Sunday, November 26, 2017

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



Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Replacement Opportunities

US History Replacement Major Grade





 Recent US History Replacement Major Grade



AP US History Replacement Major Grade 

Friday, November 17, 2017

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)

Sunday, November 12, 2017

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


Sunday, November 5, 2017

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