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I. TOCQUEVILLE’S IDEAS AND THEMES OF APUSH IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASS, YOU NEED TO: 1)DO THE DAILY CARD 2) YOU ARE TO COPY THE NOTES (I GET MY COPY BACK). 3) PICK 2 PICTURES TO DO ANALYSIS OF WITH THE WORKSHEET 4) DEFINE THE TERMS ON THE CHART & LIST WHICH PICTURES REPESENT EACH IDEA 5) WRITE A PARAGRAPH WITH EXAMPLES EXPAINING HOW AMERICAN HAS OR HAS NOT LIVED UP TO ONE IDEA ON THE BOARD: 1. DC (do cards) 2. 5 THEMES 3. PRIMARY SOURCES 4. TEL

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” –Alexis de Tocqueville Daily Comment & Card TOCQUEVILLE’S FIVE VALUES CRUCIAL TO AMERICA’S SUCCESS AS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC -LIBERTY -EGALITARIANISM -INDIVIDUALISM -POPULISM -LAISSEZ-FAIRE SONGS FOR THE DAY: LIVING IN AMERICA

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” –Alexis de Tocqueville Daily Comment & Card TOCQUEVILLE’S FIVE VALUES CRUCIAL TO AMERICA’S SUCCESS AS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC PRIMARY SOURCE & SECONDARY SOURCE -Primary sources provide first hand information about a historical event and include photographs, political cartoons, newspaper articles and personal narratives. -Secondary sources are those that take information from first hand accounts and retell it (example: textbooks) -LIBERTY -EGALITARIANISM -INDIVIDUALISM -POPULISM -LAISSEZ-FAIRE SONGS FOR THE DAY: LIVING IN AMERICA

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” –Alexis de Tocqueville Daily Comment & Card PRIMARY SOURCE & SECONDARY SOURCE -Primary sources provide first hand information about a historical event and include photographs, political cartoons, newspaper articles and personal narratives. -Secondary sources are those that take information from first hand accounts and retell it (example: textbooks) SONGS FOR THE DAY: R.O.C.K. IN THE USA

STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: -identify and describe Tocqueville’s ideas of what made America different -analyze events in American History that represent each idea -write an introductory paragraph describing how America has or has not lived up to one of the ideas

WHAT MADE AMERICA DIFFERENT FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED?

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA -TRAVELED THROUGH AMERICA IN THE EARLY 1830s. HE OBSERVED THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE AND GOVERNMENT IN ACTION -HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED Democracy in America ABOUT THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT -HE SAID THERE WERE 5 VALUES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO AMERICAN SUCCESS

FIVE VALUES CRITICAL TO AMERICA’S SUCCESS AS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC -LIBERTY -EGALITARIANISM -INDIVIDUALISM -POPULISM -LAISSEZ-FAIRE FREEDOM FROM ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT CONTROL BELIEF IN EQUALITY; NO PERMANENT CLASS STRUCTURE PEOPLE ARE FREE TO PURSUE INDIVIDUAL GOALS APPEAL TO ORDINARY PEOPLE GOVERNMENT IS “HANDS OFF”

WHAT DO EACH OF THE IDEAS MEAN? WITH YOUR PARTNER, COME UP WITH A DEFINITION /SYNONYM… (PUT THESE ON YOUR PAPER) *don’t worry about the second column…

HOW DO THESE IDEAS MATCH UP TO THEMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY WE WILL BE EXAMINING THIS YEAR… -LIBERTY=FREEDOM -EGALITARIANISM = EQUALITY -INDIVIDUALISM=OPPORTUNITY -POPULISM = DEMOCRACY -LAISSEZ-FAIRE = RIGHTS

NOW, TURN THE PAPER OVER, FILL IN THE FIRST BOX FOR THE DOCUMENT YOU HAVE… TRADE FOR ANOTHER

AS WE GO THROUGH, WRITE THE LETTER FOR THE DOCUMENT IN THE SPACE NEXT TO ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS (WHERE YOU THINK IT WOULD COULD BE USED)…

A By 1673, when this map was drawn, European nations had established colonies in North America. They wanted colonies to increase their wealth and power. The people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle the English colonies came for a wide range of reasons—religious freedom, escape from debt, the opportunity to own land, the chance to start a new life. Some, however, did not come by choice. GETTING ORIENTED

B After defeating the French in North America in 1763, the British started tightening control over their colonies. The colonists believed these actions violated their rights. For example, Great Britain raised taxes, limited trade, and forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes. In 1770, a crowd began taunting some of these soldiers with snowballs. The soldiers fired on the mob and killed five colonists. Known as the Boston Massacre, this event helped fuel the resistance to British rule that led to the American Revolution. A NATION AND ITS IDEALS EMERGE

C Less than a century after winning independence from Great Britain, the United States almost split in two. The Civil War divided the nation because of questions about states’ rights and equality. In the battle shown here, black Union soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment attack Confederate troops at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863. Four months after this battle, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated the military cemetery at Gettysburg with a renewed commitment to American ideals: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…[W]e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863 THE GROWTH OF AND CHALLENGES TO AMERICAN IDEALS

D After the Civil War, tens of thousands of people streamed westward to settle the vast American heartland. Many believed it was America’s “manifest destiny” to occupy North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. John Gast painted American Progress in 1872, capturing that spirit. Trains, wagons, farmers, miners, the telegraph—all moved west in the late 19th century. What was progress to these pioneers, however, meant the end of the Indian way of life. GROWING PAINS AND GAINS

E This photograph of demonstrators marching in memory of African American youths killed in bombing was taken in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, at the height of the African American civil rights movement for equal rights. Images like this one alerted the nation to racial injustice in the United States. Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham for nonviolent protest. Below is an excerpt from a letter he wrote while in jail. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained. -Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

F During the 1960s, some American youth had a very free-spirited attitude. These young people expressed their disappointment in the tradition ways of life through their clothing, music, food, and transportation. THE SIXTIES

Can you think of other examples for these ideals? LIBERTY EQUALITY OPPORTUNITY DEMOCRACY RIGHTS

Examples 1. 2. 3. WRITE THEM ON THE BACK OF YOUR PAPER…

CHOOSE ONE OF THE 5 IDEAS. THINK ABOUT THIS QUESTION: HAS AMERICA LIVED UP TO THE IDEA OF ___________________________ SINCE OUR NATION WAS FOUNDED?

T E L THESIS STATEMENT Has America lived up to the idea of _________________? EXPLANATION SENTENCE What does that idea mean? ISTING SENTENCE If you were writing an essay, what would your major paragraphs be?

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