Lesson Plan: Colloquium III "Creating a Nation"

Ms. Kaye Williamson
John Jefferson Middle School
Columbia, Mississippi

UNIT IN WHICH THE LESSON WILL/COULD BE INCLUDED:

The Age of Jefferson: Overseas Threats

MISSISSIPPI CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK COMPETENCY, Eighth Grade:

2b. Examine the development of rights and responsibilities established through historical documents.

4g. Analyze information using social studies tools. (map)

7. Examine the interaction of governments and the potential costs and benefits to the US economy.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

How does historical evidence explain:

1. how overseas trade grew in the late 1700's?
2. how war in Europe hurt American trade?
3. why the Embargo Act failed?

People: Thomas Jefferson, Stephen Decatur

Events: Embargo Act, Nonintercourse Act

Places:Barbary States

Key terms, dates, etc.: impressment, embargo, smuggler, 1801-1809

HISTORICAL CONCEPTS AND THEMES

• relating past to present
• interpreting historical and present day maps
• analyzing visual sources such as maps
• understanding the relationship between geography and history

Books/Periodicals: James West Davidson, American Journey the Quest for Liberty to 1877 Jesu Garcia, Lorna Mason, Frances Powell, C. Frederick Risinger, America's Past and Present

STUDENT RESOURCES:
Web Sites:

The Library of Congress Learning Page

National History Day

Our Documents

Infoplease

James West Davidson and Kathleen Underwood, American Journey the Quest for Liberty to 1877
Scott O'Dell, Sarah Bishop
Jeffery Morris, The Jefferson Way
Rebecca Stefoff, Thomas Jefferson
Vincent Sheean, Thomas Jefferson
Helen Alkbee Monsell, Thomas Jefferson
Earl S. Miers, Thomas Jefferson

INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Individual students will be asked to go to the world map and locate Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, and Morocco. The teacher will review how this is the same area known as the Barbary Coast in the early 1800's. The teacher led discussion will be on the American shipping practices during the presidencies of Washington and Adams, trading around the world, war with Tripoli, American neutrality and how it was violated, and limits on trading. (This discussion will follow the text. From an earlier assignment students should have read the section.) After the discussion, students will be asked to draw a cartoon showing how an embargo might affect their lives. Cartoons will be discussed after completion.