Tonight's HW 12/16/08

Based on your viewing of "When the Levees Broke:"

1. Which agency, or part of the gov't is most responsive to the emergency? Why do you think it was effective, and how did it compare to other agencies and response organizations?

2. What point does the film-maker seem to be making about leadership?
3. What is the "Cajun Navy?" Why was it needed?
4. How do you evaluate President Bush's statement "no one anticipated the breach of the levees?"
5. How did you respond to the images of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arriving in New Orleans before the Federal Government?
6. How does the lack of response reflect upon the local, state and federal governments?

BE THOUGHTFUL...ONE WORD ANSWERS WILL NOT COUNT!

Tonight's HW - 12/16/08

APUSHers:

Tonight's HW:

Review Chapter 7, as we will try to catch up from Monday.

LISTEN to the LECTURE. Take Notes!

You can print the text, and use that to help take notes as well!

Then, click here for the discussion.

Answer the following question in a post below.

Was Thomas Jefferson justified in authorizing the purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803?

QUIZ WEDNESDAY

12/10/08 HW

Tonight's HW:

READ 108-113

IMPORTANT: KEEP UP YOUR READING OVER THE WEEKEND. By Monday, you should be up to page 131. Remember, you have to stay on pace!

Tonight's HW 12/9/08

1. Watch the Lectures Below:


Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

Development of the two-party system

2. READ and OUTLINE pp. 102-107

See you tomorrow!

Tonight's HW 12/8/08

Hello, APUSHers:

Here's tonight's Assignment:

1. READ AND OUTLINE 96-101. If you've already done this, consider this time to review.
2. COMPLETE the Document Based Assignment below. It might be a good idea to print out the document and highlight key information.

Directions:
In the document below, Patrick Henry outlines a powerful dissent to the new federal constitution. Read the document carefully, recognizing that the language of the eighteenth century was greatly differently in many respects from the language of the twenty-first century. You may need to read the document several times, underlining specific words or phrases that are not clear to you. After reading the document, answer the questions that follow.

"...I need not take much pains to show, that the principles of this system, are extremely pernicious, impolitic, and dangerous. Is this a Monarchy, like England---a compact between Prince and people; with checks on the former, to secure the liberty of the latter? Is this a Confederacy, like Holland--an association of a number of independent States, each of which retain its individual sovereignty? It is not a democracy, wherein the people retain all their rights securely. Had these principles been adhered to, we should not have been brought to this alarming transition, from a Confederacy to a consolidated Government. We have not detail of those great considerations which, in my opinion, out to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain. It is as radical, if in this transition our rights and privileges are endangered, and the sovereignty of the States be relinquished: And cannot we plainly see, that this is actually the case? The rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, all your immunities and franchises, all pretensions to human rights and privileges, are rendered insecure, if not last, by this change so loudly talked of by some, and inconsiderably by others. Is this same relinquishment of rights worthy of freemen?..."

-Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratification Convention, 1788

Questions:

1. What do the terms 'pernicious' and 'impolitic' mean? Why did Patrick Henry use such terms in describing the underlying principles of the eventual U.S. Constitution?

2. In what ways did Patrick Henry place the early American experience within both a) a recent historical context, i.e. to what prior events does he make reference and b) an international context, i.e. what comparisons did Henry make with other systems of governance?

3. In the document's final lines, Patrick Henry raises concerns about individual liberties and freedoms that he felt were endangered. In what way did the Federalists act to alleviate some of his concerns in the final phases of the Constitution's ratification process?


CLICK HERE for the LECTURE to HELP YOU!

Tonight's HW 12/4/08

Hello, APUSHers:

Here's tonight's HW:

READ the DOCUMENTS on pp. 116-120 of the Review Book.
Highlight, and ANNOTATE the documents. Remember, read the historical context, or the background information behind each document.

Then, based on what you've learned from the docs, and what you know about Social Studies, answer questions 1 and 2 (only) on p. 120.

Thanks!

HW 12/2/08

Hello, Everyone:

Tonight's HW:

pp. 115-116

Multiple Choice.

Use the reference material previously listed to help you.

See you Tomorrow!