Your Last Test of 2011 (Ch. 18-22+) . . . Enjoy!

1) Your Ch. 18-22 Multiple Choice Test will be on MONDAY 12/19/11.  There will be 61 questions and some bonus questions.  Study the documents that follow for some hints/tips related to actual test questions.

2) Your Ch. 18-22 DBQ Essay Test will be on TUESDAY 12/20/11.  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 whether social and constitutional changes in the time period 1860-1877 amounted to a revolution. 

. . . Good Luck!

1) What does suffrage mean?  What is the point the author is making about suffrage, and for/about whom is he making that point?
The Federal government has no right and has not attempted to dictate on the matter of suffrage to any state, and I apprehend it will not conduce to any harmony to arrogate and exercise arbitrary power over the states which have been in rebellion. It was never intended by the founders of the Union that the Federal government should prescribe suffrage to the states. We shall get rid of slavery by constitutional means. But conferring on the black civil rights is another matter. I know not the authority.
Source: Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Diary Entry, May 9, 1865.

2) What is the point this author is making about states' rights?  How does he feel the problems created by states' rights might be solved in the future?
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible; to nationalize our country, so that we shall love our country. If we are dependent on the United States for a currency and a medium of exchange, we shall have a broader and more generous nationality. The [lack] of such nationality, I believe, is one of the great evils of the times. . . . It has been that principle of states' rights, that bad sentiment that has elevated state authority above national authority, that has been the main instrument by which our government is sought to be overthrown.
Source: Senator John Sherman, speech in Congress on the new banking and currency systems, February 10, 1863.

3) Know this map . . . in its blank form!  (Click the map to open it in a larger size.)

4) When was this cartoon made?   What is happening over the shoulders of the family in the middle of the cartoon?  What is the point this political cartoon is making?  (Click the cartoon to open it in a larger size.)

The John Brown Homework . . . because you know you want to!

Your Questions (to be answered as one answer . . . don't make me have to explain . . . !):
John Brown . . .
1) Was he a murderer or a martyr? and
2) Was he crazy or sane?

Your Answer:

1) Should be supported with one compelling, found-on-the-internet, unique-to-your-answer (no one else may use it to support his/her answer), specific fact from John Brown's life

2) Should have the web source cited for your fact (the correct URL is all that is necessary)

3) Should have your first name, last initial, and class period

4) Should be completed by 11:59pm on 12/12/11 (Monday)

Good Luck!

How About Some More Extra Credit?

Click here to choose the most important USA invention of the 1800s in terms of impact on your life today . . . by Friday 12/2 at 11:59pm . . . for 2 bonus points!  Can it get any easier????

It's Test Time . . . Again! Ch. 13-17

The Multiple Choice portion (Wednesday 11/30) is 66 questions, plus bonus:




The Essay (Thursday 12/1) will relate to one of the following two possibilities (yes, you do get to write an essay finally!):
A. Reform movements of the time period 1825-1850 (motivations and effects)
B. Slavery's growth and demise in the time period 1775-1830 (causes and impacts)

Use the documents below to guide your study:

1) Who was Charles G. Finney?  To what reform movement of the 1800s is he referring?  What is the purpose of that reform movement, according to Finney?
When the churches are . . . awakened and reformed, the reformation and salvation of sinners will follow, going through the same stages of conviction, repentance, and reformation.  Their hearts will be broken down and changed.  Very often the most abandoned profligates are among the subjects.  Harlots, and drunkards, and infidels, and all sorts of abandoned characters, are awakened and converted.Source:  Charles G. Finney, 1834

2) Based on the document, what do you think the members of the Brook Farm Association felt about changes going on in society in the early-to-mid 1800s?  What would their vision of a perfect world most likely be?
In order to more effectually promote the great purposes of human culture; . . . to apply the principles of justice and love to our social organization in accordance with the laws of Divine Providence; to substitute a system of brotherly cooperation for one of selfish competition; to secure to our children  . . . the benefits of the highest physical, intellectual and moral education . . . ; to institute an attractive, efficient, and productive system of industry; . . . to diminish the desire of excessive accumulation, by making the acquisition of individual property subservient to upright and disinterested uses; to guarantee to each other forever the means of physical support, and of spiritual progress; -- we the undersigned do unite in a voluntary Association . . .
Source :  The Constitution of the Brook Farm Association, 1841.

3) Examine the picture below.  What reform is it advocating, and for what purpose?

4) 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

5) 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.

6) 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?

The Greatest USA Invention of the 1800s!

Many awesome things were invented (or credited with invention) in the USA in the 1800s. . . according to you, what was the greatest invention of the 1800s in the USA?  Put it in the comments of this post:

1. What was it?
2. When was it invented?
3. Who invented it (or got credit)?
4. What made it so great?

Post with your first name, last initial, and class period . . . make sure your choice is unique . . . if someone else already chose it, choose something else!

This is due by 11/28 (Monday) at 11:59pm!

P.S.  The above item is a representation of a cotton (en)gin(e) . . . it was NOT invented in the 1800s...do not choose it.

Andrew Jackson Extra Credit Survey . . . can it get any easier?

Complete the Andrew Jackson extra credit 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 Tuesday November 22, 2011 to complete the survey...Good Luck!

I Wouldn't Mess With Andrew Jackson If I Were You . . . Unless I Was Supposed To Do This Assignment!

If you are bold enough, now is your chance to discuss politics or anything else related to Andrew Jackson!  Share your favorite weird, funny, cool, bizarre, shocking, or disgusting story related to Andrew Jackson in the comments section.  

Tell us:

1) the story

2) the source (cite it so that any reader could easily find it and see what you saw . . . 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 . . . any duplicate story will be rejected for being the inferior copy that it is!)
c. Worth 10 points
d. Due by Wednesday 11/16/11 @11:59pm