Module 5 - Shaping a Nation - Activity 3

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Activity 3:  Readings

• Read the following chapters in America Past and Present. These readings explore the development of the American federal system, westward expansion after 1789, Jacksonian Diplomacy, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the process of Industrialization in the nineteenth century.
  • Chapter 6: “Federalists and Anti-Federalists” (pages 119-121)
  • Chapter 7: “Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton” (pages 128-129), “Pushing the Native Americans Aside" (pages 133-134)
  • Chapter 8: “The Louisiana Purchase” (pages 150-152)
  • Chapter 9: “Native American Societies Under Pressure” (pages 168-169), “The Canal Boom” (pages 172-175), “Nationalism in Foreign Policy” (pages 181-182)
  • Chapter 10: “Jackson and the Politics of Democracy” (pages 190-195)
  • Chapter 11: “Rise of the Cotton Kingdom” (pages 217-218)
  • Chapter 12: “Institutional Reform” (pages 234-242)
  • Chapter 13: “The Texas Revolution” (page 247-248), “Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War” (pages 250-259)
  • Chapter 17: “Beyond the Frontier” (pages 331-339), “The Final Fling” (pages 346-347)
  • Chapter 18: “The Industrial Society” (pages 352-368)
  • Chapter 20: “The Party Deadlock” (pages 389-390)
  • Chapter 21: “Foreign Policy Approaches” (pages 407-409), “Yellow Journalism” (page 411),  “Governing the Empire” (pages 417-418)
  • Chapter 22: “The Burgeoning Trusts” (page 425), “Conflict in the Workplace” (pages 430-432)
  • Chapter 23: “Roosevelt Progressivism at its Height” (pages 450-452)
  • Chapter 26: “The Rise of Organized Labor” (pages 511-512)
  • Chapter 30: “Unintended Consequences: The Second Great Migration” (pages 602-603)
  • Pay close attention to the maps on page 121, 134, 151, 193, 246, 255, 333 and 366
• Log on to Thinkwell, and read:
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 1.1.2 – European Exploration, Conflict and Colonization
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 1.1.6 – Major Events and Developments in the Growth of the United States
  • Thinkwell Program: Section 1.1.10 – Industrialization of the United States