Amerikanische Menschenrechte und Verfassung

Die dreizehn britischen Kolonien in Nordamerika, erklärten am 4. Juli 1776 ihre Unabhängigkeit vom Mutterland – mit der Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Im Video erzählt dir Mirko in vier Schritten, wie es dazu gekommen ist.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In diesem Video geht es um die Verfassung der USA und den darauf folgenden Bürgerkrieg.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

Tee für die Fische: Am 16. Dezember 1773 kippen aufgebrachte Amerikaner mehr als 300 Kisten Tee in das Hafenbecken von Boston. Ein Aufstand gegen die Steuerpolitik der britischen Kolonialmacht.

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Geschichte

Primarstufe, Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

Erklärvideo rund um die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1787).

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II, Hochschule, Fernunterricht

Die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ist das Grundgesetz der ersten modernen Demokratie der Welt, die noch bis heute gilt. Sie wurde am 17. September 1787 von George Washington und den Gründervätern unterzeichnet. Mirko erzählt dir, welche die drei Säulen der Regierung sind und wie sie funktionieren.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. The Revolution did not start on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War didn’t start on July 4 either. (as you remember, I’m sure, the Revolution and the Revolutionary War are not the same thing) The shooting started on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and/or Concord, MA. Or the shooting started with the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. At least we can pin down the Declaration of Independence to July 4, 1776. Except that most of the signers didn’t sign until August 2. The point is that the beginning of the Revolution is very complex and hard to pin down. John will lead you through the bramble of taxes, royal decrees, acts of parliament, colonial responses, and various congresses. We’ll start with the end of the Seven Years War, and the bill that the British ran up fighting the war. This led to taxes on colonial trade, which led to colonists demanding representation, which led to revolution. It all seems very complicated, but Crash Course will get you through it in about 12 minutes.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution. And the Revolutionary War. I know we’ve labored the point here, but they weren’t the same thing. In any case, John will teach you about the major battles of the war, and discuss the strategies on both sides. Everyone is familiar with how this war played out for the Founding Fathers; they got to become the Founding Fathers. But what did the revolution mean to the common people in the United States? For white, property-owning males, it was pretty sweet. They gained rights that were a definite step up from being British Colonial citizens. For everyone else, the short-term gains were not clear. Women’s rights were unaffected, and slaves remained in slavery. As for poor white folks, they remained poor and disenfranchised. The reality is it took a long time for this whole democracy thing to get underway, and the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness weren’t immediately available to all these newly minted Americans.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through its war with England, they weren’t of much use when it came to running a country. So, the founding fathers decided try their hand at nation-building, and they created the Constitution of the United States, which you may remember as the one that says We The People at the top. John will tell you how the convention came together, some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and why it’s very lucky that the framers installed a somewhat reasonable process for making changes to the thing. You’ll learn about Shays’ Rebellion, the Federalist Papers, the elite vs rabble dynamic of the houses of congress, and start to find out just what an anti-federalist is.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green teaches you where American politicians come from. In the beginning, soon after the US constitution was adopted, politics were pretty non-existent. George Washington was elected president with no opposition, everything was new and exciting, and everyone just got along. For several months. Then the contentious debate about the nature of the United States began, and it continues to this day. Washington and his lackey/handler Alexander Hamilton pursued an elitist program of federalism. They attempted to strengthen the central government, create a strong nation-state, and leave less of the governance to the states, They wanted to create debt, encourage manufacturing, and really modernize the new nation/ The opposition, creatively known as the anti-federalists, wanted to build some kind of agrarian pseudo-paradise where every (white) man could have his own farm, and live a free, self-reliant life. The founding father who epitomized this view was Thomas Jefferson. By the time Adams became president, the anti-federalists had gotten the memo about how alienating a name like anti-federalist can be. It’s so much more appealing to voters if your party is for something rather than being defined by what you’re against, you know? In any case, Jefferson and his acolytes changed their name to the Democratic-Republican Party, which covered a lot of bases, and proceeded to protest nearly everything Adams did. Lest you think this week is all boring politics,you’ll be thrilled to hear this episode has a Whiskey Rebellion, a Quasi-War, anti-French sentiment, some controversial treaties, and something called the XYZ Affair, which sounds very exciting. Learn all about it this week with John Green.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

In which John Green teaches you about founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is a somewhat controversial figure in American history, largely because he, like pretty much all humans, was a big bundle of contradictions. Jefferson was a slave-owner who couldn’t decide if he liked slavery. He advocated for small government, but expanded federal power more than either of his presidential predecessor. He also idealized the independent farmer and demonized manufacturing, but put policies in place that would expand industrial production in the US. Controversy may ensue as we try to deviate a bit from the standard hagiography/slander story that usually told about old TJ. John explores Jefferson’s election, his policies, and some of the new nation’s (literally and figuratively) formative events that took place during Jefferson’s presidency. In addition to all this, Napoleon drops in to sell Louisiana, John Marshall sets the course of the Supreme Court, and John Adams gets called a tiny tyrant.

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Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

Deutschlandfunk Nova Podcast über die Unabhängigkeitserklärung der USA. Die Unabhängigkeitserklärung der USA war Abrechnung mit den Vergehen der britischen Krone und Deklaration von Werten des menschlichen Zusammenlebens.

Sekundarstufe II, Hochschule

OER

In einem interaktiven Zeitstrahl werden die wichtigsten Ereignisse bis zur Amerikanischen Verfassung in kurzen Texten und mit Bildern dargestellt.

Bild, Unterrichtsbaustein/-reihe

Geschichte, Politik

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

OER

The Declaration of Independence, mainly drafted by Thomas Jefferson, was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation – the United States of America. What were the central points that Jefferson wanted to make?

Unterrichtsbaustein/-reihe

Geschichte, Ethik

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

OER

Until 1763, the British government had interfered very little with the internal affairs of its thirteen North American colonies. The relationship between the American colonies and their English mother country changed, however, after the French and Indian War in which France lost the colony of Louisiana and the territories east of the Mississippi River. Can the year 1763 be considered as a turning point in American colonial history?

Unterrichtsbaustein/-reihe

Geschichte, Informatik

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

OER

Since the Stamp Act of 1765, the British colonists in North America had rejected several taxes and tariffs which the British government had tried to impose. A central argument of the protesting colonists was that they could not decide about their own taxes, as they were not directly represented in the British Parliament – “no taxation without representation” became their slogan. As a result, new taxes were often met with protests, boycotts and …

Unterrichtsbaustein/-reihe

Geschichte, Informatik

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

OER

Klassenmodul rund um den Revolutionary War.

Unterrichtsidee

Geschichte

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II

OER

American Constitution, 1787: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Unterrichtsbaustein/-reihe

Geschichte, Arbeitslehre

Sekundarstufe I, Sekundarstufe II