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?