Directions:
Read Chapters 16 & 17 – Reconstruction and the Movement Westward
Part 1 – You will define and explain the historical significance of the chapter
vocabulary. Your papers will be typed.
Part 2 – SRQs – there are two SRQs per chapter make sure you answer each part
of the question as per AP rubric. Your papers will be typed
Part 3 – AP® Vocabulary – There is an attached sheet of 124 terms that you will
need to know for the AP Exam and for vocabulary quizzes throughout the year.
You will go to “Quizlet.com” create a free account and make flashcards of your
terms on quizlet by AP Periods. Then you will e-mail your quizlet link to your AP
teacher:
Mrs. Carchidi = dcarchidi@wtps.org
Mrs. Meares = kmeares@wtps.org
Mrs. Scardino-Welch = kscardino-welch@wtps.org
You will take a summer reading test upon your return that will include text based
questions and SRQs. You will be allowed to use your finished packets on this test.
NOTE: When you get your schedules IF you are in Mrs. Carchidi’s classes go to
her calendar (wtps.org) (teacher pages) where there will be posted Voice Threads
and notes throughout August to help prepare you for the start of the year. If you are
in the other classes you may still view these Voice Threads for help.
APUSH 2 – Summer Assignment 2015 – Chapter Terms
Directions: Using your book and/or the internet, give a definition or a description of each of the
key words, terms, and people below, along with why each thing or person is significant to the
time period we are studying.
Chapter 16 – The Agony of Reconstruction
1.
Reconstruction
2.
Black Codes
3.
13th Amendment
4.
14th Amendment
5.
15th Amendment
6.
Sharecropping
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Jim Crow
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Carpetbaggers
10.
Scalawags
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Greenbackers
12.
Ku Klux Klan
13.
Force Acts
14.
“New South”
15.
Compromise of 1877
16.
Redeemers
17.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
18.
“Waving the bloody shirt”
19.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
20.
“Slaughterhouse” Cases
Chapter 17 – The West: Exploiting an Empire
1.
Exodusters
2.
Bozeman Trail
3.
Assimilation
4.
Sand Creek massacre
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Buffalo soldiers
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Crazy Horse
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Sitting Bull
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Lt. Colonel George A. Custer
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“Custer’s Last Stand”
10.
Ghost Dances
11.
Wounded Knee Massacre
12.
Carlisle Indian School
13.
Dawes Severalty Act
14.
Homestead Act of 1862
15.
National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act) of 1902
16.
Placer mining
17.
Comstock Lode
18.
Dry farming
19.
Bonanza Farms
20.
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
AP® US 2 Terms List – use Quizlet.com to define these terms and send URL to your AP history
teacher via e-mail (first name initial w/ last name @wtps.org)
General Vocabulary
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Multifaceted
Repressive
Strife
Advocate
Protracted
Unilateral
Efficacy
Redress
Resurgent
Zenith
Burgeoning
Dissemination
Inertia
Bellicose
Rhetoric
Stagnated
Historical terms
Period 6: 1865-1898
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Gilded Age
Urbanization
Monopolies
Corporations
Trusts
Holding companies
Social Darwinism
Conspicuous consumption
Unions
New South
Tenant farming
Conservation
Preservation
Populist Party
Political machines
Settlement house
Transcontinental RR
Reservation
Assimilation
Laissez-faire
Plessy v. Ferguson
Utopianism
Social Gospel
Period 7: 1890-1945
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Pluralistic
Business cycle
Great Depression
Progressive reform
Welfare state
Liberalism
FDR
New Deal
Relief, recovery, reform
Conservatives
Modernization
Tradition v. innovation
Urban v. rural
Fundamentalist Christianity
v. Scientific modernism
Management v. labor
Native born v. immigrants
White v. black
Idealism v. disillusionment
Harlem renaissance
WWI
Xenophobia
Civil liberties
Strikes
Red Scare
Quotas
Great migration
Frontier closed
Imperialism
Spanish-American War
Philippine Insurrection
Anti-imperialist
Interventionists v.
isolationists
Neutrality
Woodrow Wilson
American Expeditionary
force
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
WWII
Pearl Harbor
Japanese internment
Atomic bombs
Axis Powers
Allied powers
Period 8: 1945-1980
83. Collective security
84. Containment
85. Korean conflict
86. Vietnam conflict
87. Détente
88. Decolonization
89. Nationalist movements
90. Nonaligned countries
91. Cold War
92. Oil crisis
93. Military industrial complex
94. Liberalism
95. Non-violent protest
96. Desegregation of military
97. Brown V. BOE of Topeka,
1954
98. Civil rights Act of 1964
99. Lyndon Johnson
100. Great Society
101. Private sector
102. Baby boom
103. Suburbanization
104. Sun Belt
105. Conformity
106. Immigration Act of 1965
107. Counterculture
108. Sexual revolution
Period 9: 1980-present
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Globalization
Neoconservative
Religious fundamentalism
Deregulation
Big government
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Arms reduction
9/11 attacks
War on terror
Afghanistan
Iraq conflict
Free Trade Agreements
Climate change
Fossil fuels
Computer/internet
revolution
Chapter 16
SRQ # 1
African-Americans in the South endured decades of social, economic, and political hardships.
A) Briefly explain how one of the following caused a significant change in the life of
African-Americans in post-civil war south.
 The Black Codes
 The KKK
 The Compromise of 1877
B) Briefly explain a long term effect of your choice.
C) Briefly explain why one of the other choices is NOT as significant as your choice.
SRQ # 2
After the Civil War, the Southern economy was devastated.
A) Briefly explain how one of the following proposals planned to reconstruct the South.
 40 Acres and a Mule
 Contract Wage Labor
 Sharecropping
B) Briefly explain a negative result of your choice on the social lives of African Americans
in the South during Reconstruction.
C) Briefly discuss how your choice did NOT address the economic issues in the South
during Reconstruction.
Chapter 17
SRQ # 1
As Manifest Destiny became a reality, many Native American tribes were displaced in the
West. Briefly describe how three of the following lead to the end of Native life on the Plains.
A) Homestead Act (1862)
B) Overland Trail
C) Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
D) Comstock Lode
E) Wounded Knee Massacre
F) Extermination of the buffalo
G) Carlisle Indian School (in PA)
H) Expansion of railroad
SRQ # 2
Between 1850 and 1900, the idea of the West being filled with riches just waiting to be taken
drew many settlers to the area.
A) Briefly discuss why one of the following bonanzas drew eager settlers from the East to
the West.
 Farming
 Cattle Ranching
 Mining
B) Briefly describe one difficulty experienced by a person (farmer, rancher, miner) from
your choice above.
C) Briefly explain a specific way the difficulty from your choice above was overcome.