. Margaret Bayard Smith, The First Forty Years of Washington Society in the Family Letters of Margaret Bayard Smith, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906), 406-7.
  3. Albert Ellery Bergh, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1907), 15:277.
  4. Ibid., 10:313.
  5. Richard Dillon, Meriwether Lewis (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965), 30.
  6. Ibid., 174.
  7. Ibid., 176.
  8. Ibid., 225.
  9. Ibid., 213.
  10. See Encyclopedia Americana, 1981, 13:739. Source appears to be a letter of Charles D. Cooper published in a New York newspaper in 1804.
  11. Koch and Peden, op. cit., xxxvii

Teaching Assignment: This set of worksheets, created by the Center for Legislative Archives, incorporates Venn diagrams, the US Constitution, and discussion questions to analyze the War of 1812 – CLICK HERE

Digital Visual Aide: Explore the War of 1812 through this interactive map – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Nearly 38,000 documents from the life of James Madison – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Julius W. Pratt (Professor of American History, University of Buffalo), War of 1812, Encyclopedia Americana (1955 Edition), vol. 28, 662.
  2. James Madison, from his message to Congress, June 1, 1812.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Maury, June 15, 1815. Koch and Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 599.

Teaching Assignment: Students explore the Electoral College as it was debated during the Election of 1824 – CLICK HERE

Summative Assessment: Students analyze the relationship between two different presidential policies using a graphic organizer (created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: The University of Mary Washington provides over 38,000 documents written by and to James Monroe – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: This collection, created by the Massachusetts Historical Society, contains John Quincy Adams’s diary, family correspondence, and a family timeline – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Monroe’s First Inaugural Address.
  2. Ibid.
  3. William M. Gouge, A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States (New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1968), 110.
  4. McCulloch v. Maryland is found at 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316.
  5. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes, April 22, 1820. Koch & Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 637.
  6. Neal Primm, history section of article on Missouri, Merit Students Encyclopedia (New York: MacMillan Educational Corp., 1979), 12:369.
  7. Gibbons v. Ogden is found at 22 U.S. 1.
  8. Quoted in Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, 413.
  9. Examples: cotton prices, cents per pound. North Carolina, 1810, 18.9; 1820, 16.8; 1830, 12.2. North Carolina Business History, historync.org/cotton.htm. New Orleans, 1824, 17.9; 1826, 9.3; 1830, 8.4. Lewis Cecil Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, 1027. Cotton production: 1800, 156,000 bales; 1830, 976,000 bales. Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, volume 3, The Sections and the Civil War 1826-1877 (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1985), 12.

Formative Assessment: Chapter 19 quiz covering content related to Andrew Jackson – CLICK HERE

Teaching Assignment: Students write a historical persuasive essay using primary sources – CLICK HERE

Video: This video helps scholars recognize the need to analyze Andrew Jackson’s actions (good or bad) through a historical lens – CLICK HERE

Video: Brief overview of the Election of 1828 – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 10.
  2. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787, Adrienne Koch and William Peden, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Random House, 1993), 407 [hereafter Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson].
  3. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811, Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson, 559-60.
  4. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Abigail Adams, 1804. Memorial Edition, 11:51.
  5. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William C. Jarvis, 1820. Ibid., 15:277.
  6. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819. Paul Leicester Ford, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 12:135-38.
  7. Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832.
  8. William E. Dodd, Professor of American History, University of Chicago, article on Daniel Webster, Encyclopedia Americana, 1955 edition, vol. 29, 148.
  9. Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832, vol. 2, 233-37.
  10. Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832.
  11. Andrew Jackson, Letter to A. J. Crawford, May 1, 1833. Found in Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, vol. v, 72.
  12. Henry S. Commager, Documents of American History (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962, rev. ed.), vol. 1, 237.
  13. Thomas Jefferson, Notes On Virginia, Query XVIII, Koch and Peden, Writings of Jefferson, 258.

Presentation: Collection of maps showing the expansion of the United States from the Louisiana Purchase (1803) to the Gadsden Purchase (1853) – CLICK HERE

Video: Recording of the presidential campaign song “Tip and Ty” produced by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (p.317 in the textbook) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Full-length text of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Hubert H. Bancroft, ed. (1902), “The Financial Panic of 1837”, The Great Republic By the Master Historians.
  2. Murray Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: the Colonial Era to World War II, 102.
  3. Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, January 27, 1838. Philip Van Doren Stern, ed., The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Random House, The Modern Library, 1940), 233.
  4. Ibid., 235-36
  5. Ibid., 238.

Formative Assessment: Fill-in-the-blanks map of the Western Trails (1820-1850) – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: Sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life on the Oregon Trail (1877) – CLICK HERE

Extension Resource: Story of Hiram Young who became an successful entrepreneur and supplier of the Santa Fe Trail (1989) – CLICK HERE 

Primary Source Collection: Diaries and letters from travelers on the California Trail, Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, and Montana Trail – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Howard W. Caldwell, article on Mexican War, Encyclopedia Americana, 1981 edition, 18:806. See also Michael C. Meyer, article on Mexico: History, 18:864.
  2. Ibid., 18:864. Also, article on Santa Anna, 24:235.
  3. H. W. Brands, Lone Star Nation (New York: Anchor, 2005), 492-93.
  4. Lt. Col. P. St. George Cooke, Orders No. 1, San Diego, January 30, 1847. Quoted by Joseph Fielding Smith, Essentials In Church History (Salt Lake City: Desert Book Company, 1953), 430.

Presentation: Overview of how compromise led to the Civil War – CLICK HERE

Teaching Extension: The story behind the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Extension: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 transcript and original document – CLICK HERE

Primary Source Collection: Primary sources (photos, sheet music, drawings, maps, etc…) related to The Underground Railroad – CLICK HERE

Endnotes

  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 145 [hereafter Goodwin, Team of Rivals].
  2. Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States, vol. 3, The Sections and the Civil War 1826-1877 (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1985), 123.
  3. Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 146.
  4. Ibid., 144.
  5. Philip Van Doren Stern, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Random House, 1940), 49 [hereafter Stern, Writings of Lincoln].
  6. Ibid., From a Speech on Sectionalism Made During the Frémont Campaign, 409.
  7. Ibid., 56.
  8. 60 US 393, 407. Dissents, see 533, 572-73.
  9. Declaration of Independence.
  10. June 6, 1787, Speech at Constitutional Convention.
  11. August 22, 1787, Speech at Constitutional Convention.
  12. Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 190.
  13. Stern, Writings of Lincoln, 15.
  14. Ibid., 429.
  15. Ibid., October 15, 1858, Reply at Alton, 521.
  16. Ibid., 530.
  17. Ibid., January 27, 1838, Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, 236-37.
  18. Ibid., 239.
  19. Ibid., 79.

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Endnotes

  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 146, 191-92 [hereafter Goodwin, Team of Rivals]. Citing: Speech in the Senate, March 11, 1850, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 31st, 1st sess., 262-65; Speech at Rochester, New York, October 25, 1858, Works of William H. Seward, 4:291-92.
  2. Henry Ketchum, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Chapter 19; or Keith W. Jennison, The Humorous Mr. Lincoln (New York: Bonanza Books, 1965), 66. Some question the authenticity of this account, but this author finds it to accord with Lincoln’s views and character as expressed in many places in his writings.
  3. Philip Van Doren Stern, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Random House, 1940), 806 [hereafter Stern, Writings of Lincoln]. Reply to a Committee from the New York Workingmen’s Association, March 21, 1864.
  4. , 483. Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11, 1858.
  5. , 635-36. Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861.
  6. , 626. Letter to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1860.
  7. , 631. Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860.
  8. , 629. Letter to Thurlow Weed, December 17, 1860.
  9. Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 350. Cited: National Intelligencer, August 9, 1866.
  10. Lee to Anne Marshall, April 20, 1861, Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, 9-10.
  11. Vicki Jo Anderson, History Reborn (Cottonwood: Zichron Historical Research Institute, 1994), 1:223-28.
  12. Frank E. Vandiver of Rice University, article in Encyclopedia Americana, 1981 edition, 15:652.
  13. Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 672.
  14. , 398.
  15. , 431.
  16. , 481. Cited: letter to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 20, 1862, Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 473.
  17. Keith W. Jennison, The Humorous Mr. Lincoln (New York: Bonanza Books, 1965), 93-94.
  18. Shelby Foote, The Civil War, A Narrative – Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Random House, 1963), 446. [hereafter Foote, Civil War]
  19. Stern, Writings of Lincoln, 788-89. The Address, and Letter to Edward Everett, November 20, 1863.
  20. Foote, Civil War, 703-06; Alberta Wilson Constant, Paintbox on the Frontier – The Life and Times of George Caleb Bingham (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974), 146-51.

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Endnotes

  1. Harry Williams, Richard N. Current, Frank Freidel, A History of the United States [Since 1865] (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965), 16.
  2. Ibid., 22.
  3. Clarence B. Carson, A Basic History of the United States (Wadley, Alabama: American Textbook Committee, 1985), 3:177-78.
  4. Williams, Current & Freidel, A History of the United States, 59.
  5. James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 51. In the Mentor Books edition (New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1961), 324.