The Development of an American Culture 🖼

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why a new national culture developed from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.9, highlighting the influences of Europe on early American culture, elements of early American culture, and the differences of early American culture in the various regions of the country
• Today's class served as a catch-up day due to low attendance in an already small course.

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.9: The Development of an American Culture (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.9: The Development of an American Culture (Guided Notes)

True Black History Museum

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine contributions of African-Americans in the arts, sciences, sports, entertainment, education, military, and politics

⏰ What We Did

• Attended a tour of the mobile True Black History Museum in the CHS Conference Center

Andrew Jackson Fight Cards 🥊

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Continued creating fight card posters for the many disputes of Andrew Jackson's presidency (Due @ B.O.H. on R 27 Feb 2025)

⚙️ Resources

• History vs. Andrew Jackson (TED-Ed)

Andrew Jackson Fight Cards 🥊

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Began creating fight card posters for the many disputes of Andrew Jackson's presidency (i.e., vs. John Quincy Adams, vs. the Bureaucracy, vs. Native Americans, vs. the National Bank, vs. the Electoral College, vs. Nullification, vs. the National Debt)

⚙️ Resources

• Fight Card Examples

Jackson and Federal Power 💪

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.8, highlighting the view of Andrew Jackson as president, the details of the nullification crisis, the dispute of the Second Bank of the United States, the significance of the Indian Removal Act, and the development of the Whig Party to oppose Jackson's Democratic Party

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.8: Jackson and Federal Power (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.8: Jackson and Federal Power (Guided Notes)

Primary Source: An Address to the People of Rhode-Island... 📜

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of the expansion of participatory democracy from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Examined Thomas Dorr's An Address to the People of Rhode-Island... and its advocacy for universal suffrage, in the lead-up to the Age of Jackson

⚙️ Resources

• Text: An Address to the People of Rhode-Island, from the Convention Assembled at Providence, on the 22nd Day of February, and Again on the 12th Day of March, 1834, to Promote the Establishment of a State Constitution (Digital History)
• Guided Reading: An Address to the People of Rhode-Island

Expanding Democracy 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of the expansion of participatory democracy from 1800 to 1848

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.7, highlighting the election of 1824 and the "Corrupt Bargain," the development of political factions, the election of 1828, and the increase of participatory democracy in the United States

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.7: Expanding Democracy (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.7: Expanding Democracy (Guided Notes)

Market Revolution: Society and Culture 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why innovation in technology, agriculture, and commerce affected various segments of American society over time

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.6, highlighting the growth of industry, foreign and domestic migration, changes in the class system, labor conflicts, and the roles in gender and family withing American society

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.6: America on the World Stage: Market Revolution: Society and Culture (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.6: America on the World Stage: Market Revolution: Society and Culture (Guided Notes)

Mid-Winter Break — No School ❄️

Clintondale High School is out on Mid-Winter Break. Classes will resume on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Mid-Winter Break — No School ❄️Presidents' Day 🇺🇸

George Washington's Birthday Observed (1732) 🇺🇸

Clintondale High School is out on Mid-Winter Break

Market Revolution: Industrialization 🏭

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of the innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce over time

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.5, highlighting the transportation revolution, inventions and innovations, industrrial growth, commercial agricutlure, judicial decisions and legislative acts, and the impacts on the American economy

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization (Guided Notes)

Inclement Weather — No School 🥶

Clintondale High School is closed due to inclement weather. Classes will resume on Friday, February 14, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Close and Critical Read: The Monroe Doctrine 🔎

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (1809) 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time

⏰ What We Did

• Examined the Monroe Doctrine by highlighting prompted passages from the primary source

⚙️ Resources

• Monroe Doctrine (Primary source)
• Monroe Doctrine (Highlighting prompts)

America on the World Stage: Diplomacy and American Indian Removal 🌎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes while discussing Topic 4.4b, highlighting the diplomatic efforts made with European nations and the federal government's efforts to remove American Indians from ancestral lands

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.4b: America on the World Stage: Diplomacy and American Indian Removal (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.4b: America on the World Stage: Diplomacy and American Indian Removal (Guided Notes)

War of 1812 Map 🗺

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time

⏰ What We Did

• Labeled the bodies of water, both states and territories, and colored the land claims of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain, circa 1812
• Identified the significant battles of the War of 1812 and which were victories for the United States and for Great Britain

⚙️ Resources

• Battles of the War of 1812 (PDF)

Movie Day 📽

⏰ What We Did

• Went to the CHS Auditorium for a school-wide movie viewing

Inclement Weather — No School 🥶

Clintondale High School is closed due to inclement weather. Classes will resume on Friday, February 7, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Roots of the War of 1812 💥

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time

⏰ What We Did

• Read the background of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States and how it led-up to the War of 1812
• Answered a guided reading following reading the provided text

America on the World Stage: Military Action 🎖

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time

⏰ What We Did

• Take notes while discussing Topic 4.4a, highlighting the foreign policy goals of Jefferson and Madison in the lead-up to the War of 1812

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 4.4a: America on the World Stage: Military Action (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 4.4a: America on the World Stage: Military Action (Guided Notes)

Sourcing the Tallmadge Amendment 👓

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how different regional interests affected debates about the role of the federal government in the early republic

⏰ What We Did

• Discussed the background of James Tallmadge and the role he played in authoring a gradual emancipation bill in New York prior to debates over Missouri
• Identify the main idea of the amendment's text
• Discussion on the factors that influenced the debate over the admission of Missouri
• Explain how one factor influenced the ideas of the Tallmadge Amendment

⚙️ Resources

• The Missouri Compromise (AMSCO text)
• The Tallmadge Amendment (Primary source)