Weekly Post August 28th

US History
This week, we will finish Mercantilism with a Summative Performance Task. This is a two-part assignment including arguing "How did England’s mercantilist policy help to create a common ground for the beginnings of the concept of “We, the people”?"   and the Taking Informed Action component on Public Policy. Completed Summative Performance Task due Friday. We will also have a Vocabulary and Notebook Quiz Friday

Vocabulary Week 3

1. Boston Tea Party
2. Committees of Correspondence
3. Common Sense
4. French and Indian War
5. Intolerable Acts
6. No Taxation w/o Representation 
7. Proclamation of 1763
8. Sons of Liberty
9. Stamp Act
10. Sugar Act

Recent US History

This week, we will finish the Early Cold War by turning in the Annotated/Illustrated Timeline and completing a Summative Performance Task. This is a two-part assignment including arguing "Was Containment a Success?"  and the Taking Informed Action component on Public Policy. Completed Summative Performance Task due Friday. We will also have a Vocabulary Quiz Friday

Vocabulary Week 3

1. 1960 presidential debate
2. 1968 Democratic National Convention 
3. Bay of Pigs 
4. Cuban Missile Crisis 
5. Cuban Revolution 
6. Anti-Vietnam 
7. President John F. Kennedy 
8. Robert F. Kennedy 
9. Tet offensive 
10. Vietnam War

APUSH

This week, we will finish discussing Virginia's development by looking at the establishment of the British North American slave trade. We will begin looking at the development of New England. Upcoming graded assignments have been added to Infinite Campus with Tentative dates. Vocabulary Quiz Friday

Vocabulary 2 Period 2

1. Act of Toleration 
2. Admiralty Courts
3. Anglican
4. Anne Hutchinson 
5. Antinomianism
6. Benjamin Franklin 
7. Calvinism 
8. Enumerated Goods
9. Established
10. Fundamental Orders
11. Jamestown
12. Jeremiads 
13. John Smith 
14. John Winthrop 
15. Longhouse 
16. Massachusetts Bay Colony 
17. Middle Passage 
18. Olaudah Equiano
19. Pocahontas 
20. Predestination 
21. Puritans 
22. Quakers 
23. Separatists 
24. Slavery 
25. Starving Time 

Weekly Post- August 21

US History
This week, we will continue to compare and contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the 17th Century. We will specifically look at Relations with American Indians. We will have a vocabulary quiz Friday

Vocabulary Week 2

1. Benjamin Franklin 
2. Great Awakening 
3. Johnathan Edwards
4. Middle Passage
5. Pilgrims 
6. Puritans 
7. Roger Williams 
8. Salem Witch Trials 
9. Salutary Neglect 
10. Social mobility

Recent US History
This week, we will continue to analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.Specifically, we will analyze the Korean War, the Second Red Scare and the domestic impact of each.We will have a vocabulary quiz and NOTEBOOK QUIZ Friday

Vocabulary Week 2

1. Atomic Energy Commission 
2. Conspiracy 
3. Espionage Act of 1917 
4. Facsimile 
5. House Un-American Activities Committee 
6. Internal Security Act of 1950 
7. KGB 
8. Recognition Signal 
9. Treason
10. Venona Project

AP US History
This week, we will begin examining Time Period 2 (1607-1754). Make sure you have read Chapter 2 in The American Pageant and completed the Vocabulary for a Quiz Friday.

Vocabulary 1 Period 2

1. Catawba Nation 
2. Covenant
3. Dominion of New England 
4. Freemen 
5. General Court 
6. George Whitefield 
7. Great Awakening 
8. Headright system
9. Iroquois Confederacy 
10. John Peter Zenger 
11. John S. Copley 
12. Mayflower Compact 
13. Paxton Boys 
14. Peter Stuyvesant
15. Phillis Wheatley 
16. Primogeniture 
17. Proprietor 
18. Protestant Ethic 
19. Protestant Reformation 
20. Squatter 
21. Thomas Hooker 
22. Triangular trade 
23. Virginia Company 
24. William Berkeley 
25. William Bradford

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Weekly Post- August 14

US History
This week, we will compare and contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the 17th Century. We will start by investigating how mercantilism and trans-Atlantic trade led to the development of colonies. We will have a vocabulary quiz Friday

1. Bacon’s Rebellion
2. House of Burgesses
3. mercantilism
4. New Amsterdam
5. Peter Stuyvesant
6. Powhatan
7. tobacco
8. trans-Atlantic trade
9. Virginia Company
10. William Penn

Recent US History
This week, we will analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
To begin, we will analyze the international policies and actions developed as a response to the Cold War including containment, the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine.We will have a vocabulary quiz Friday

1. atomic bomb
2. Chinese Revolution
3. Cold War
4. containment
5. Korean War
6. Marshall Plan
7. Senator Joseph McCarthy
8. Sputnik I
9. Truman Doctrine
10. USSR

AP US History
This week, we will continue examining Time Period 1 (1491-1607). Make sure you have read Chapter 1 in The American Pageant and completed the Vocabulary for a Quiz Friday.

1. Bartolomé de Las Casas
2. Christopher Columbus 
3. Conquistadores 
4. Don Juan de Oñate 
5. Encomienda system 
6. Francisco Coronado 
7. Giovanni da Verranzo 
8. Henry Hudson 
9. Hernando de Soto 
10. Hiawatha 
11. John Cabot 
12. Joint stock companies 
13. Mestizos
14. Mound Builders 
15. peninsulare
16. Ponce de León 
17. Puebloans
18. Robert de La Salle 
19. Sir Walter Raleigh 
20. Treaty of Tordesillas