AP U.S. History Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Joel Conley
- Term
- 2017-18 School Year
- Department
- Social Studies
- Description
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Past Assignments
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Optional Paper - will count as one test grade for quarter #4
Choose a person, topic, or event from the Progressive Era (Theodore Roosevelt) through September 11th (George W. Bush)
Write a three to five page paper. Paper must be typed. Paper must be free of grammatical errors. Paper must have a minimum of three sources. Paper must have a bibliography page.
Only papers that are well written, well researched, and meet the criteria above will receive full credit!
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Optional Test on the 50 States.
On Friday May 18th or Monday May 21st you will have the option of taking a test on the 50 US States. You will receive a map with numbers on the map. You will write the name of the state that corresponds to the number on the map. 2 points per state. 1 point off if the state is misspelled.
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Packet Period #8 due Monday, May 14th - Friday May 18th!
Test Grade! Term, event, person, concept must be answered completely and correctly for full credit.
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APUSH EXAM - 7AM
In the Study Hall. Arrive 6:45 AM!
Study hard and Good luck!
To prepare for the exam make use of these excellent sources:
You may check out an APUSH Exam practice book after 6th period. I only have 30, so they are limited. First come first serve. Books must be turned in the following morning by first period! Books checked out on Thursday do not have to be returned until Monday. Do not write in the book!
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Modern Women Persuading Modern Men: The 19th Amendment Test chapters 27 & 28
Imperialism/Spanish American War/Progressivism
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Read the following articles: The Progressive Era and Excerpt from the Jungle.
Click on the link above and enter the class code 1st period - DKRJ3; 3rd period - WQDYP; 6th period - 7JQ3B
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Essays to Read for the next test.
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Test Chapters 23 - 26.
Study the slides.
Read and study the chapters in the textbook.
Read and study the essays.
I have attached an Gilded Age outline.
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Click on the link above to find the answers to questions #s 1 - 12
I have attached a word document - The Gospel of Wealth for questions #s 13 - 27.
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Test Thursday over the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Study the questions form chapters 16 & 18; 19 - 22.
Study the slides.
Study Dr. Blights lecture notes - Lecture #7 and Lecture #18
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Chapter 13, 14, 15 frqs due the day of the test.
Friday, January 26th
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Open an internet browser and type in this link www.commonlit.org/code
First period - DKRJ3
Third period - WQDYP
Sixth period - 7JQ3B
Complete the assignment on Manifest Destiny
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Click on the link above to access the article.
See the attached file below for the questions.
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Study these significant events/people/places/etc for the APUSH semester exam.
Sixth period Tuesday, December 19th.
First and third period exam Wednesday December 20th.
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Go to this website enter class code
Class Code for 1st period - DKRJ3; 3rd period - WQDYP; 6th period - 7JQ3B
I have assigned Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's Writings On Indians.
Read the article and answer the questions.
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If for some reason you have trouble I have attached a pdf
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Click on the link above and enter the class code 1st - DKRJ3; 3rd - WQDYP; 6th - 7JQ3B
Read the two articles and answer the questions.
Andrew Jackson's Speech to Congress on Indian Removal
George W. Harkin's to the American People
I have attached a pdf of both articles if you run into trouble.
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Test on Friday, December 1st. Study chapters 11 & 12
Study the slides.
Read and study the 3 essays -
*The New Nation - 1783 - 1815
*Abolition & Antebellum Reform
*The Presidential Election of 1800
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Read the Proclamation and view the Thomas Nast illustration. Answer these questions.
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What reason did President Lincoln provide to explain his decision to formalize the observance of a day of Thanksgiving?
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Who and why did President Lincoln suggest should be remembered during the observance of Thanksgiving?
- Lincoln references sin and mercy. Why?
4. Provide specific evidence from the excerpt and the image from Harper’s Weekly that
links Thanksgiving to the Civil War. (Hint: There are many clues, especially in the image).
5. You are the President of the United States. What would you address in your Thanksgiving Day proclamation? (think of things we as Americans should be grateful for as well as the sins of our day or of things for which we as a nation should repent)
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The Causes of the War of 1812 - Click on the link below and answer the questions.
Read the article and answer the questions - The Causes of the War of 1812
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TEST Chapters 9 & 10.
Study Dr. Freeman Lecture notes, assigned essay, and keynote presentation.
Read and study chapters 9 & 10 in the textbook.
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Test 1776 Thursday. Bring your book in whatever format you may have.
You will complete short answer responses to questions on the book.
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Test Thursday, September 28th, on chapters 6 - 8.
Read and study the three articles assigned.
Study the slides.
Read and study chapters 6 - 8.
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Read this article by Friday, September 22nd.
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Read for Monday Unruly Americans in the Revolution Unruly Americans in the Revolution
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Rewrites on short answer questions from chapters 1 - 5 test.
Staple the rewrite to the original.
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TEST - Chapters 1 - 5; Questions are due Friday
Read and study slides, chapters, essays (articles) and questions.
Compare/contrast the Chesapeake Bay colonies and the New England colonies.
Study the Great Awakening, it's basic tenets, and the Enlightenment.
If you cannot open the slides in keynote, I have posted the slides as a pdf. Scroll down to recent posts and you will find the slides there.
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Read the following essays by Friday, September 1st.
Jamestown and the Founding of English America
The Origins of Slavery
The essays are posted; The Origins of Slavery
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Quiz Friday! Study the three articles, chapter one in the textbook, and the slides.
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Read Indian Slavery in the Americas; The Americas to 1620; and Imperial Rivalries by Wednesday.
The articles are posted.
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Have your APUSH syllabus signed and returned by Friday, August 11th.