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5,000 Year Leap

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Lesson 27:  Principle 28 - The Founders’ Sense of Manifest Destiny

Reading Assignment:

The Five Thousand Year Leap:

28th Principle: The Founders’ Sense of Manifest Destiny (pages 305-10)

Lesson objectives:
As a result of this lesson, the student should be able to discuss the following questions/topics:

1.  According to most historians, what outstanding feature was common to early Americans? Can you give an example? (Pages 305-6)
2.  Can you provide evidence that the founders regarded themselves and their countrymen as master servants rather than a master race? (306-7)
3.  What crime did John Adams say Americans would be guilty of if they abandoned freedom? (307)
4.  What were John Jay’s reasons for believing that America had been the recipient of God’s blessings? (307-8)
5.  What events seemed to prove the accuracy of Jay’s assessment? (309)
6.  How did James Madison characterize the uniqueness of the American experiment? (309-10)



Quiz - Lesson 27
Principle 28

1.  Give the two meanings of “manifest destiny”.
2.  John Adams felt the settlement of America was part of the grand design of ____________.
3.  John Adams said if America abandoned freedom under the Constitution, it would be _________________ against the hopes of the world.
4.  Give two things that impresses John Jay about the geography of America.
5.  James Madison said the whole ______________ will benefit by what the Founders did in America.
6.  Madison said future generation must ____________ and ______________ what they gave us.
7.  Write the 28th Principle of Liberty.

 

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Lesson 29: The Money System

Reading Assignment:

The Making of America, pages 419-426
Pre-lesson questions for homework study and review:
1.  How did the founders feel about the suggestion to authorize the federal government to “emit bills of credit”? (Pages 420-21)
2.  Describe the origin of the dollar sign ($), the word dollar, and the word bits. (422)
3.  What three monetary policies had already been established by the U.S. government before the Constitution was adopted? (422)
4.  Name five constitutional provisions regarding money that reflect these preexisting policies. (422-23)
5.  Explain some major provisions of the Coinage Act of 1792. (423)
6.  Define the two kinds of paper currency. (423-24)
7.  What are the advantages of paper currency? Who was expected to issue paper currency? By 1798, what lessons had been learned about who should issue paper currency? (424)
8.  Describe the American monetary system from the Civil War period until the year 1913. (424)
9.  Describe the changes in U.S. monetary policy between 1913, when the Federal Reserve System was adopted, and the year 1973. (425-26)



Quiz - Lesson 29

1.  What does “emit bills of credit” mean?
2.  Did the final version of the Constitution give the power to Congress to emit bill of credit?
3.  What experience taught the founders the dangers of paper money?
4.  It was felt that the people would regain their confidence in American money if the Congress authorized the issues of only ________ and ________ coins as legal tender.  In other words the U. S. would always be on a _______ and _________ standard.
5.  Where does the word “dollar” come from?
6.  What monetary unit formed the basis of our monetary system?
7.  When change was to be made, it was cut into eight ____________.
8.  What is the origin of the “$” sign?
9.  How many grains of silver make up the official dollar?
10. This all led the Founders to conclude that the American monetary system must always be on a ___________ and ___________ standard.
11. In 1792, the _____________ Act was passed to delineate the different coins to be minted.
12. Name two coins of gold and two coins of silver.
13. What privilege did the Coinage Act grant to all citizens with regards to gold and silver they might have.
14. In 1913, Congress turned the management of the nation’s money system over to the _____________  ________________  _______________.
15. How did this violate the Constitution?
16. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt informed the American people they could no longer ____________ their paper money for ______________________.
17. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson  informed the American people they could no longer _____________their paper money for _____________________.