Unit 2 Introduction . . .
The struggling nation
How powerful ought a government be? Too weak to penalize a giant international corporation but large enough to stop an oil leak over night? We want a balanced federal budget and our rights to Social Security, Medicare, the military and good roads protected. Think about it. We have a great deal in common with those who created our nation.
- What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
George Wilhelm Hegel
The debate over the nature of the American Union and the power concentrated in the central government continues throughout this unit of American history. The debate over the power granted the central government remains center stage.
As you study the history of our nation from the "Revolution of 1800" past the Jacksonian debates over the locus of power in the emerging democracy, and then into the Civil War and the effort to reunite the nation and make the freed African Americans part of the social fabric, see if you can identify the original intent of the creators of the American nation.
We have momentum going for us. Go to the menu above, click on Unit 2, then click on lesson one and you will be transported to the lesson one study guide.
Unit II schedule
Week |
Lesson |
Date |
Lesson/Chapter Title |
Chap. # |
9 |
9 |
Mar. 11 |
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
Communication Intensive Assignment |
9 |
10 |
10 |
Mar. 18 |
AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
|
10 |
11 |
11 |
Mar. 25 |
COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH
|
11 |
12 |
12 |
Apr. 1 |
ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM
Communication Intensive Assignment |
12 |
13 |
13 |
Apr. 8 |
THE IMPENDING CRISIS
|
13 |
14 |
14 |
Apr. 15 |
THE CIVIL WAR
|
14 |
15 |
15 |
Apr. 22 |
RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
|
15 |
16 |
9-15 |
Apr. 28 |
FINAL EXAM |
9-15 |