Endgame Review III

A Brief History of Unit 3

Thomas Jefferson – first POTUS to live in WH Midnight Appointments and Marbury v Madison Small, frugal gov't paid for with land sales FP – Barbary Pirates, Louisiana Purchase Democrats – everyone should be a small farmer

Participate in democracy (white males only) Most gov't affairs should be state matters, not federal

Madison and the War of 1812

James Madison – Father of the Constitution VP to Jefferson – shared his small gov't ideals War of 1812 – begun over impressment

3 invasions of Canada all defeated Stephen Decatur and the Navy win on the Great

Lakes Washington DC burned; Ft McHenry holds Andrew Jackson defends New Orleans

2 weeks after the war officially ended Nothing of consequence was resolved

Era of Good Feeling

One party rule of America – Democratic-Republicans

Economic Nationalism – Bank of the US Spain sells FL, Britain settles northern border Monroe Doctrine – this is our hemisphere Missouri Compromise of 1821 – MS/ME SCOTUS asserts federal superiority

Western Movement and Industrial Revolution

Cotton gin/slaves make cotton profitable Cotton destroys soil – drives westward expansion

Industrial Revolution – brought to US from UK Lowell System – MA factory of young single

females – operates as a factory/dorm/city Urbanization – factories require workers, who move

to cities looking for opportunity Drives the myth of the “Self-Made” American

I built my own factory with no help from anybody! Except for the police that protect it, the roads that workers drive

on, the public education that trains employees, and the fire dept that helps if it catches on fire

Religion and Romanticism

Rational Religions – Deism, Unitarianism 2nd Great Awakening – fiery, democratic revivals

Baptism/Methodism – egalitarian sects Mormonism – Joseph Smith founds in 1823

Book of Mormon – Jesus hit up America post-Resurrection

Transcendentalism – find God everywhere Romanticism – fear of modern, industrial life

Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson

Manifest Destiny and The Mexican War

MD – God has given America to white people Spread westward across the plains (over Indians)

Mexico secedes from Spain – whites flood in Texas secedes from Mexico and joins US

POTUS Polk sends troops to the border CA annexed, Gen Winfield Scott takes Mexico City Guadalupe-Hidalgo – US gets TX/CA First offensive war for America Gives a new generation of West Point officers field

experience they will use in 20 years

Essay Outlining Brainstorm and Prep

Make a list of 10-14 facts/events/terms related to Q Group into 3-4 subtopics – these will be paragraphs

Write Introduction Thesis, Setting, Organization

Organize into 3-4 paragraphs Analyze Half+1 of the doc's given

Scatter them throughout the essay for support “In The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln praised

Americans who gave 'the last full measure of devotion.'” (Doc A.)

Basic Paragraph Outline

Topic Sentence – announces the topic Support topic with an item from your outside

info list Support that outside info with a primary doc Link the topic back to your thesis Transition to the next paragraph

Outline Practice

For the years 1880-1925, analyze both the tensions surrounding the issue of immigration, and the United States government's response to these tensions.

List of Documents

Cartoon referring to the United States as an “Ark”

Writings in support of immigrants as cheap labor

Demand to restrict immigration to protect American wages

Booker T. Washington speech demanding more economic opportunities for southern blacks

Report of the Commissioner General for Immigration that Japanese restriction would continue

Magazine article detailing the degree to which Irish immigrants ran the city of Boston

1917 book arguing that Nordic Anglo-Saxons were the best race for leadership, institutions, and government

Political cartoon demanding restrictions on immigration to avoid overpopulation