Chapter 10: Jefferson, Madison and the Monroe Doctrine

Class 1 & 2 –  Explore the presidency of Thomas Jefferson

• Biography of Thomas Jefferson (part 1) – American Experience: Thomas Jefferson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vXg0SQ8z_Y (2.5 hrs)

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale

Class 3 & 4

• Biography of Thomas Jefferson (part 2) – American Experience: Thomas Jefferson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tPslatQv3w (3.5 hrs)

Class 5 -- Jefferson's Contradictory Character

• Inventions of Thomas Jefferson – http://classroom.monticello.org/kids/gallery/home/6
• Architecture of Thomas Jefferson -- http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/virginia/jeffersonarchitecture.html
• Family of Jefferson -- http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/personality-profile-jeffersons-family

• Dark Side of Jefferson – http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/?no-ist=&=&preview=&page=1

• Life After the Presidency -- http://millercenter.org/president/jefferson/essays/biography/6
• Thomas Jefferson's Paradox powerpoint

Class 6 – Jefferson’s Legal and Political Woes

• Read the Extended Overview portion of the summary that pertains to Jefferson. 
• Judiciary Acts – http://www.american-historama.org/1790-1800-new-nation/1801-judiciary-act-midnight-judges.htm 
• Marbury vs Madison (1803) – http://www.history.com/topics/marbury-v-madison ; Marbury vs Madison (the complete story): https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Marbury-vs-Madison

• Complete Early Supreme Court Cases worksheet (Interactive Notebook)
• Samuel Chase – http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_sedbio_chase.html
• Alien and Sedition Acts as pertains to free speech – http://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-alien-and-sedition-acts.html 
• Embargo Act of 1807 – Political Cartoon: http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-16694941/cartoon-a-smuggler-during-the-embargo-act ; Textbook Article: https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/securing-the-republic-1800-1815-11/the-war-in-europe-98/the-embargo-act-of-1807-527-10387/ 

Class 7 -- US Expansion

• Louisiana Purchase – http://www.history.com/topics/louisiana-purchase ; The Importance of the West: http://www.ushistory.org/us/21a.asp ; The Historical Audacity of the Louisiana Purchase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMh8RCqJf9U
• Optional: Louisiana Purchase Map activity (Interactive Notebook)
• Indian resistance to US incursion – http://www.ushistory.org/us/21d.asp

Class 8 -- US Expansion

• Lewis and Clark – Game http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/
• Lewis and Clark Explorer Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB1GQRVG9Fc
• Lewis and Clark Expedition -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6lL60PP0g (60 min)
• Journals of Lewis and Clark -- http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=lc.toc.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl
• Discovering Lewis and Clark -- http://www.lewis-clark.org/channel/156?ChannelID=156
• Lewis and Clark Into the Unknown: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html
• Optional: Lewis and Clark Journal Activity (Interactive Notebook) 
• The Story of Sacajawea -- http://sacajawea.idahostatesman.com/index.htm 

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin Patent

Class 9 – Conflict and Nationalism

• Read the remaining part of the Extended Overview (WV). By the end of these sections you should be familiar with the increasingly complex issues facing the new nation both abroad and at home. [Presidents Madison and Monroe]
• War of 1812 – http://www.history.com/topics/war-of-1812
• The War of 1812: Crash Course # 11-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMXqg2PKJZU 
• Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney) – Contribution to Civil War – http://www.civilwar.org/resources/civil-war-history-how-the.html 
• Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney: http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney 
• Eli Whitney and the impact of the cotton gin on industry: https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/the-market-revolution-1815-1840-13/the-market-revolution-108/the-growth-of-the-cotton-industry-583-1160/ 
• How Inventions Changed History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMNYivhGsc&index=2&list=PLMDesOynMD9iwkqedl-IKBnTruyIiCJUH 
• Gabriel’s Rebellion and the seeds of slave unrest – http://www.ushistory.org/us/20f.asp 
• Star Spangled Banner – http://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-star-spangled-banner 
• Monroe Doctrine – (actually written by John Quincy Adams) – http://www.history.com/topics/monroe-doctrine
• Read the Monroe Doctrine synopsis and original document and answer the questions (WV)

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Class 10 – International and National Policy Issues

• Rush-Bagot Agreement – https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/rush-bagot
• Rush-Bagot Pact, 1817 and Convention of 1818 -- the Treaty of Ghent after the War of 1812 left a few things undone with England. The pact and convention hammered out details like the demilitarization of the Great Lakes, boundaries of some northern borders and fishing rights
• Adams-Onis Treaty – https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/florida
• Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821) -- Treaties which helped us to acquire Florida from Spain and establish the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase
• Missouri Compromise – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZfydoGHws 
• Tallmadge Amendment – attempt to emancipate children of slaves upon their 25th bday

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• Missouri added as a slave state and Maine (created by taking land from MA) added as a free state
• Imaginary line drawn in Louisiana Purchase territory above which future states were to be free and below which were to be slave states
• Panic of 1819 (Our nation’s first banking collapse)  – http://www.american-historama.org/1801-1828-evolution/panic-of-1819.htm
• Practice the Study Questions (factual and conceptual) for the chapter (WV)

Class 11 – Essay choose the topic below or one of the essay choices on WV (no English essay this week)

• Industrialization, trade and expansion had a profound impact on native peoples and slaves. Write a 2 page essay which discusses this impact and provide a historical context which explains how our founding fathers struggled to balance principles of liberty with the practical goals of monetary gains.