HW Assignments Week of 1/25/2010

APUSHers:

Here's your assignment(s) for the week of 1/25/10. CLICK HERE FOR YOUR RESOURCES

1. Read, Highlight, and Outline Chapters 24 and 25

2. Complete Chapter 24 and 25 Guided Reading Questions (GRQ's) and Chapter ID's.

All work is due upon return from Regents Week.

Regents Week Assignments - RESOURCES

Chapter Notes:

NEW! Interactive Notes! Use these while you are reading! Take notes on the readings in the margins!

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

If you like the old notes better, click here!

Readings:

The American Pageant - Chapter 24

The American Pageant - Chapter 25

AUDIO TEXTBOOK

Guided Reading Questions and Chapter ID'S

CLICK HERE for the workbook

HW Assignments Week of 1/19/2010

HHello, APUSHers:

Here's your HW Assignments for the week. FYI, we're having another EXAMENITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE this FRIDAY!

Tuesday: Due Thursday! Budget your time. It's not necessary to do everything Tuesday night!

1. Lectures. Please view. Notes are optional.

Lesson 43 - Confrontations with Native Americans

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• Lesson 44 - Cattle, Frontiers, and Farmingfile
• Lesson 45 - End of the Frontier

2. MOVIE NIGHT - Tonight's Feature...THE LEGENDARY FRONTIER.

Recounts how the arrival of silver miners, the creation of an empire by cattle ranchers, and the forced dispersal of Native American tribes all served as precursors to a massive movement of farmers into the plains region. This informative program separates the truth from the fiction revolving around cowboys and Indians, with a specific focus on the rising tensions between the groups, from the influence of Chief Joseph to the impact of the Dawes Act and Native American genocide. The documentary also discusses Frederick Jackson Turner, the construction of railroads, settlement in Texas, and lasting impact of capitalism on the growing nation

Please watch, and complete the supplemental video/podcast sheet.

Thursday - Due Friday!

CLICK HERE AND READ Part I of the Article American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
CLICK HERE AND READ Part II

Post a reaction to the article HERE.

Here's what our WJPS AP students from last year had to say.

Here's what other kids had to say.

Friday - Complete EXAMENITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE - Civil War, Reconstruction and the West for MONDAY! If you need an extra copy of the Examenito, click here.

EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK!

Listen to one, or both Podcasts, and Generate Podcast Notes.

1. The Great Plains or

2. Bison

American Indian Boarding Schools article

CLICK HERE AND READ Part I of the Article American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
CLICK HERE AND READ Part II

Please post your comments!

workbook survey

Hello, APUSHers:

Please take a moment to complete the following survey about the APUSH workbook.

Click here to take survey

Today's Quiz 1/15/10

APUSHers:

Click HERE for the link to your quiz! When you get to the quiz site, please click on the link for.

Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Make sure you answer each question to the best of your ability. Make sure you email your results to me at mtesler@wjps.org. You can do that by clicking on the link "view/save progress," and following the appropriate screen prompts. You will not get credit if you don't email me your results. Thanks!

APUSH Period8 1/11/10

CLICK HERE for the presentation.

Answer ALL of the review questions that follow each section. Please complete your answers on a google doc, or word doc, and send it to me as soon as you are done. Thanks!

Mr. T's email: mtesler@wjps.org

Assignments Week of 1/11/10

Hello, Everyone:

Here is a tentative list of assignments for the week of January 11, 2010. Please make sure that you are keeping up with the readings.

QUIZZITO on Chapter 23 on FRIDAY! Individual Quiz!

Monday Night -

1. If you didn't finish today's in-class assignment, finish it tonight for HW. HERE's the LINK! ...Remember to email your results to mtesler@wjps.org.

Due Tuesday: Please finish the Guided Reading Questions for Chapter 23. The ID's and Guided Reading Q's can be found by clicking HERE. Here's an audio copy of chapter 23. .

Tuesday Night: Due Thursday...A MOVIE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE!!!

Part I: Post-Civil War:

The Unfinished Nation: Tattered Remains

Provides a comprehensive overview of the hardships faced by African Americans during the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War. The program focuses on both the positive and negative aspects associated with the period, touching on how segregated schools, the Ku Klux Klan, lynch mobs, sharecropping, and Jim Crow laws continued to oppress newly freed slaves. The unique and influential role of African American women on family and society is explored in detail, as is the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Booker T. Washington. The presentation notes how the monumental Plessy v. Ferguson trial changed American access to railroad transportation and shifted racial attitudes during this explosive era of history. Play

Part II: Gilded Age:

The Unfinished Nation: Political Stalemate

Assesses the issues and problems that ended the political deadlock between Republicans and Democrats in the years following the Civil War and Reconstruction. The program stresses the importance of civil service reform and big business regulation in the 1880s and 1890s and notes how the administrations of Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and William Henry Harrison attempted to control the American economy with such initiatives as the Interstate Commerce Act and the Pendleton Act. Historians examine the growing divide between the two established political parties and chronicle how American industrialization and the threat of inflation created the Populist Party. A look at the election of 1896 and the incendiary speeches of William Jennings Bryan illustrates the fight against the gold standard and reveals how William McKinley became the new voice for Republicans.

Thursday: View and Take Notes on the following on-line lecture

http://uccpbank.k12hsn.org/courses/APUSHistoryII/course%20files/multimedia/lesson46/lessonp_uccp_ap.html

Lecture Notes will be Spot-Checked on Friday

Friday - For Tuesday 1/19/10

1. Preview Chapter 26 by Reading the CHAPTER NOTES. Create an index card outline of the notes. These will be spot-checked (you don't have to hand these in).

2. READ CHAPTER 26. Here's Chapter 26 in an audiobook form. Download it to your iPod!

3. Complete Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions. Here's a link to the ID's and GRQ's. I've left you space after each question, so if you'd like you can complete it, like a workbook.

Previewing The Week of 1/19/10:

1. TAKE HOME EXAM on Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West DUE JANUARY 25th. We'll work on it in class during 8th period on Friday the 22nd, and it's due on that Monday.

2. HW assignments to be posted shortly.

3. Expect a TAKE-HOME MIDTERM during Regents Week.

ID's and Guided Reading Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age – Big Picture Themes

1. President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration was riddled with corruption. Grant himself was clean, but many others were not and Grant was unwilling to fire them.

2. The political parties fell into the trap of serving themselves more than the people. Their top priority was to get their party reelected. As a result, little actually got done in the government.

3. Tensions rose over race and ethnicity. When the U.S. Army pulled out of the South as part of the Compromise of 1877, Reconstruction was over and southern blacks were left to fend for themselves. Also, anti-Chinese sentiment ran high and the Chinese were actually banned from immigration.

4. The government did reach the billion dollar level for the first time. This was largely due to military pension plans. The plans were very popular and revealed the goal of the legislators—pass something that will get me reelected.

5. Populism started. This was a farmer and worker movement that sought to clean up the government, bring it back to the people, and help the working man out.

Chapter #23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Nast
Horace Greely
Roscoe Conkling
James G. Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Charles J. Guiteau
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Cheap Money
Hard or Sound Money
Gilded Age
Bloody-Shirt
Tweed Ring
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Whiskey Ring
Resumption Act
Crime of '73
Bland-Allison Act
Half-Breed
Compromise of 1877
Civil Service Reform
Pendleton Act of 1833
Thomas B. Reed
"Billion Dollar" Congress
Pension Act

GUIDED READING QUESTIONS.

The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant

Know: Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio Idea, Repudiation, Horatio Seymour, Bloody Shirt

1. Was General Grant good presidential material? Why did he win?

The Era of Good Stealings

Know: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, Black Friday, Boss Tweed, Graft, Thomas Nast, Samuel J. Tilden

2. "The Man in the Moon...had to hold his nose when passing over America." Explain.

A Carnival of Corruption

Know: Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, William Belknap

3. Describe two major scandals that directly involved the Grant administration.

The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872

Know: Liberal Republicans, Horace Greeley

4. Why did Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley for the presidency in 1872? Why was he a less than ideal candidate?

Depression and Demands for Inflation

Know: Panic of 1873, Greenbacks, Hard-money, Crime of '73, Contraction, Soft-money, Bland-Allison Act

5. Why did some people want greenbacks and silver dollars? Why did others oppose these kinds of currency

Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age

Know: Gilded Age, Grand Army of the Republic, Stalwarts, Roscoe Conkling, Half-Breeds, James G. Blaine

6. Why was there such fierce competition between Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age if the parties agreed on most economic issues?

The Hayes-Tilden Standoff, 1876

Know: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J. Tilden

7. Why were the results of the 1876 election in doubt

The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

Know: Compromise of 1877, Electoral Count Act, David Davis, Civil Rights Cases (1883),

8. How did the end of Reconstruction affect African-Americans?

The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post-Reconstruction South

Know: Redeemers, sharecropping, tenant farming, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson

9. Analyze the data in the lynching chart on page 513.

Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes

Know: Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Denis Kearney, Coolies, Chinese Exclusion Act

10. What was the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

Garfield and Arthur

Know: James A. Garfield, Charles J. Guiteau, Chester A. Arthur, Pendleton Act of 1883

11. What new type of corruption resulted from the Pendleton Act?

Makers of America: The Chinese

Know: Chinatowns, Chinese Exclusion Act

12. Why did most Chinese immigrants come to America?

The Blaine-Cleveland Mudslingers of 1884

Know: James G. Blaine, Tattooed man, Mugwumps, Grover Cleveland, Ma, ma where's my pa?, Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

13. Explain how character played a part in the presidential election of 1884.

“Old Grover" Takes Over

14. Assess the following statement: "As president, Grover Cleveland governed as his previous record as governor indicated he would."

Cleveland Battles for a Lower Tariff

15. What were the reasons behind Cleveland's stance in favor of lower tariffs?

The Billion Dollar Congress

Know: Thomas Reed, Civil War pensions, McKinley Tariff Act of 1890

16. Explain why the tariff was detrimental to American farmers.

The Drumbeat of Discontent

Know: Populists

17. What was the most revolutionary aspect of the Populist platform? Defend your answer with evidence.

Cleveland and Depression

Know: Grover Cleveland, Depression or 1893, William Jennings Bryan, Sherman Silver Purchase Act

18. What could Cleveland have done to lessen the impact of the financial turmoil?

Cleveland Breeds a Backlash

Know: Wilson Gorman Tariff

19. Is the characterization of the Gilded Age presidents as the “forgettable presidents” a fair one? Explain.

Varying Viewpoints: The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?

20. Were the Populists romanticized, or were they truly “authentic reformers with genuine grievances?”

Go The Extra Mile Assignment - Reconstruction

Hello, All:

Here is a link to a Podcast on Reconstruction. Listen to it, and complete a supplemental podcast form. You can get two make-up HW assignments for this podcast.

APUSH Assignments and Schedule Week of 1/4/10

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week...QUIZZITO This Friday!

Monday - Computer Lab 8th Period to finish the Web Quest.

HW -

1. Please Complete the Lectures and Take Notes - Spot Check of Lecture Notes will be conducted on TUESDAY! I will collect the lecture notes of 5 people at random.

Lesson 39 - Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans

Lesson 40 - The End of Reconstruction

Although it's not required, it would be a GREAT idea for you to check out the presentation "Reconstruction" (it's posted just after this one on the blog!)

Tuesday - Assignment is due THURSDAY!

1. RHO (Read, Highlight, Outline) Chapter 22 Notes on Index Cards. Visual Inspection of Index Cards on Thursday (I will check everyone's!) - CLICK HERE for CHAPTER 22 NOTES

2. Read Chapter 22 The American Pageant. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO CHAPTER 22

Complete Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions for Chapter 22. CLICK HERE for the ID's and Guided Reading Questions

Thursday - DUE FRIDAY! Please complete the assignment AT HOME, as we will (time permitting) be discussing the reading in class on Friday!

CLICK HERE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT - Print it, complete it, and bring it to class on Friday

Friday - ID'S ARE DUE 1/11/10

GUIDED READING Q'S ARE DUE 1/12/10

1. RHO Chapter 23 Notes - CLICK HERE FOR LINK. On Index Card - 7 Collected at Random!

2. READ Chapter 23

3. Complete Chapter 23 ID's and Guided Readings (PLEASE SEE BLOG FOR POST!). CHAPTER ID'S ARE DUE ON MONDAY! GRQ'S ARE DUE TUESDAY!

Reconstruction