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The Men Who Built America

Ep 1 A NEW WAR BEGINS- Cornelius Vanderbilt

1. What happened on April 14, 1865?

2. Where did Cornelius Vanderbilt grow up?

3. In what industry did Vanderbilt begin?

4. What was Vanderbilt's nickname?

5. What did Vanderbilt buy after he sold his shipping business?

6. How did the Civil War affect Vanderbilt?

7. How did Vanderbilt show his power to the other railroad companies?

8. What happened to Vanderbilt's competitors when he shut the rail bridge?

9. How did Vanderbilt build the New York Central railroad?

10. How many jobs did railroads create?

11. What did Vanderbilt build in the middle of New York City?

12. What railroad did Vanderbilt need to take control of to control the route to Chicago?

13. What is "a hostile takeover"?

14. What is "watering down stock"?

15. Who were Jay Gould and James Fisk?

16. What fuel source was made from oil?

17. How did Vanderbilt plan to profit from oil?

18. Why did Vanderbilt want to extend his railroad towards Cleveland, OH?

19. Who did Vanderbilt want to partner with in the oil business?

20. What happened to the train leaving Cleveland that Rockefeller missed?

The Men Who Built America

Ep 2 OIL STRIKE- John D. Rockefeller

1. What shrewd businessman planned to take Cornelius Vanderbilt down?

2. What type of discount did John D. Rockefeller ask for when shipping his oil?

3. How much oil did Rockefeller agree to ship using Vanderbilt railroads?

4. How was Rockefeller raised?

5. Describe John Rockefeller's father.

6. Where was Rockefeller when he decided to get into the oil business?

7. What product did refining create from oil?

8. In what part of the oil business did Rockefeller believe businessmen belonged?

9. How much did Rockefeller invest in his first refinery?

10. Why was kerosene becoming unpopular?

11. What did Rockefeller name his company?

12. What convenience did every American want that Rockefeller could supply? 

13. Is Rockefeller satisfied with the Vanderbilt deal?

14. Who is Tom Scott?

15. What did Rockefeller plan to do with the profits from cheap shipping?

16. What is a monopoly?

17. How did Vanderbilt plan to stop Rockefeller’s success?

18. What did Rockefeller plan to build to cut the railroads out of his business?

19. How much pipeline did workers lay per day?

20. How long was the pipeline when it was complete?

21. What happened to the railroads when Rockefeller stopped shipping his oil?

22. What national crisis came out of the railroad industry crashing?

23. How did Tom Scott plan to interfere with Rockefeller’s business?

24. What did Rockefeller do to prevent having to ship oil to Pittsburgh?

25. What happened when Tom Scott was forced to fire 10,000+ employees?

26. How did the Pittsburgh Riots affect Tom Scott and the Pennsylvania Railroad?

Weekly Post for December 25th

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Weekly Post for December 18th

FINAL EXAMS THIS WEEK

Monday: 1st, 4th, 7th
Tuesday: 2nd, 5th
Wednesday: 3rd, 6th

• US History Exam counts as a Major Grade
• Recent US History Exam counts as 20%

Weekly Post for December 4th

APUSH

This week, we will begin Period V (1844-1877). We will study political and social actions that lead to the US Civil War. Read Chapters 18-20. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

1. Bleeding Kansas

2. C.S.S. Alabama

3. Compromise of 1850

4. Constitutional Union Party

5. Dred Scott

6. Freeport Doctrine

7. Free-Soil Party

8. Fugitive Slave Law

9. Harper's Ferry

10. Harriet Tubman

11. John Wilkes Booth

12. Kansas-Nebraska Act

13. Know-Nothing Party

14. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

15. Merrimack

16. Moderate Republicans

17. Monitor

18. National Banking Act

19. Ostend Manifesto

20. Panic of 1857

21. The Impending Crisis of the South

22. Trent Affair

23. Underground Railroad

24. Union Party

25. William T. Sherman

US History                                           

This week, we will begin looking at the US Civil War.  We will study political and social controversies in the Antebellum Era. Vocabulary Quiz Friday 

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Dred Scott
4. Roger Taney
5. Jefferson Davis
6. John Brown
7. Robert E. Lee
8. Thomas Jackson
9. Ulysses S. Grant
10. William T. Sherman
11. Stephen Douglas
12. Andrew Johnson

Recent US History

This week, we will continue looking at Globalization, concentrating on the Middle East. Vocabulary Quiz Friday 

1. Ayatollah Khomeini
2. Central Intelligence Agency
3. Hezbollah
4. intermediary
5. ISDCA
6. Israel
7. Manuel Noriega
8. Nicaragua
9. Panama
10. PLO
11. Shi’ite
12. Sunni

Weekly Post for November 27th

APUSH
This week, we will finish Period IV (1800-1848). We will study political and social impacts of westward expansion. Read Chapters 16-17. Period IV Exam Friday
 APUSH Period IV Test Study Guide
1. Supreme Court Decision, 1803
2. Thomas Jefferson, 1808
3. editorial, Washington National Intelligencer 1812
4. resolutions of the Hartford Convention, 1814
5. Supreme Court case, 1819
6. map of the United States in 1820
7. Presidential message to Congress, 1823
8. Elias Boudinot, 1826
9. Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World David Walker,1829
10. ‘the American Scholar,’ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
11. Sojourner Truth, speech to Akron, Ohio Women’s Convention 
12. Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832


US History
This week, we will begin looking at causes of the US Civil War.  We will study political and social controversies in the Antebellum Era. Vocabulary Quiz Friday
1. Nat Turner
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Frederick Douglass
4. Grimke sisters
5. Missouri Compromise
6. Mexican War
7. Wilmot Proviso
8. Compromise of 1850
9. Kansas-Nebraska Act
10. Popular sovereignty


Recent US History
This week, we will continue looking at Globalization, concentrating on the Middle East. Vocabulary and Notebook Quiz Friday
1. Contras 
2. covert 
3. extralegal 
4. Iran
5. Islam
6. Marxist 
7. Oliver North
8. paramilitary 
9. pawn 
10. Reagan Doctrine

Replacement Opportunities

US History Replacement Major Grade

 Recent US History Replacement Major Grade

AP US History Replacement Major Grade 

Thanksgiving Homework

Happy Thanksgiving

APUSH

• Mexican-American War Political Cartoons (required)
• Division of America News Project (optional-replacement grade)

US History

• Foundation of America News Project (optional-replacement grade)

Recent US History

• Re-write Civil Rights Argumentative Essay (optional-grade improvement)
• Cafe History: Modern America (optional-replacement grade)

Weekly Post for November 13th

APUSH

This week, we will continue looking at Period IV (1800-1848). We will study political and social changes in the Antebellum Era. Read Chapters 13-15. Reading Quiz Wednesday. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

    Vocabulary Week 14

1. 2nd Bank of the United States

2. Bear Flag Revolt

3. Corrupt Bargain

4. Fletcher v. Peck

5. Force Bill

6. King Caucus

7. King Mob

8. Manifest Destiny

9. Maysville Road

10. Mormons

11. Nat Turner

12. Nullification

13. Panic of 1837

14. Pet Banks

15. Pony Express

16. Seneca Falls Convention

17. South Carolina Exposition

18. Specie Circular

19. Spoils system

20. Spot Resolution

21. Tariff of 1833

22. Tariff of Abominations

23. Transcendentalism

24. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

25. Wilmot Proviso

US History

This week, we will continue looking at Western Expansion.  We will study political and social controversies in the Antebellum Era. Vocabulary and Notebook Quiz Friday

       

       Vocabulary Week 14

1. Abolitionism

2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3. Jacksonian Democracy

4. John C. Calhoun

5. Nullification

6. Public schools

7. Seneca Falls Conference

8. Suffrage

9. Temperance

10. Westward Expansion

Recent US History

This week, we will continue looking at Globalization. We will study political and social changes in the Modern Era. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

    Vocabulary Week 14

1. Albert Gore

2. Big Three automakers

3. Congressional Budget Office

4. Industrial Revolution

5. International Monetary Fund

6. National Public Radio

7. Revenue Tariff

8. Subsidies

9. Tea Party

10. World Bank

Weekly Post for November 6th

APUSH

This week, we will continue Period IV with James Madison and James Monroe. We will focus on expansion and development. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

1. Chesapeake Incident

2. Cohens v. Virginia

3. Common Man

4. Creole

5. Cult of Domesticity

6. Cyrus McCormick

7. Daniel Webster

8. David Walker

9. Edgar Allan Poe

10. Eli Whitney

11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

12. Embargo Act

13. Era of Good Feelings

14. General Incorporation Law

15. Gibbons v. Ogden

16. Gilbert Stuart

17. Hartford Convention

18. Henry Clay

19. Impeachment

20. Impressment

21. Independent Treasury

22. Industrial Revolution

23. Internal Improvements

24. Webster-Ashburton Treaty

25. Whig Party

US History

This week, we will study Westward Expansion. We will focus on successes and failure of expansion. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

1. American System

2. Corrupt Bargain

3. Cult of Domesticity

4. Indian Removal Act

5. Lowell System

6. Railroad

7. Spoils System

8. Tariff of Abominations

9. Telegraph

10. Trail of Tears

Recent US History

This week, we will begin Modern America. We will focus on the US economy’s connection to the world. Vocabulary Quiz on Friday

1. Bill Clinton

2. Federal Reserve

3. Free Trade

4. GATT

5. George H.W. Bush

6. NAFTA

7. Pew Research Center

8. Protectionism

9. Protective Tariff

10. World Trade Organization

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