Declaration of independence and constitution venn diagram

Section 1

Principles of the American Republic

• Q1-2: Constitutional Government 
  • Exercise: Annotate the Constitution
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q3: The Constitution
  • Exercise: Create a brochure about the Constitution
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q4: “We the People”
  • Exercise: Compare monarchies and republics
• Q5: Constitutional Amendments
  • Exercise: Write a Constitution for your class
• Q6: The Bill of Rights
  • Exercise: Make an infographic about the Bill of Rights
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • United States Bill of Rights​
• Q7: Constitutional Amendments II
  • Exercise: Exhibit a short presentation on an Amendment
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q8-9: Declaring Independence
  • Exercise: Give a speech on independence
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Declaration of Independence
    • Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
• Q10-11: The Declaration and Founding Ideals
  • Exercise: Annotate the Declaration of Independence
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Declaration of Independence
• Q12: The Economic System of the United States
  • ​​​​​​​Exercise: Take part in the guided discussion on Wealth of Nations
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
• Q13: The Rule of Law
  • Exercise: Compose a story of life under absolute power​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
• Q14: Antecedents to the US Constitution
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Exercise: Trace influences of Mayflower Compact and VA Declaration of Rights on Constitution
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Mayflower Compact
    • Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
    • Declaration of Independence
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q15: Separation of Powers
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Exercise: Use the graphic organizer to assess separation of powers

Section 2

Systems of Government

• Q16-17: The Branches of Government
  • Exercise: Create posters explaining the 3 branches of U.S. government
• Q18: Congress and Lawmaking
  • Exercise: Make a flowchart of the lawmaking process
• Q19-20: Congress
  • Exercise: Write a job description of Congress
• Q21 & 27-28: The Senate and the States
  • Exercise: Make a meme about the Senate
• Q22: Senate Terms of Office
  • Exercise: Debate about how long Senate terms should be
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Federalist 62, 63 (excerpts)
• Q23: Your Senators
  • Exercise: Write to your U.S. Senator
• Q24: The House of Representatives: Its Size
  • Exercise: Debate about how large the house should be
• Q25-26: The House of Representatives and Popular Opinion
  • Exercise: Create a worksheet to help peers understand Congress
• Q29: Your Representative
  • Exercise: Write to your U.S. Representative
• Q30: The Speaker of the House
  • Exercise: Create a job description for the U.S. Speaker of the House
• Q31-32: The Senate and State Citizens
  • Exercise: Write a journal article about being a Senator when the 17th amendment was being considered
• Q33-35: The House of Representatives and the People
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided reading on Apportionment Acts and discuss the historical methods of calculating apportionment
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Apportionment Acts of 1792, 1911
• Q36-37: Presidential Terms and Limits
  • Exercise: Join the guided reading on avoiding monarchy
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • James Madison, National Gazette, 1792
    • Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address
• Q38: The Current President
  • Exercise: Write a job description of the President
• Q39: The Current Vice President
  • Exercise: Write a job description of the Vice President
• Q40: The Line of Succession
  • Exercise: Make a poster or t-shirt on the line of succession

Section 2

Continued

• Q41 & 45: Powers of the President
  • Exercise: Compare excerpts of the U.S. Constitution to three alternative proposals created by the National Constitution Center (one libertarian, one progressive, one conservative)
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • US Constitution
    • National Constitution Center: Constitution Drafting Project
• Q42: The President as Commander in Chief
  • Exercise: Join the guided discussion on division of warmaking powers between congress and the president
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • U.S. Constitution
    • Federalist 69
• Q43-44: Presidential Signings and Vetoes
  • Exercise: Sign or veto mock bills on Constitutional Federalism and policy grounds
• Q46-48: The Executive Branch and Cabinet
  • Exercise: Create a collage of executive agencies/the cabinet
• Q49: The Electoral College
  • Exercise: Hold a mock student election with an electoral college
• Q50-51: The Judicial Branch
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided reading of Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Plessy v. Ferguson
• Q52: The Supreme Court
  • Exercise: Guided discussion of free speech law
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • Matal v. Tam
• Q53-54: Members of the Supreme Court
  • Exercise: Write a journal as a member of the supreme court deciding a case
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Kyllo v. United States
• Q55-56: The Supreme Court and Judicial Independence
  • Exercise: Play a referee in a case study roleplay
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Federalist 78
• Q57: The Chief Justice
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of Riley v. California
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Riley v. California
• Q58: The Powers of the Federal Government: Enumerated Powers
  • Exercise: Make a Venn diagram comparing state and federal powers
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Federalist 32, 39, 45, 51, 62 (excerpts)
• Q59: The Powers of States: Reserved Powers
  • Exercise: Research annotated readings on state powers
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Jacobson v. Massachusetts
    • Federalist 32, 39, 45, 51, 62 (excerpts)
• Q60: The Tenth Amendment
  • Exercise: Examine political cartoons on court cases
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Schecter Poultry Corp v. United States
    • Wickard v. Filburn
    • Governor Franklin Roosevelt on Federalism, 1929-1930
• Q61: State Governors
  • Exercise: Compare the governorships created by these state constitutions
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Constitutions of Arizona, Indiana, New Hampshire, Texas, Virginia
• Q62: State Capitols
  • Exercise: Write a letter to your state legislator or governor
• Q126-127: Political Parties
  • Exercise: Send a letter to the editor about the role of political parties
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • George Washington, Farewell Address

Section 3

Rights and Responsibilities

• Q63: Suffrage Amendments to the Constitution
  • Exercise: Write an editorial on voting
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q64: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​Exercise: Write a public service announcement about jury duty
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, “The Jury Considered as a Political Institution”
• Q65: The Bill of Rights
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Exercise: Give a speech on which individual liberty in the Bill of Rights is most important
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • U.S. Bill of Rights
• Q66: The Pledge of Allegiance
  • Exercise: Learn about folding the American flag
  • Primary sources utilized
    • U.S. Flag Code
• Q67-68: US Citizenship
  • Exercise: Take an abridged citizenship test
• Q69-70: Civic Participation
  • ​​​​​​​Exercise: Assess the free speech and workplace case study
• Q71: Federal Taxation
  • Exercise: Study the federal budget
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Congressional Budget Office Data 2019
• Q72: Selective Service
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Exercise: Participate in the guided readings on the passage of the 26th Amendment

Section 4

Colonial Period and Independence

• Q73: English Colonists
  • Exercise: Make an advertisement convincing a British citizen to move to America
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Mayflower Compact 
    • Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
    • Christopher Columbus’s Journal
    • Letters to Walter Raleigh
• Q74: Indigenous Peoples
  • Exercise: Tweet about an imaginary encounter between pilgrims and indigenous people
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Christopher Columbus’s Journal
    • Letters to Walter Raleigh
• Q75: African Slaves
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of Frederick Douglass’ Speeches
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
    • Is the Constitution Proslavery or Antislavery
• Q76-77 & 80: The American Revolution
  • Exercise: Analyze the journal of a revolutionary soldier
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
    • Journal of James Thacher
• Q78: The Declaration of Independence
  • Exercise: Join a scavenger hunt about how the Declaration of Independence shaped the constitution
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • Declaration of Independence
    • U.S. Constitution
• Q79: Drafting the Declaration of Independence
  • Exercise: Compare different drafts of the Declaration of Independence
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s First Draft
    • Declaration of Independence, Revised Committee Version
    • Declaration of Independence, Congressional Revision
• Q81: The Thirteen States
  • Exercise: Compare the following five revolutionary state constitutions
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Constitutions of Pennsylvania (1776), Virginia (1776), New York (1777), Georgia (1777), South Carolina (1778), Massachusetts (1780), and New Hampshire (1784)
• Q82: The Constitutional Convention
  • Exercise: Create a Venn diagram comparing the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Articles of Confederation
    • U.S. Constitution
    • Federalist 32, 39, 45, 51, 62 (excerpts)
    • James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States
    • Richard Henry Lee to George Mason on the Convention
• Q83-84: The Federalist Papers
  • Exercise: Analyze the arguments of Federalist 10
  • Primary sources utilized
    • Federalist 10
• Q85: Benjamin Franklin
  • Exercise: Design a Benjamin Franklin meme 
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Poor Richard’s Almanac
• Q86: George Washington
  • Exercise: Tweet George Washington’s Farewell Address
  • Primary sources utilized
    • George Washington, Farewell Address
• Q87: Thomas Jefferson
  • Exercise: Debate over the constitutionality of the National Bank
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton on the Bank
• Q88: James Madison
  • Exercise: Compare different drafts of Bill of Rights amendments
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Amendments Recommended by the State Ratifying Conventions and Amendments Proposed by James Madison (1788-89)
    • Madison’s Speech Proposing Amendments to the Constitution (June 8, 1789) (optional)
    • Madison on Constitutional Interpretation
    • Debate in the House of Representatives, Annals of Congress (1796)
    • Letter to John Jackson (1821); Letter to Thomas Ritchie (1821); 
    • Letter to Henry Lee (1824)
• Q89: Alexander Hamilton
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of the Debate over the Neutrality Proclamation
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • James Madison, Helvidius. 1
    • Alexander Hamilton, Pacificus. 1

Section 5

The 1800s

• Q90: The Louisiana Territory
  • Exercise: Explore National Archives Maps of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition
• Q91: Wars of the 1800s
  • Exercise: Create a timeline of major American wars in the 1800s
• Q92-93 & 96: The Civil War
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings on why the south seceded
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Secession Declarations from Mississippi and Georgia 
    • Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech
    • 1860 Republican Party Platform
    • Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
• Q94-95: Abraham Lincoln
  • Exercise: Annotate the Emancipation Proclamation and related documents
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Emancipation Proclamation
    • Letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
    • Letter to Treasury Secretary (and future Chief Justice) Salmon Chase, September 2, 1863
    • Letter to Albert G. Hodges, editor of Frankfort (KY) Commonwealth, April 4, 1864 
• Q97-98: The Reconstruction Amendments
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of the Dred Scott Case
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Dred Scott v. Sandford (Taney, McLean, and Curtis excerpts)
    • Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Dred Scott Case
    • Frederick Douglass, Reconstruction
• Q99 & 102: Women’s Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of the Seneca Falls Declaration
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Seneca Falls Declaration

Section 6

Recent American History

• Q100: Wars of the 1900s
  • Exercise: Create a timeline of major American wars in the 1800s
• Q101: Woodrow Wilson and World War I
  • Exercise: Write a persuasive speech for or against the league of nations
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
    • Covenant of the League of Nations
    • Henry Cabot Lodge, Speeches on the League of Nations
    • Lodge Reservations
• Q103-105: The Great Depression, World War II, and Franklin Roosevelt
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
  • Primary sources utilized
    • Arsenal of Democracy 
    • Attack on Pearl Harbor
    • Fireside Chat on the War with Japan
• Q106: World War II
  • Exercise: Map out the Axis invasions
• Q107: Dwight Eisenhower
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
  • Primary sources utilized
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address
• Q108: The Soviet Union
  • Exercise: Annotate Revelations from the Soviet Archives
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • Library of Congress Collection: Revelations from the Soviet Archives
• Q109-111: Communism and the Cold War
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of Communist Manifesto
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
    • Library of Congress Collection: Revelations from the Soviet Archives
• Q112-113: The Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Exercise: Annotate speeches written by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
    • Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Q114-116: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Exercise: Write a presidential speech responding to Al Qaeda attack in 2001
  • Primary sources utilized:
    • George Bush, Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001
• Q117: American Indian Tribes
  • Exercise: Participate in the guided readings of indigenous. perspectives on American history
  • Primary sources utilized: 
    • An indigenous. view of the American Revolution, Buckongahelas (Delaware, 1781)
    • An indigenous. Constitution (Cherokee Constitution, 1827)
    • An indigenous. view of Indian Removal: Letters from Chief John Ross (Cherokee, 1836)

Section 7