Week 11 (May 26 - May 29)
Notes
Textbook Reading
Assignment - Music and the Vietnam War
Textbook Reading
- Read the chapter on the 1960s in the online textbook, The American Yawp.
Assignment - Music and the Vietnam War
- Complete the activity, Musical Reactions to the Vietnam War. Submit on Google Classroom.
- Watch the following video documentary for the lesson - Soundtracks: The Vietnam War
Week 10 (May 18 - May 22)
Notes
Textbook Reading
Assignment - Segregation Today
Textbook Reading
- Read the chapter on the 1950s in the online textbook, The American Yawp.
Assignment - Segregation Today
- Complete ONE of the first four activities from the New York Times education piece, "Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality." Submit on Google Classroom.
- Watch the video A Time for Justice and complete this worksheet. Submit worksheet on Google Classroom
Week 9 (May 11 - May 15)
IMPORTANT AP EXAM LINKS
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
2. How did the United States become involved in World War I? What impact did US entry have on the American homefront?
3. In what ways did the United States retreat into isolationism after World War I?
4. What were the successes and limits of Progressive Era domestic reform?
5. Discuss fully and provide examples of the tension between tradition and modernity that characterized the 1920s.
6. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
7. How did FDR transform the strength and scope of the federal government during the Great Depression?
8. Was the New Deal a success? Provide examples.
9. Discuss the United States government's road from neutrality to intervention during World War II.
10. How did World War II transform the United States?
DBQ Review Assignment
Review Materials
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Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
- Read/skim Chapters 20-25 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 408-540) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each). Submit on Google Classroom.
2. How did the United States become involved in World War I? What impact did US entry have on the American homefront?
3. In what ways did the United States retreat into isolationism after World War I?
4. What were the successes and limits of Progressive Era domestic reform?
5. Discuss fully and provide examples of the tension between tradition and modernity that characterized the 1920s.
6. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
7. How did FDR transform the strength and scope of the federal government during the Great Depression?
8. Was the New Deal a success? Provide examples.
9. Discuss the United States government's road from neutrality to intervention during World War II.
10. How did World War II transform the United States?
DBQ Review Assignment
- Complete the DBQ Planning Guide for the following DBQs. Submit on Google Classroom.
- Period 7 DBQ - Progressive Era
- Period 7 DBQ - Women at War
- OPTIONAL (BUT RECOMMENDED) - Practice writing a timed DBQ essay (45 min) for one of the DBQs you outlined.
Review Materials
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Week 8 (May 4 - May 8)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
2. What were some of the causes and impacts of the industrial revolution in the United States?
3. What were some positive and negative effects of urbanization?
4. How effective were early labor unions in solving problems of the working class? Explain.
5. How did the South limit the rights of American Americans after Reconstruction?
6. How did W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington differ in their approaches to African-American equality?
7. What were the positive and negative effects of railroad expansion?
8. What effect did Western Expansion have on Native Americans?
9. During the Gilded Age, what attempts did the government make to regulate industry and reform politics?
10. Compare and contrast the goals of the Grange Movement, the Farmers’ Alliances, and the Populist Party?
DBQ Review Assignment
Review Materials
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Content Review Assignment
- Read/skim Chapters 16-19 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 319-391) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each). Submit on Google Classroom.
2. What were some of the causes and impacts of the industrial revolution in the United States?
3. What were some positive and negative effects of urbanization?
4. How effective were early labor unions in solving problems of the working class? Explain.
5. How did the South limit the rights of American Americans after Reconstruction?
6. How did W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington differ in their approaches to African-American equality?
7. What were the positive and negative effects of railroad expansion?
8. What effect did Western Expansion have on Native Americans?
9. During the Gilded Age, what attempts did the government make to regulate industry and reform politics?
10. Compare and contrast the goals of the Grange Movement, the Farmers’ Alliances, and the Populist Party?
DBQ Review Assignment
- Complete the DBQ Planning Guide for the following DBQs. Submit on Google Classroom.
- Period 6 DBQ - Technology and Industrialization
- Period 6 DBQ - Urbanization
- OPTIONAL (BUT RECOMMENDED) - Practice writing a timed DBQ essay (45 min) for one of the DBQs you outlined.
Review Materials
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Week 7 (April 27 - May 1)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
2. During the abolitionist movement, who were the major participants and what were their strategies?
3. What was the platform of the Know-Nothing Party?
4. What were the most significant events leading to the Civil War?
5. How and why did the North win the Civil War?
6. How does the Civil War affect Northern and Southern economies?
7. What were the causes and effects of the emancipation?
8. What were the different proposed plans for Reconstruction?
9. In what ways was Reconstruction a success? In what ways was it a failure?
DBQ Review Assignment
Review Materials
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Content Review Assignment
- Read/skim Chapters 12-15 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 229-310) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each). Submit on Google Classroom.
2. During the abolitionist movement, who were the major participants and what were their strategies?
3. What was the platform of the Know-Nothing Party?
4. What were the most significant events leading to the Civil War?
5. How and why did the North win the Civil War?
6. How does the Civil War affect Northern and Southern economies?
7. What were the causes and effects of the emancipation?
8. What were the different proposed plans for Reconstruction?
9. In what ways was Reconstruction a success? In what ways was it a failure?
DBQ Review Assignment
- Complete the worksheet on "Using Evidence to Support an Argument" for the following DBQs.
- Using Evidence to Support an Argument worksheet
- Period 5 DBQ - Civil War and Reconstruction
- Period 5 DBQ - Emancipation
- OPTIONAL (BUT RECOMMENDED) - Complete the DBQ Practice Guide for each DBQ question.
Review Materials
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Week 6 (April 20 - April 24)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
DBQ Review Assignment
Review Materials
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Content Review Assignment
- Read/skim Chapters 7-11 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 131-216) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each). Submit on Google Classroom.
- Discuss the impact that Chief Justice John Marshall had on early United States history.
- How important was the War of 1812 to the development of the United States?
- How important was westward expansion to the development of the United States?
- Explain why two historians might disagree about the federal government's role in economic changes between 1816 and 1824.
- Discuss the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on US foreign policy.
- Why did Southerners refer to slavery as "that peculiar institution"?
- Did Andrew Jackson expand or limit American democracy?
- How did the Second Great Awakening influence other reform movements of the 1800s?
- Discuss how African American leaders in the first half of the 1800s responded to slavery.
- Describe how the subjects portrayed in American painting in the 1780s and the 1850s demonstrated how significantly the United States evolved in just seven decades.
DBQ Review Assignment
- For each of the following THREE DBQs, write an introduction with historical context and a thesis statement. Submit on Google Classroom.
- OPTIONAL (BUT RECOMMENDED) - Complete the DBQ Practice Guide for each DBQ question.
Review Materials
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Week 5 (April 13 - April 17)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Content Review Assignment
DBQ Review Assignment
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Content Review Assignment
- Read/skim Chapters 4-6 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 68-119) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each). Submit on Google Classroom.
- How did Pontiac's Rebellion support the British argument for the Proclamation of 1763?
- Explain how the Declaratory Act was a cause of the Boston Tea Party.
- How was the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain before and after the Seven Years' War different?
- Explain how geography shaped the conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies.
- How did the Enlightenment influence the American Revolution?
- What caused the American Revolution?
- Explain why the ideas expressed in the Articles of Confederation would make conducting a war difficult.
- Summarize the differences between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
- Was foreign policy in the late 1700s were rooted in economic interests?
- Explain the main points of Hamilton's financial plan.
DBQ Review Assignment
- Choose 1 of the following DBQs and conduct a full HAPP Analysis of each document. Submit on Google Classroom.
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Week 4 (April 6 - April 10)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Review Assignments
Due Thursday at noon. Submit on Google Classroom.
Review Materials
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- AP Updates for 2020 Exam
- APUSH Period 1 Review Notes (1491-1607)*
- APUSH Period 2 Review Notes (1607-1754)*
- Gilder Lehrman APUSH Study Guide - Period 1
- Gilder Lehrman APUSH Study Guide - Period 2
Review Assignments
Due Thursday at noon. Submit on Google Classroom.
- Read/skim Chapters 1-3 in the AMSCO APUSH Review Book (p. 1-55) and answer the following questions (3-4 sentences each):
- Explain why American Indians were so diverse in 1491.
- How did Spanish colonies differ from English colonies?
- How did religious beliefs influence American colonization?
- How did the Massachusetts and the Chesapeake colonies differ?
- Describe how attitudes toward equality evolved during the colonial era.
- Between 1607 and 1754, did the colonies become more or less like England?
- Compare and contrast the ideas and influence of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
- Describe the trend in ethnic diversity in the English colonies between 1607 and 1754.
Review Materials
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Week 3 (March 30 - April 3)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Review Assignments - SAQs & LEQs
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Review Materials
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- APUSH Period 7 Review Notes (1890-1945)*
- Gilder Lehrman APUSH Study Guide - Period 7
- APUSH Notes - Period 7 (Kaplan Review)
- Khan Academy - APUSH: Period 7
Review Assignments - SAQs & LEQs
Submit on Google Classroom
- Period 7 Short Answer Questions - Completely answer all three SAQs.
- Period 7 Long Essay Questions - Outline both LEQs using the provided template.
Review Materials
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Week 2 (March 23 - March 27)
Notes & Multimedia Presentations
Submit on TurnItIn Reading Assigment - Analyzing World War II Conferences
Read the descriptions of WWII conferences and answer the 12 questions that follow. Type your answers and submit below.
- WWII SAQs
- America in World War II, 1941–1945
- World War II Study Guide (Gilder-Lehrman)
- End of World War II (Khan Academy)
- Manhattan Project (Khan Academy)
- The United Nations (Khan Academy)
- Period 7 Connections - Comparison (Khan Academy)
- Early Cold War
Submit on TurnItIn Reading Assigment - Analyzing World War II Conferences
Read the descriptions of WWII conferences and answer the 12 questions that follow. Type your answers and submit below.
APUSH Review Materials
Week 1 (March 16 - March 20)
Notes Textbook Assignment
Submit on TurnItIn
Submit on TurnItIn
- Outline Chapter 34 of American Pageant
- View the following video clips. Write a 2-3 sentence summary of each segment and submit typed document using the form below.
- Pearl Harbor
- America Enters WWII
- Rationing and Recycling
- Women in Combat
- Internment of Japanese-Americans
- American Towns Transformed by War
- African-American Soldiers
- Bracero Program and Zoot Suit Riots
- The Holocaust
- Nazi Concentration Camps
- Navajo Code Talkers
- D-Day Invasion
- Iwo Jima and the South Pacific
- Truman and the Atomic Bomb
APUSH Review Materials
- Practice some AP questions on World War II.
- Multiple Choice Questions (p. 121-130, answers in back of book)
- Short Answer Question (SAQ)