This teaching unit is designed to supplement your students' study of the United States Constitution.
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government includes a booklet containing a teachers guide, a set of reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets and digital images of original documents. The documents in this unit are organized under three broad categories, with a total of 20 exercises. "The Making of the Constitution" provides a historical sequence toward the modern Constitution, commencing with the Articles of Association and concluding with one of the most recent amendments to the Constitution, the 26th. "The Beginning of a Government" includes three subsections: Organizing the New Government, Problems Confronting the New Government, and Challenges to the New Government. "The Evolution of a Constitutional Issue" examines the relationship of church and state through study of the religion clause of the First Amendment.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
World War I: The Home Front
The 1920's
The Great Depression and The New Deal
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961
