1. Significant US Documents Analyzing documents for their influence in American history. Goals / Objectives: 1.Improve familiarity w/ wide range of documents 2.Improve document application skills for DBQs 3.Improve document analysis skills for DBQs for AP US History Exam and NYS Regents Due: April 27, 2010

2. Tasks / Grading Each student will complete a power-point project … incorporating 5 total documents Each of the 5 document components has a maximum total value of 20 points (5 x 20=100 points) Documents will be selected / assigned from the list provided including: Colonial Documents and Founding Documents Speeches, Literature, Lyrics, Imagery Presidential Actions and Treaties Congressional Legislation Supreme Court Decisions Due: April 27, 2010

3. “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Pre-Amble/ Declaration of Independence I. Historical Document (5 points)

4. II. Topic or Main Idea (5 points) The pre-amble to the Declaration of Independence indicates the Continental Congress is declaring political independence.

5. III. Point of View or Bias (5 points) Colonial leaders believed they needed to give justifiable reasons for independence in order to promote the cause successfully

6. IV. Inferences (5 points) 1.Political statement w/ Jefferson phrasing meant to draw readers into the document 2.Product of the Enlightenment (Deist influence) 3.Relationship w/ Britain had been good… but now gone bad 4.Thomas Paine’s Common Sense influence 5.Intent to influence Colonists and foreign leaders …information found in document and/or relevant outside information

7. Document Menu Choose five (5) total documents for analysis from the following menu pages. 1.Colonial Documents and Founding Documents 2.US Speeches, Literature, Lyrics, Imagery 3.Presidential Actions and US Treaties 4.Congressional Legislation 5.US Supreme Court Decisions Choose one document from each of the 5 categories

8. 1. Colonial Documents and Founding Documents Mayflower Compact Salem Witchcraft Papers Peter Zenger Trial “No Taxation Without Representation” (Sermon) “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (Speech) Common Sense (Pamphlet) Declaration of Independence (Political Theory) The Crisis (Pamphlet) Articles of Confederation Federalist Paper #10 US Constitution (Pre-Amble Only) US Constitution …Article I Section 8 #18 US Constitution …Amendments #1-10 (choose one) US Constitution …Amendments # 13-14-15 (choose one) US Constitution …Amendments # 16-17-18-19 (choose one) US Constitution …Amendments # 22-24-26 (choose one)

9. 2. US Speeches, Literature, Lyrics, Images Virginia Resolution Kentucky Resolution Star Spangled Banner (Lyrics) Civil Disobedience (Essay) Declaration of Sentiments Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Novel) Lincoln’s House Divided Speech S.Carolina Declaration of Secession Thomas Nast Cartoon (choose one) F.J. Turner Frontier Thesis (Essay) “Atlanta Compromise” (Speech) “Cross of Gold” (Speech) Langston Hughes Poem (choose one) Herblock Cartoon (choose one) The Feminine Mystique (Book) Silent Spring (Book) “I Have A Dream” (Speech) Protest Songs (choose one)

10. 3. Presidential Actions and US Treaties LBJ’s Great Society Speech LBJ’s Affirmative Action Exec.Order Silent Spring (Book) 1962 Nixon Doctrine Reagan’s Inaugural Address Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech Reagan Doctrine Treaty of Paris 1763 or 1783 or 1899 Louisiana Purchase Treaty Treaty of Ghent Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty of Versailles …Article X NATO NAFTA Treaty Washington’s Farewell Address Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address Monroe Doctrine Jackson’s Veto Statement (B.U.S.) Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address Lincoln’s 2 nd Inaugural Address Roosevelt Corollary Wilson’s 14 Points FDR’s First Inaugural Address FDR’s Declaration of War Truman Doctrine Eisenhower Doctrine Eisenhower’s Farewell Address JFK’s Inaugural Address

11. 4. Congressional Legislation Alien and Sedition Acts 1798 Missouri Compromise 1820 Indian Removal Act 1830 Fugitive Slave Law 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 Homestead Act 1862 Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Dawes Severalty Act 1887 Interstate commerce Act 1887 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890 Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1906 Federal Reserve Act 1913 Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914 Sedition Act 1917 Emergency Quota Act 1921 National Origins Act 1924 Glass-Steagall Act 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority Act 1933 National Labor Relations Act 1935 Social Security Act 1935 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act 1944 National Security Act 1947 Taft-Hartley Act 1947 Interstate Highway Act 1958 National Defense Education Act 1958 Equal Opportunity Act 1964 Voting Rights Act 1965 Fair Housing Act 1968 Title IX 1973 Americans With Disabilities Act 1990

12. 5. US Supreme Court Decisions Marybury v Madison 1803 McCulloch v Maryland 1819 Gibbons v Ogden 1824 Worcester v Georgia 1832 Dred Scott v Sanford 1857 Plessy v Ferguson 1896 US v Northern Securities 1904 Lochner v New York 1905 Muller v Oregon 1908 US v Standard Oil 1911 Schenck v US 1919 Schechter Poultry v US 1935 Korematsu v US 1944 Brown v Board of Education 1954 Mapp v Ohio 1961 Baker v Carr 1962 Engle v Vitale 1962 Gideon v Wainwright 1963 Escobedo v Illinois 1964 Miranda v Arizona 1966 Tinker v Des Moines 1969 NY times v United States 1971 Roe v Wade 1973 US v Nixon 1974 New Jersey v TLO 1985 Vernonia v Acton 1995 Bush v Gore 2000