Upcoming Ch. 13-17 Tests Information!

1) Your Ch. 13-17 Multiple Choice Test will be on Tuesday 11/23/10.  There will be 61 points possible plus some bonus questions.  Study the documents that follow for some hints/tips.

2) Your Ch. 13-17 DBQ Essay Test will be on Monday 11/29/10.  This will be an actual essay, worth 18 points, written in class.  Study the documents that follow  . . . these are some of the actual documents of the DBQ.  
Your DBQ topic will be about how the institution of slavery both expanded and decreased during the period of 1775 to 1830.  Your job will be to think about how and why these two opposing things happened in the same time period.

Good Luck!

1) Assume that the "Mr. Jefferson" being discussed in this document is Thomas Jefferson . . . what remarks had Jefferson most likely made, about what group of people, that David Walker is addressing?

What is Mr. Walker's intended audience?  What point(s) is he making?

For my own part, I am glad Mr. Jefferson has advanced his positions for your sake; for you will either have to contradict or confirm him by your own actions, and not by what our friends have said or done for us; for those things are other men’s labors, and do not satisfy the Americans, who are waiting for us to prove to them ourselves that we are MEN, before they will be willing to admit the fact; for I pledge you my sacred word of honor, that Mr. Jefferson’s remarks respecting us, have sunk deep into the hearts of millions of the whites, and never will be removed this side of eternity. – For how can they, when we are confirming him every day, by our groveling submissions and treachery?


Remember Americans, that we must and shall be free and enlightened as your are, will you wait until we shall, under God, obtain our liberty by the crushing arm of power? Will it not be dreadful for you? I speak, Americans, for your good. We must and shall be free I say, in spite of you. You may do your best to keep us in wretchedness and misery, to enrich you and your children; but God will deliver us from you. And woe, woe, will be to you if we have to obtain our freedom by fighting.
Source: David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829

2) What was the purpose of the Vermont Colonization Society?  What is the author trying to get the reader(s) to do?  Why?  How does the author most likely feel about blacks and whites living together in USA society?

The Managers of the Vermont Colonization Society . . . proposed to the Inhabitants of this State, a general contribution [of] . . . one cent only, from each inhabitant of the State . . . . By promoting this contribution, you will give efficient aid to a Society, whose benevolent object is, by establishing colonies on the coast of Africa, to open a door for the gradual emancipation of the slaves in our own country, to impose an effectual barrier against the continuance of the slave trade, and ultimately to extend the blessings of civilization, and of the christian religion, throughout the vast and hitherto benighted regions of Africa.
Source: Letter to ministers from the Vermont Colonization Society, 1820.

3) Examine the maps below . . . what is the topic?  How did the distribution of slavery in the USA in 1790 compare to the distribution of slavery in the USA in 1830?  Why the changes?

USA Inventions of the 1800s Extra Credit Survey!

Complete the survey by clicking here.  You will receive 2 bonus points for completing the survey (there are only 2 questions...if it takes you more than 2 minutes, you did something incorrectly!).  You have until 11:59pm on Monday November 29, 2010 to complete the survey...Good Luck!

Andrew Jackson Extra Credit Survey!

Complete the survey by clicking here.  You will receive 2 bonus points for completing the survey (there are only 2 questions...if it takes you more than 2 minutes, you did something incorrectly!).  You have until 11:59pm on Thursday November 18, 2010 to complete the survey...Good Luck!

Andrew Jackson Blog Homework Due by 11/12 at 11:59pm

Now is your chance to discuss politics or anything else related to Andrew Jackson!  Share with us your favorite weird, funny, cool, bizarre, shocking, or disgusting story related to Andrew Jackson.  

Tell us:

1) the story

2) the source (cite it . . . url is okay)

3) why you found it weird, funny, etc.

Also:
a. Post your response to the comments of this blog (first name, last initial, class period)
b. Make sure your story is unique (different from all who post before you!)
c. Worth 10 points

For Your Chapter 11-12 Test and DBQ Non-Essay (11/4 and 11/5)

Multiple Choice Portion is 52 Points and some Bonus . . . ponder the following:

1) Examine the two documents that follow . . . what are Jefferson's key points regarding the Constitution in these letters?

Letter A
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.

Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July, 1816

Letter B
... I consider the government of the U S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment, or free exercise, of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the U.S. Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority.
I am aware that the practice of my predecessors [prescribing a day of fasting and prayer] may be quoted…. Be this as it may, everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason, & mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the U S. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
(Thomas Jefferson, letter to letter to Rev. Samuel Miller, from Washington, January 23, 1808)

2) Who is the angry snapping turtle below?  Why did he exist?  What impacts did he have?  What region of the country hated him the most?  Was he an effective snapping turtle?  Chronologically, what events came before and after him?