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Economic -Document
Based Questions
CSI-R Model for Reading ->
Writing
Content: What content do you want to teach?
The Age of Jackson:Was Andrew Jackson right to declare war on the Bank of the United States?
Standards/Skills/Strategies: What literacy standards, skills, or strategies will you use help students learn the content.
SS.8.A.4.16 – Identify key ideas and influences of Jacksoniandemocracy.
Investigate: Immerse the students within a lesson where they investigate to find evidence to answer the question.
Report: Show what you know (DBQ Essay.)
Pre-Organizing
Using any clues from the EBQ question and the document titles on the
cover page, guess the analytical categories and label the money bags
or gold bocks.
The Age of Jackson:
Was Andrew Jackson right to declare war
on the Bank of the United States?
Overview: “Old Hickory” Jackson’s belief in a strong presidency paralleled his own strong will. He received the nickname of Old Hickory during the War of 1812. Jackson’s belief in a strong presidency made him both loved and hated. He vetoed as many bills as the six previous presidents together. Jackson also believed in a strong Union.
Hook Exercise:
Examine the political cartoon.
Background Essay
Document A
Source:
An 1833 lithograph entered by Endicott & Swett, New York
Document BSource: James D. Richardson, ed., A
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents, 1787-1897 (Washington, D.C.,
1896), 2: pp. 576-591.
Document B- P. 2
Document B- P. 3
Document C
Source:
Set to Between Old Hickory and Bully Nick , : Unknown, 1834. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Cartoon Prints, American
Document D
Source: The Doctors puzzled or the Desperate case of Mother U.S. Bank, New York : Published and for sale wholesale and retail by Anthony Imbert at his Caricature Store, 1833.
Thesis Development
On the scales above, write your thesis and weigh your
options for your outline. Your thesis is always an opinion
and answers the EBQ. The outline is created from your
money bag/gold block organizer labels and lists the topic
areas you will examine in order to support your thesis.
Response…
Was Andrew Jackson right to declare war
on the Bank of the United States?
Which of your arguments has the most support?
Have you weighed both arguments?