Chapter 1 Outline

CHAPTER 1 OUTLINE

Compelling Question(s):

 How does the differing patterns of colonization of the Americas impact our world today?

 Men like Columbus and Hernan Cortes are traditionally known as “explorers”, but if they lived today would that be the case?

 To what extent were the issues of taxation and representation the true causes of the American Revolution?

 To what degree was America a land of opportunity from 1750-1820?

 Did Americans in the early 1800s enjoy the freedoms that the founders of our nation intended them to have? Do we now?

 Does our system of government operate today as the framers of the constitution intended?

 When writing history which type of source should historians use, primary or secondary sources?

Key Terms from the Chapter to Consider: Section1: maize, the Renaissance, middle passage, Columbian Exchange Section 2: Mayflower Compact, Enlightenment, Great Awakening Section 3: Republics, Bill of Rights, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ rebellion, the Great Compromise, The Federalists Papers, Antifederalists, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism Section 4: President’s cabinet, Alien Act, Sedition Act, judicial review, impressment, embargo, cotton gin, Monroe Doctrine

Key Historical Figures from the Chapter to Consider: Section 1: Hernando Cortes, Christopher Columbus Section 2: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson Section 3: James Madison Section 4: John Adams, John Marshall, Eli Whitney

Key Topics for Discussion from the Chapter to Consider:

Section 1:

1. How did the Renaissance help bring about the Age of Exploration? What was the motivating factor behind the age of exploration?

2. What effect did the middle passage have on the economies of the Americas and Africa?

3. How did the Spanish justify their treatment of the Indians?

Section 2:

1. What was the 1st permanent English colony established in America? What resource allowed the colony to eventually flourish?

2. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact? What group utilized it?

3. What rights had been granted to English citizens by the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights? What impact did the Enlightenment have on the American colonies?

4. Who fought whom in the French and Indian War? Who won? What lands did they win? How did this alter the relationship between the colonists and the British?

5. When was the Declaration of Independence signed? Who wrote it? Who was it written to? When did Congress adopt it?

6. What country thus came to help the Americans fight the British? When was the last battle of the Revolution? What was it? When was the Peace treaty signed? What lands did the Americans win?

Section 3:

1. What was the 1st Government plan used in the United States starting in 1781? What were some of the problems this plan had?

2. What did the Land Ordinances passed 1785-1787 accomplish for the Northwest Territories? 3. What was the root cause of Shays Rebellion? What was the result? What were the different goals towards changing the Articles of Confederation that small and large states had?

4. When was the Constitutional Convention? How many branches of Congress are there? How is representation to each house chosen? How much of a person were slaves counted as?

5. What were the Federalist arguments for why were we should ratify the Constitution? Who were the leading Anti-Federalists and what were their concerns?

Section 4:

1. Who were Washington’s cabinet officers? What financial plan caused a political rift? What was that plan? What happened to it?

2. What was the public purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts? What was the political purpose of the Acts?

3. What was decided in the court case Marbury v. Madison? Who was the Chief Justice?

4. What is impressment and how did it help start the War of 1812? What was the result of the war? Who was the President?

5. What prompted the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine?

Documents to examine: John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government, English Bill of Rights, Leviathan(cartoon), Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, Patrick Henry’s “The Fight Against the Constitution”.