Mr. Patrick Dever
302-654-2495
e-mail: pdever@salesianum.org
"The Beast" as Ben Franklin
This course will offer a chronological treatment of U.S. History. Several important themes that reappear throughout American history will be emphasized. Such themes as growth of nationality, diversity of population, and development of democratic institutions. The facts of history will be presented and interpreted in light of these themes.
1. Key Concepts.
· Immigration and the American identity
· Civil rights
· States’ Rights
· Economic development and business cycles
· International interests and national security
· The American Political system
2. Core competencies.
· Write a 5 – 7 page paper using primary source documents and internet resources
· Write three paragraph essay answers with an introduction, body and conclusion
· Describe how and why the United States was established as a new country
· Identify the key features of the 1787 Constitution and the Amendments
· Identify the developments which led to the Civil War
· Describe the evolution of civil rights from slavery to affirmative action
· Explain the history of the states’ rights conflict
· Identify and explain the historical reasons for economic cycles
· Explain American involvement in foreign wars and on the international scene
· Trace the evolution of political parties
3. Knowledge.
· Understand difficulties and challenges of colonizing, diversifying, nationalizing and revolutionizing
· Understand geographical and economical expansionism in connection with labor and political modifications
· Understand reasoning behind Civil War, battlefield philosophies, tactics and outcomes and the reconstruction aftermath
· Understand escalating United States positioning in the global economical and political standing
· Understand population growth and diversity in connection with technological, scientific and medical advances
· Understand the great wars and the United States role in shaping the 21st Century
4. Affective Objectives.
· Appreciation for all immigrants and their struggles
· Appreciation for the struggle and hard work of the past to be the position the US is in today
· Appreciation for the struggles for equality of all people
· Appreciation for our individual role to US and the world
· Appreciation for US role in the international community
5. Optional content.
· Cooperative learning groups to enhance importance of working with others
· Technologically advanced presentations: DVD, PowerPoint for individual and group presentations
What is needed?
1. A good attitude
2. Text: A History of the United States
3. A Folder/Trapper Keeper
4. Pens or pencils for tests and quizzes
As Salesian Gentlemen, you are expected to show respect to me and all other teachers, staff members and visitors, yourself and your fellow classmates. NOTHING LESS WILL BE ACCEPTED OR TOLERATED. Here is a list of what to do and not do:
You will:
*Be respectful at all times
*Be honest to yourself and me
*Come to class on time and prepared
*Complete all assignments on time (BEFORE CLASS)
*Do your own work (cheating is lying)
*Express yourself in a Salesian manner
* KEEP CELL PHONE IN LOCKER
*Be attentive and an active participant in class activities
*Do the best you possibly can
You will not:
*VANDALIZE SCHOOL PROPERTY
*Lie (I can’t stand liars)
*Curse, swear or use any other inappropriate language/gestures
*Eat, drink or chew gum/candy in classroom
*Leave trash, litter or paper in my classroom
*Copy another student’s work (that’s cheating which is lying)
*Come to class late or unprepared
*Leave or get up from your desk at any time without permission
*Talk, sleep, daydream, doodle, fool around or do other work
* HAVE A CELL PHONE RING, BUZZ ETC… IN CLASS
*Belittle, make fun of or disrespect me or another student
*Pass unless you follow the rules and do your best
V. Assignment Procedures
Homework Policy:
Each homework will be handed in TYPED on white computer paper and contain the following information: Name, date, period (A-2, etc…), and an identification of the assignment. Skip a line and always write out the question. Answers to homework will always be answered in complete sentences and in paragraph form. All homework should be proof read and mistake free. Typed homework is required. Absence is not an excuse for missed homework.
Here is how homework is graded:
+Ö+ =100 +Ö =93 Ö= 85 -Ö= 75 -Ö- =60 C =0
intro intro 7-10 5-6 less than missing, late,
multi-body body complete sentence 5 sentences finishing in class,
paragraphs paragraph sentence paragraph with many plagiarism, or too
conclusion conclusion paragraph or mistakes mistakes many mistakes
**** LATE HOMEWORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ****
VI. Grading Policy
Your grades will be determined by you and you alone. Your quarter grades will be calculated in the following way:
Tests/Quizzes: 33% B = 85-88
Individual Projects & C+= 81-84
Cooperative Learning: 33% C = 77-80
D+= 73-76
D = 70-72
F = 69 and below
Test/Quiz Policy:
All tests and quizzes missed due to absence will be made up during G-6, open time, after school or at the convenience of the teacher, with in 1 cycle of return or a 0 will be given. All lengthy absences and extenuating circumstances will be discussed with me and arrangements will be made accordingly.
Unit 1: Jefferson and Louisiana Purchase
Unit 2: War of 1812 & Jacksonian Democracy
Unit 3: Growth of a Nation
Unit 4: Civil War & Reconstruction
Unit 5: New Industrial Age
Unit 6: US and the World
Unit 7: Progressive Era
Unit 8: The Great War
Unit 9: From Boom to Bust
Unit 10: World Conflict
Unit 11: Cold War Problems
Unit 12: Civil Rights & Vietnam Era
CHAPTER 7 TEST REVIEW
People: Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea, Marbury, York, L'Overture, Marshall, Hamilton, Napoleon, John Adams, Aaron Burr
Tribes: Chinook, Lakota Sioux, Mandan
Places: Philly, Washington, New York, Haiti, N. Africa, Missouri River Plains, Louisiana Territory, New England states
Things: Marbury V. Madison, judicial review, broad & strict constructionism, embargo, impressment, tariff,
TEST REVIEW: CHAPTER 8:
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
ELI WHITNEY
JAMES MADISON & PROGRAM
HENRY CLAY & AMERICAN SYSTEM
JAMES MONROE
TARIFF & US BANK 2
CALHOUN'S BONUS BILL
RUSH-BAGOT PACT
ADAMS-ONIS TREATY
COHENS V. VIRGINIA
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE
MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND
GIBBONS V. OGDEN
SECTIONS: NORTH, SOUTH, WEST
VAN BUREN - LABOR CHANGES
JACKSON - SPOILS SYSTEM
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
ELECTION OF 1824
SPECIE CIRCULAR
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, DC. BALTIMORE
CAUSES OF WAR OF 1812
TRAIL OF TEARS
PEGGY EATON AFFAIR
HARTFORD CONVENTION
ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
MACON'S BILL NUMBER 2
TREATY OF GENT
NULLIFICATION
WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE
SECESSION
MONROE DOCTRINE
SUFFRAGE
CORRUPT BARGAIN
CAUCUS