Mr. Tesler's AP US History Blog

February Recess Assignment - APUSH

2012-02-15T11:02:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for February Break.

1. Read Chapters 25 and 26 in The American Pageant. Every APUSH student should have a textbook. Click here for the online chapters.

Chapter 25
Chapter 26

2. Complete the GRQ's and ID's for both chapters. Here are the links for the GRQ's and ID's

Please note that the assignment is due on MONDAY FEB 27th. There will very likely be a QUIZ on those chapters, based on the green-book packets.

DBQ Industrialization Resources

2012-02-15T09:41:00.000-08:00

Answer Key - Exemplar Essays

HW Assignments Week of 2/13/12

2012-02-12T19:27:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of February 13, 2012. Please note that as of January 31, 2012, all homework must be reviewed, and signed by a parent, in order for you receive credit.

Portfolio Assessment Piece - Industrialization DBQ - DUE FRIDAY! NO exceptions, or excuses!

Monday Night: Lecture Night:
"Attend," and take notes on the following lectures.
Consumer Culture
Rise of Unions
Growth of Cities
Life in the City

Please complete a lecture/podcast sheet for EACH individual lecture. CLICK HERE for the podcast/lecture sheet.

Tuesday Night:
DOWNLOAD and PRINT the June 2009 DBQ - Industrialization. When you click on the link the entire exam will appear. However, you are only responsible for printing out the DBQ.

1. Please finish any of the DBQ's that we didn't finish in class.
2. Complete an outline of your essay. Please note that your essay will consist of TWO effects of industrialization: eco/soc, pol/soc, pol/eco.

Wednesday Night:

1st Draft of Industrialization Essay

Thursday: After peer reviewing, please complete your final draft for Friday!

Friday: Begin working on your February Break Assignment (details to be posted shortly)

HW Week of 2/6/12

2012-02-06T21:18:00.000-08:00

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 2/6/12. HW is expected to be turned in at the next class session. Please be advised that effective 1/31/2012, all HW assignments must be signed by a parent. HW assignments that are not signed by a parent will not receive credit.

TUESDAY:

1. View and Take Notes on the following on-line lecture

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

2. Review Chapter 23, by reading the chapter summary - CLICK HERE. It is strongly suggested that you highlight, and outline the chapter summary:

3. Complete the following "Key Terms." Use the chapter notes, and lecture to help you, as well as your GRQ's and ID's to help you.

WEDNESDAY:
1. Review Chapter 23 in your textbooks. For those of you who want to go digital click here.
2. Complete FIVE of the following EIGHT questions. Each response should be a thorough, detailed paragraph.

1. What made politics in the Gilded Age so extremely popular—with over 80 percent voter participation—yet so often corrupt and unconcerned with important national issues?

2. What caused the end of the Reconstruction? In particular, why did the majority of Republicans abandon their earlier policy of support for black civil rights and voting in the South?

3. What were the results of the Compromise of 1877 for race relations? How did the suppression of blacks through the sharecropping and crop-lien systems depress the economic condition of the South for whites and blacks alike?
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4. What caused the rise of the money issue in American politics? What were the
backers of greenback and silver money each trying to achieve?

5. What were the causes and political results of the rise of agrarian protest in the 1880s and 1890s? Why were the Populists‘ attempts to form a coalition of white and black farmers and industrial workers ultimately unsuccessful?

6. White laborers in the West fiercely resisted Chinese immigration, and white farmers in the South turned toward race-baiting rather than forming a populist alliance with black farmers. How and why did racial animosity trump the apparent economic self-interests of these lower-class whites?

7. In what ways did the political conflicts of the Gilded Age still reflect the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction (see Chapter 22)? To what extent did the political leaders of the time address issues of race and sectional conflict, and to what extent did they merely shove them under the rug?

8. Was the apparent failure of the American political system to address the industrial conflicts and racial tensions of the Gilded Age a result of the two parties‘ poor leadership and narrow self interest, or was it simply the natural inability of a previously agrarian, local, democratic nation to face up to a modern, national industrial economy

THURSDAY: Begin Reading Chapter 24.
1. CLICK HERE for the Chapter Summary
2. CLICK HERE for Chapter 24 (just in case you're not home, or don't have your textbook handy).
3. CLICK HERE FOR THE AUDIO VERSION OF Chapter 24
4. Complete Chapter 24 ID's and GRQ's for Monday!

Health Class - 2nd Semester Final Project

2012-02-06T10:38:00.001-08:00

CLICK HERE for the project requirements. Due Date is 2/27

HW Week of 1/31/2012

2012-01-26T07:27:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers!

Here are your HW assignments, for the week of 1/31/2012. Please note that unless stated otherwise, all HW assignments are due on the following class day. Effective immediately, in order to receive credit for your HW assignments, your HW MUST BE SIGNED BY YOUR PARENT(S)!

Tuesday Night - View the Video "What is Freedom?"
Complete the video worksheet that follows

Wednesday Night:
CLICK HERE! EACH STUDENT MUST PRINT THEIR OWN COPY OF THE DBQ!!! NO EXCEPTIONS! NO EXCUSES!

Complete the short answer DBQ Questions. NO EXCEPTIONS! NO EXCUSES!

Thursday Night: Based on our notes, and our work in class, Complete a Draft of your DBQ Essay!

Friday Night: - FINAL DRAFT DUE MONDAY! NO EXCEPTIONS!
Complete the DBQ Essay from June 2004 Regents Exam:

Identify and discuss one social, one political, AND one economic change in
American society that occurred as a result of the Civil War or the period of
Reconstruction

YOUR ESSAY.
1. TYPED and COMPUTER PRINTED, or EMAILED, via GOOGLE DOCS. DOCUMENTS PASTED TO AN EMAIL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
2. PRINTED, OR DIGITAL COPY OF RUBRIC.
3. COPY OF DBQ WITH ALL QUESTIONS COMPLETED
4. DRAFTS, SHOWING EVIDENCE OF REVISION

Regents Week Assignments

2012-01-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

Hello, Everyone:

Here are your assignments for the Regents Week. Please note that this week is not a vacation. Please use it as a time to catch up on your work, and continue reading and preparing for the exam!

1. Please read chapters 22 and 23 in The American Pageant. Please click here for the links to chapters 22 and 23

2. Complete the guided reading and chapter ID's for each chapter

Please note that there will be an EXAM on the TUESDAY when you return from school on Chapters 22 and 23. The questions will be based on the packets found here

Assignments Week of 1/16

2012-01-16T17:02:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 1/16.

CLICK HERE for the Google Docs Folder. This folder contains all of the files that you need for this weeks assignments. Please note that you do not have do all of the assignments in one night. However, if you'd like to get it out of the way, feel free to do so.

Here are your assignments.

Tuesday Night: For Wednesday 1/18, please complete the worksheets, "Manifest Destiny," "Expansion in Texas," and "War with Mexico."

Wednesday Night: Complete "The Divisive Politics of Slavery," "Resistance and Violence," "The Birth of the Republican Party," and "Slavery and Secession."

Thursday Night: Complete "The Civil War Begins," "The Politics of War," "Life During Wartime," "The North Takes Charge," "The Legacy of the War"

Friday - Study for your exam on MONDAY, Chapters 17-21. 75 Multiple Choice Questions. All of the questions for the exam can be found here.

Assignments 1/9-1/13

2012-01-08T21:20:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 1/9

BIG EXAM! Tuesday 1/17
100 Questions - 50 Terms/50 Multiple Choice
All questions will come from the Workbook packets, and pertain to ch. 17-21

As far as this week's assignments, there are three jobs that you must complete.

1. FINISH all chapter GRQ's and ID's (Ch. 17-21) by THURSDAY! We will be working on these exercises in the first period of classes on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This may require you to do some outside work, at home, but EACH person must complete ALL of the GRQ's and ID's from the five chapters.

2. Complete the DBQ and ESSAY on Western Expansion by FRIDAY (portfolio assessment piece). We will be working our way through this assignment during 8th period classes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. CLICK HERE FOR THE DBQ! Please print it out, and bring it to class tomorrow, Tuesday January 10th, 2012.

3. Study for your BIG EXAM!
You can do it!

The schedule for this week.
Monday -
Print out the DBQ, and answer all the short answers questions. Begin your draft.

Tuesday - Finish 1st Draft

Wednesday - 2nd Draft

Thursday - Finish FINAL DRAFT

Friday - Study for the BIG EXAM!

Assignments 1/4-1/6/12

2012-01-04T05:44:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the rest of this week.

1. If you haven't finished your winter break assignment(s), you must finish EVERYTHING by FRIDAY!

Wednesday Night -
1. Based on your team assignment, please read the following chapter in your textbook. Click here for the resources for this assignment. Click on the link for the American Pageant chapters. While it is not required, it is suggested that you print out the chapter, corresponding to your team assignment.

Team 1 - Chapter 17 - Anthony, Erica, Dominique, Jason, Ruchi, Arthur, Jasmine
Team 2 - Chapter 18 - Nicole, Zack, Peter, Tina, Harvind, Michelle, Alice
Team 3 - Chapter 19 - Samantha, Adva, Mohammed K., Brenda, Amada, TK, Chris
Team 4 - Chapter 20 - Susan, Petros, Mohammed R., Laina, Emily, Lauren, Kamani
Team 5 - Chapter 21 - Caroline, Raj, Kiana, Da Hae, Kaitlyn, Jasmine, Markella

2. Print out the GRQ's for your team's chapter. This is a REQUIREMENT for the team assignment. No exceptions. EVERYONE must have a copy. If your printer isn't working, get someone to print it for you. You must bring it to class with you for Thursday's class. Groups will be penalized if all team members do not have their materials!

Thursday -
1. Finish any winter break assignment work that you have outstanding.
2. Finish any GRQ's and ID's that you haven't done for your chapter.

Friday:
PODCAST FRIDAY!

Choose One (1) podcast from each topic. Listen to the podcast, and complete a podcast sheet for each one.

Group Jigsaw Assignment - Resources

2011-12-31T11:12:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

When we return from break, we will have some serious ground to cover, and a lot of hard work. We have a serious challenge coming up, in the way of a 100 question exam, tentatively scheduled for January 13th.

Listed below are some of the resources that you will need to have in order to complete these assignments.

American Pageant - Chapter Summaries. It would be a good idea for you to print out the summaries, so you can highlight and outline them. We will be working on chapters 17-22. While you are only responsible for your team's chapter, it wouldn't be a bad idea to print them all.

American Pageant - Chapters

GRQ's Chapter 17-22 - In Google Docs form.

Details to follow shortly regarding teams, and assignments. Good luck!

Winter Break - On Time Bonus!

2011-12-31T10:40:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here's the breakdown on the assignments.

If you hand EVERYTHING on Tuesday - You will receive a 10 point bonus. In other words, an 80 becomes a 90 (a B becomes an A)

If you hand Everything in on Wednesday - You will receive a 5 point bonus

Thursday - 2.5 point bonus

Friday - No bonus, but no points taken away either!

HW 12/21: The Unfinished Nation - Master and Slave

2011-12-20T14:17:00.001-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here is the video we viewed in class today. Review it, and answer the questions that follow on the worksheet. You may complete the questions directly on the worksheet if you choose to do so. Please note that this assignment will be collected at the start of class on Thursday, and graded.

Please note that you should utilize outside sources, other than the video, to help you complete the assignment. The presentation, as well as your GRQ's, ID's, and outline notes should come in very handy.

In addition, if you haven't the Ch. 16 "Green Book" Assignment, or you haven't finished the Chapter 16 GRQ's, you must complete them! Here is a link to the post with the links for those assignments. Each assignment is worth two grade points.

Chapter 16 GRQ's and ID's UPDATED

2011-12-19T06:34:00.001-08:00

Chapter 16 GRQ's and ID's - CLICK HERE

Chapter 16 Packet (the Green Workbook)

2011-12-19T06:28:00.000-08:00

Hello, Everyone!
Here's a GREAT presentation, designed to help you with Chapter 16!

APUSH Winter Break Assignment 2011

2011-12-18T07:35:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

While I am well aware of the upcoming break, nonetheless, we must forge onward in our quest.

Here are your break assignment(s). Please note that I am not expecting you to finish this in one day. I have given you the assignment with more than two weeks to complete it. It is more than ample time to complete the entire assignment.

Furthermore, I am hopeful that by this time you have created study groups, and are utilizing the people in class to help you work through the material. Above that, I would also suggest using this link to post information, and really cooperate! Additionally, you should make use of the Facebook page to coordinate information.

Please note that all assignments will be turned in on the day we return from winter recess, as you enter the class for second period. Please staple all of the written work together, or place it in a folder.

As previously stated, unless you are legally absent from school, late work will not be accepted. "Technical Issues" are no longer acceptable excuses for the failure to complete assignments.

It should be further noted that each assignment is weighted, and will count towards your second semester GPA.

Assignment #1: Weight 2.25 Points Listen to the following Lectures. You are expected to complete a thorough and detailed podcast/lecture sheet for each lecture. Each lecture summary should be the equivalent of a handwritten page of text.

Here are the lectures:
Manifest Destiny

Ramifications of the Civil War

Presidential Reconstruction Plans

The End of Reconstruction

Assignment #2 - Key Terms: Weight 2.25 points. Based on the lectures, complete the list of Key Terms
CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF KEY TERMS!

Assignment #3: TAKE HOME EXAM Weight 3.5 points. 60 Questions. Multiple Choice.

Click here for the Exam. I am hoping to have the JUNO link ready to go ASAP!

Click here for the Answer Sheet. Please note that you only have to hand in the answer sheet.

Good Luck!

Chapter 16 GRQ's

2011-12-16T11:43:00.001-08:00

CLICK HERE for the Chapter 16 GRQ's

Copy and paste the link into your browser:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BywKkVrh4N0RZDdmMjAyN2MtNTYwYS00ZmRlLWFjOTEtN2Q1YjhlNDU5NjUw

DUE TUESDAY!

Here is a link to the Ch. 16 Packet (a.k.a. The Green Workbook)

Your Juno Log-In Information

2011-12-15T05:34:00.001-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:
By popular demand, we will be taking the Chapter 15 exam online. We will be using a new website, called junoed.com.

You can take the test ANYWHERE! On your laptop, on your iPod, on your phone!

In order to get on the juno website, you are going to need a passcode.

CLICK HERE for a link to the class list of passcodes.

Please find your passcode, and go to https://junoed.com/

1. Click on SIGNUP

2. Select "I am a student"

3. Enter your passcode

4. follow the steps to create a user ID. YOU MUST USE YOUR WJPS email account as your email, and as your USER ID!

5. Use your student ID as your password.

I will post the exam on Friday after school. You will be able to access it all weekend. You must finish by no later than 8AM Monday!

Folder Assignment and Review Materials

2011-12-14T06:10:00.000-08:00

CLICK HERE for the Folder Assignment

Reform Movements!

CLICK HERE for a Podcast!
Big Packet of Notes!
Amazing Powerpoint! Lots of Notes!

Big thanks to Mr. Klopfenstein from Blue Valley HS! You RAWK!

HW Assignments Week of 12/12/11

2011-12-11T19:36:00.000-08:00

Hello, Everyone:

Here are your assignments for the week of 12/12. Please note that unless otherwise noted, all assignments are expected to be completed for the next class session.

TEST FRIDAY on Chapter 15! Study Guide to Follow!

MONDAY NIGHT:

1. If you haven't finished your station assignment from today, please click the link for your packet! - Your assignment is due TOMORROW!

2. Due Date - Wednesday 12/14

DBQ NIGHT. Click on the links below for the documents. You will be reading a series of documents related to each of those topics. Your job is to read each set of documents, and then answer the questions that follow. You may put all of your answers on one paper, but please indicate which set of questions you are answering.

Roots of Reform
Social Reform
Abolitionism

Tuesday - Finish DBQ Questions

Wednesday -https://junoed.com/login/signupstudent.php

1. Study for Quiz for Friday

2. Read Chapter 16 Summary - CLICK HERE

Thursday:
1. Log in to https://junoed.com/login/signupstudent.php with your passcode. Create your juno ID, using your WJPS email as your ID. Use your student ID as your password.

2. Study for the exam, even if it is being offered online!

3. Begin Reading Chapter 16 - CLICK HERE FOR CH. 16, Chapter 16 Audio

Friday:

Complete Chapter 16 GRQ's/ID's

Health Project

2011-12-08T10:07:00.001-08:00

CLICK HERE for the Health Project

DUE DATE DECEMBER 19th!

HW Week of 12/5

2011-12-05T06:24:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your HW Assignments for the week of 12/5

Monday Night - If you didn't finish your Table Assignment in class today, you must finish it for HW. Here is the link to the assignment.

Chapter 14 Table Assignment.

READ Chapter 14 - Textbook

You are responsible for Exercises A, B, C, D, F, and H

If you didn't finish the ID's and GRQ's you must finish those, too. Here's the link for the ID's

Complete Chapter 14 GRQ's and ID's

Wednesday Night: Choose ONE of the Following Assignments!

Assignment #1.
LECTURES - Listen, and take notes on the following Lectures

Lecture 30 - Transcendentalism, Religion, and Utopian Movements

Lecture 31 - Reform Crusades

Assignment #2.
PODCAST - CLICK HERE for a link to the podcasts on antebellum reform. Choose ONE of the podcasts to listen to, and complete a podcast/lecture sheet. You are ONLY responsible for completing one podcast. However, if you choose to "go the extra mile" you will receive TWO HW credits for each additional podcast you do.

Thursday Night:

Begin, or Continue Reading Chapter 15

Complete GRQ's and Chapter ID's (Chapter 15) for Monday

CHAPTER 15 AUDIO BOOK!

Friday:

1. Review the Following Presentation
2. Finish Chapter 15 GRQ's/ID's for Monday.

2011-12-01T10:18:00.000-08:00

Chapter 14 Audio Book Click it and Read it!

Click here for the link to the iTunes store!

HW Assignments Week of 11/28

2011-11-27T18:03:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 11/28/2011. Please note that unless otherwise indicated, all assignments are due by the next class meeting.

Multiple Choice QUIZ - Wednesday November 30th. 50 Multiple Choice. CLICK HERE for the Study Guide.

Monday Night 11/28/11: MOVIE NIGHT!

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK. Be patient, as it may take several minutes for the movie to stream. View the video, and complete the video/podcast sheet. CLICK HERE for the Podcast Sheet

Please continue to study for your exam on Wednesday

Tuesday Night: 11/29/11

Review for your Quiz

Wednesday Night:

1. View the following lectures. Please complete a podcast/lecture sheet for each:
Lecture 23 - A Growing National Economy
Lecture 24 - The Transportation Revolution
Lecture 25 - King Cotton

2. Read, and highlight the Chapter 14 Summary

Thursday/Friday Night:

READ Chapter 14

Complete Chapter 14 GRQ's and ID's (anything you didn't finish in your stations)

HW Assignments Week of 11/21/11

2011-11-20T20:33:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 11/21/2011. Unless otherwise noted, your HW assignments are due by the next class session.

MONDAY: Due Tuesday 11/22

1. Carefully view the slideshow below. Feel free to download it, and print it out if you so choose.

2. Answer the questions on slides 2, 10, 20, and 29. Please note the questions PRECEDE the section of slides. In other words...
* The information related to the slide 2 questions can be found on slides 3-9
* The information related to the slide 10 questions can be found on slides 11-19

* The information related to the slide 2o questions can be found on slides 21-28

* The information related to the slide 29 questions can be found on slides 30-49

TUESDAY NIGHT:

Complete the following lectures below. You should complete one lecture/podcast sheet for each lecture.

Lesson 26 - Democracy and the 'Common Man '

Lesson 27 - Nullification Crisis

Lesson 28 - The Bank of the United StateS

Lesson 29 - Indian Removal

WEDNESDAY NIGHT:

If you haven't finished in class already, complete the GRQ's and ID's for Chapter 13

If you didn't finish already, complete Ch. 13 ID's and GRQ's
Here's Chapter 13
Here's Chapter 13 GRQ's and ID's
Here's Chapter 13 AUDIO

PODCAST SHEET!

THURSDAY/FRIDAY, WEEKEND OF 11/26, 11/27

Prepare for a 50 question multiple choice quiz on Chapter 13. Details will follow shortly.

EXAM STUDY GUIDE:
CLICK HERE FOR THE STUDY GUIDE!
USE ALL OF THE MATERIALS FROM THIS WEEK'S HW TO HELP YOU!

THT #1 - Take Home Test Corrections

2011-11-19T10:33:00.001-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Sorry for keeping you all waiting. Here's the Take Home Test. Click the link for the exam.

Each correction is worth 1/2 of a point. You must copy the question, as well the as the correct answer. If you cite the page in the textbook, you will earn an extra 1/4 of a point.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!

APUSH Resources for your iPod, iPhone, iPad!

2011-11-17T07:13:00.000-08:00

Check it out!

Get your APUSH to go! Drop it in your i-device, and study anywhere!

CLICK HERE for a review book/study guide for the American Pageant - 12th Edition - 3 bucks!

The American Pageant Podcasts - Ch. 1-16

Chapters 16-40

APUSH QUESTIONS - FREE!

HW - Week of 11/13/11

2011-11-13T17:11:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 11/13/11. Unless otherwise noted, all assignments are due by the next morning's class meeting.

MONDAY:

1. CLICK HERE and view the lecture/powerpoint

2. Complete the summary questions on slides, 21, 34 and 40.
3. PODCAST NIGHT! CLICK HERE for the Podcast Review Sheet

Choose one (1) of the following. GO THE EXTRA MILE, and d0 both. You can use this GEM to take the place of a missing HW assignment (except Chapter readings).

The Louisiana Purchase Talking History's host, Bryan Le Beau, discusses how the reality of the Louisiana Purchase compares to Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States as a land of cultivators of the earth and of slavery with Roger Kennedy, author of Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase. Airdate: December 1, 2003.

Lewis and Clark William Clark called his expedition a "vast . . . enterprise." Two hundred years later, the scholarly investigation of Lewis and Clark is itself a vast undertaking. Talking History's Fred Nielsen is joined by James Ronda, the Barnard Chair professor in western history at the University of Tulsa. Ronda's books include Lewis and Clark among the Indians and Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Airdate: May 17, 2004.

Tuesday:
1. Complete the Interactive Discussion on the Louisiana Purchase. After completing the discussion, write a thoughtful response to the question below. Your response should be a minimum of 100 words.

Was Jefferson authorized in making the Louisiana Purchase?

2. Read, and Annotate the Chapter 12 Summary

Thursday - DUE MONDAY
1. READ CHAPTER 12 in the AMERICAN PAGEANT - CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK! AUDIO BOOK! - CLICK HERE
2. COMPLETE CHAPTER 12 GRQ's and ID's - CLICK HERE for the Chapter 12 GRQ's and the ID's. PLEASE NOTE: The ID's have been changed! Your job now, is to review, and restate the ID's IN YOUR OWN WORDS!

Friday - Finish Ch. 12 ID's and GRQ's.

Chapter 10 and 11 Lecture!

2011-11-13T17:10:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers!

Here is a link to the lecture PPT for chapters 10 and 11.

Portfolio Uploads!

2011-11-08T06:52:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Please upload your thematic essay to the Portfolio website, ASAP. Thanks!

Assignments 11/8/11 - 11/11/11

2011-11-07T16:30:00.000-08:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 11/7/11.

Monday Night - Finish your station assignment. To avoid a .5 point deduction, please email me (michael.tesler@wjps.org) no later than 11:59:59. CLICK HERE for your station assignment

Tuesday Night -

1. If you didn't finish yet, please complete the station assignment (see Monday's post for the link!).

2. Begin Reading Chapter 11 in The American Pageant

Wednesday Night:

1. Continue Reading Chapter 11 in TAP

2. Listen to the LECTURES listed below.

Lesson 20 - Jefferson As President

Lesson 21 - War of 1812

3. Complete a PODCAST SHEET for the lectures. Click on the link for the podcast sheet. You may complete one sheet for both lectures.

Thursday Night:
1. Finish reading Chapter 11 in TAP

2. Complete the GRQ's and ID's for MONDAY Click the link for the GRQ's and ID's

Friday Night

Finish the GRQ's and ID's for Monday.

APUSH Station Assignment Link

2011-11-07T10:55:00.000-08:00

CLICK HERE for the link to the station assignment!

REMEMBER!!! The assignment is worth THREE GRADE POINTS! If not received by 11:59:59 PM, you will begin losing .5 of a grade point for each day it is not turned in!

HW week of 10/31

2011-10-31T05:33:00.001-07:00

Hello, APUSH Students:

Here are your assignments for the week of 10/31/2011

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - QUIZZITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE (AKA a Big Quiz)! This FRIDAY! 11/4/2011

1. QUIZZITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE IS COMING! FRIDAY! 100 QUESTIONS! Covering everything from 1492-1783! From Columbus to the Constitution! 50 ID's and 50 Multiple Choice! Two Periods! YOU CAN DO IT! CLICK HERE FOR THE STUDY GUIDE!

2. I am going to give you a choice as to how the quiz will be taken. Please respond to the following survey. Based on your responses, I will determine how the quiz will be administered. Click here to take survey

MONDAY 10/31 HW: Enjoy Halloween! Here's a treat! NO HW (except to continue working on your thematic essay)

TUESDAY:

1. Continue drafting your thematic essay

2. Begin Reading Chapter 10 in T.A.P.

3. Complete Chapter 10 ID's

4. Begin working on your GRQ's (if you have time). GRQ's are due on MONDAY 11/7

5. Begin reviewing for the Quizzito MUCHO MAS GRANDE!

WEDNESDAY:

FINAL DRAFT -

1. FINISH YOUR THEMATIC ESSAY

2. Begin Reading Chapter 10 in T.A.P.

3. Complete Chapter 10 ID's

4. Begin working on your GRQ's (if you have time). GRQ's are due on MONDAY 11/7

5. Begin reviewing for the Quizzito MUCHO MAS GRANDE!

Thursday

REVIEW FOR QMMG!

Continue working on your GRQ's (if you have time). GRQ's are due on MONDAY 11/7

FRIDAY:

1. Complete QMMG

2. FInish your Chapter 10 GRQ's for Wednesday!

Advisory Reflection Questions

2011-10-27T11:45:00.000-07:00

What are things you've learned this year in...

Science
Math
US History
English/Language Arts
PE
Journalism

What things have you found difficult?

What steps can you take to be more successful?

The class that needs most of my attention right now is....BECAUSE

Chapter 9 Notes

2011-10-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

Hello, Everyone:

As we have a significant amount of work to do this week, rather than taking time to copy lecture notes in class, here is a link to the presentation covering the information in Ch. 9.

CLICK HERE for the Presentation

HW/Announcements Week of 10/24

2011-10-23T16:15:00.001-07:00

Hello, Everyone!

Here are your assignments for the week of 10/24/2011.

Important Announcements

1. THEMATIC ESSAY - Due Monday 10/31/2011. Here is the topic. Click here for the rubric. We will spend significant class time working on this essay, don't worry!

2. Multiple Choice Quiz Friday, based on Chapter 9 in The American Pageant

3. All Guided Reading Questions will be handed on FRIDAY. Pace yourself! Don't wait till the last minute!

Assignments:

Monday - Due Tues. 10/25

1. Read Chapter 9 Summary

2. Skim Chapter 9 for the ID's

3. Complete the Chapter 9 ID's

4. If you have time, begin reading Chapter 9, and working on the GRQ's

Tuesday Night:
Due Date Wednesday 10/26.

1. Podcast Tuesday! Get your friends, and gather round the computer for an interesting and engaging discussion! CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST. Click here for the podcast form.

2. Continue working on your GRQ's for FRIDAY

Wednesday:

1. Watch and Listen to the Lectures below. Use the podcast form to summarize. Please note that you may use ONE podcast form for all THREE Lectures.
2. Create a ROUGH DRAFT of your Thematic Essay

The Articles of Confederation (Lecture 14)
The Confederation Faces Challenges (Lecture 15)
Philadephia Convention (Lecture 16)

Thursday:
Finish the GRQ's
Complete a second draft of your essay

Friday:
Finish Final Draft of essay.
Print a RUBRIC, and attach to your essay.

Quiz Review Link!

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CLICK HERE for a link to help you review for the quiz

A Story of US EXTRA CREDIT

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CLICK HERE and answer 3 out of the 5 questions for Extra Credit

HW Week of 10/17

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Hello!

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 10/17.

Please note that there will be a multiple-choice, Regents style quiz on Thursday. The quiz will be based on questions relating to the formation of the US gov't, and some of the causes of the American Revolution. The questions will be drawn directly from the regents prep website. The quiz will consist of approximately 25 multiple choice questions, and approximately 10 vocabulary questions.

MONDAY NIGHT:

1. Choose ONE of the THREE podcasts listed below. Listen carefully to the podcast, and complete the PODCAST EVALUATION. Here are your choices.

Thomas Paine: Bryan Le Beau and guest Harvey Kaye shed new light on Thomas Paine, whom Kaye describes as the forgotten founder or, on occasion, the ostracized founder, of the nation. Harvey Kaye is the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, and Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay. Airdate: May 29, 2006
How the Boston Tea Party Worked (Download File - 7.4 MB)During the Colonial period in North America, Britain taxed colonists without allowing the colonies to have governmental representation. Learn how the Boston Tea Party came about as a result of British colonial policies in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
What happened to the two other men on Paul Revere's ride? ( Download File - 6.1 MB)
Although Paul Revere's ride has evolved into an American legend, he was not alone on his famous midnight ride. Check out our HowStuffWorks podcast to learn more about the fact and fiction surrounding Paul Revere.

2. Complete the following Worksheets:

TUESDAY NIGHT: DUE THURSDAY
1. Read Chapter 8 Summary

2. Complete Chapter 8 ID'S

3. Read Chapter 8, pp. 141-148

4. Complete GRQ's 1-6

WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
Complete Tuesday's Night's HW

THURSDAY NIGHT:

Read pp. 148-155

Review for Your Quiz on Friday

FRIDAY NIGHT:

Review pp. 148-55

Read 155-163

Complete GRQ's, 7-12, 15

Causes of the American Revolution

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Hello, Everyone!

Here's a great PowerPoint on the causes of the American Revolution! This will certainly help deepen your understanding of the causes, as well as help you study for the quiz!

HW Assignments Week of 10/10/2011

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Hello, Everyone:

Here are your assignments for the week of October 10, 2011.

Tuesday Night:
Read "Effects of the French & Indian War" and answer the accompanying questions.

Wednesday Night:

1. Watch, and Listen to Lecture #10: "Imperial Reorganization"

2. Read pages 122-126 of The American Pageant, "Merits/Menace" to "The Stamp Tax Uproar."

3. Complete GRQ's #1-5

Thursday Night

1. WATCH YOU TUBE for School! Click here for "America: The Story of Us"

2. Read pp. 126-131 "Stamp Tax Uproar" to "Seditious Committees"

3. Complete GRQ's #6-9

Friday Night

1. Read pp. 132-139

2. Complete GRQ's 10-15

3. Study for a Quiz on Chapter 7 (Details to Follow ASAP!)

HW Assignments Week of October 3, 2011

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Hello, Everyone:

Here are your assignments for the week of October 3, 2011.

Monday Night -

1. Review Chapter 6 in The American Pageant.
Summary

Lecture

Chapter 6 - The Duel for North America

2. CLICK HERE for the Chapter 6 Review Packet

COMPLETE EXERCISES B (Multiple Choice), and Exercise C (Identifications). You must turn in a HARD COPY of this assignment; either computer printed, or hand-written (in ink, on looseleaf paper).
You must write out the entire multiple choice answer that you choose
This assignment will be graded as a quiz

Tuesday Night - Due Wednesday

From the Chapter 6 Review Packet, complete Exercise H "Map Mastery." Please complete all of the questions. You must answer each question in at least one coherent, complete sentence.

Wednesday Night - Based on the work we've done in class so far, complete a FIRST DRAFT of your DBQ Essay on the French and Indian War (we will discuss the details in class this week.

Thursday Night - DUE TUESDAY! (DBQ ONLY)

If you didn't finish any of the team assignments, here they are! CLICK HERE - This is due tomorrow!

1. CLICK HERE FOR THE DBQ

2. Using the DBQ, answer the scaffolding questions that correspond to each document. CLICK HERE for the scaffolding questions.

Friday -

1. Complete the DBQ Questions

2. Pre-Read Chapter 7 by clicking here for a summary. Read, Highlight, and Complete a ONE PAGE MAXIMUM outline of the chapter summary. Just highlighting the chapter summary does not count! You must actually write a summary!

3. Complete the Chapter 7 ID's -

CLICK HERE FOR THE ID'S -

CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER 7

HW Assignments Week of 9/26/2011

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Hello, Everyone!

Here are your HW assignments for the week of September 26, 2011.

Monday Night - 1. Pre-Read Chapter 6 by clicking here for a summary. Read, Highlight, and Complete a ONE PAGE MAXIMUM outline of the chapter summary. Just highlighting the chapter summary does not count! You must actually write a summary!

2. CLICK HERE and listen to the LECTURE that corresponds to Chapter 6. Take notes on the lecture, on a podcast sheet (I will try to get podcast sheets generated for you ASAP).

***If you'd like a written copy of the lecture, CLICK HERE. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to read along as you listen to the lecture.***

Tuesday Night - Complete the Chapter 6 ID's

BEFORE YOU COMPLETE YOUR ID's, PLEASE CLICK HERE and READ the DIRECTIONS FOR A "PROPER ID." Please note that ID's are NOT just definitions!

CLICK HERE FOR THE CHAPTER ID'S

Wednesday Night: Due Monday!

READ CHAPTER 6 of The American Pageant - CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO CHAPTER 6

Complete ALL Guided Reading Questions - CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER 6 Guided Reading Questions (GRQ'S).

***FYI: Please note that the American Pageant is available in an AUDIO form from iTunes! Click here for the link and download it to your iPod!

SHOULD YOU FINISH YOUR HW FOR THE WEEK, PLEASE CONTINUE READING CHAPTER 7! CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO CHAPTER 7!

HW Assignments Week of 9/19/2011

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Hello!

Here are your HW assignments for the week of September 19, 2011.

Monday Night:

1. WATCH, LISTEN, and TAKE NOTES on the following lectures from Hippocampus.org. Click on the links to access the lectures!

2. READ and HIGHLIGHT the SUMMARY of Chapter 5 of The American Pageant. After reading and highlighting the summary, you are to create an OUTLINE of what you read. The outline must no more (and NO LESS) than ONE PAGE!

Tuesday:
Begin Reading Chapter 5 in the American Pageant.
Read pages 84 to 89

Complete the Chapter ID's and the Guided Reading Questions 1-4

Wed: Read pp. 90-95. Complete Guided Reading Questions 5, 6, 7.
PLEASE PRINT OUT THE FOLLOWING DBQ, "What Really Happened in Salem in 1692?"

Thu: Read 96-101. Complete Questions 8, 9, 10

PLEASE DOWNLOAD, and READ the H-O-H Discussion Directions! We will conduct this activity in class tomorrow.

Fri: Finish Chapter 5 (pp. 96-101) Complete Guided Reading Questions, 11, and 12.

REVIEW YOUR NOTES, HW, Chapter ID's and GRQ's to help you study for a QUIZ on Monday, based on Chapter 5 in the Textbook

The Summer Assignment Quiz!

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CLICK HERE!!!!

Advisory/Health Assignment - "Eat Out, Be Wise"

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Click here for the Assignment

HW Assignments Week of 9/12/2011

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HW Assignments Week of 9/12/2011

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 9/12/2011

Monday Night:

1. Review Chapter 1 from the American Pageant. Complete "Identifications," and "Developing Historical Skills," Located in the Chapter 1 Packet.

Here's a link to Chapter 1
Here's a link to a SUMMARY of CHAPTER 1
Click here for the Chapter 1 Packet . Remember, you're only responsible for the Identifications (exercise C) and Developing Historical Skills (exercise G).

Tuesday: Review Chapter 2 from the American Pageant. Complete "Putting Things in Order," and "Matching Cause and Effect" in the Chapter 2 Packet

Here's a link to Chapter 2
Here's a link to a SUMMARY of CHAPTER 2
Click here for the Chapter 2 Packet . Remember, you're only responsible for PUTTING THINGS IN ORDER and MATCHING CAUSE AND EFFECT (exercises E and F on the packet)

Wednesday: Review Chapter 3 from the American Pageant. Complete "Map Mastery" and "S "Developing Historical Skills" Located in the Chapter 3 Packet.

Here's a link to Chapter 3
Here's a link to a SUMMARY of CHAPTER3
Click here for the Chapter 4 Packet . Remember, you're only responsible for"Map Mastery" and "S "Developing Historical Skills" Located in the Chapter 3 Packet (Exercises G and H)

Thursday: Review Chapter 4 from the American Pageant. Complete "True/False," and "Identification," (Exercises A and C).

Here's a link to Chapter 4
Here's a link to a SUMMARY of CHAPTER 4
Click here for the Chapter 4 Packet . Remember, you're only responsible for TRUE/FALSE, and IDENTIFICATION.
GO THE EXTRA MILE! GET EXTRA CREDIT! For the True/False section, change the information in the False statements to make them true!
GO ANOTHER EXTRA MILE! GET MORE EXTRA CREDIT! Complete PART III - Applying what you've learned!

Friday: Complete the Summer Assignment Review QUIZ. This is a TAKE-HOME Exam. Your job is to print the quiz, and complete the multiple choice questions, by circling the correct answer.

Here's a link to all the packets

HW Assignments 9/8 and 9/9

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FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES (THROUGH 9/16), BOTH APUSH AND RUSH (AP AND REGENTS) CLASSES WILL HAVE THE SAME HW ASSIGNMENTS.

Here are your assignments for Thursday and Friday.
1. If you haven't done so already, please complete the 2011 Summer Assignment. For all information related to the Summer Assignment, please CLICK HERE.

2. Obtain ALL of the Supplies for this class. For a list of supplies, CLICK HERE

3. If you've finished all of the above, you can start working on the assignments for next week, including a review for the Exam, based on the Summer Assignment, which will be taking place on September 16th.

Welcome, Class of 2015

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WELCOME APUSH-ers! (aka the TWO-PERCENTERS!)
Hello! Welcome to the exciting, and INTENSE world of AP American History. Having been selected to participate in this class, you have instantly become part of of what could be called the “two percent club.” Only two percent of all high school students (around 300,000 last year) in the United States took the APUSH national exam. This course is a big commitment, and it is important that both you and your parents understand the caliber of work that is necessary for success at the AP level.

The Advanced Placement program in American history is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems and resource materials in American history. The students should learn to assess historical sources – with respect to their relevance, reliability, and importance – and to weigh evidence and interpretations given by historians. An advanced placement history course develops skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of informed judgment and
to present ideas clearly and persuasively. To some extent, the AP course is taught bycollege format, with emphasis on multi-media based lectures, independent reading, and graded writing assignments.

The advanced placement course is designed to give students a background in the chronological development of American history and in the major interpretive questions that are derived from the study of selected themes. My approach is to conduct a survey course in American history in which a textbook, backed by supplemental readings, provides both a chronological and thematic coverage. Our objective in this course is to prepare to take the AP exam (given May 2010) and the New York State Regents (given June 2010). While the Regents exam is a requirement for a high school diploma in the state of New York, scoring high enough on the AP exam can earn you up to SIX college credits!

As we begin this long, tough, but extremely rewarding journey, here are some things to keep in mind:
*Like any sport, instrument, or skill we want to develop, hard work is required. The homework and required preparation for this class is intense. In order to be successful, you will have to do at least 6-10 hours of reading/homework a week including textbook assignments (approximately 30 - 60 pages a week), outside readings and journal assignments. That works out to roughly 60 to 90 minutes a night). You should read AT LEAST 5 to 6 pages per night in your textbook, including weekends!
*Class participation is more than physical presence and it represents meaningful contributions to discussions and class activities.
*You MUST make up missed work on the next school day even if you don’t have this class. You will be required to take notes on class lectures, presentations, and video content.
*Understand that you are not alone. There are thousands of kids taking this class, and there are hundreds of websites to guide you. I will be posting them as I come across them. Conquer the FEAR. We will work together, and be successful!

HW Week of 6/6

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http://mrteslersblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/hw-week-of-66.html

Click for the assignments, and supplementary study materials

Tonight's HW - Industrialization Review

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Hello, Everyone:

Here's your HW assignment for this weekend. Please check the blog often, as I will also be posting review assignments for the upcoming week as well.

1. Read the INDUSTRIALIZATION REVIEW

2. Complete the Guided Reading Questions

3. Read over the Industrialization Vocabulary List. On a separate piece of paper, rewrite the terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS! COPYING THE SAME DEFINITIONS WILL NOT COUNT!

Tonight's HW - June 2010 Regents

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CLICK HERE

HW 5/31

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Hello, APUSHers:

Tonight's HW:

1. Finish the DBQ we started today. We'll go over the answers in class tomorrow.

2. Complete the Multiple Choice, and DBQ Short Answer section of the August 2007 Regents Exam. Please complete the parts of the exam, without looking at the answer key. We can't accurately gauge your performance, if you're using the answer key to complete your hw.

Your target - 35 M/C correct!

HW 5/25

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Here's your HW for 5/25. Due Date is Friday 5/27

1. Read TAP Chapter 41

2. Complete the GRQ's for Chapter 41. If you didn't do the GRQ's before the APUSH exam, you should do them now.

Chapter 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism – Big Picture Themes

1. Conservatism emerged through Reagan who supported tax cuts, “supply-side” economics that helped businesses, and a strengthening of the military. The national debt increased dramatically, largely due to increased military spending.

2. Reagan took a strong stance against communism, calling the U.S.S.R. the “evil empire.”

3. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union, tensions began to soften. Gorbachev’s actions within the U.S.S.R. would eventually lead to communism’s fall in 1989.
4. In 1991, Iraq invaded Kuwait. This started an international effort to oust Iraq, led by George H. W. Bush and the U.S.

Chapter #41: The Resurgence of Conservatism
Martin Luther King Jr.
Viet Cong (V.C
Jimmy Carter
Edward Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
John Anderson
Anwar Sadat
Geraldine Ferraro
Jesse Jackson

Sandra Day O'Conner

"supply-side economics"
Moral Majority
Chappaquiddick
Grenada Invasion
Yuppies
Strategic Defense Initiative
Betty Friedan.
Reverse Discrimination
Affirmative Action
Neo-conservatism
Sunbelt
Roe v. Wade

CHAPTER 41: THE RESURGENCE OF CONSERVATISM (1980-1992)

The Election of Ronald Reagan, 1980

Know: New Right, Moral Majority, neoconservatives, “ABC” movement

1. What factors (social, political, and economic) contributed to Reagan’s victory in 1980?

The Reagan Revolution

Know: Iranian hostage release, Prop. 13, “welfare state,” “boll weevils”

2. What changes did Reagan make to the national budget and how did these contrast with previous spending programs?

The Battle of the Budget

Know: recession of 1982, supply-side economics, “yuppies”

3. What practices contributed to federal budget deficits under Reagan’s administration?

Reagan Renews the Cold War

Know: Star Wars/SDI, arms race, Cold War, “Solidarity,” Olympic boycott

4. What were Reagan’s attitude, strategy, and rationale toward negotiating with the Soviets?

Troubles Abroad

Know: West Bank, Israel and Lebanon, “Teflon president,” Sandinistas, “contra” rebels

5. Summarize Reagan’s international policy in the Middle East and Central America/Caribbean, identifying which side the U.S. supported and which side it opposed.

Round Two for Reagan

Know: Geraldine Ferraro, Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, INF treaty

6. What changes in the Soviet Union contributed to the end of the Cold War?

The Iran-Contra Imbroglio

Know: Iran-contra affair

7. Describe the flow of money and arms involved in the Iran-contra scandal.

Reagan’s Economic Legacy

Know: “Reaganomics”

8. How was Reagan’s economic policy both a failure and a victory?

The Religious Right

Know: Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, “identity politics”

9. How did the tactics of the religious right parallel those of the movements of the New Left during the 1960s?

Conservatism in the Courts

Know: Sandra Day O’Connor, affirmative action, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey

10. How did the Supreme Court decisions in Webster and Casey curtail Roe v. Wade?

Referendum on Reaganism in 1988

Know: “Black Monday,” “Seven Dwarfs”

11. What factors contributed to the ruin of savings and loan institutions?

George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

Know: George H. W. Bush, Tiananmen Square, Berlin Wall, CIS, Yugoslavia, “ethnic cleansing,” Nelson Mandela

12. What were the unexpected consequences of the demise of the Soviet Union?

The Persian Gulf Crisis

Know: Saddam Hussein, “Operation Desert Storm” (“hundred-hour war”)

13. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” How did this philosophy have a negative outcome in America’s involvement with Iran and Iraq?

Bush on the Home Front

Know: Americans with Disabilities Act, Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, “read my lips…”

14. How did reaction to the Thomas confirmation reflect the changing political attitudes of some women?

Varying Viewpoints: Where Did Modern Conservatism Come From?

Know: Charles and Mary Beard, Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Sugrue and Edsall, George Will

15. Identify three broad influences that contributed to modern Conservatism and defend the one you think was most influential.

HW Assignment 5/23/2011 (Monday Night)

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Hello, APUSHers:

Your assignment Monday 5/23

Monday Night: Due Wednesday!
Read Chapter 40 in T.A.P.

Complete the GRQ's. If you didn't do the ID's before the APUSH exam, you should do them now.
Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies – Big Picture Themes

1. The economy began to slow. This was mostly due to increased oil prices and resulting inflation. Generally speaking, during the seventies, gas prices tripled and inflation reached double digits by 1980.
2. Nixon was brought down by the Watergate Scandal. The scandal involved a break-in and mic bugging at the Democratic headquarters. Nixon got into trouble for “obstructing justice” and telling people to keep quiet about it.
3. Jimmy Carter was elected as a Washington outsider. He struggled as president with (a) the economy which took a nose-dive and (b) foreign affairs as he was unable to deal with U.S. hostages taken in Iran.
4. Though times were certainly not bad, mixed with the Watergate scandal, it was a decade without tremendous progress.

Spiro Agnew
Daniel Ellsberg
Henry Kissinger
Earl Warren
Warren Burger
George McGovern
John Dean
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Shah of Iran
Aytollah Khomeini
Détente
Executive Privilege
Vietnamization
Nixon Doctrine
My Lai massacre
Kent State Killings
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Pentagon Papers
SALT
MIRVs
Watergate Scandal
CREEP
War Powers Act
OPEC
Iran Hostage Crisis

CHAPTER 40: THE STALEMATED SEVENTIES

Sources of Stagnation
Know: Productivity, Inflation
22. Describe the economic problems faced by the United States in the 1970s.

Nixon "Vietnamizes" the War
Know: Liberal Establishment, Vietnamization, Silent Majority, Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, My Lai
23. What was President Nixon’s plan for getting the US out of Vietna

Cambodianizing the Vietnam War
Know: Cambodia, Kent State University, Twenty-sixth Amendment, Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg
24. What developments caused many people to become even more critical of the war in 1970 and 1971?

Nixon's Detente with Beijing (Peking) and Moscow
Know: Henry Kissinger, Détente, ABM Treaty, SALT Treaty, MIRVs
25. What was the “China Card,” and how did Nixon use it?

A New Team on the Supreme Bench
Know: Judicial Activism, Miranda, Engel v. Vitale, Warren Berger, Roe v. Wade
26. Why was Nixon unhappy with the Supreme Court?

Nixon on the Home Front
Know: Aid the Families with Dependent Children, Reverse Discrimination, Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Silent Spring, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, Southern Strategy
27. How conservative was President Nixon? Explain.

The Nixon Landslide of 1972
Know: George McGovern
28. How did the situation in Vietnam help Nixon win a landslide in the 1972 election?

The Secret Bombing of Cambodia and the War Powers Act
Know: Pol Pot, War Powers Act
29. What did Cambodia have to do with the War Powers Act?

Bombing North Vietnam to the Peace Table
30. "The shaky `peace' was in reality little more than a thinly disguised American retreat." Explain.

The Arab Oil Embargo and the Energy Crisis
Know: OPEC
31. Explain the cause and effects of the Arab Oil Embargo.

Watergate and the Unmaking of a President
Know: Watergate, CREEP, Enemies List, Plumbers, John Dean, Executive Privilege, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, Saturday Night Massacre
32. Of what wrongdoing was the Nixon administration guilty?

The First Unelected President
33. Did President do the right thing when he pardoned Nixon? Explain.

Defeat in Vietnam
34. What was the cost (not in just money) of the Vietnam War?

Feminist Victories and Defeats
Know: Title IX, ERA, Roe v. Wade
35. Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail?

Makers of America: The Vietnamese
36. What difficulties did Vietnamese immigrants experience when they came to America?

The Seventies in Black and White
Know: Desegregation, white flight, affirmative action, United States v. Wheeler
37. Explain the significance of the Bakke case.

The Bicentennial Campaign and the Carter Victory
Know: Jimmy Carter
38. Why did Jimmy Carter win the presidency in 1976?

Makers of America: The Feminists
39. Compare and contrast the first and second feminist waves.

Carter's Humanitarian Diplomacy
Know: Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Camp David Accords
40. Describe Carter's foreign policy achievements.

Economic and Energy Woes
Know: Shah of Iran
41. How did Carter react to the renewed energy crisis?

Foreign Affairs and the Iranian Imbroglio
Know: Leonid Brezhnev, SALT II, Ayatollah Khomeini, Afghanistan, Hostage Crisis
42. What foreign policy problems plagued the second half of Carter's presidency?

DBQ Link - Vietnam War

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Hello, APUSHers:

CLICK HERE for the DBQ Link

Our mission - Timed DBQ Essay tomorrow, 8th Period!

EXAM FRIDAY 5/20

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EXAM FRIDAY 5/20
Hello, APUSHers

On Friday, we will have an exam on the Cold War. It will be conducted under similar conditions to a regular regents exam. In other words, you will have....

Part I - 50 multiple Choice
Part II - Thematic Essay
Part IIIa DBQ Short Answer Section.
Part IIIb - DBQ Essay

The questions for the exam will be taken, for the most part, DIRECTLY from the regents-prep website.

Topics 6b and 7a will comprise the source of the questions.

Here is a link to the multiple choice question bank

Here is a link to the old exams. I will be taking the thematic and DBQ from one of the old exams. Hint: It will be based on the Cold War.

APUSH HW 5/17

2011-05-17T11:56:00.000-07:00

Hello, All:

Tonight's HW (Due Thursday)

Read Ch. 39 in TAP "The Stormy Sixties"

Complete GRQ's

CHAPTER 38: THE STORMY SIXTIES

Kennedy's "New Frontier" Spirit

Know: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Robert McNamara, Peace Corps

1. What was new about the New Frontier?

The New Frontier at Home

2. Assess the effectiveness of New Frontier domestic policies.

Rumblings in Europe

Know: Berlin Wall, Common Market, Trade Expansion Act, Charles de Gaulle

3. Describe Kennedy's relationship with Western Europe.

Foreign Flare-ups and "Flexible Response"

Know: Congo, Laos, Robert McNamara, Flexible Response

4. Why did Kennedy believe that a policy of flexible response could better meet the foreign problems of the 1960s?

Stepping into the Vietnam Quagmire

Know: Ngo Dinh Diem, Viet Cong

5. Why was it difficult to use flexible response to deal with the situation in South Vietnam?

Cuban Confrontations

Know: Alliance for Progress, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita Khrushchev, Quarantine, Hot Line

6. How could Cuba be considered the low and the high of Kennedy's foreign policy?

The Struggle for Civil Rights

Know: Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King Jr., SNCC, James Meredith, Birmingham, March on Washington, "I Have a Dream," Medgar Evers

7. Were Kennedy's civil rights actions more the cause of events or a reaction to events in the civil rights movement?

The Killing of Kennedy

Know: Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Warren Commission

8. What was the reaction to Kennedy's assassination? Why?

The LBJ Brand on the Presidency

Know: Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Johnson Treatment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Affirmative Action, War on Poverty, Great Society, The Other America

9. Did Johnson provide good leadership to the country in his first term? Explain.

Johnson Battles Goldwater in 1964

Know: Barry Goldwater, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

10. Your book says that the 1964 election was a contest between distinctly different political philosophies. Explain this idea?

The Great Society Congress

Know: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Medicare, Medicaid, Entitlements, Immigration and Nationality Act, Head Start

11. In what ways could it be said that 1964-68 marked some of the most liberal years for government in American history?

Battling for Black Rights

Know: Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Twenty-fourth Amendment, Freedom Summer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Selma

12. What forward steps toward voting for African-Americans were made in the mid-1960s?

Black Power

Know: Watts, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammed, Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael

13. Why did African-Americans turn from non-violence in the late 1960s?

Combating Communism in Two Hemispheres

Know: Operation Rolling Thunder, Guerrilla Warfare

14. Why did President Johnson increase America's military presence in Vietnam?

Vietnam Vexations

Know: Six-Day War, Teach-ins, William Fulbright, Credibility Gap, Cointelpro

15. Describe the negative consequences of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam Topples Johnson

Know: Tet Offensive, Eugene McCarthy

16. Why did President Johnson decide not to run for re-election in 1968?

The Presidential Sweepstakes of 1968

Know: Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy, Democratic Convention, Richard Nixon, George Wallace

17. Why was the 1968 presidential election an interesting one?

Victory for Nixon

18. "Nixon had received no clear mandate to do anything [in the 1968 election]." Explain.

The Obituary of Lyndon Johnson

19. It could be said that few presidents were as great a success or as great a failure as Lyndon Johnson. Assess.

The Cultural Upheaval of the 1960s

Know: Berkeley, Sexual Revolution, Stonewall Inn, Students for a Democratic Society, LSD

20. Why did a 1960s counterculture develop and how was it expressed?

Varying Viewpoints: The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?

21. How do you answer the question in the title of this section? Explain.

APUSH HW Week of May 9, 2011

2011-05-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments, for the week of May 9, 2011

Monday Night:

THE COLD WAR "HOT 24"
Listed below are terms, and concepts related to the Cold War, which I've called the "Hot 24." These terms, concepts, etc. are the most common subject of mult. choice questions, essays, etc. on the Regents exam.

Your mission: For each term,

1. Identify what it is.
2. Its purpose: What/why it was done.
3. Its significance: Why was it important?

Your response should be a short paragraph (3-5 sentences). Preferably, you should do these on index cards to keep them for the Regents Exam.
Here's the list

1. Truman Doctrine
2. Marshall Plan
3. Berlin Airlift
4. NATO
5. Warsaw Pact
6. Korean War
7. H.U.A.C.
8. Rosenberg Trial
9. McCarthyism
10. Domino Theory
11. CIA
12. Eisenhower Doctrine
13. Sputnik
14. Bay of Pigs
15. Cuban Missile Crisis
16. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
17. Vietnam War
18. War Powers Act of 1973
19. 26th Amendment
20. Iron Curtain
21. NY Times vs. United States
22. Alger Hiss
23. General Douglas MacArthur
24. Joseph McCarthy

Tuesday Night:

1) Go to the NARA (National Archives and Records) Website. Click on the link below, and print out the worksheet.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/movie.html

2) The title of the cartoon you are going to be watching is "Make Mine Freedom." Before you watch the cartoon, complete "Step 1" section "B"

3) Check out this "old school" cartoon, entitled "Make Mine Freedom." Here are the links for the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5374008715756508221&q=make+mine+freedom

Wednesday:

The DBQ:

CLICK HERE for the link.

Complete the rest of the short answers. Write a rough draft of your essay to be peer reviewed on Thursday.

Final Draft due FRIDAY!

HW Assignments week of 4/25

2011-04-25T11:21:00.000-07:00

Hello APUSHers:

For the next two weeks, we will be running two separate HW assignments. Those for the people taking the APUSH exam on May 6th and those who are not.

Exam'ers CLICK HERE For MORE great sites!

Release your inner Bubba! Play Bubba Brain! CLICK HERE
For those people taking the APUSH exam, your assignments are listed below

Wednesday Night:

1. Begin reviewing the APUSH Multiple Choice FAQ's. Work on MEMORIZING ten of the FAQ's a night.

2. CLICK HERE for the link to the first review packet. Please complete the questions, and bring to class to share with your team-maters. Talk to your team-maters, and determine how to divide the assignment.

IF YOU'RE NOT TAKING THE EXAM...
1. Watch - Brainpop THE COLD WAR

2. READ CHAPTER 37

3. COMPLETE THE ID'S

4. COMPLETE GRQ's 39-48 ("Post War Economic Anxiety to "The US and The Soviet Union"

Thursday:

1. Memorize another 10 APUSH FAQ's.

2. CLICK HERE for Friday's review packet. We'll work on it in class Friday, but YOU can get a jump on it tonight

NON-EXAM'ers: Finish the Chapter 37 GRQ's

PARTNER QUIZ - Chapter 37 (for NON-EXAM'ers)

Friday:
1. Memorizing APUSH FAQ's 21-30

2. We need to have these Review Packets Completed by Tuesday!

1876-1914
1914-1945
1945-1990
NON-EXAM'ers
READ CHAPTER 38
Complete Chapter 38 ID's and GRQ's

APUSH Study Materials

2011-04-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

I'm posting links for the APUSH study guide, and CRAM PACKET. We will be working out of the study guide starting ASAP. So, you're going to need them in class every day until the exam. We're going to go through the packet, section by section.

BRAINPOP - We have a FIVE DAY TRIAL (Expires this Sunday; We'll make another one!). The login is WJPS2011 and the password is WJPS.

THE AWESOME REVIEW PACKET. We will try to get copies, but I would suggest printing it out.

Topic Outlines - Brief, one page synopses of all the topics we've covered.

THE CRAM PACKET. Please print this out

While not the best method of studying, this handy-dandy little packet will help you prepare for AP (EXAMENITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE). This is for studying on your own.

How should you use this cram sheet? Start looking at it TODAY! Don't just read it, though. Highlight it, and take notes on it. The best way to cram is repetition, repetition, repetition. In other words, Highlight the cram sheet, and copy down the key information, over and over and over again, until you can do it from memory. It's not the most fun way to learn stuff, but it is successful for tests like these.

APUSH Exam FAQ's - These are the most common subjects of multiple choice questions on the AP Exam. You should be memorizing 10 of these a night.

One Page Outlines of APUSH Topics with Notes
Exploration
Colonization
Life in the Colonies
Causes of the Revolution
Critical Period
Making a Nation
War of 1812
Jacksonian Democracy
Creating an American Culture
Native American Treatment
Sectional Differences
Westward Expansion
Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
Gilded Age: Politics and Urbanization
Foreign Policy - 1865-1914
Progressive Era
World War I
The 1920s
The Great Depression
Foreign Policy in the 1930s
World War II
Truman and the Cold War
Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
Kennedy's New Frontier
Nixon
The United States Since 1974
Civil Rights Movement
Women's Equality

APUSH Spring Break Assignment 2011

2011-04-13T18:03:00.000-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignment(s) for Spring Break. The culminating assignment for the week will be a practice APUSH exam.

NOTE - The .pdf book that we've been using is the 12th Edition of THE AMERICAN PAGEANT. Our in-class textbook and the wiki notes come from the 13th Edition. The chapter numbers are one off, but some of you probably know that already.

NOTE #2 - You are only responsible for reading the CHAPTER NOTES. Not the chapter. However, if you wish to read the chapters, please feel free to do so.

Monday Night:

1. Read, Highlight, Outline Chapter 37 Notes

Complete lecture notes on

Tuesday Night

RHO Chapter 38 Notes

Complete Lecture Notes on Lectures 69, 70, 71, and 72 CLICK HERE for the link to Lecture Site

Wednesday Night

RHO Chapter 39 Notes

Complete Lecture Notes on Lectures 73, 74, 75, 76 CLICK HERE for the link to Lecture Site

Thursday Night

RHO Chapters 40 and 41

Complete Lecture Notes on Lectures 77, 78, 79, 80 CLICK HERE for the link to Lecture Site

Friday: Practice AP Exam.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK! he exam starts on p. 6 of the PDF. On the honors system, I am asking that you only look at the pages related to the exam, and not anything else, so we can accurately gauge your progress. PLEASE BE PATIENT!!! It takes a LONG time to download.

This will be scored like a real AP exam. Each essay will count as 1.3/4.0 points. Multiple Choice will be scored as 4.0 weighted exam.

APUSH Assignments Week of 4/11

2011-04-10T19:32:00.000-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are the assignments for the week of 4/11. We will be having a test/quiz (AKA "Quest") on Friday the 15th, covering Great Depression and WWII. Details to follow.

Monday Night: THE LECTURES are due TUESDAY. The Chapter ID's and GRQ's are due on WEDNESDAY!

1. Complete the following Lectures

2. Read Chapter 36. Complete the Chapter ID's and GRQ's. HERE IS THE LINK FOR CH. 36. HERE IS THE LINK FOR THE GRQ's.

Tuesday Night: MOVIE NIGHT! Due Thursday!

A WWII Double Feature! Please complete the questions that correspond to each video

WWII Part I -

WWII Part II

Wednesday Night: Finish the movie night double feature.

Assignment - Web Quest

2011-04-06T20:52:00.001-07:00

CLICK HERE for the "New Deal" Webquest.

HW Assignments week of 4/4/2011

2011-04-04T09:45:00.001-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 4/4/2011.

There will be an exam this FRIDAY on the Great Depression/New Deal. The exam will consist of 80 Questions (30 Matching, 50 multiple choice). Details to follow this week.

Monday Night:

Read the following Article "What Did the New Deal Accomplish?". After you read the article, post a FIFTY (50) word summary of the article. CLICK HERE for SAMPLE COMMENTS.

Tuesday Night - Due Wednesday
READ Chapter 35
Complete GRQ's and Chapter ID's

Wednesday Night:
Complete Lecture #61: The Failures of Diplomacy and Lecture #62: The Second World War. Please complete your summaries on a podcast form.

Thursday Night:
Please Review for your Exam on Friday (will cover chapters 33 and 34):

Friday Night:
Read Chapter 36

Complete GRQ's and Ch. Id's

HW 4/4/2011

2011-04-04T09:20:00.000-07:00

After reading the article below, please leave a comment of about 50 words.

The Hundred Days and Beyond: What did the New Deal Accomplish?
by Anthony Badger

“There wasn’t anybody in that entire Brains Trust apparently that had given any thought – they had absolutely no plans – or any real study to the problem created by this banking situation.”

-Walter Wyatt, the Federal Reserve official, who was amazed at how unprepared the incoming Roosevelt administration was for the situation they faced on inauguration day, 4 March, 1933.
The Hundred Days

The Hundred Days were an accident. Roosevelt took advantage of the need to reopen the banks to ask Congress to stay in session to pass recovery and reform legislation. Much of that legislation was improvised. The haste dictated by the economic crisis profoundly shaped the New Deal response in the Hundred Days.

Despite the four months between election and inauguration, Roosevelt had few worked-out legislative or recovery plans. He certainly had no plans to deal with the rapidly escalating banking crisis. When he took office and shut the banks, he had to turn to held-over officials in the Treasury and Federal Reserve to dust off legislative proposals that they had devised in the Hoover years. The key was not more credit (the banks had had plenty of that) but recapitalization through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation buying preferred stock in the banks. It was still a tremendous gamble when the President went on the air on Sunday March 12 to explain the crisis and make a “man to man appeal” for confidence when the banks reopened the next day. The gamble paid off when people deposited more than they took out. There was no Plan B if that appeal failed.

The response to FDR’s inaugural and from congressional leaders to his banking proposals encouraged him to ask Congress to stay in session. Eventually Congress passed an unprecedented sixteen pieces of major legislation. In the Hundred Days, the New Deal established a farm program that told farmers what they could and could not plant (the Agricultural Adjustment Administration), created an industrial recovery programme that set minimum prices and wages (the National Recovery Administration), launched the biggest public works program in the nation’s history (Public Works Administration), set up national relief program (Federal Emergency Relief Administration), refinanced farm and home mortgages, regulated the stock market and banking, guaranteed bank deposits, and established the Tennessee Valley Authority.

There was no great federal blueprint that FDR wanted to impose on the country. He really only had definite plans for farm policy, the Tennessee Valley and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Only when existing appropriations for relief were exhausted did he devise a temporary relief administration. Forty days into the Hundred Days there was no indication that there was to be an industrial recovery program – congressional action forced Roosevelt’s hand over that and over public works spending.

There was much talk of the emergency as the equivalent of war and a justification for emergency presidential powers as in a time of war. Wartime agencies from 1917-18 served as model for agencies like the NRA. Many officials who had served in government then returned to Washington in 1933. But, in fact the emergency in 1933 led to constraints rather than opportunities for federal power. The government had to act quickly but there simply was not any established “state capacity” for the government to do so. The federal government, observed one historian, “had almost no institutional structure to which Europeans would accord the term ‘the State’.” It had neither the information nor the personnel to implement the policies launched in 1933.
As a result, bankers themselves had to decide which banks were sound enough to reopen, farmers had to operate the crop control programme, businessmen dominated the formulation and the implementation of the NRA industrial codes, existing state agencies had to administer the relief programme, and the army had to organize the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Similarly, Roosevelt and others had a fatal attraction for one-off quick-fix solutions that would kick-start the economy into recovery without the permanent expansion of the bureaucracy and constant state intervention. Congressional “share the work” schemes, farm proposals for cost of production legislation, retrenchment, public works spending, and above all demands for currency inflation were all in this “start-up” mode. Roosevelt never lost the hope that tinkering with the currency –including the gold-buying experiment – would raise price levels, particularly of farm products and in itself bring recovery.

This concern for the domestic price-level fitted in with his main advisers’ conviction that the depression was national in origin and would be solved by nationalist measures. These concerns finally knocked out of the reckoning an internationalist option at the London conference at the start of July. For men like FDR’s budget director, Lewis Douglas, balancing the budget was one part of an international rescue package that involved exchange rate stabilization and the removal of trade barriers. Roosevelt believed that currency stabilization would tie his hands as he sought domestic recovery, so he scuppered the London conference.

Why did FDR get support for the banking bail-out and for the dramatic legislation of the Hundred Days? It was not just his communication skills both personally to congressional leaders and journalists and nationally to the radio audience. He was popular, he had been elected by a large majority, and he had survived an assassination attempt. Above all, it was the scale of the depression that made congressional leaders of both parties respond to their constituents’ demands to support FDR. Unemployment was at least twenty-five percent, agriculture was devastated, and homeowners and farmers lost their homes and land in the thousands every month. None of the stabilizers that protect Americans nowadays were in place – almost no unemployment relief since private, local and state unemployment welfare funds were exhausted; no guarantee of bank deposits; no unemployment or old age insurance. FDR’s opportunity lay in the magnitude of the economic downturn which led political leaders to ignore (temporarily) cherished ideological convictions against government intervention.

The Difficulties of Micro-Economic Intervention

The National Recovery Administration did not bring recovery. In part, its failure reflected the contradictions of the New Dealers’ analysis of economic failure. In some industries they wanted to check excessive competition which relentlessly fuelled the deflationary spiral: cutting wages and prices in a vain effort to undercut competitors. But their analysis of other industrial sectors was that large firms practiced the economics of scarcity, keeping prices artificially high. The codes of fair practice, drafted largely by trade associations which held a monopoly of information about their industries, did little to protect consumers, increase wages, or increase purchasing power. To small businessmen the codes seemed to protect their larger rivals. For industries in which a few firms already controlled most of the market, there was little incentive to concede to labor, consumers or potential new entrants. There were more than 500 codes which merely increased resentment of bureaucracy and efforts at code enforcement. Concentration, as originally envisaged on codes in a few central industries would have been better. But fundamentally, there was little in the NRA that would create new jobs. It probably checked the deflationary spiral but, if the hope was that public works spending would engineer expansion, then PWA spending could not work quickly enough. Probably the biggest mistake was not to include government loans to business in the NRA which might have financed expansion. When the industrial recovery legislation was knocked down in 1935 it had few friends: the only attempts to sustain it were in coal mining.

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was more politically and institutionally successful. Production control and price-support loans on stored commodities remained part of US farm programmes until 1996. Agriculture was the one area where there was ‘state capacity’ in 1933. The government had county by county production records; agricultural economists had devised a production control plan that was voluntary but provided incentives to offset the ‘free rider’ principle; and the Extension Service provided a network of agents in each rural county could sign up millions of individual farmers to participate. The farm program operated remarkably smoothly and quickly. Critics have claimed that drought, rather than government programmes, cut production, and that the AAA exacerbated rural poverty. Whatever its faults, the income it provided to farmers enabled them to survive on the land in the 1930s until non-farm opportunities arose after 1940. It eliminated many of the risks in farming and provided new sources of credit.

However, organized farm groups achieved political power in 1933 because their cooperation was essential to a voluntary farm program. This strengthening of farm interest groups meant that those groups would stand in the way in the future of plans to reorder American agriculture on a more efficient basis and in the way of solving the problems of rural poverty. New Dealers came to recognize that expanding urban consumer purchasing power, rather than supporting farm prices, was the solution to the farm problem. But by then farm pressure groups were too entrenched. Government support for agriculture became more and more generous (and less justifiable) as the number of people in farming declined.

The Longer-Term New Deal

The longer-term New Deal reforms produced social cohesion in the United States and a faith in the federal government that would last until the 1960s.

Financial regulation of both banks and stock market in 1933 and 1934 heralded a lengthy period of financial stability, contained stock market speculation, and largely ended the spectres of bank failure.

From 1933 to 1938 the New Deal instituted reforms that would re-finance the mortgages of homeowners and farmers. They enabled debt-ridden property owners to take out longer-term mortgages and paved the way for a significant expansion of homeownership in the US, although the construction industry did not really start to revive until the late 1930s. The new mortgage arrangements helped the United States eventually to have the highest percentage of homeownership in the world. Farm foreclosures virtually stopped after 1933.

The failure to secure dramatic economic recovery meant that the government had to stay in the business of relief. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded state relief programs until 1935. In poor states the federal government put up almost 90% of relief money. Harry Hopkins always wanted to replace the dole with jobs. The Civil Works Administration put people to work temporarily in the winter of 1933-34. In 1935 the Works Progress Administration provided jobs for the unemployed – at its peak forty percent of the nation’s jobless. Many WPA jobs were unskilled construction jobs, particularly on roads. They struggled to attain the legitimacy and wage rates of jobs in the private sector. But the WPA provided jobs for artists, middle-class professionals, teachers and students. The range of construction projects from housing projects to high schools to a football stadium at the University of Arkansas created a permanent New Deal landscape at the local level. The WPA showed that government job programmes can be creative and efficient. For all the limitations and conservative stereotyping, WPA jobs were the first indication for many Americans that the federal government took its responsibility for their welfare in an economic downturn seriously.

The Wagner Act of 1935 was perhaps the most remarkable piece of legislation of the whole New Deal. It is difficult to imagine another year in which such a pro-union piece of legislation could have been passed. Anti-union tactics had been largely unrestrained in the United States. The courts, local, and state governments had usually sided with employers. This alignment reflected the fact that in most communities in the United States, the middle class identified with the employer rather than with local strikers. American workers had been encouraged in union organization in the early New Deal, and had launched in 1934 an unprecedented, albeit mostly unsuccessful, wave of strikes. The Wagner Act, by outlawing a host of employer anti-union activities and providing for government-supervised worker elections for union recognition, provided vital protection for union organizers as they organized mass production workers for the first time in 1936 and 1937. Unions provided the radical cutting edge of New Deal politics in the late 1930s. The decade was perhaps the only decade in the twentieth century in which middle-class Americans identified with industrial workers as fellow consumers. From the 1940s onwards middle-class Americans tended to view organized labour as hostile to their interests.

The final cement in a positive relationship between ordinary Americans and their government was the 1935 Social Security Act. Like the Wagner Act, the Social Security Act did not herald a ‘second New Deal’; rather it was the culmination of expert reform development and congressional study over a two-year period. The United States had been an “outlier,” a “welfare laggard” in the western industrialized world before 1935. For all the limitations of the Social Security Act – regressive taxes, variations in state provision, lack of coverage of some of the neediest Americans, and the lack of health care – it nevertheless represented a quantum leap in social provision. The contributory taxes also ensured that its legacy was permanent. As Roosevelt rightly observed, no future Congress was going to take away benefits that their constituents believed they had paid for.

It was these measures above all that created a half-way political revolution in the United States and bound lower-income voters to the Democratic Party until at least the 1980s and made it the national majority party until the 1990s. But it was only a half-way revolution. FDR never created the unequivocally progressive party that he hoped for. In particular, the southern Democrats, who had so enthusiastically supported the emergency New Deal, survived Roosevelt’s attempt to reconstruct the party in the South. They were skeptical about the non-emergency, urban, labor-oriented direction of the New Deal which also threatened traditional patterns of racial and economic dependency in the South. They would combine after 1938 with conservative Republicans in a bi-partisan coalition that would block efforts to extend the New Deal for the next quarter of a century. This constituted a powerful anti-statist coalition that stymied FDR’s 1937-38 hopes of a Third New Deal which would have guaranteed social minima to all Americans through social housing, extended coverage of Social Security, health insurance, a full-scale rural poverty programme, and a commitment to full employment. That agenda remains unfulfilled.

Infrastructure

The public works programmes (both the large-scale projects of the PWA and the smaller labor-intensive programs of the WPA) have tended to be treated as short-tem palliatives aimed at temporary job creation. But the most recent study of New Deal public works spending concluded that it was “an extraordinarily successful method of state-sponsored economic development.”

The New Deal rebuilt the infrastructure of the United States when revenue-starved state governments could not do so. It rebuilt the road system (though FDR’s dream of an interstate highway system would not be realized until 1956). It rescued American schools and universities. Long before federal aid to education, the New Deal built schools, paid teachers salaries, invested in capital projects in the universities, and paid students to stay on at school and college. Multi-purpose dams created cheap electrical power and managed water resource development.

Nowhere was this impact greater than in the Sunbelt. A new generation of younger southern politicians like Albert Gore and Lyndon Johnson could see what the Tennessee Valley Authority had done for a river valley – it could be model for modernizing the poorest region in the country. Like their western counterparts, they could see that abundant electrical power and readily available water could provide the key for industrial development and the diversification of agriculture. The federal government funded capital infrastructure projects in Sunbelt cities that had been funded a generation before in older northern cities by private capital. What southern and western politicians also believed was that their regional entrepreneurs need access to capital, access that an eastern-dominated financial system denied them. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, under Texas banker Jesse Jones, provided that capital. It is difficult to conceive of the remarkable growth of the South and the West in World War II and after without that New Deal-funded infrastructure investment.

Conclusion

The New Deal was a “laboratory for economic learning” in the 1930s. Given the state of government economic knowledge in the 1930s it is not surprising that government employees struggled to engineer recovery through micro-economic intervention. Economic historians and right-wing commentators blame the New Deal for prolonging the Depression by deterring private investment through excessive regulation and raising prices at the expense of jobs. While it is true that Roosevelt had not secured recovery by the time of the dramatic recession in 1937-38, it is also true that the spending afterwards did create new jobs. Government employment in the 1930s also compensated significantly for the failure to create new jobs in the private sector. Above all, it is difficult to see that a free market solution could have been imposed without massive social and anti-democratic unrest. For all the bitterness of opposition to Roosevelt and heightened class tensions in the US in the 1930s, the New Deal developed, especially through its welfare and jobs programs, enough social cohesion to allow its democratic institutions to survive a catastrophic economic downturn intact and to fight a world war successfully.

DBQ Extra Credit Assignment

2011-04-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here is the DBQ Essay Extra Credit Assignment.

CLICK HERE

HW Assignments Week of 3/28

2011-03-27T18:57:00.000-07:00

APUSHers:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 3/28. Please be mindful of due dates, and be advised that failure to complete assignments timely will result in a grade of ZERO for the assignment, as well as a phone call home.

Monday Night: Due 3/29
Listen and View the following lectures:

Lecture 59 - Causes and Consequences (Great Depression)
Lecture 60 - The New Deal

Complete the podcast/lecture sheet. You should write the equivalent of one handwritten page of information. The assignment will be collected on Tuesday.

Tuesday Night:
Podcast Night:
The Crash of '29
In October 1929 what many people thought would be an unending period of prosperity in America came to an end. A decade of unbridled optimism gave way to the collapse of the stock market and its devastating effect on the national economy. Our guest this week, Maury Klein, has written a new book on the Crash. Airdate: October 6, 2003

Wednesday Night: Movie Night
America in the 20th Century - The Great Depression

After viewing the video, click here for the question sheet. Complete the questions. Each answer should be no less than one paragraph.

Thursday:
Chapter 34 Notes
Read and Highlight the Notes. Complete your own notes in the margin.
Begin Reading Chapter 34 in the American Pageant Online

Friday:
Complete Chapter 34
Complete Chapter ID's/GRQ's

HW Assignments Week of 3/21/2011

2011-03-20T18:35:00.000-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week. Additionally, HERE IS YOUR STUDY GUIDE FOR THE BIG EXAM! THIS FRIDAY.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL STUDENTS WILL BE TAKING A PRACTICE REGENTS EXAM IN US HISTORY, PERIODS 1-3 ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 2011. PLEASE BE ON TIME, AND PREPARED WITH TWO (2) PENS, LOOSELEAF PAPER, AND AN INDEPENDENT READING BOOK. PARENTAL PHONE CALL WILL RESULT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY OF THESE THREE ITEMS WITH YOU ON WEDNESDAY!

Monday Night: Due Wednesday 3/23

Read Chapter 32 in The American Pageant CLICK HERE for the link!

Complete Chapter 32 Guided Reading Questions, and Chapter ID's. Here is the link for the Chapter ID's and GRQ'S.

Tuesday Night: Due Wednesday 3/23
1. Complete Chapter 32 GRQ's and ID's.

2. Complete ONE of the following podcasts. You can complete BOTH for GEM (Go the Extra Mile) Points.

Warren G. Harding
To many, Warren G. Harding was an ineffective philanderer whose presidency became entangled in scandal. Fred Nielsen's guest, John Dean, sets the record straight, arguing that Warren G. Harding was a far better president than popular opinion allows. John Dean served for three years as White House counsel in the Nixon administration. His new book, Warren G. Harding is part of The American Presidents series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Airdate: December 13, 2004.

The Tulsa Riot
In 1921 a black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. The charge sparked one of the worst riots in US history – which was all but lost to history until publication of Reconstructing the Dreamland by Alfred Brophy, our guest this week, on Talking History. Airdate: December 9, 2002.

Wednesday: Due Thursday 3/24

Watch the Movie "America in the 20th Century: The Roaring 20's"

Complete the Question Sheet

Print the exam study guide, and bring to class with you, so we can review on Thursday!

Thursday: Study for the Big Exam Friday!

Friday: Read Chapter 33. Complete ID's and GRQ'S.

DBQ WWI PLEASE PRINT!

2011-03-16T08:57:00.001-07:00

Please print a copy of the WWI DBQ. Print a copy for a friend, and get extra credit (participation points!).

CLICK HERE to PRINT

APUSH HW Assignments Week of 3/14/11

2011-03-13T19:00:00.001-07:00

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week. Please note that all assignments, unless otherwise indicated, are due the following class. The only accepted excuse for not handing in assignments timely is a legally excused absence from school. Failure to complete assignments timely will result in a parental phone call. Please note that "technical issues" of any kind will not be accepted as excuses for not turning in homework.

100 Question Exam MONDAY MARCH 21. Progressivism to WWI. Study guide to follow.

Monday: Please view the following lectures, and complete a separate lecture/podcast sheet for each.

Lesson 56 - US Entry

Lesson 57 - Peace Conferences

Lesson 58 - Social Tensions

Tuesday: Movie Night!
Please view WWI: On the Homefront, and complete the podcast/lecture sheet.

Complete the question sheet. CLICK HERE and print!

Wednesday: Podcast Night

Podcast - Pick ONE. Go the extra mile, and do both! Complete a Podcast Sheet for each one that you do.

The Illusion of Victory
Talking History's Bryan Le Beau and historian Thomas Fleming discuss some fresh perspectives on Woodrow Wilson and World War 1. Thomas Fleming is author of The Illusion of Victory. Airdate: February 16, 2004.

Influenza
Talking History's Fred Nielsen and author John M. Barry discuss the flu epidemic of 1918 that swept across the world killing an estimated 100 million people worldwide. According to our guest, it was the world's most lethal epidemic- responsible for the deaths of more people in 24 weeks than the Black Death killed in a hundred years. John Barry is author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. Airdate: November 14, 2005.

Thursday:

Read the Chapter 32 Notes. Highlight the notes, and then make your own annotations in the margin sections.

Begin reviewing for your exam.

Friday:
Study for the big Exam!

APUSH Week of 3/7

2011-03-06T16:55:00.000-08:00

APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week. Some notes.

1. In-Class DBQ Essay WEDNESDAY! Timed! 45 minutes. That's all folks!

2. Quizzito Friday on Chapter 29 (30 in the 12th Edition)

Monday Night - Due Tuesday

1. Finish GRQ's and ID's "Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad"

2. PLEASE PRINT THE PROGRESSIVISM DBQ

3. Complete an APPARTS analysis of the Documents. If you're not sure what APPARTS is all about, or how to do it, CLICK HERE

Tuesday Night -

Lecture Night - Please complete your summaries on the video/podcast sheet

Lecture 55 - Taft & Wilson

Lecture 56 - World War I

Wednesday -

Video Night - WORLD WAR I - THE WAR IN EUROPE

CLICK HERE, PRINT AND COMPLETE THE QUESTION SHEET.

Thursday -

1. Review for Quiz (study guide to follow).

2. CLICK HERE, and Print out the Notes for Chapter 31

3. Read, Highlight and Outline "The War to End War" (Chapter 30/31 (12th Ed.)) Remember to put the notes into your own words, and write them in the margin.

4. Begin Reading "The War to End War" (Chapter 30/31)

Friday

Read Chapter 31

Complete ID's and GRQ's (Here's the Workbook)

Preview of the week of 3/14

1. BIG EXAM THURSDAY 3/17 Progressivism to World War I

100 Questions! 2 Periods!

2. EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT DUE 3/21 - WORLD WAR I WEBQUEST! Independent Study! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!

GREAT WEBSITE!

2011-03-06T13:40:00.001-08:00

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF US HISTORY! GET READY FOR the APUSH exam!

CLICK HERE!

APUSH HW Week of 2/28

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Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 2/28/2011.

There will TWO major assessment pieces due this week.

1. Progressive Webquest! Due Monday March 7! We may, or may not have time in the pub lab this week to work on this assignment. Therefore, it is YOUR responsibility to work on this assignment at home! "Technical Issues" will not be accepted as an excuse for not handing in your assignment timely. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINKS TO THE RESOURCES THAT YOU NEED!

IF YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO!!! CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE FOR THE MAIN RESOURCE PAGE!

2. Please note that we will be having a QUIZ this Friday on Chapter 28 (Progressivism - Chapter 29 in the 12th Edition). Quiz will be individual.

MONDAY NIGHT:

1. Complete the following lecture assignments:

LECTURE 52 - The Progressive Impulse

LECTURE 53 - The Progressive Presidents

Lectures are due on TUESDAY

2. Begin working on the webquest.

Tuesday:

Listen to the Following PODCAST:
The Progressive Movement
Our guest this week, Michael McGerr, has written a book on what many historians believe is the greatest reform movement in American history--the Progressive Movement. President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the time as a period of "fierce discontent with evil." McGerr is interviewed by Talking History’s Jim Madison. Airdate: March 1, 2004.
PODCAST IS DUE WEDNESDAY!!!

2. Continue working on the Progressive Quest that we started in class.

Wednesday:

Continue, or Finish the Progressive Web Quest

Thursday:

Review for the Chapter 28 Quiz (Chapter 29 in the 12th Edition)

Begin reading Chapter 29 (Chapter 30 in the 12th Edition)

Friday:
1. Finish the WebQuest for MONDAY

2. Complete Chapter 29 (Chapter 30 in the 12th Edition). GRQ's and Chapter ID's for TUESDAY MARCH 8th

Resources:

Chapter 30
APUSH Workbook (ID's and GRQ's are here!)
Audio Textbook Links!

PEN DRIVE

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Bring PENS...Get HW Passes!

Donate a package of pens to our PEN DRIVE, receive a homework pass!

Our goal is to make sure that we never have to worry, at least in this class, about having a pen to take notes, etc. Let's help each other.

If you bring in a package of pens (1 dozen), you will receive a HOMEWORK PASS. You can bring in as many packs of pens as you like, but there will be a maximum of THREE HW PASSES allowed per student.

Thanks in advance for helping your classroom community.

HW Assignments Week of 2/14/2011

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APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of 2/14.

Extra Credit! - Immigration Web Quest! - Due Date 2/28

Monday Night - MOVIE NIGHT! Click here for the link. Watch the video, complete a podcast/video sheet, and answer the questions on the worksheet.

Video Link

Worksheet Link

Tuesday Night: Podcast Night - "Spanish American War"

CLICK HERE for the Podcast

Click here for the Podcast Sheet

Wednesday:

Lecture Night

Lecture 54 - Mckinley & Roosevelt

Lecture 55 - Taft & Wilson

Thursday: Complete the following Writing Assignment

Directions:

Was America's intervention in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century motivated more by the desire for economic markets or by the mission of bringing democracy to other regions? After each of the following items, write a sentence or two explaining why you believe each one is more closely related to markets or mission. Then develop a one-sentence thesis answering the question.

Entering the Spanish-American War over Cuba
Taking the Philippines
The Insular Cases
Supporting Panama’s independence
The Open Door Policy
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Dollar Diplomacy

Thesis:

Friday:

Complete Chapter 28 GRQ's and ID's.

Chapter 28 NOTES - READ, HIGHLIGHT AND OUTLINE the NOTES. Then Read the Chapter!

Chapter 28 ONLINE (chapter 29 in the old edition)

CHAPTER 28/29 GRQ's/ID's -

AUDIO BOOK of Chapter 28

APUSH Essay "Buzz Words"

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APUSH---Essays and Organizing Prompts
Perhaps the most daunting task in the critical essay-writing portion of the A.P. U.S. History Test is the organization and inclusion of external evidence in the essay. This web page will do its best to help A.P. students improve their organizational skills for essays, Document Based and Free Response Questions, by showing the best ways to divide and conquer the seemingly insurmountable task of essay writing.
Though there are a great number of prompts, there are only several types of prompts that exist. They are:

Evaluate the Validity
"In America the great issues of the 17th century were largely theological; those of the 18th century largely political." Evaluate the validity of this prompt.
First, to answer a validity prompt, one must take a strong stand on one side of the prompt. For this prompt, one would most likely use two body paragraphs. One paragraph for the 17th century, agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt, and one for the 18th century, agreeing or disagreeing.
If one agreed with the prompt, one would use evidence to support the statement in the prompt. If one disagreed, one would use contrasting evidence to refute the prompt.
Another helpful strategy is to provide a limited view of contrasting evidence and to disprove it for one's increased support of their own evidence.
Change Over Time
"From 1914 to the present, the main trend in the relationship between the central government and the states has been toward concentration of power in the federal government." Discuss with reference to such areas of governmental power as regulation of business, social welfare, and civil rights.
To answer a change over time prompt, one should present the initial conditions and show how the major areas evolved through the time period. For this prompt, one would most likely use three paragraphs, one for each aspect of the prompt.
To organize this prompt, one should use each paragraph to show how the aspects have changed. One may also choose, if the paragraphs seem excessively long, to use three pairs of paragraphs, with each pair focusing on the changes in each area.
In a prompt as complex as this, one needs to have clear topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph. These topic sentences are critical to essay writing, as they help bring focus and clarity to the essay.
Effectiveness/To What Extent
To what extent did the measures of the New Deal reflect a coherent economic philosophy?
To answer an extent prompt, one should take a strong stand for a greater extent or lesser extent in one's essay. By including equal amounts of evidence for both sides, the strength of the essay is diminished.
If one chose to support an essay of greater extent, one would organize outside economic evidence in paragraphs that provides examples of coherence between the economic evidence. The main points of the evidence should be separated into separate paragraphs, each showing the achievements of the programs.
In an essay of lesser extent, one would organize evidence of the failures of the reforms and describe how the reforms were random and did not support each other.
In this essay, one needs to be careful not to include evidence outside of the economic spectrum. It is common for essay writers, even advanced ones, to accidentally stray from economic evidence into cultural or social issues.
Compare and Contrast
Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington's program for black Americans and W.E.B. DuBois' program for black advancement.
In a compare and contrast prompt, one should focus on the similarities and the differences of the major aspects of the prompt.
In this prompt, one method of organization is to write two paragraphs. One comparing Washington and DuBois, and the second contrasting the two. Another method is to write two separate paragraphs for Washington and DuBois. In these two separate paragraphs, include all relevant evidence that will illustrate the similarities and differences of the two men.
In one's essay, one should concentrate on including enough evidence for comparison and contrasting to fully answer the prompt.
However, if one states in the thesis that either the aspects of the prompts cannot compare or contrast, the writer can focus on comparison or contrasting to prove one's thesis. One needs to be consistent with one's thesis to have a constant train of logic. For example, if one says that Washington and DuBois cannot be compared in the thesis but presents similarities between the two in a body paragraph, the logic of the essay has been shattered.
Cause and Effect
For the period 1890-1910 identify the forces which created conflicts among Americans and show how they manifested themselves on America.
In a cause and effect essay, one should concentrate on various events and illustrate the effects of these events.
In this prompt, one must first identify the forces that created the conflicts. These include the Reform movements of the Progressives and Populists, media, business, and government. One would then illustrate the conflicts that arose between these groups.
In this prompt, one would most likely use paragraphs to show major events and conflicts of 1890-1910 and analyze the results of these actions. With each major event or conflict, one should use a paragraph for each. In each paragraph, one would introduce an event or conflict and analyze the results of it.
Discuss the Impact
Discuss the impact of the "Transportation Revolution, 1820-1860" on the U.S.
In a discuss the impact essay, one needs to show the results of the given event.
In this prompt, one would use paragraphs that show the long-term effects of the Transportation Revolution. There are many ways to divide this essay into paragraphs. The general broadness of the question allows for these many forms of organization. The choice of organization depends upon one's knowledge of the different aspects of the period and what seems most structured.
First, one must be sure to cite the types of transportation that were part of the revolution. These include canals, turnpikes, and early railroads. An effective organization is to divide the body into three paragraphs discussing the impact of one type of transportation.
Another structure for this prompt would be to divide one's response into the areas of the country at the time, South, North, and West. The transportation developments could be shown to create the divisions within the country that led to specialization of the different regions of the nation. The industrialization of the North, the rise of slavery in the South, and other developments that allowed for a unique union to develop could be cited, with reference to increasing sectional tensions leading to the Civil War. Don't forget to include impacts other than economic issues for the regions, such as social and political issues.
Also, its possible to organize by dividing the response into the main areas of the time. Social/Cultural Issues, Economic, and Political would work very well for a standard 5 paragraph essay. One could then elaborate and make the same points described above.
Relative Importance
Assess the relative importance of three of the following in contributing American involvement in the Spanish-American War.
Jingoism/Nativism Media Economics Imperialist Leaders
The first priority in a relative importance prompt is to develop evidence for three of the contributing factors. One then must create a hierarchy, or a categorization of the evidence by significance, for the contributing factors.
It is the authors' of this page opinions that the imperialist leaders of the time were the greatest contributors to involvement in the war, the media contributed slightly less, and then economics and jingoism/nativism contributed the least. This sentence represents a hierarchy of the four factors as related to the prompt.
For this prompt, one would most likely choose the three topics that are most familiar to the writer. Then write three separate paragraphs assessing each factor, by analyzing the significance of the evidence.
One would have the most important paragraph first in their body paragraphs. This paragraph should have the strongest evidence. Then follow with the second and third paragraph, each moving down the level of the hierarchy.
These methods are only example guidelines. Over time, each writer will discover his own effective form of organization in responding to various prompts. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Decode Essay Questions

Look carefully at the verbs your instructor uses in essay questions. This chart offers some hints
about how your instructor wants you to construct your answer.

When the questions wants to ………………..then you
ANALYZE break into smaller parts. and interpret importance
APPLY extend a concept or principle to a new situation
COMPARE identify similarities between two concepts
CONTRAST distinguish important differences. between two concepts
CRITICIZE judge the positive and negative features of a concept
DEFINE offer the essential idea behind a concept
DESCRIBE provide sufficient details to establish key ideas in a concept develop a new
strategy to accomplish a goal
DESIGN develop a new strategy to accomplish a goal
EXPLAIN clarify the meaning of a concept through detail or. example
EVALUATE make a well-reasoned judgment about value or worth
GFNERALIZE apply a principle to make predictions about a new problem
HYPOTHESIZE develop a specific prediction about a complex situation
IDENTIFY designate the key elements involved
ILLUSTRATE provide examples or details to clarify
INTERPRET offer your distinctive point of view about concept's meaning
LIST identify factors in a systematic or comprehensive manner
PREDICT offer your best guess about an outcome
PROVE create your best argument using examples or reasoning
RECOMMEND put forward" a preferred course of action with a rationale
RELATE draw connections among ideas
REVIEW discuss the most important aspects of the concept
SUMMARIZE briefly identify the most critical ideas

APUSH Assignments Week of Feb. 7th 2011

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Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of Feb 7, 2011.

MAJOR ASSESSMENT PIECE - FREE RESPONSE ESSAY. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINKS!

Essay due date Monday Feb. 14th

Monday Feb 7th - Due Tuesday Feb 8th.

1. View, and take notes on the following presentation. CLICK HERE FOR THE PRESENTATION.

2. Complete the questions on slides 2, 8, 13, and 20.

Tuesday Feb. 8th -

1. Listen to the Podcast "Boss Tweed," and complete a podcast sheet.

2. PRINT A COPY of the Document "Rise of the American City." Please READ IT before coming to class on Wednesday! We will be using it in class, and you will need to have a copy. This is part of your homework, and if you don't have a copy, you will not get credit for your HW.

Wednesday: Complete a draft of your free response essay. You will lose .5 of a grade point if you fail to complete a first draft.

Thursday: Complete your final draft of your free response essay for MONDAY!

Friday:

1. Finish Free Response Essay

2. Review Chapter 27

Assignments week of 1/31/2011

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APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week of January 31, 2011. Please see the previous posts for all information regarding timeliness of submission, etc.

Some other notes.

...If you're going to email your assignments, you MUST attach them as separate documents. I will not accept assignments that you send in the body of your email. Using Google Docs is perfectly acceptable as well.

Monday Night - Complete all of the chapter 24 and 25 work, including guided reading questions, and both quizzes. In case you need the links...

Chapter 24/25

CLICK HERE for the Regents Week Readings, GRQ's and ID's

Regents Week Take Home Exam
- CLICK HERE for the link. You are responsible for completing both packets!

Tuesday Night:

View, and complete the following lectures

Lesson 47

Lesson 48

Lesson 49

Lesson 50

Please complete a separate lecture sheet for each.

Wednesday Night:
Podcast Night:

CLICK HERE, and complete any TWO podcasts of your choice. If you do more than two podcasts, any additional podcast will count as an extra credit assignment (.25/4.0).

Thursday Night:

CLICK HERE for the Reading "Robber Barons and Rebels." Read the article, and complete the questions that follow.

Friday Night:

Complete Chapter 27 GRQ's and ID's for Monday Feb. 7th

Click here for the Chapter 27 Resources.

APUSH Extra Credit Assignment

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Hello APUSHers:

Here's your extra credit assignment. Please note that assignment is supplementary to your regular work, and not as a substitute.

Here's the link!

You must complete ALL of the DBQ Questions, and the accompanying essay in order to receive credit.

Lecture Notes 1/24/2010

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Hello, Everyone:

Here's the lecture notes from today.

BTW. Interested in picking up some extra credit? Complete the DBQ Essay that goes along with the documents we worked on in class during 8th period today.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!

The Second Industrial Revolution

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Study Guide for Exam!

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CLICK HERE for the link to the study guide.

Homework Assignments 1/17/2011 and 1/24/2011

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Hello APUSHers:

Some announcements, and your assignments for the next two weeks, including your work for Regents week. Although we will not be in class, it is important that we stay current, and keep up with our readings/homework assignments.

Exams:

Friday January 21 - 75 questions multiple choice. Covering Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West. Study Guide to follow. In-Class. NO NOTES, NO PARTNERS.

Regents Week Take Home Exam - CLICK HERE for the link. You are responsible for completing both packets!

Assignments:

Monday Night: Lecture Night. Click the links below for the lectures. Please complete the Lecture/Podcast Sheet for each lecture.

Lecture 43

Lecture 44

Lecture 45

Tuesday Night: Podcast Tuesday. Complete one of the following. If you do both Podcasts, you get double HW credit. Please generate notes on the Podcast Sheet for each one that you do.

Bison
The Great Plains

Podcast Sheet

Wednesday:
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.

Thursday: STUDY FOR EXAM FRIDAY!

Friday:

CLICK HERE for the Regents Week Readings, GRQ's and ID's

Regents Week 1/24-1/28

1. Complete Regents Week Readings

2. Complete Take Home Exam packet, covering chapters 24 and 25. CLICK HERE for the link. You are responsible for completing both packets!

Assignments for the Week of 1/10/2011

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Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week. As always, a few reminders.

1. Whether you are told to, or not, you should be reading at least 5-10 pages a night in this course. If you're not spending at least an hour a night on this course, and two to three hours on your studies in total, you need to start putting that time in to your studies.

2. By now, you should have established study groups.

3. Homework, and other assignments will not be accepted if they are late. Aside from a legal absence from school, no other exception to this rule will be made.

4. We're going to be going out of sequence, skipping over chapters 24 and 25, and going straight to ch. 26. After we complete ch. 26, we'll return to chapters 24 and 25.

QUIZ - FRIDAY on Chapter 23. 45 questions. Individual. No partners, no open-book.

Assignments for the week

Monday Night - Podcast Monday

Click here for the podcast links.

Your mission is to choose TWO of the three podcasts, listen to them and complete a podcast worksheet. If you go the extra mile and do all three, you will receive double homework credit.

Here's the podcast sheet link.

Tuesday Night - Lecture Night

CHOOSE TWO out of THREE of the Lectures. If you go the extra mile and do all three, you will receive double homework credit.

Lesson 46 - Gilded Age Scandal and Corruption

Lesson 47 - Consumer Culture

Lesson 48 - Rise of Unions

PLEASE NOTE THAT MONDAY AND TUESDAY'S HW will be collected on WEDNESDAY!

WEDNESDAY NIGHT -

Preview Chapter 26, by reading, highlighting and outlining the chapter notes. CLICK HERE for the chapter notes.

Begin reviewing for the quiz on Reconstruction. CLICK HERE for a sample quiz.

Thursday - Begin reading chapter 26. You are responsible for finishing the GRQ's and ID's for Chapter 26 for TUESDAY January 18th, 2011.

Resources:
Chapter 26 Audiobook

Chapter 26 GRQ's and ID's

Chapter 26

Friday - Complete Chapter 26 GRQ's and ID's for Tuesday

Manifest Destiny, According to Jimmy Fallon

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Funny, but pretty accurate.

Gadsden Purchase from Michael G on Vimeo.

Assignments Week of 1/3/2011

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Welcome Back, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week.

Assessment: CIVIL WAR WEBQUEST. DUE DATE: 1/7/2011. Will count as an exam (4.0 weighted points). We will be in the computer lab on Tuesday, and Thursday (5th Period).

Monday Night: Begin working on the Civil War Webquest. Here are the links:

WORD DOCUMENT - Complete your answers here!

POWER POINT

Tuesday Night:

1. Continue Working on the Webquest.

2. CLICK HERE. You will be directed to a link for a PowerPoint on Reconstruction. After completing the slideshow, answer the questions on slides 2, 9, 14, and 19.

Wednesday Night:

1. Webquest

2. Read, Highlight, and Outline Chapter 23 Notes (DUE THURSDAY). CLICK HERE FOR LINK.

3. Begin Reading Chapter 23 in The American Pageant.

Thursday:

1. Finish Webquest.

2. Continue reading Chapter 23 in the American Pageant.
3. Complete the Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions.

Please note that Chapter 23's ID's and GRQ's are due on MONDAY 1/10/11.

Friday:
Finish the Chapter 23 guided reading questions, remember that the assignment is due on MONDAY!

Manifest Destiny Webquest

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Hello, APUSHers:

This is our final assessment for the first semester.

CLICK HERE for the Webquest. You can start working on the webquest this weekend. Please note that we will have some time to work on this assignment in class, but you will need to work on the assignment outside of school. You will also be responsible for any other assignments due this week.

CLICK HERE FOR THE RUBRIC - the rubric must be included with the assignment.

Please note that "technical issues" will not be an acceptable excuse for completing the assignment.

DUE DATE: 12/23/2010, either by hardcopy (printed) or google docs.

APUSH Assignments/Announcements Week of 12/13/2010

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Announcements:

1. Continue Reading 5-7 pages per night.

2. Highlight, outline, and rewrite your notes daily.

3. INDIVIDUAL TAKE HOME EXAM!!!

Topics covered from 1815-1850 (Chapters 12-15, with a little bit of 16!)
We will start in class 8th Period on Friday.
Study Guide to Follow Shortly

Assignments week of 12/13:

PLEASE NOTE THAT...
1) UNLESS YOU ARE LEGALLY ABSENT FROM SCHOOL, HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE ON THE DATE THAT THEY ARE ASSIGNED.
2) LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!
3) "I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND," OR "TECHNICAL ISSUES" ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS.
4) UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED, ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE TURNED THE NEXT SCHOOL DAY AFTER THEY ARE ASSIGNED

Monday: Due Date 12/14 (Tuesday)

1. Review Lecture 25 and complete a podcast/lecture sheet.

2. PODCAST - CLICK HERE for a link to the podcasts on antebellum reform. Choose ONE of the podcasts to listen to, and complete a podcast/lecture sheet. You are ONLY responsible for completing one podcast. However, if you choose to "go the extra mile" you will receive TWO HW credits for each additional podcast you do.

Tuesday - Due Date 12/16/2010 (Thursday)

1. Review the WikiNotes for Chapter 17.

2. Begin Reading Chapter 17.

3. Complete Ch. 17 ID's. (GRQ's are under construction; they will be up tomorrow.

Wednesday - Complete Tuesday's assignment

Thursday - Begin Studying for Take Home Exam

Friday - Take Home Exam is due MONDAY! 100 questions. 50 vocab, 50 mult. choice. Students who do not hand in the exam on MONDAY, will receive a grade of ZERO.

APUSH Quiz Study Resources

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CLICK HERE for "Ferment of Culture and Reform"

HW Assignments and Announcements Week of 12/6/2010

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Hello, APUSHers:

Announcements:
1. Continue Reading 5-7 pages per night.

2. Highlight, outline, and rewrite your notes daily.

3. INDIVIDUAL QUIZ on FRIDAY on Chapter 15. 45-60 questions. Study guide to follow.

Here are your assignments for the week of 12/6/2010. PLEASE NOTE THAT 1) UNLESS YOU ARE LEGALLY ABSENT FROM SCHOOL, HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE ON THE DATE THAT THEY ARE ASSIGNED. 2) LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED! 3) "I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND," OR "TECHNICAL ISSUES" ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS. 4) UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED, ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE TURNED THE NEXT SCHOOL DAY AFTER THEY ARE ASSIGNED.

MONDAY - LECTURE NIGHT.

Please complete, and take notes on the following lectures. Please complete the lecture notes on the podcast sheet (check the blog for podcast sheet link).

Lecture 30 - Transcendentalism, Religion, and Utopian Movements

Lecture 31 - Reform Crusades

TUESDAY - MOVIE NIGHT Click the link for the movie. View the film, and complete a movie/podcast sheet.

WEDNESDAY -

1. Begin Reviewing for the Quiz.

2. DBQ NIGHT. Click on the links below for the documents. You will be reading a series of documents related to each of those topics. Your job is to read each set of documents, and then answer the questions that follow. You may put all of your answers on one paper, but please indicate which set of questions you are answering.

Roots of Reform
Social Reform
Abolitionism

THURSDAY -
1. Review for the quiz on Friday.

2. Preview Chapter 16 by clicking here for the Chapter Notes.

FRIDAY: Read Chapter 16, and Complete Chapter 16 Guided Reading Questions and ID's for MONDAY.

Here's Chapter 16
Here's the GRQ/ID Link

Here's the Audio File!

HW - Week of 11/29

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Hello, APUSHers:

Assignments for the rest of the week will follow shortly.

Here's Monday Night's Assignment:

Movie Night - CLICK HERE to access the movie.. Remember to complete the Movie/Podcast Sheet.

Tuesday Night: LECTURE NIGHT!
Please complete a podcast/lecture sheet for each:

Lecture 23 - A Growing National Economy
Lecture 24 - The Transportation Revolution
Lecture 25 - King Cotton

Wednesday - Blog Post/Discussion
Reply to the following question in a post of at least 50, but no more than 100 words. Please respond to another person's post as well.

How does American expansion in the 1820s contribute to the rising sectional interests? Did it create the foundation for the Civil War or was that foundation already established? How did American nationalism evolve during the same years?

Thursday - Preview Chapter 15 by outlining your wiki notes. CLICK HERE for the Wiki Notes

Friday - Read Chapter 15, Complete GRQ's and Chapter ID's for MONDAY! Here are the resources for Chapter 15:

Chapter 15 Reading

Chapter 15 GRQ's

Chapter 15 AUDIO