Ready for Assessment? January 12, 2016

In the interest of saving paper, I'm going to post information about our assessment here:

The assessment is OPEN NOTE.  You can bring whatever you have made for your mini-assessments to class, and you can bring any notes you may have taken along the way. You may NOT bring the Northwest Territory handout or any other handouts or readings, however, so it may be worth taking some notes if you're unsure of yourself.

WHAT STANDARD ARE WE ASSESSING?

I can explain why our first form of national government was not effective.

WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW/BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN?

• Articles of Confederation  - how did it set up our government?  What did it accomplish?  Why didn't it work very well?
• Shays' Rebellion - why were Shays and his followers upset?  How were the causes of Shays' Rebellion linked to the Articles of Confederation?  How did the rebellion turn out?
• Northwest Territories - what were the unique rights given to the settlers of the Northwest Territory? Why was the fact that they had those rights important?

WHAT AM I GOING TO BE ASKED TO DO?

You will get three questions to answer in class.  Each question can be answered in about a paragraph. Each question has an extension option that you can choose to answer or not.

RESOURCES
Books:
Creating America - pp 222-227
We The People - 93-100
We the People Reading
Creating America Reading

Videos:
History.com - Shays' Rebellion
Part of the video we watched last week.

Articles of Confederation - longer/higher level

The Northwest Territories - you're better off reviewing the reading, honestly.

Articles on the Interwebs:
Daniel Shays
Articles of Confederation