PAP US HISTORY
Lesson Plans for Week of April 28 - May 3
Assessments for the Week:
Monday:
Tuesday/Wednesday:
Thursday/Friday:
Monday: Interventions/Review
Tuesday/Wednesday:
Focused Instruction:
Independent practice: Test on Chapters 16/17
Thursday/Friday -
Focused Instruction:
Independent practice: Worksheet on Chapter 18
Reading assignment
Snow Day Assignments for U.S. History - Askeland
Do only 1 assignment for each snow day –
Do them in the order they are provided.
DO NOT do any assignment if you have not missed the class. For example: If you have US History on Tues/Thurs, only do the assignment if you have actually missed class due to snow. Otherwise, you have no work to do.
You may do this through google classroom or on paper to be turned in when you return to class.
Snow Day Assignment #1
President Jackson’s Message to Congress “On Indian Removal” December 6, 1830
It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements, is approaching to a happy consummation [conclusion].
The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United Sates, to individual States and to the Indians themselves…It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments, on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters. By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north, and Louisiana on the south, to the settlement of the whites, it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier, and render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasion without remote aid. It will relieve the whole state of Mississippi, and the western part of Alabama, of Indian occupancy, and enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power. It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the State; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way, and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay…and through the influence of good, counsels…To cast off their savage habits, and become an interesting, civilized and Christian community.
1. According to Jackson, what are the benefits of removal for the Cherokee?
2. According to Jackson, what are the benefits of removal for the United States?
3. How does Jackson reconcile benefits to all the parties? What are the “common” benefits?
4. Find examples of “loaded terms” Jackson uses to persuade Congress to his point of view?
Snow Day Assignment #2
Document IV: South Carolina Senator Hammond’s Speech to Congress Regarding Kansas – 3/4/1848
This speech was given in support of admitting Kansas to the Union as a slave state – Hammond stresses the inseparable connection between the North and South.
“In addition to this . . . [the South] sent to the North $30,000,000 worth of cotton, which is not counted in the exports. We sent to her $7 or $8,000,000 worth of tobacco, which is not counted in the exports. We sent naval stores, lumber, rice, and many other minor articles. There is no doubt that we sent to the North $40,000,000 in addition; but suppose the amount to be $35,000,000, it will give us a surplus production of $220,000,000. But the recorded exports of the South now are greater than the whole exports of the United States in any year before 1856. They are greater than the whole average exports of the United States for the last twelve years, including the two extraordinary years of 1856 and 1857. They are nearly double the amount of the average exports of the twelve preceding years. If I am right in my calculations as to $220,000,000 of surplus produce, there is not a nation on the face of the earth, with any numerous population, that can compete with us in produce per capita.”
1. What items are being shipped from the South to the North?
2. What is the major difference regarding the items produced by the South and the items produced by the North?
3. How does the economy of the north benefit from the existence of slavery in the south?
Snow Day #3 Answer the questions following the article.
The man who works the long hours has no necessities except the barest to keep body and soul together, so he can work. He goes to sleep and dreams of work; he rises in the morning to go to work; he takes his frugal lunch to work; he comes home again to throw himself down on a miserable apology for a bed so that he can get that little rest that he may be able to go to work again. He is nothing but a veritable machine. He lives to work instead of working to live.
My friends, the only thing the working people need besides the necessities of life is time. Time. Time with which our lives begin; time with which our lives close; time to cultivate the better nature within us; time to brighten our homes. Time, which brings us from the lowest condition up to the highest civilization; time, so that we can raise men to a higher plane.
―American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers in a 1890 speech on the need for an 8-hour workday
1. According to this excerpt from Gompers 1890 speech, what are two ways that the American worker’s life would improve with an 8-hour workday?
Snow Day Assignment #4
“The American claim is by right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and our democratic government entrusted to us. It is a right such as that of the tree to the space of air and earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth. It is in our future far more than in our past or in the past history of Spanish exploration…that our true title is found.”
- John O’Sullivan – reporter for the Morning News
2. What reasons does he give?
Snow Day Assignment #5
Look at the picture called “American Progress” by John Gast (1872) and answer the following questions:
1. How does this painting represent Manifest Destiny?
2. What are 4 images in the picture that indicate Westward Expansion?
3. Who do you think the young woman in the painting represents?