APUSH CALENDAR: October 17-Dec. 2 2011
Assignments are listed the day they are due!
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25
Review session after 8th period
and after school: room 213
TEST: Multiple Choice
(Units 4-5)
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Read p. 297-316
[Immigration and nativist
reaction; Beginnings of
industrialization…]
Docs: “The Coming of the
Irish”
Maps (Atlas of American
History p.34-38)
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Read p. 316-326
[Transportation revolution/
national market economy]
History fair due: additional 5
source and 20 more research
note cards to class per group
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No school students
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Read 360-3671
[Planters, slaves in the cotton
South]
Read docs:
“William Harper’s Apology”
“Slaves Don’t Strike”
“Wage Slavery in New
England”
“Chattel Slavery Versus Wage
Slavery”
November 1
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4
Read p. 256-268
[Emergence of the second party
system]
Read p. 268 to 276
Read docs:
“South Carolina Threatens
Secession (1832)”
read p 276 to 282
[Forced removal of American
Indians…]
Read p. 287-295
Jeffersonian v. Jacksonian
Democracy worksheet
“Jackson Denounces
Nullification (1832)”
DUE: UNIT 6 TERMS
QUESTION: “Developments in
“Indians are essentially inferior to
the Anglo-Saxon race…and their
disappearance from the human
family will be no great loss to the
world.”
–Henry Clay
Sarah Vowel “Trail of Tears”
from NPR (extra credit)
transportation, rather than in
manufacturing and agriculture, sparked
American economic growth in the first
half of the 19th Century. Assess the
validity of this statement.
DUE: UNIT 7 terms
QUESTION: How did TWO of
the following contribute to the
reemergence of a two party system
in the period of 1820-1840
□ Jacksonian economic policy
□ Changes in electoral politics
□ Westward movement
History Fair: Summary
Statement Form and Annotated
Bibliography—at least 10
sources
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8
9
ELECTION OF 1828
COMMERICALS DUE
Test: essay exam
Read pages 371-376
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11
no classes for students
Veterans Day
No School
end of 1st quarter
Project: Outline of history fair
due
At least 60 notecards
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Read p. 329 to 341
[Evangelical Protestant
Revivalism; Social Reforms;
Ideals of Domesticity]
Read docs:
“Seneca Falls Manifesto”
“New Yorkers Ridicule
Feminists”
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Read p. 341-355
DUE: UNIT 8 TERMS
QUESTION: “American reform
movements between 1820 and
1860 reflected both optimistic and
pessimistic views of human nature
and society.” Assess the validity
of this statement with reference to
TWO of the following:
□ Education
□ Temperance
□ Women’s rights
□ Utopian experiments
□ slavery
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TEST: Multiple Choice
Units- 6-8
Grade pick-up
12:00-6:15
No school students
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Read p. 282 to 287; 380-390
[Early US Imperialism:
Mexican War]
Read p.390-398
[Early US Imperialism:
Mexican War]
Activity: “Westward
Expansion—A Force for Unity
or Division?”
Thanksgiving break
Thanksgiving break
Dec. 1
2
Complete “Enlarging the
National State”
UNIT 9 TERMS DUE
QUESTION: “Although
Americans perceived Manifest
Destiny as a benevolent
movement, it was in fact
aggressive imperialism pursued
at the expense of others.”
Assess the validity of this
statement.
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Read 400 to 411
[pro and anti-slavery arguments
and conflicts…]
Read p. 411-418
[Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas,
emergence of the Republican
Party, Abraham Lincoln]
Read p.420 to 429
John Brown
Docs:
Benjamin Drew
“Testimony of the Canadian
Fugitives”-1850
“Stephen Douglas opposes
Black Citizenship” (1858)
“Abraham Lincoln Denies
Black Equality” (1858)
Consider:
Evaluate the constitutionality
of the Supreme Court’s
decision in Dred Scott.
History Fair: Rought Draft
Due
First day of teacher meetings
Read p. 429 to 437
Read p. 437 to 443
SECESSION!!!
Multiple choice quiz
Election of 1860 Political
Commercials due
Consider::
The Civil War: Repressible or
Irrepressible?
(See “Varying Viewpoints, p.
442-443)