This Week:
HATCHED! - Launching a New Nation [1789-1800] - continued"No, no, not a sixpence!"
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
United States Minister to France
John Adams had to stare down the French during the X,Y,Z Affair, an unfortunate "misunderstanding" between the French Foreign Minister, Charles Talleyrand, and our envoy - we Americans do not bribe other nations to stop treating us unjustly!United States Minister to France
But it showed we were hatching out of the egg! We were establishing ourselves as a real-live nation!...and the world was watching...
But back at home...
Thomas Jefferson came to the White House with some different ideas about DEMOCRACY that would change us - and bring, yet, more power back to the people - what our Founding Fathers originally wished in the Constitution.
This week we will be introduced to the author of our Declaration of Independence and his expansion of our nation - the Louisiana Purchase!
Keep reviewing the first 33 PRESIDENTS! - make sure you know their names (first and last)!
Remember to go over the "5s" - George, James, John, James, James, William, Calvin . . .
You can also use the PRESIDENT MAP, if that helps you too...
Here's the PRESIDENTIAL RAP song, it that helps...
Here's the sheet if you need it again.
# 20 - Jefferson - is due next Monday.
- READING #20
- QUESTIONS - REMEMBER read the text FIRST!!!
If you want to work ahead click here for the next reading link, and here for the next questions link. READ THE READING before you complete the questions.
We will start analyzing our FOURTH EXPEDITION REGION...the NORTHERN PLAINS...you will receive new Mission Report Sheets to prepare...
KELVIN REPORT!
So WHAT is He and WHERE is He? Do you know yet?
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