20/21 US Government-Period 2 Fall Assignments

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Pick a political issue you are passionate about. Select the representative who will have the greatest impact helping you to make a difference on this issue. Submit your issue and represitive today 10/26. Then write a form letter about your issue. This letter is due Wednesday 10/28. I will provide envelopes, stamps, and print your letter.

Use the following links or google to find the names of the people who represent you, their contact information (phone, email, and address) and job description. Complete the following list. Create a google sheet with the answers and submit in this assignment.
US Congressional District
TX House District
TX Senate District
State Board of Education District
County
Mayor
City Council Members/ Aldermen
School Board Members
County Precinct Commissioner
County Judge
County Clerk
County Tax Assessor
County Sheriff
County Treasurer
State Representative
State Senator
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Attorney General
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Commissioner of General Land Office
Commissioner of Agriculture
Commissioner, Railroad Commission of Texas
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Texas Supreme Court Justices
US Representative
US Senators
Supreme Court Justices
Vice Presedent
President

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Click the link below. Enter your address. On the next page select "Research Ballot". Go through each of the candidates and their political views to determine which ones align most closely with your own political views. Add them to your ballot. At the end you can save your ballot to use when you go vote by clicking "print" and selecting "save as a pdf". Then create a google doc with the answers to the following questions. After answering submit your doc in this assignmnet.

1) With which political party do you most align?
2) How many positions are up for election on your ballot?
3) Which candidate's statement was most surprising or appealing to you? What was the statement, who was the candidate, and what position are they running for?

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Todays coursework is on Edgenuity. Your username and password is the same as your Google accounts. https://student.edgenuity.com/

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If you would like to correct your test, create a google doc that includes the questions you missed with the correct answer. Submit doc in google classroom. Corrections must be submitted today or you will not receive credit.

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Today we remember the events of 9/11 and the thousands that lost their lives in this horrific terrorist attack. I have linked several resources to help you better understand the magnitude of the events of that day and also how our lives as Americans have changed in the last 19 years. If you can, watch the memorial. Read the article for the Columbus Dispatch. Browse the 9/11 Museum website. If you really want to dig deep I have linked the 9/11 Commission Report. I don't expect you to read the whole thing. Answer the following questions in a google doc and submit in this assignment in google classroom.

1. What do you know about the attacks on September 11, 2001?
2. How have policies of the U.S. and other countries’ governments changed since 9/11? What about cultural changes? What are ways the world has changed that are not discussed in the story?
3. Why is it important to understand how 9/11 affected the U.S. and much of the world?
4. Why do you think family members of those lost on 9/11 participate in memorial events, including reading the names of the deceased?

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1. What is federalism?
2. How did the Framers plan to resolve conflicts that might arise between states and the national government?
3. Thinking back to last year in US History, what was federalism's role in the Great Depression?

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We will be watching the linked video over the next 3 days. Each day I will post an exit ticket with questions from the portion we watched. We will watch about 40 min per day. A remastered version of the film is available on Amazon Prime if you have a subscription.

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Founding Father – individual who played a major role in declaring colonial independence, fighting the Revolutionary War, or writing and adopting the U.S. Constitution

John Adams – served in 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, led the debate that ratified the Declaration of Independence, served as vice president for eight years under George Washington, and was elected the 2nd president of the United States in 1796. It is significant to note that he was not elected vice president; rather, he received the second most votes in the presidential election of 1788.

Alexander Hamilton – a New York delegate to the Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. He was a leading Federalist, favored strong central government, and helped write the Federalist Papers. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury, during which time he established the Mint and the National Bank. He believed in a loose interpretation of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson – third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. He was an Anti-Federalist and supported a strong Bill of Rights. His opposition to a strong central government led to the creation of the first political parties. He was also a delegate to the Continental Congress. He did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was the first Secretary of State, taking Benjamin Franklin’s place as Minister to France; he approved the Louisiana Purchase.

James Madison – called the “Father of the Constitution” since his work was essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution. One of the authors of the Federalist Papers, he supported a strong central government. He also wrote the first 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which were ratified as the Bill of Rights. He was the fourth president of the United States.

John Jay – served as Ambassador to Spain and France during and after the American Revolution, helping to shape foreign policy and securing favorable peace terms with the British. He was President of the Continental Congress from 1778-1779 and 1789-1795 and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He co-wrote the Federalist Papers with Hamilton and Madison, warning in four of the articles of the dangers of “foreign force and influence” on a weak central government. As Chief Justice, he established the precedent that the Court does not take positions on legislation as it is being considered when he declined a request from Alexander Hamilton to endorse a law that would have assumed the debts of the states.

George Mason – known as the “Father of the Bill of Rights,” he was a delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention. He was the leader of those who pressed the Convention for a clear statement protecting the rights of states’ and individuals from the powerful central government; when none was included in the original document, he refused to sign it. His efforts resulted in the addition of the Bill of Rights by the first Congress, based on the earlier Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored by Mason. His Virginia Declaration of Rights was also a model for the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted in 1789.

Roger Sherman – one member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence and also helped write the Articles of Confederation. A delegate from Connecticut to the Constitutional Convention who favored protection of states’ rights, he offered what came to be called the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise, which broke the stalemate between large and small states over state representation in the new Congress. His compromise proposed the current two-house legislative body, with all states represented equally in the Senate and by population in the House of Representatives. He also supported electing the President by an Electoral College.

James Wilson – signer of the Declaration of Independence and twice elected to the Continental Congress, and was one of the most prominent legal scholars among the Founders. At the Constitutional Convention, he wanted representatives in Congress to be elected by popular vote. He proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise which counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person in determining how many representatives a state would be allotted in the House of Representatives, thus breaking a deadlock between slave and free states. He later served as one of the first Justices on the new Supreme Court.

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