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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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A Social and Political Portrait of the New Republic First federal census compiled in 1790 counted about 4,000,000 people divided evenly b/w the northern and southern states Population Growth Almost doubled every 22 years, Am white women averaged 8 kids Subsistence and Commercial Economies Most rural Ams practiced sub. Ag, farmers depended on neighbors to help clear fields, build homes, and harvest crops- family surplus was exchanged locally rather than sold in distant markets Indian Economies Indian economies also based primarily on subsistence and fishing/hunting The Constitution and Commerce Fight over ratification of the Const. rep?d a struggle b/w the commercial and subsistence-oriented elements of Am society Washington Organizes the Government

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Republican Experiments After Independence Am?s best pol minds turned to drawing up constitutions for individual states Belief In the Need for Small Republics The state constitutions were crucial republican experiments. All the revolutionaries agreed that the people- not a king or a few privileged aristocrats- should rule. The State Constitutions The new state constitutions retained the basic form of their old colonial gov?ts, all except Georgia & Penn providing for a governor and a bicameral legislature. Curbing Executive Power To ensure popular liberty, the new states either accorded almost or no power to their gov?rs or abolished that office completely Strengthening Legislative Power

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