Welcome to American Studies II = History/Government


Daily Entries

Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!

I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!

Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.


How much of the time do you think you can trust the government to do what is right?

  1. Just about always

  2. Most of the time

  3. Some of the time

  4. Hardly ever

Entry 1 - 9/4/2024 - TCI book Chapter 1, page 1

  1. What is power?

  2. Identify the Five sources of power?

  3. Define: Mandate of Heaven, Divine Right of Kings, Social Contract Theory

  4. Why did the English colonists create the Mayflower Compact?

Entry 2 - 9/5/2024 - TCI book Pg 19

  1. What is the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy?

  2. What is the difference between an absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy?

  3. Explain Karl Marx’s goals for creating his communist society?

  4. How is Fascism different from communism?


9/6/2024 - Assignment

Create your own country project

On your own or you are able to work in groups no larger than 3

https://prezi.com/zv67jsu2z4ot/create-your-own-government-project/

Entry 3 - 9/10/2024 - TCI book CH. 3 Pg 37

  1. Define: Rule of Law, Limited Government, Individual Rights, Separation of Powers, Popular Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Majority Rule

  2. What influenced early colonial ideas about government?

  3. How did Thomas Aquinas influence the idea of natural law?

  4. How did the Magna Carta change life for English citizens?

Monday - 9/16/2024

Projects are due

Week 2 review - write your answers on to a separate sheet of paper

What was the Enlightenment?

The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry. The Enlightenment reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights.

Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world’s strongest democracies.

  1. Thomas Hobbes

  2. John Locke

  3. Baron de Montesquieu

  4. Jean Jacques Rousseau

  5. Mary Wollstonecraft

Enlightenment Thinkers

9/19/2024 Assignment - Enlightenment Poster

Friday - 9/20/2024

Vocab word Assignment - Use the Frayer model template below to define, use in a sentence, synonym, etc.. the following terms:

  1. Unalienable Rights

  2. Sovereignty

  3. Rule of Law

  4. Representative government

  5. Limited government

Frayer Model template

Entry 4 - 9/23/2024 - TCI book Pg 42

  1. How were most of the colonies governed in the early 1700s?

  2. What was one of the roles of Virginia’s House of Burgesses?

  3. What changed in the 1760s that angered the colonists?

Entry 5 - 9/24/2024 - Ol Blue Pg 120

  1. Identify the following terms: Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Writs of Assistance, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Coercive Acts, Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense (book)

9/25/2024 TCI book

Rephrasing the Declaration of Independence

Friday 9/27/2024 - Assignment

Articles of Confederation WebQuest

Under Textbook tab at top of this page scroll down to Government book and click on Chapter 2

Entry 6 - 9/30/2024 - Online Govt book Ch 2 Sec 3

  1. What does unicameral mean?

  2. Identify the 10 powers that congress had under the Articles of Confederation.

  3. How did the govt raise money?

Tuesday 10/1/2024 - Substitute lesson

CNN10

Assignment: Internet search

  1. What was the Articles of Confederation?

  2. What was Shays’ Rebellion?

  3. Identify 5-6 reasons why the Articles of Confederation failed?

Turn answers into class period folder on the table


Entry 7 - 10/2/2024 - Online Book Ch 2 sec 4 pg 53

  1. Who is considered the father of the Constitution?

  2. Who was chosen to preside over the meetings?

  3. Why was it important that the public and press be kept out of the meetings?

  4. What was the Virginia Plan?

  5. What was the New Jersey Plan?

  6. What was the Connecticut Compromise?

  7. What was the 3/5 Compromise?

Entry 8 - 10/7/2024 - Ol Blue Pg 180

  1. Identify the 7 major principles of the Constitution.

  2. What is the role of the Legislative Branch?

  3. What are the roles of the Executive Branch?

Preamble to the Constitution

Constitution Close Read



Entry 9 - 10/9/2024 - TCI Book - Chapter 4

  1. Which Article of the Constitution describes adding amendments?

  2. What is the process of adding amendments?

  3. Identify the first 10 Amendments

10/10/2024 - Assignment

Bill of Rights worksheet

Monday - 10/14/2024

Amendments Project - Due October 22

Entry 10 - 10/21/2024 - TCI book Pg 51

  1. What did the Congressional delegates decide on with regards to choosing a president?

  2. What were the two chief complaints of the Anti-Federalists?

10/22/2024 - Crash Course Video on the Constitution

Entry 11 - 10/23/2024 - Ol Blue Pg 173

  1. What was the difference between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?

  2. What factors worked against the Anti-Federalists?

Federalists vs the Anti-Federalists - debate the Constitution

Friday - 10/25/2024

In class Amendment Worksheet

Quiz on Monday over the amendments

Entries will be collected on Thursday-Friday

Entry 12 - 10/29/2024 - TCI bookPg 153

  1. How did Adlai Stevenson differ from Dwight Eisenhower in their presidential campaign in 1952?

  2. What is political socialization?

  3. What is public opinion?

  4. How is public opinion shaped?

Entry 13 - 10/30/2024 - TCI book Pg 141

  1. What are Special Interest groups?

  2. How did James Madison’s views on interest groups contradict itself?

  3. What is pluralism?

  4. Although there are thousands of different groups, what basic goal do they all share?

Interest Group Assignment

Use this website for a list of interest groups - https://justfacts.votesmart.org/interest-groups