Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can explain why the War of 1812 was so politically divisive in the United States, & I can discuss its long-term consequences for the country.

Critical Vocabulary: Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Corps of Discovery, Sacajawea, Continental Divide, Aaron Burr, General James Wilkinson, Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice Marshall, Judicial Review, Barbary Wars, Impressment, Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Embargo Act of 1807, Non-Intercourse Act, Election of 1808, Tecumseh, “The Prophet,” William Henry Harrison, Battle of Tippecanoe, War of 1812, Henry Clay, War Hawks, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, Burning of Washington, Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, "The Star Spangled Banner," General Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Hartford Convention, Treaty of Ghent

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Did the power of the national government strengthen or weaken during the Adams Administration? Explain.
2. Citizenship Question: Which war was fought by the United States in the 1900s? 
   A. Civil War 
   B. World War I 
   C. Revolutionary War 
   D. Mexican-American War
3. Cooperative Learning: The "Revolution of 1800" (Period 1)
4. Independent Learning: Jeffersonian Democracy Reading (Periods 2 & 3)
5. ​Reflection Question: How 'revolutionary' was the Election of 1800? Did Jefferson succeed in shrinking the size of the federal government? Explain?

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Homework: The Jeffersonian Democracy Reading