Good Morning!!

1. Good Morning!! • Quiz: The Founding of the Nation • NVC • Changes in a Young Nation • Slavery and the Constitution (if time) Essential Question #1: Why did the Founders allow slavery in the Constitution? Essential Question #2: What changes did America undergo between the 1780s and 1840s?

2. YOU WILL DO WELL ON THIS QUIZ! Organize Binders AFTER quiz! I will be collecting them at the end of class!

3. HOT ROC • Image Analysis: • You will be shown two images, for each image write down the following: • Artist POV (intent) • Symbolism • Your own thoughts and reflection on each piece

4. HOT ROC: Image Analysis part 1 • John Gast 1872

5. Image Analysis part 2

6. Debrief • Identify the two different points of view in the paintings? • Sentence Frame, Choose one: • The concept of Manifest Destiny promoted the ideals of ____________________and ________________ by ____ _______________________________________________ . • The concept of Manifest Destiny contradicted the ideals of ____________________and ________________ by __ _______________________________________________ .

7. Social Changes • Rise of Manifest Destiny • Nationalism (love of the Country) + Expansionism (desire for a larger country) • “Go West, young man!” • Growing population needs more land • Louisiana Purchase: 1803 addition of Louisiana territory doubles size of country • Mexican-American War: 1846 addition of Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico • Indian Removal Act: 1830 U.S. empties new lands of Indians

8. Social Changes cont. • Rise of Abolition • Calling for the immediate end of slavery • A result of the 2nd Great Awakening • Christians should transform society by working for justice • Many now see slavery as immoral • Women demand equal rights • Seneca Falls Convention: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men AND women are created equal”

9. Political Changes • Rise of Political Parties • Rise of Jacksonian Democracy • Election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 • Democracy for the “common man” • Forms Democratic Party = speaks for ordinary farmers and workers • Owe victory to expanded suffrage no longer need to own land to vote • Strengthens Federal government

10. “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal,  I will rout you out!”– Andrew Jackson, to his political opponents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SupNaQeJrq0

11. Economic Changes • Age of Industrialization • Rise of the Machines! • New Inventions • Cotton Gin: makes cleaning cotton easy • More demand for slaves • Factory System • Large amounts of goods made for mass consumption • Now a Market Economy • Things are bought and sold

12. Ch. 8 (pg. 91-103) – Changes in a Young Nation Menu • Create a cartoon that shows the development of the nation in the years after the constitution.  Your cartoon must include all term/events along with your graphics and dialogue (there needs to be a story!)  Humor is always encouraged… OR • Examine two different points of view of the history covered. You can choose: • African-American slave • Native American living on the plains • white settler moving West • white woman • President Andrew Jackson • For each person give a narrative of how they feel about the terms/events. Terms/Events • 1. Seneca Falls Convention • 2. Louisiana Purchase • 3. Mexican American War • 4. Indian Removal Act • 5. Expanded suffrage for men • 6. Factory System (Industrialization) • 7. Cotton Gin • 8. Second Great Awakening

13. Slavery and the Constitution • Why did the Constitution allow slavery to continue, if the Declaration of Independence claimed that “all men are created equal”?