Weekly Post for September 11

US History

This week, we will examine the American Revolution. We will complete a US History Lab entitled “Was the American Revolution Avoidable?” We will have a Vocabulary and Notebook Quiz Friday September 15

Vocabulary Week 5

1.      1^st Continental Congress

2.      2^nd Continental Congress

3.      Association

4.      Baron Von Steuben

5.      Benedict Arnold

6.      Boycott

7.      External taxation

8.      Hessians

9.      Horatio Gates

10.  Internal taxation

Recent US History

This week, we will continue to examine the Cold War, particularly the domestic impact. We will complete a US History Lab entitled “Is Protest Patriotic?” We will have a Vocabulary Quiz Friday September 15

Vocabulary Week 5

1.      Nikita Khrushchev

2.      North Atlantic Treaty Organization

3.      NSC-68

4.      Nuclear-test Ban Treaty

5.      Peace Corps

6.      Richard M. Nixon

7.      South East Asia Treaty Organization

8.      Suez Crisis

9.      U-2 Incident

10.  United Nations

APUSH

This week, we will finish Unit 1 covering Periods 1 and 2 (1491-1754). We will examine the formation of the Mid-Atlantic Colonies and the origin of thoughts of independence. We will have our first AP-style exam Friday September 15

Periods 1 and 2 (1491-1754). STUDY GUIDE

1. Excerpt: Christopher Columbus upon reaching the West Indies, 1492

2. Painting: Native Indians enslaved by Spaniards, published in 1596

3. Letter from Richard Frethorne, indentured servant, to his parents in England, 1623

4. Spanish colonial government record of judicial proceedings regarding Pueblo Indian Revolt, 1681

5. Map: COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE, 1972

6. “Colonial Virginia Frontier and International Native American Diplomacy”William White, published 2011

7. Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644

8. Map: East coast of North America

9. “Commercial Orders from the London House of Customs to Edmund Andros”, Governor of New England, 1687

10. “Second Treatise of Government” John Locke, 1690

11. “Salem Witch-trials:  Misogyny, Ergot, or Envy?”    The Economist, published 1992

12. “A Divine and Supernatural Light” Jonathan Edwards, 1733

13. Painting: George Whitefield Preaching in Boston, June 1750 by Thomas Walley