Online Articles for Unit I B:
Why Did the Colonists Fight When They Were Safe, Prosperous, and Free? Mark C. Schug (Skip first three paragraphs.) http://www.beyond-the-book.com/strategies/strategies_041807.html
The Declaration of Independence in World Context, David Armitage, OAH Magazine, April, 2004: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/34411.html
Democracy as a Civic Challenge, H. Michael Hartoonian and Don H. Bragaw, on pages 179-185 of The Democratic Process: Promises and Challenges. Go to: http://www.globaled.org/DemProcess.pdf Read only pages 179 to 185.
The Measurement That Built America, Andro Linklater, American Heritage, Nov/Dec 2002 http://www.americanheritage.com/content/measurement-built-america
Online Podcast for Unit I B:
Podcast: Carol Berkin: The Role of Women in the Revolutionary War: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/era_founding.php
Online Notes for Unit I B:
The Path to Revolution
Constitution Notes
Unit IB Essay Questions
Reading for Interest:
New Book: Ellis, Joseph J. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic. Knopf. 2007. Book review by Dan Danborn, Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 16, 2007, pg. 35: Ellis sees the founding of the United States not so much as a series of events but as a 28-year period from the start of the War for Independence (1775), which set in motion the political and philosophical machinations that would define our future, to the Louisiana Purchase (1803), which set in place a kind of geographical imperative that would have as much incluence on how we saw ourselves as any other event.
Original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence at: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt001.html
Websites of Interest for Unit 1B:
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS): http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/boundaries/a_plss.html
Avalon Project at Yale Law School offers documents from U.S. History (Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist Papers): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/18th.asp
http://www.qaronline.org/ (Underwater archaeological project on the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge)
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/portroyal/PRhist.htm (Archaeological excavation of Port Royal, Jamaica, the notorious pirate’s haven destroyed by an earthquake in 1692)
Assess your learning by taking an online quiz provided by the Gilder Lehrman Organization: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/quiz_pop1.html