Homework 08-09 School Year
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Daily Homework:
Beginning
Day 1: Come prepared to begin a discussion of the most significant individuals in American history you have chosen from the American Reader and get prepared for a quiz on chapter one next Monday.
Day 2: Pick one person from each of the five time
periods and tell me in a sentence what is so significant about these individuals,
and then write a few sentences at the end of your page about what these people
seem to have in common (so short answer responses and the total should be no
more than a single hand written page long)
Also, bring a three ring binder and subdividers.
Day 3 (for Monday): Read chapter 1 in the review book and sample essays for Monday. Start going through chapter 1 in the review packet.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1, Day 1: Do the first chapter study question and briefly identify key terms:
Why does Divine believe that the terms “exploration”
and “settlement” are historically inaccurate? pp. 3-11 and
14-15 (Native American diversity, disease and dependency, ecological revolution/Columbian
Exchange)
Chapter 1, Day2: Do the second chapter study question and briefly identify key terms:
What made West Africans vulnerable to European exploitation? pp. 11-13 (West African states, Muslim traders, Portuguese slavers, African slavery/slave trade)
Chapter 1, Day 3: Do the third chapter study question and briefly identify key terms:
In what 2 ways was English colonization of the America’s significantly different than either the Spanish or the French? pp. 16-22 and 25-29 (Renaissance, nation-states, Columbus, conquistadors, encomiendas, coureirs du bois, Elizabeth I, Sea Dogs, Roanoake, Hakluyt)
Chapter 2
Chapter 2, Day 1: Read chapter 2 in the review book and start going through the Chapter 2 review packet.
Chapter 2, Day 2: Do the first chapter study question and briefly identify key terms:
How and why did the Chesapeake colonies develop a distinctive culture? pp.35-42 (London Company, Jamestown, Smith, Powhatans, Rolfe, House of Burgesses, headrights, indentured servants, 1622 massacre, Lord Baltimore, Act of Toleration, plundering time)
Chapter 2, Day 3: Why was Congregationalism so important in the “Bible Commonwealth”? pp.42-47, and p.50 (Seperatists, Mayflower Compact, Puritans, Winthrop, City on a Hill, town meetings, Williams, Hutchinson, break away colonies)
Chapter 2, Day 4: Study your review packets for chapters 1 and 2 for the quiz on Friday and prepare for the essay on the New England and Chesapeake colonies.
Research: Get your project proposal typed up and turned in!
Chapter 3
Chapter 3, Day 1: Study the chart at the end of the chapter 2 review packet and do the second chapter study question and briefly identify the terms:
Why did Africans become enslaved in British North American and how did they cope with their enslavement? pp. 73-79 (roots of slavery, African-American culture, evolving permanence of slavery)
Chapter 3, Day 2: Work on your review packet, and do question # in chapter 3. Note also the essay question for Friday: How do you account for the fact that while religious freedom was central to the development of some colonies, it was denied in other colonies?
Chapter 3, Day 3: Finish up the review packet, study for the quiz on chapters 1-3 and prepare for the chapter 3 essay, How do you account for the fact that while religious freedom was central to the development of some colonies, it was denied in other colonies?
Chapter 4
Chapter 4, Day 1: Over the weekend, read chapter 3 in the review book (United States History) and bring it to class on Monday.
Chapter 4, Day2: Answer the following question from studying chapter 4 in your textbook:
Why did common experiences help colonists think of themselves as "Americans"? pp.105-116 (entrepots, Franklin, American Enlightenment, salutary neglect, Great Awakening, Cato's Letters, colonial assemblies)
Chapter 4, Day 3: Answer the following question from studying chapter 4 in your textbook:
Why did Imperial Wars give diverse colonists a sense of national identity? pp. 116-124 (Imperial Wars, Albany Congress, Seven Years War, Peace of Paris)
Also study for the quiz on chapters 1-4 and the essay, "How did diverse British colonies come to think of themselves collectively as "American" between 1700 and 1770?"
Chapter 5
Chapter 5, Day 1: Over the weekend, read chapter 4 in your review book.
Chapter 5, Day 2: #1 priority=Get your four source annotated bibliography done. #2 priority=Do question #1 in Chapter 5 homework questions. Here is the homework question: What made Americans increasingly rebellious from 1763-1774? pp. 129-140 (George III, the "Great Mr. Locke", Stamp Act, Sons of Liberty, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre)
Chapter 5, Day 3: Answer the following question from studying chapter 5 in your textbook:
Why did a critical mass of Americans decide for independence in 1776? pp. 140-148 (Tea Act and Party, Coercive Acts, 1st Continental Congress, Lexington & Concord, 2nd Continental Congress, Common Sense, Jefferson's Declaration)
Chapter 5 Day 4: Finish your chapter 5 review packet and study for the chapter 5 essay and the quiz on chapters 1-5
Chapter 6
Chapter 6, Day 1: Read chapter 5 in your review book for Monday.
Chapter 6, Day2: Answer the following question from studying chapter 6in your textbook:
What was the Republican Spirit, why did it develop, and how was it manifested? pp. 162-168 (republican mothers, Phillis Wheatley, anti-slavery movement, voting requirements)
Chapter 6, Day 3: Answer the following question from studying chapter 6in your textbook:
How and why was the Constitution a product of contest and compromise? pp. 177-188 (Madison, Great Compromise, slave compromises, Federalists v. Anti-Federalists, Bill of Rights)
Chapter 6, Day 4: Review chapters 1-6 and prep for this essay: "Here is a resolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain. It is radical in this transition; our rights and privileges are endangered, and the sovereignty of the states will be relinquished..." Assess the validity of this statement using your knowledge of the period 1776-1787 and the documents you've studied.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7, Day 1: Read chapter 6 in your review book for Monday.
Chapter 7, Day2: Answer the following question from studying chapter 7 in your textbook:Why did foreign affairs help stimulate the formation of political parties? key terms: pp. 203-221 French Revolution, Federalists, Democratic-Republicans,Washington's Farewell Address; Also read Washington's Farewell Address, pages 74-77 in American Reader: Is Washington's thesis realistic?
Chapter 7, Day 3: Answer the following question from studying chapter 7 in your textbook:
What was the “peaceful revolution of 1800”
and why was President John Adams so afraid of it? pp.212-219
key terms: XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,
midnight appointments
Chapter 7, Day 4: Get your review packet done for chapter 7 and prepare for the quiz on chapters 1-7.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8, Day 1: Read chapter 7 in the review book on Jeffersonian Democracy and Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address in The American Reader. Keep this question in mind while you read and take notes on any event that will help you answer the question:
Did the Jeffersonian Republicans stick to strict construction/interpretation of the Constitution between 1801 and 1817? Did the Federalists stick to broad or loose construction/interpretation during the same time period? Why or why not?
Chapter 8, Day 2: Read pages 141-142 in your review book and start preparing for the essay.
Chapter 8 Day 3: Write your midterm essay and get it to Mr. Platte's desk by Thursday.
Study for the Midterm Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 1-8 on Monday.
Chapter 9
Chapter 9, Day 1: Answer the following question from your text: How did expansion and migration reinforce nationalism in th early 19th century? (Adams-Onis Treaty, mountain men, Black Hawk War, Indian Removal, "pathfinders")pp.252-261
Chapter 9, Day 2: Skim the pages for the next two homework assignments (261-274) and get as much of the review packet done as you can.
Chapter 9, Day 3: Nail down the terms for the last two chapter 9 homework questions (National Road, Robert Fulton, canal boom, market economy, 2nd Bank, Lowell Mills, American System, Era of Good Feelings, Missouri Compromise, John Marshall, Monroe Doctrine) Review chapters 1-9 and be sure to complete the chapter 9 packet.
Chapter 10
Chapter 10, Day 1: Read chapter 10 in your review book, start working on the chapter 10 review packet, and read the handout on Harriet Robinson and life as Lowell Mill girl.
Chapter 10, Day 2:
Get started on reading the textbook chapter and your review packet. We will
not have a quiz this week, but you will have a three paragraph essay due on
the homework question. This week’s single homework question and
terms:
"Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians
of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty,
and equality of economic opportunity." To what extent do you agree with
the Jacksonians’ view of themselves?
Key terms: George Caleb Bingham, corrupt bargain, Workingman's Party; Bank War
and Veto, nullification crisis, Democracy in America, Trail of Tears, John Calhoun,
white male suffrage, Democrats and Whigs, Panic of 1837
Chapter 10, Day 3: Finish up your review packet for Wednesday and chapter 10 in your text.
Chapter 10, Day 4: Prepare for the essay on Jacksonian Democracy. It is due by the end of the day on Thursday.
RESEARCH DUE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH: 12 source annotated bibliography due!!
Chapter 11
Chapter 11, Day 1: Read through chapter 11 and begin to nail down the chapter 11 review packet.
Chapter 11, Day 2: Review chapters 1-11 for a quiz on Friday
Chapter 12
Chapter 12, Day 1: Read chapter 11 in your review book and get started on the chapter 12 review packet. Keep the essay question in mind as you read the review book so you can begin to get some ideas. Here's the essay question: What was there about the Second Great Awakening that helped stimulate the reform movements of the antebellum period (1820 to 1860)?
Chapter 12, Days 2-4: Do the three homework questions and terms for chapter 12. Get your review packet as done as possible by Wednesday.
Chapter 13
Chapter 13, Day 1: Read chapter 12 in your review book and begin working on your chapter 13 review packet.
Chapter 13, Day 2: Finish up your review packet. I will be checking your map exercise and giving a quiz on a section of the packet.
Chapter 14
Chapter 14, Day 1: What was the Compromise of 1850 and what in it sowed the seeds for future sectional discord? (Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Clay-Calhoun- Webster)pp. 389-395
Also read John O'Sullivan's article featuring "Manifest Destiny" and answer these questions: How could the pro-Mexican war advocates use his theory? How could the anti-war advocates? Is there anything in O'Sullivan's doctrine with which you agree?
Chapter 14, Day 2: Lincoln said a “house divided...cannot stand.” What accelerated that division between 1854 and 1858? (Bleeding Kansas, Republicans and the election of 1856, Dred Scott) pp. 395-402 & 414-417
Also read "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau and decide if you agree with him or not: Is Civil Disobedience an appropriate response to an "unjust" law especially during a time of war? click here for a copy of the Civil Disobedience class handout (which also includes Wilmot's Proviso)
Chapter 14, Day 3: Do the 3rd homework question: Why did the white South see the events of 1858, 1859, and 1860 as catastrophic for America? (Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown’s Raid, the election of 1860) pp. 402-413
Chapter 15
Chapter 15, Day 1: Read chapter 14 in your review book and begin to work on your chapter 15 review packet.
Chapter 15, Day 2: Do the first homework assignment in chapter 15. Why was Lincoln's leadership significant at the beginning of the war? pp 419- 426 (Lincoln’s rise and view of the war, Crittenden Compromise, Ft. Sumter)
Chapter 15, Day 3: Do the second homework assignment in chapter 15.Between 1861 and 1863 the South won battles but began to lose the war. Why? pp. 426-437 (resources, anaconda, conscription, greenbacks, suspension of habeous corpus, Antietam, King Cotton diplomacy)
Chapter 15, Day 4: Do the third homework assignment in chapter 15 and prepare for the essay quiz. What were the political, social, and economic effects of the war? pp. 437-447 (Emancipation, blacks in blue, New York draft riot, Grant v. Lee, election of 1864, Sanitary Commission, organizational revolution)
Here's the essay question: "To what extent is i t correct to say that the Civil War represened a second American Revolution?"
Chapter 16
Skim chapter 15 in your review book and bring both the review book and your review packet to class.
Finish up your 20 source bibliography!
STUDY FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM!!!
Chapter 17
Chapter 17, Day 1: Look over your exam and bring it back to class with any questions you may have. Also, do the first homework assignment in your textbook by answering the following question and identifying the terms: Was the “crushing” of Plains Indians’ culture inevitable? Why or why not? pp 481-491 (Sioux Wars, ghost dances, Wounded Knee, assimilation, Dawes Severalty Act)
Chapter 17, Day 2: (1) Read the sample paper and evaluate it using the rubric-make comments; Begin on #2: What is “Turner’s Thesis” and does the experience on the mining, cattle, and farming frontier support that thesis? pp. 492-507 (Homestead Act, Californios, Comestock, Roughing It, mining camps, Chinese Exclusion Act, Jos. McCoy, open range and railheads, sodbusters, Exodusters, the Grange, the Final Fling)
Chapter 17, Day 3: (1) View at least five minutes of the sample documentary and evaluate it using the rubric-be sure to make specific comments.(2) Read Turner's thesis and review for the quiz on chapters 1-17.
Weekend Homework: Analyze your research and begin your research outline using Professor Rael's outline-you can locate it through the Platteform. The outline is due Wednesday.
Chapter 18
Chapter 18, Day 1: Do the first homework question and the terms after reading the following assignment: Who were the Industrial revolutionaries, for what were they most famous, and what did they hope to accomplish? pp. 512-523 and 526-529 (transcontinental railroads, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Edison, Macy, Sears)
Chapter 18, Day 2: What factors stimulated labor unrest and how was that unrest expressed? pp. 529-536 (workers and conditions, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, In re Debs, Haymarket Riot, anarchists, Homestead Strike)
RESEARCH: Project Outline is due Thursday! See samples in National History Day link.
Work on your research project over the weekend and Martin Luther King Day. Try to catch some of the inauguration festivities on television.
Chapter 19
Chapter 19, Day 1: Do the first homework question and the terms that go with it: How did urbanization challenge traditional American values? pp.539-550 (Louis Sullivan, Jacob Riis, Ellis Island, new immigrants, Boss Tweed, WCTU, Comstock Law)
Chapter 19, Day 2: Do this homework question and the terms that go with it: What did the leaders of the urban reform movements hope to accomplish? pp. 554-565 (Susan B. Anthony, public school & higher education movements, Washington v. DuBois, Social Darwinism, Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Social Gospel, Jane Addams)
Chapter 19, Day 3: Study for a comprehensive quiz on chapters 1-19 focusing on terms specifically about women in our national history.
Work on your research project over the weekend (January 24-25)
Chapter 20 and the Research Project:
The homework this week is to bring your review book to class every day and use your evenings to work on your research project. Papers and websites are due Friday; all other projects are due February 9th.
Also, begin recruiting your two non-related adults and two former AP US History Students for your evaluation team.
Chapter 20 (for Tuesday, February 3rd): Finish your review packet and come class with it completed on Tuesday!
RESEARCH PROJECT (for Thursday, February 5th): BRING THE NAMES OF YOUR EVALUATION TEAM ON THURSDAY; ALSO, BRING FOUR COPIES OF YOUR WRITTEN WORK (research paper or process paper and bibliography).
Chapter 21 and this week's Comprehensive Quiz:
Chapter 21, Day 1: Bring your completed chapter 21 review packet and completed DBQ essay on the chapter 21 homework question to class on Friday.
Chapter 21, Day 2: If you have not done so, work on your chapter 21 review packet. Also, take one or more of the documents in the chapter 21 DBQ (at the end of the review packet) and analyze its significance in light of the question; be ready to report out tomorrow. Here's the question: To what extent was the U.S. expansion during the period from 1865 to 1900 a departure of earlier expansion during the antebellum period?
Chapter 21, Day 3: Be ready to write on the DBQ and take a comprehensive quiz on Friday covering the development of political parties from 1776 to 1896.
Chapter 21, Day 4: Do the imperialism DBQ and turn it in by Thursday.
Chapter 22-23 (Progressive Era)
Chapter 22-23, Day 1: Due Wednesday: Read chapter 21 in your review book and BRING IT TO CLASS!
Chapter 22-23, Day 2: Finish up the imperialism DBQ and jot down some notes on one of the essays (each group was assigned one in class) in your review book, page 443.
Chapter 24 (The Great War; Chapter 22 in review book)
Chapter 24, Day 1: Read chapter 22 in the review book; finish up your Chapter 22/23 review packet as needed.
Chapter 24, Day 2: Finish your chapter 24 review packet and review black history for a comprehensive quiz on Friday.
Chapter 24, Day 3: For Monday, write a three paragraph essay response to the DBQ on page 465 in your review book (the end of chapter 22 in the review book). Be sure to follow the 2 by 2 rule: 2 documents and 2 key events in each paragraph.
Chapter 25 (Roaring 20's, Chapter 23 in review book)
Chapter 25, Day 1: Read chapter 23 in your review
book and keep this question in mind (first two homework questions): What
was the Second Industrial Revolution and how did it establish the fundamental
characteristics of our modern American culture?
Chapter 25, Day 2: Work on your NHD project
Chapter 25, Day 3: Answer the last two homework questions: (1) Why and in what ways did Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon create the modern Republican political platform? and (2) Why was there a struggle between “fundamentalists” and “modernists” and how was it manifested? Also, bring your American Reader to class.
Chapter 25, Day 4: GO TO NATIONAL HISTORY DAY. GOOD LUCK!
Chapter 26
Chapter 26, Day 1: What did Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) do to try and help the American people emotionally, physically, and economically? pp. 755-765 (a new deal, 100 Days, recovery/relief/reform measures)
Chapter 26, Day 2: Work on the New Deal DBQ and begin to study the comprehensive list of terms for chapters 1-24 (for the list, see the Review Resources on the platteform)
Chapter 27
Chapter 27, Day 1: Read chapter 25 in your review book and do the review packet for chapter 27 handed out in class.
Chapter 27, Day 2: Review chapter 25 in your review book, focusing on the homefront.
Chapter 27, Day 3: Review chapter 25 in your review book, focusing on the conduct of the Second World War.
Post War America(26 and 27 in the review book)
Post War, Day 1: Read chapter 26 in your review book. Outline the essay on page 564 assigned to your table group (if you were not there, just pick a question). Be sure to get a handle on each of the italicized terms in the reading.
Post War, Day 2: Do the Truman terms and read chapter 27 in your review book. Come prepared to discuss your assigned essay.
Post War, Day 3: Do the Ike terms and go over your multiple choice test. Come with questions on the test and a list of at least 10 topics you missed that you can study in the future.
Spring Break: No homework. Rest Up!
The Sixties
60's, Day 1: Read chapter 28 in your review book and try to figure out why the sixties, a decade that began so hopefully, ended up in conflict and confusion.
60's Day 2: How did the Vietnam War exacerbate the deepening cultural conflicts and what key factors beyond the war helped lead to Nixon's election in 1968? (read 878-883 in your text book and come with answers).
The Seventies
70's: Read chapter 29 for Friday; study the essay assigned to your group on pages 636-637. Be sure to identify 3 key facts to support a preliminary answer.
The Eighties
80's: Read chapter 30 for Monday. Prepare one of the assigned essays using the same number you used for today.
Review
Review Day 1: Bring your review book and a #2 pencil to class and finish up any 80's work you have not done yet.
Review Day 2: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 1 and 2 (early diversity of colonies)
Review Day 3: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 3 and 4 (development of sense of American nationalism)
Review Day 4: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 5 and 6 (the Revolution, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution)
Review Day 5: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 7 & 8 (Jeffersonian Democracy & Early Nationalism)
Review Day 6: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 9 & 10 (sectionalism & Jacksonian Democracy)
Review Day 7: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 11 &12 (reform movements and expansion)
Review Day 8: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 13&14 (union in peril and the civil war)
Review Day 9: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 15&16 (reconstruction and last west)
Review Day 10: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 17 & 18 (industrialization and urbanization)
Review Day 11: Bring completed worksheets on chapters 19 & 20 (Gilded Age politics and imperialism)