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One day, there a little boy and his 

father were hanging out in a small 

cottage.

The little boy was very obsessed with his 

phone, computer and television.

On that day, his father decided to take the boy 

to a museum. 

"Eli Whitney was a Famous American slave 

owner. He was the first person to invent 

anything American. His invention was the 

cotton gin. He also made the milling machine."

Then the father said, "Little Jimmy, Eli Whitney did not invent 

the cotton gin, he stole the design from his slave!"

"Wow, daddy. I did not know that. Thanks for telling me."

The two then continued onto the Embargo exhibit.

"The Embargo of 1807 helped America 

become self- sufficient. The British and 

the French governments decided that they 

would cut off all trade with America! The 

Americans, as awesome as they were, 

became self reliant and more productive 

in their efforts to have a successful 

economy."

Little Jimmy was so excited about this new 

information, that he was tweeting and 

SnapChatting his friends photos of the exhibit! 

The father then said, "Now, Jimmy, we are 

going to move onto the War of 1812. It is 

nothing like the video games that you play."

The curious Little Jimmy was very excited to see what was in store....

"Look, Jimmy! That's the 

exhibit for the War of 

1812! Do you know what 

this War's second name 

is?", the father asked.

Little Jimmy quickly took 

out his phone and 

searched it up. After a 

few seconds, he quickly 

replied, "Yes I do! It was 

called the Second War of 

American Independence.

War of 1812

The father responded, "Well done, Jimmy! The War of 1812 was 

a war between Britain and America. It was known as the 'Second 

War of Independence' because it lasted a long time. It was also 

called that because America was going up against the British 

navy, the strongest force on the 'seven seas'!"

Jimmy's dad was a smart man and did not need silly technology 

to learn about history.

Jimmy was so impressed, that now he began 

asking his father history questions.

"What was the Louisiana Purchase?", he asked 

rapidly.

"In 1803, America bought Louisiana from 

Napoleon, the emperor of France, for 4 cents 

per acre. Napoleon couldn't maintain an 

overseas empire and needed money to fund 

his military."

The father was doing very well explaining 

American history to Jimmy. So, he decided to 

continue on with his expression of knowledge. 

He then went on to tell Little Jimmy about the 

judicial branch of American and a few of the 

famous cases the Supreme Court had 

encountered.

The father talked about McCulloch v. Maryland 

first. He said, "Jimmy, I'm going to tell you 

about our Supreme Court and three very 

famous cases.

"McCulloch v. Maryland was about a how 

Maryland was imposing taxes on banks which 

weren't chartered by the state. McCulloch got 

angry and appealed to the Supreme Court. The 

ruling of the case was that states weren't 

allowed to control operations which were put in 

place by the Congress."

"Marbury v. Madison", he continued, "was about William 

Marbury not getting a letter of conformation for his 

presidentially appointed job as a justice of the peace. 

And lastly, Gibbons v. Ogden was regarding a ruling 

made by the Supreme Court stating that interstate 

commerce was to be regulated by congress."

Baffled by this information, Jimmy took to his phone 

again. He look up the similarities between these three 

and realized that Chief Justice Marshall stuck by the 

Constitution in all three cases, and stated that a lot of 

power resided with the Federal governments.

On their way home, both Little Jimmy and his father 

were talking about how the states came to be. Jimmy 

asked how Florida became an American state and how it 

was handed over by the Spanish.

"Well", the father began, "Florida was given to America 

by the the Spanish government around 1820. They 

declared this in a treaty known as the Adams- Onis 

Treaty. This treaty handed the territory of Florida to the 

Americans as well as establish a new southern border 

between New Spain (Mexico) and America.

"But that's not all", continued the father, "On 

December 2, 1823 we introduced the policy of 

Monroe Doctorine. The Monroe Doctorine said 

that if any european tried to colonize or 

interfere with any land in the Americas, it 

would be considered an act of aggression. 

Nowadays we call it our foreigen policy." 

"Wow that was cool", said little jimmy. "Well if you really 

want to know cool you should look at the old book in the 

attic."

One of America's 

most unifying 

moments was during 

Henry clays time. He 

established the tariff 

of 1816 which put a 

tax on any imported 

item. this would allow 

funding for 

infrastructure and 

schools, but at the 

same time make 

America independent 

because most 

this caused most 

Americans to make 

their own product 

rather then buying 

them which in term 

started our economy. 

This plan also created 

our very own bank of 

U.S. to preserve our 

currency and our state 

and local banks.

Chapter 2 American literature

"Nature" was a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In this text he talks about secluding yourself from 

society. When you are secluded from society you 

begin to notice more. Nature never wears a mean 

expression meaning that every time you look at 

nature you will find it calming and peaceful.You can 

pieces of nature but never the Whole thing. He 

then begins to speak of his experience with nature. 

However much we refuse to admit it we will always 

need nature. there will always be a balance in 

between man and nature.

The message that Emerson was trying to get 

across was that nature is the greatest thing there 

is if we open our mind to it. This can be inferred so 

because of the many time he referred to the stars. 

"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because 

though always present, they are inaccessible; but 

all natural objects make a kindred impression, 

when the mind is open to their influence." 

(Emerson). He is saying that we have to open our 

minds toward nature. During this time 

industrialization began and we had crowded cities 

and mentally closed our minds. He was trying to 

get people to find the hidden meaning in nature.  

Emerson's work relates to establishing nationalism 

because Transcendentalism(Emerson type of 

writing) because it is uniquely American. 

Transcendentalism began during the westward 

expansion. People were moving out west because 

of crowded cites and opportunities in the west. As 

people are moving out west they began to see 

more in nature the opportunities and the beauty. 

one of the core beliefs of transcendentalism is we 

aren't truly part of society until we are 

independent. moving out west there were no 

slaves or anything you would have to do 

everything yourselves be truly independent.  

Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The tide rises, the tide falls" was one of 

Longfellow's romantic pieces. The words "the tide 

rises the tide falls" represents the never ending 

cycling of nature. Nature's vastness was also 

represented by using the ocean. The ocean almost 

seems as though it is never ending and it power is 

truly unmatched.The footprint represents man, we 

can leave over "footprint" anywhere but nature will 

wash it away. The traveler that left the footprint 

never returned.

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