Democracy+&+Authority

__**Shared Googleslides for 1960s-1970s **__

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[|Tan Block] - Click on the link to add to the class powerpoint.

__**Focus Questions **__  1. How does the Constitution establish a system of “firebreaks” that are designed to

hinder the mobilization of the people and control by a tyrant?

2. How do conflicting perceptions over the role of federal power lead to early challenges for the republic?

3. Have the cases of the Marshall court align more with Federalist or Democratic-Republican thinking? In what way(s)? Did the decisions of the Marshall court challenge or continue the principle of federalism included in the Constitution?

4.Was Andrew Jackson a proponent of the “common man” expanding democracy or was he extending the authority of the executive branch?

5. How did the various events that lead to the Civil War impact on the system of checks & balances established by the Constitution? What constitutional issues arose among our causes of the Civil War?

6. How were the principles established by the Constitution impacted by the Civil War?

7. How were the principles established by the Constitution impacted by Reconstruction? Impact on people? Impact on gov’t?

8. How and why did democracy becomes corrupted/made vulnerable during the Gilded Age, and what the consequences of this corruption?

9. How does the balance of power between citizens and the nationalism gov’t change with the Progressive Era? How does the balance of power between the national gov’t and state gov’ts change with the Progressive Era?

10. How does Progressivism go too far?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">11. Focus Question from Red block: how can the gov’t maintain checks and balances without interfering with each other and their powers? how can the gov’t maintain checks and balances without taking away individual rights?Focus Question from Tan Block: What about the people? Why is Congress blindly loyal to FDR? How can we limit the executive branch’s powers? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">12. How effectively has the federal gov’t exercised power while protecting the rights of the individual and of states?

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">** Causes of the Civil War Narrative Resources ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Assignment:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Resources:**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. [|Link] to powerpoint. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Example of Narrative: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3. Video on Causes of Civil War: [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Necessary Information to Source Properly **

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Source that was used for the group readings that you made the timeline posters out of: // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp and locate the event that you'd like to source by scrolling down (between #'s 22-32).

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Source that was used for your individual state profiles: // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Name of Website: Civil War Trust Website: civilwar.org/curriculum "The Civil War Curriculum" Copyright 2014 date accessed October 16th, 2014

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Source of 14 minute Civil War Causes video we watched BEFORE we did the timeline activity: // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">100% Educational Videos. Causes of the Civil War. Full Video. 2003. http://www.discoveryeducation.com (accessed ).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">** Powerpoint on Reconstruction ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">**Tan Block** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
 * Triangles of the Progressive Era**