October 2015
Calendar of Activities & Assignments
AP U.S. History
Monday
10/5
Overview of Second Great
Awakening & Republican
Motherhood
Toqueville Documents
HW: Read Chapter 9
10/12 1-4 Block Day
Jacksonian Era
Jacksonian Document Activity
HW: Read Chapter 10; Read
Jacksonian essays
10/19
No School for Students
Staff Development Day
Tuesday
10/6
Nationalism after War of 1812
Antebellum Economic Trends/Docs
Crash Course: Market Revolution
HW: Finish Chapter 9
10/14
Wednesday
All juniors take PSAT
HW: Chapter 12
11/2
Ch 11 & 12 Test
10/20
Ch. 9 & 10 MC Test
Intro to Antebellum Reform
HW: Read Chapter 13
10/27
Finish Reform Presentations
Abolitionism Documents/Discussions
HW: Finish Chapter 12
11/3
Short Answer
Manifest Destiny
Expansion & Conflict PowerPoint
Mexican War docs
HW: Read Chapter 13
HW: Read Chapter 10;
10/16
Chapter 10 Due
Review Legacy of Jackson/Era
Review 1790-1840 Charts/P/E/S
HW: Review Chapters 8-10 for LEQ;
10/26
Chapter 11 Due
Reform Presentations
Thursday
10/8
Chapter 9 Due
Short Answer (on Ch. 8 concepts) &
Intro to Andrew Jackson
HW: Prepare for Ch. 9/10 MC Test
Read Chapter 11
10/22
In Class Essay (LEQ)(1790-1840) (45
min)
Antebellum Reform Groups
HW: Read Ch. 11 for 10/26
10/29
Chapter 12 Due
SDLA (Ch. 12) & Debrief
Sectionalism
HW: Prepare for Ch. 11/12 Test
11/5
SDLA (Ch 13)
Chapter 13 Due
HW: Chapter 13/14 will be a partner test
Chapter 9 –Economic Transformation, 1820-1860
Industrial & Market Revolutions
Women’s Workers/Lowell, Mass.
Working Men’s Party
Labor Theory of Value
Robert Fulton
Middle Class Social Trends
Nativism
Cyrus McCormick
Journeymen Artisans
Eli Whitney/Mass production
Comparative Advantage
John Deere
“Benevolent Empire”
Charles Finney
Samuel Slater
unions & blacklists
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Erie Canal
Internal Migration Patterns
Irish & German Immigration
Temperance movement
Chapter 10 –A Democratic Revolution 1820-1844
Alexis de Tocqueville
“New” Democracy
Political machine
Clay’s American system
Tariff of “Abomination”
King “Mob” & King “Veto”
Jacksonian Democracy
Andrew Jackson as President
Nullification & South Carolina Nicholas Biddle & the “Bank War”
Indian Removal Act of 1830
“Trail of Tears”
Worcester v. Georgia
The Taney Court
Whig Party
Anti-Masonic Party
Panic of 1837
Independent Treasury Act
Election of 1840 (“Tippecanoe & Tyler Too” & “Log Cabin & Hard Cider”)
Election of 1824 (“Corrupt Bargain”)
John Quincy Adams as President
National Appeal of “Old Hickory”
“Kitchen” Cabinet & “Spoils” System
Jackson’s “Pet Banks”
Five “Civilized Tribes”
Charles River Bridge Case
Martin Van Buren
Working Men’s Party
Chapter 11: Antebellum Religion & Reform, 1820-1860
For this chapter, you will be assigned to a specific reform group. Skim p.331-344 and read the sections on
Abolitionism and the Women’s Movement more carefully.
Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Nativism
Lloyd Garrison
“Gag” Rule
Dorothea Dix
Sojourner Truth
George Whitefield
Transcendentalism
Walt Whitman
Utopian Communities
Abolitionist Strategies
Grimké Sisters
American Anti-Slavery Society
Horace Mann
Seneca Falls Convention
Benevolence/Good Works
Temperance movement
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mormons
Nat Turner’s Rebellion William
Underground Railroad
separate spheres
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery & Society, 1800-1860
This is a thematic chapter on slavery. Focus on the larger themes and trends and pay attention to how the
institution of slavery and the experience of slaves changes over time.
Internal Slave Trade
Slave Marriage trends
Southern Defenses of Slavery
Small planters/yeomen
Demographics on slave ownership
Regional economic differences
Forms of slave resistance
King Cotton
Old South gentry culture
Planter elite/aristocracy
property-less whites
Texas annexation
Black P rotestantism
Northern Free Black Society
Social Impacts on Slaves
Slave-holding trends
“necessary evil”/“positive good”
gang-labor system
Southern Economic Division
Origins of African American culture
Southern Free Black Society
Chapter 13: Expansion, War, & Sectional Crisis: 1844-1860
Manifest Destiny
“54° 40” or Fight!”
Mexican-American War
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford
John Brown & Raid at Harper’s Ferry
Oregon Fever
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California Gold Rush
Fugitive Slave Act & Personal Liberty Laws
Creation of Republican Party
Stephen Douglas & Freeport Doctrine
Abraham Lincoln
Plains Indian Lifestyle
Election of 1844
“conscience” Whigs
“Free Soil” Party
“higher law”/”fire eaters”
Gadsden Purchase
“Bleeding” Kansas
James Buchanan
Election of 1860