HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com

1. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com

2. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Entire Course (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and Political Traditions • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention of 1787 • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal Government • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead • HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and Reconstruction • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives

3. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 1 English Politics and Political Traditions • History - General History • English Politics and Political Traditions • Americans often imagine that their political institutions and principles are unique and unheralded; yet, many of them might be traced back to the heritage of England at the time the colonies were first formed, and over the course of the colonial period as English political institutions evolved

4. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 1 DQ 2 The Constitutional Convention of 1787 • History - General History • The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Americans today generally revere the Constitution and appeal to it as an impeccable authority on current events (even when the Americans in question have never closely read the Constitution). However, when the Constitution was first presented to the American people, many of them opposed it and the nation almost did not ratify it

5. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal Government (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 1 Powers of the Federal Government • History - General History • Powers of the Federal Government. Many Americans today believe the federal government has acquired too much power, size, and influence in the nation’s domestic affairs. Throughout U.S. history, a tension has existed regarding what powers the federal government can assume and what powers should be left to the states. Review the text of the Constitution for evidence about the relationship

6. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 2 DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead • History - General History • DQ 2 A Symbolic Figurehead. Americans tend to pay more attention to the president than to any other government official, blaming him when things go wrong, even in areas over which the president has little control, and crediting him with successes which stem from the legislature instead of the executive. In many ways, the president serves as a symbolic figurehead of both

7. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 2 Early Constitutional Controversies • History - General History • Early Constitutional Controversies. In 1788, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, who had both played active roles at the Constitutional Convention, worked together to write The Federalist Papers, a series of articles originally published in New York newspapers to convince readers to back the ratification of the Constitution. Constitutional scholars often refer to these papers

8. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and Reconstruction (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 1 The Constitution and Reconstruction • History - General History • The Constitution and Reconstruction. A common misconception about the end of the Civil War is that, after ending slavery, the federal government did nothing to assist former slaves. In fact, the Constitution itself was substantially altered to define the rights of Americans and to allow the federal government to protect those rights. Review the contents of the Fourteenth

9. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Populists and Progressives • History - General History • Populists and Progressives. According to much populist rhetoric since the 1980s, the federal government is too active in domestic affairs, particularly the economy. Yet, a century earlier, the Populists and Progressives a agitated to have the federal government intervene more actively in domestic affairs. Explain why many Americans during this period from 1880 to 1930

10. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 3 Supreme Court Decision • History - General History • Supreme Court Decision. The judiciary is one of the three branches involved in the “checks and balances” associated with the U.S. government under the Constitution. It is also the branch over which the American people have the least direct control

11. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 1 The New Deal (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 1 The New Deal • History - General History • The New Deal. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal greatly expanded the federal government’s role in the country’s domestic and economic affairs, which led to a long-running constitutional crisis in the 1930s that remains controversial to this day. Although the Supreme Court threw out several New Deal programs, others survived and laid the foundation for later developments over the next three decades.

12. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 2 The Bill of Rights (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 4 DQ 2 The Bill of Rights • History - General History • The Bill of Rights. After the Preamble, The Bill of Rights is probably the most famous section of the Constitution, but is often imperfectly understood. For instance, the Bill of Rights initially served only to limit the actions of the federal government, and did not protect citizens from the actions of state governments (as affirmed in the 1833 Supreme Court case

13. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative Constitutionalism (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 1 Conservative Constitutionalism • History - General History • Conservative Constitutionalism. Historians sometimes speak of the “Reagan Revolution” that occurred after Ronald Reagan became president in 1981. This revolution represented a conservative backlash against the liberalism of the first half of the twentieth century

14. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Expansion of Executive Power (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 5 DQ 2 Expansion of Executive Power • History - General History • Expansion of Executive Power. Classical republican philosophy warned against the expansion of executive power, and throughout U.S. history, critics have assailed presidents—from Washington, to Jackson, to Lincoln, and beyond—for allegedly abusing their power in tyrannical ways. These fears arguably peaked during the Cold War, when foreign policy

15. HIS 303 Innovative Educator/his303.com HIS 303 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.his303.com • HIS 303 Week 5 Final Paper • History - General History • Final Paper • From the time the Constitution was ratified, Americans have disagreed over its meaning and the extent of the powers it gave to different branches and reserved to the states and the people. Since the Constitution took effect, it has been amended several times and

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