Unit+2

__ Readings __ : -  Text: Chapters 6-9 -  // A People’s History of the United States // : Chapters 4 & 5 -  // A People’s History of the American Revolution. // “In the Face of the Enemy” -  Video. //How the West was Lost: Divided We Fall// (Iroquois participation in the Amer. Rev.) -  // A People’s History of the Supreme Court. // “The Nauseous Project of Amendments” -  Video clip from //Amistad// about the Middle Passage -  Handouts
 * Unit 2: French & Indian War → ** ** Missouri Compromise (4 weeks) **

__Themes__: 1.  How England’s victory in the French & Indian War determined the future of European/Indian relations 2.  Who was for and against the American Revolution 3.  Colonial elites used and feared the masses before, during, & after the war 4.  Federalist & Antifederalist philosophies 5.  How America was founded on the belief in limitless resources & expansion __Content__: ·  Struggle between Great Britain, France, and tribes for control of the land. ·  Beginnings of American identity & nationalism ·  Great Britain’s reversal of salutary neglect ·  Alignments and divisions among Americans & tribes during the revolution · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> The strengths & weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Economic crisis following the revolution · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Struggle over the Constitution & its parts · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> The beginning of political parties · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> The development of an American national culture · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Jefferson’s goals/wishes for the U.S. (beginning of Manifest Destiny?) · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> War of 1812 & the end of colonial dependency __Projects__: ** Thesis Statements: ** Students are given 10 free response questions from AP exams and must write well-constructed thesis statements for each, using the steps we have gone over in class. __Discussions__: 1. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Did the Iroquois Confederacy influence colonial unity? 2. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Lessons about military discipline vs. guerilla warfare? [|Youtube Skit] 3. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> “All men are created equal…” but after that they’re on their own. 4. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Do politicians still fear the “ignorant masses”? Or do they count on them?

__Movies__:  **[|Last of the Mohicans]** - Three Mohicans protect a British Colonel's daughters from the French and their Huron allies in the midst of the French and Indian War.  **[|The Patriot]****– Farmer & veteran of the French & Indian War, Benjamin Martin is driven back into action during the Amer. Rev. when a cruel British officer murders his son.**  **[|The Broken Chain]**(TV movie) - Iroquois brothers find themselves on opposite sides in the American Revolution.  **Revolution** – A New York trapper becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son is drafted into the Army.  **[|Lewis & Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery]** (Documentary) - The most important exploration in American history and the participants in it. Uses their actual journal.  **[|A Man Called Horse]**- In 1825, Indians capture an English aristocrat. He lives with them and begins to understand & adopt their lifestyle.