Political Parties Assignments
Mr. Burris' students can easily access their late/overdue video essay assignments for prior to Spring Break by viewing the assignments provided below on their home computer, laptop, or cell phone. Once you have viewed the video write your essay and send it to Mr Burris at burrich@tulsaschools.org to grade and record on PowerSchool. He recommends you use Microsoft Word for your essays and send them in a .pdf format.
If you send your essay to me as a Google Document please be sure to give me permission to access or open the Document so I can read, grade and record it on Power School.
Compose essays only on the assignments listed below.
Watch Video -- Introduction: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
Watch Video -- Election Basics: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
Watch Video -- Political Ideology: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
Watch Video -- Party Systems: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
Read online article -- Critical Elections or Political Realignment
Video Essay: Marbury v. Madison (1 page essay)
Marbury v. Madison -- This is perhaps the most important case ever argued before the United States Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in this controversial case established the doctrine of judicial review, the power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
Read online article -- First Party System
Read online article -- Second Party System
Video Essay: Race For The White House: 1828 Andrew Jackson versus John Quincy Adams (1 page essay)
Read the following online articles on my MHS webpage and answer the following essay questions:
Articles:
Murray N. Rothbard, The Transformation of the American Party System;
Joel H. Silbey, "Let the People See": Reflections on Ethnoreligious Forces in American Politics;
Richard Jensen, Religion, Morality, and American Politics
Essay Questions:
1. What is “the new political history” of 19th-century American politics and its political culture? Why is it different than earlier examinations of politics?
2. Why do these historians and political analysts characterize political parties of the 19th century as “political churches?”
3. What ethnoreligious and ethnocultural groups made up the Whig Party, and later the Republican Party?
4. What ethnoreligious and ethnocultural groups made up the Democratic Party?
5. What did the post-millennial pietist Protestant evangelicals believe? To which party did these people belong? Why?
6. What did the anti-pietist liturgicals believe? To which party did these people belong? Why?
7. Why was intense party loyalty so strong in 19th century politics?
8. A Republican Protestant minister in a speech attacked the Democratic Party as the party “of Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.” What did he mean by this attack?
9. Why did the critical election of 1860 prove important to establishing a Third Party System? Why did the critical election of 1896 prove important to establishing a Fourth Party System?
Read online article -- Third Party System
Video Essay: Race For The White House: 1860 Abraham Lincoln versus Stephen Douglas (1 page essay)
Video Essay: The Real Lincoln (4 page essay on new facts learned concerning Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party)
Video Essay: Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White -- A Primer on African American Political History (1 page essay each on Parts 1 and 2)
Read The Progressive Era and the Family, by Murray N. Rothbard
Read Walter Karp -- Book Excerpt 1
Read online article -- Fourth Party System
Video Essay: The Great McGinty (2 page essay on the urban political machine)
Read online article -- Fifth Party System
Video Essay: Race For The White House: 1948 Harry Truman versus Thomas Dewey (1 page essay)
Video Essay: Discussion of the 1952 Presidential Election with Presidential Scholar John Robert Greene (1 page essay)
John Robert Greene talked about the 1952 presidential election between Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, as well as the introduction and impact of television political ads.
Video Essay: The Last Hurrah (2 page essay on how urban machine politics were affected by television)
Video Essay: Race For The White House: 1960 John Kennedy versus Richard Nixon (1 page essay)
Video Essay: JFK Remembered (1 page essay)
Discuss the personality and presidential policies of the administration of John F. Kennedy. This ABC News documentary, narrated by Peter Jennings, presents "the Good JFK."
Video Essay: Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years (2 page essay)
This ABC News documentary, Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years, narrated by Peter Jennings, presents "the Bad JFK."
Video Essay -- JFK: A President Betrayed (2 page essay)
Video Essay: JFK Assassination (1 page essay)
What were the details regarding the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas according to the Warren Commission Report?