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Name__________________ Due Date_____________

Each day your group will be working at one of 5 stations. Your goal is to work efficiently and together to complete the whole section. Follow the directions at the end and create a graphic organizer in your notebook that summarizes each section. If this cannot be done during class it will have to be done for homework. Take note at the end of the fifth packet is the grading rubric and an individual assignment.

STATION 1 AMERICAN SYSTEMDOCUMENT A1 & A2

1. What are some of the ways children are treated in the mills?

American History 1820’s to Civil War

Station Activity

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2. Since England produces cloth cheaper, what should the government do to protect American businesses?

3. Explain a tariff and how it is used?

4. How did tariffs contribute to sectionalism (the division between North, South & West)?

5. How did S. Carolina respond to the tariffs of 1828 and 1832?

DOCUMENT B6. What was Fulton’s improvement to an invention and how did it improve

the U.S. in the 1800’s.

7. How else would the steam engine be adapted, and what effect would it have on industrialization?

DOCUMENT C & D8. Using the map, which section North, South or West of the U.S. was more

affected by the roads and canal, why?

9. What bodies of water does the Erie Canal connect?

10. Explain how the Erie Canal unified the United States.

DOCUMENT E

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11. How did the Cotton Gin contribute to Westward expansion?

12. How did Eli Whitney’s cotton gin affect the economic growth of the South? Slavery?

DOCUMENT F AND G

13. Why did Kentucky offer more opportunities to Clay than Virginia might have?

14. How did Clay’s economic and political plan both express his idea of nationalism?

15. How does the canal boom relate to Henry Clay’s American System (nationalism)?

16. Explain why Clay used protective tariffs.

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Draw this into your notebook, in each circle give an explanation for each term. Add more pieces of the web if you need to. Change the web if you have a better way to organize.

Stop- check over all your answers with you group members. Discuss any differences.

Clay's American

System1

Nationalism

Roads and Canals

Sectionalism

Inventions

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STATION 2 GOVERNMENT POWERS

Document A McCullough Vs. Maryland (1819)

1. State the issue before the Supreme Court in this case?

2. What was the decision of the Court? What was the rationale behind it?

3. Describe how the decision of McCullough Vs. Maryland increased the power of the federal Government over the States?

4. Justice Marshall said: “The power to tax is the power to destroy,” What did he mean?

5. Was the decision in McCullough an example of “Strict” interpretation of “Loose” interpretation of the Constitution?

Document B Gibbons Vs. Ogden (1824)

6. State the issue before the Supreme Court in this case?

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7. What was the decision of the Court? What was the rationale behind it?

8. Describe how the decision of Gibbons Vs. Ogden increased the power of the federal Government over the States?

9. How do you think this decision contributed to the expansion of the American National Economy and subsequently the rise of America as an industrial world power?

10. How are the issues of this case similar to the problems encountered by states under the Articles of Confederation?

Document C Dred Scott Vs. Sanford (1857)

11. Describe how the decision of Dred Scott V. Sanford increased the power of the federal Government over the States?

12. What was the decision of the Court? What was the rationale behind it?

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13. What effect did the decision have on the slavery issue of westward expansion, or the issues involved in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

14. Do you feel that the justices made the right decision in this case? Explain?

Document D Are Black People Citizens

15. If the Missouri Supreme Court has already made a decision about Dred Scott’s case, why are we listening to it again?

16. What decision do we have to make?

17. According to the Constitution Slaves are counted as population for representation, does this mean they are citizens? Why or why not?

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Draw this into your notebooks add all the vocabulary listed on the folder where is applies, add more pieces of the web if you need to. Change the web if you have a better way to organize.

Stop- check over all your answers with you group members. Discuss any differences.

STATION 3 EXPANSION

Gibbons V

Ogden

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McCulloch V

Maryland

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Dred ScottV

Sanford

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Ex. Vocabulary

Cause and Result of Case

INCREASED GOVERNMENTAL

POWERS2

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Document A Trails to the West

1. Using the map scale, figure out the length of each of the following trailsOregon Trail_________________________________________________

California Trail_______________________________________________

Butterfield Overland Mail_______________________________________

Santa Fe Trail_______________________________________________

2. Which trail is the longest and which is the shortest across the west?

Document B Texas Settlers

3. What changes have taken place in Texas since American Settlers moved there?

4. Who wants Texas to become a Mexican state and why?

5. Give two arguments, stated in the document, why Texas should join the United States.

Document C Westward Ho?

6. List three barriers, shown on the map, that settlers faced on the trails going west.

7. Give the name of the famous stagecoach route that connected L.A. to St. Louis.

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Document D Views of Manifest Destiny

8. What is Manifest Destiny?

9. What did President Polk believe the federal government should do if Americans settled in the wild territories beyond the boundaries of the U.S.?

Document E The Mexican War

14. Why did Polk think the only solution was war?

15. Explain the events that lead to the war with Mexico.

Document F U.S. Government 1846

16. Give two reasons why the U.S. needs the land from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

17. In the last paragraph it states that “ God put it there for us to use”, what concept is this referring to?

Document G and G2 National Shapes Foreign Policy/Monroe Doctrine

18. How is Nationalism different from Sectionalism?

19. What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?

Document H in Text book: read these sections to find out how we acquired these territories.

20. How did the U. S. acquire the following territories?

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Florida (p 205 and document G)

Texas Territory (p. 272 and document B)

Oregon Country (p. 265)

Mexican Cession (p. 276 and document E)

Gadsen Purchase (p. 276)

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Draw this into your notebook, add all territories acquired and the dates. Write the definitions for each term, Manifest Destiny/Monroe Doctrine. Change the organizer if you have a better way to organize.Stop- check over all your answers with you group members. Discuss any differences.

STATION 4 SECTIONALISM

Manifest Destiny

Lousianna Purchase

1803

Monroe Doctrine

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Document A Advertisement for a slave sale

1. What is being sold and in what state?

Document B 1820 U.S. Congress

2. In 1820, how many slave state and free state are there in the U.S?

3. Why does the North want less slave states and the South want more?

Document C Popular Sovereignty

4. What is meant by the term Popular Sovereignty?

5. Which state were likely to approve of Douglas’ speech? Which were likely to disapprove?

Document D South Carolina’s Secession Convention

6. During the South Carolina Secession (to break away) Convention of 1860 what matters were addressed?

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7. In the last line, explain the significants of the Judge Petigru’s remarks.

Document E 1850 U.S. Senator 8. Explain the fugitive slave law and why the south would want it.

9. What is an abolitionist and what do they want for the new western states?

Document F Map on the Compromise of 1850

10. According to the map, how many free and slave states existed in 1850?

Document G A New Proposal Opens Old Wounds

11. Describe the tension that resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Document H A Nation Begins to Divide

12. From the reading and the maps, what effect did the Kansas- Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise?

Document I, J, K Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

Economic Differences

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Kanas -Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas

SC Secession

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13. Using documents I and B explain the results of the Missouri Compromise? Who gained, who lost?

14. Using Documents J, F, and C, in the Compromise of 1850 which side seems to have made the greater concessions, why?

15. Using Documents K and G, explain the results of the Kansas- Nebraska Act and what it meant for the North and South.

STEPS TOWARDS THE CIVIL WAR

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Draw this chart into your notes. Give a brief explanation of each term and write the date above the blue line for each term. Stop- check over all your answers with you group members. Discuss any differences.

STATION 5 Domestic Affairs

Document A The People’s President Andrew Jackson

1. How did Jackson get the wound on his face?

2. Why was it so important that Jackson collected the tariff from South Carolina?

3. What is Jackson’s reasoning for taking strong action against the Bank of the United States?

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4. What was the problem with the election votes?

Document B Jackson Finally Becomes President

5. Which three states split electoral votes between the two candidates?

6. Explain how the map tells you which candidate got only one electoral vote form Maine.

7. How would you describe the regions in which Jackson’s strengths were the greatest?

8. Why does it seem natural that Adam’s support came from the region that it did?

Document C1 and C2 Andrew Jackson: An Enigma

9. What does the description tell about Andrew Jackson, the man?

10. Why do you think this article refers to Jackson as “first man of the people to become president”?

11. According to the cartoon, Document C2, what established institutions are being trampled by Jackson?

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12. What hint does this cartoon give that Andrew Jackson may have been responsible for the economic disaster.

Document D Expanding Democracy Changes Politics

13. What factors helped Jackson win the 1828 presidential election?

Document E Jackson’s New Presidential Style

14. How did Jackson show his commitment to the common people once in office?

15. What is the spoil system?

Document F Andrew Jackson / The Indian Question

16. Name the two Supreme Court cases and explain if the people of Georgia followed these decisions.

17. What was the “Trail of Tears”?

Document G The Removal of Native Americans

Andrew Jackson

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Veto

Trail of Tears

Spoil System

Tariff of 1832

Election of 1824

Indian Removal Act

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18. Explain the Indian Removal Act ordered by Jackson.

19. How did the removal of Native Americans cause a rift between the executive and judicial branches?

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Draw this chart into your notes. Give a brief explanation of each below the term.Stop- check over all your answers with you group members. Discuss any differences.

America Expands and Changes Project1815- 1860

Presentation directions

Directions: You have spent the last several days actively acquiring the knowledge of American history between the years 1815- 1860. This time period saw many developments in five broad thematic categories.

1. Your group is to go to the station where you started and discuss the topics covered by the documents.

2. Each member of the group will choose one of the topics on the station folder and create either a small poster, cartoon, newspaper headline and article or a graphic organizer.

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3. Each of the pieces must include 3 facts, the date of event or era, and a question about the theme of the document (s)

4. Members MUST be prepared to present in class the following day. Each member of every group will place their piece on a class timeline and discuss the event and question.

5. Grading for entire project:

A. Packets from stations 50 points

B. Graphic Organizers 25 points of each section

C. Presentation pieces 25 points for the timeline.