Mapping the Republic.
View a Map of North America (1825) from Tanner's World
Atlas (1825), on the
David Rumsey Maps website,
paying particular attention to how the Texas/Mexico/California border, the Oregon/Canada
border, and the Maine border differ from the
current
borders of the United States. Read the brief introduction to the
history of the
U.S. Rectangular Survey (and optionally their
explanation of the survey's mechanics and the Louisiana modification on the
National Atlas of the United States website.
Members of the RED group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
SHDB Top Events Posting.
Please finish posting your "top" events to the
SHDB at Furman before class.
Note: We will meet in a computer lab (Language Resource Center) today
Evaluating Coverage and Causation.
Please run through the
Event Relationship Ranking Tool at least once for each of your assigned
years before you come to class today.
Note: We will meet in a computer lab (Language Resource Center) today
Members of the GREEN group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
Grassroots Politics and Jacksonian Leadership.
Read Ayers, American Passages, Chapter 10: Years of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836.
Use the
SHDB search tool
to produce a list of all events in our database from these same years. How
closely does our list match the events and topics described in the textbook? What
patterns and relationships does the SHDB show that are not revealed in the text?
Is there any significance to the geographic patterns shown on the SHDB results map?
What are the comparative strengths and weaknesses of the textbook account versus the
SHDB?
Members of the BLUE group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
The Second Party System as a Problem in Space and
Times.
Read the Encyclopedia Britannica's biographies of
F.J. Turner and
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..
Analyze the maps of
County-Level Congressional Voting, 1840-1852.
Look at
the patterns of Whig strength. (You may find it helpful to step through the
sequence of maps several times, looking at one particular state or sub-region
at a time.) Do these areas of Whig dominance bear any relationship to major waterways,
major cities, areas of industrialization, or areas of agricultural development?
Judging from the maps, were the Whigs more popular in one region of the U.S.
than another? Did that balance change over time?
Your revised list of SHDB "top" events will need to be posted to the database before class time today.
Members of the PURPLE group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
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