November/December 2014
Calendar of Activities & Assignments
AP U.S. History
11/3
Ch 11 & 12 MC Test + Short
Answer Response
11/4
Manifest Destiny
Expansion & Conflict PowerPoint
Mexican War docs
HW: Chapter 13
11/10 Block Periods 1-4
Road to the Civil War—diagram
Discussions
HW: Read Chapter 13
11/11
Veterans Day Observed
No School 
HW: Work on DBQ outline;
Skim Chapter 14 (don’t fixate on
battles)
11/17
Ch 13 & 14 Test (Partner) +
Short Answer Response
HW: Prepare for DBQ by rereading notes on slavery and lead
up to Civil War; watch Slavery
documentary online & Crash
Course guide)
11/24
1-4 Block Schedule
Reconstruction Discussions
Oral History questions
11/6
Chapter 13 Due
SDLA (Ch 13)
Take home DBQ outline/group discussions
HW: Work on DBQ outline; Skim Chapter
14 (don’t fixate on battles)
11/13
Chapter 14 DUE
SDLA (Ch 14)
The Civil War/film
Outlines Due
Tuesday
HW: Study for Ch. 13/14 Test
11/18
In Class DBQ—slavery
11/20
Reconstruction
SDLA (Chapter 15)
Chapter 15 DUE
HW: Read Assigned Reconstruction Article
for Monday
HW: Read Chapter 15
11/25 TUESDAY (5-7 Block schedule)
HW: None!
Thanksgiving!
12/2
The West & Close of the Frontier
12/4
Chapter 16 DUE
SDLA (Chapter 16)
Lab for work time?
HW: Study for Ch. 15/16 Test
12/11
Review
Practice DBQ
Discussion groups: essay prompts
Bring food to share!!
12/1
Review Reconstruction
Assign Review Sheets
HW:
12/8
Ch. 15 & 16 Test + Short
Answer Response
HW:
HW: Read Chapter 16
12/9
Review Sheets Due
Start Final Review: Turning Point Years
FINALS WEEK
Monday
12/15
Block schedule:
periods 1-4
Review for test
Tuesday
12/16
1st final: 8-10
Block schedule: periods 5-7
(each meets for 1 hour)
Review for Final
Wednesday
12/17
2nd final: 8-10
3rd final: 10:25-12:25
Thursday
12/18
4th final: 8-10
5th final: 10:25-12:25
Friday
12/19
6th final: 8-10
7th final: 10:25-12:25
Have a wonderful winter break!
The Final Exam
The fall semester final exam will consist of three parts. Part I will be multiple choice questions from old AP exams
(35 minutes). Part II will be two Short Answer questions (20 minutes). Part II will be a document-based essay
question (DBQ) essay (60 minutes).
Winter Break
Rest and enjoy your much-deserved vacation! There is no assigned homework over the break.
Manifest Destiny
“54° 40” or Fight!”
Mexican-American War
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Gadsden Purchase
“Bleeding” Kansas
James Buchanan
Election of 1860
Chapter 13: Expansion, War, & Sectional Crisis: 1844-1860
Oregon Fever
Plains Indian Lifestyle
James Polk
Election of 1844
Zachary Taylor
“conscience” Whigs
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
“Free Soil” Party
California Gold Rush
“higher law”/”fire eaters”
Fugitive Slave Act & Personal Liberty Laws
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Creation of Republican Party
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Stephen Douglas & Freeport Doctrine
John Brown & Raid at Harper’s Ferry
Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 14: Two Societies at War 1861-1865
Fort Sumter
Crittenden Compromise
Upper South/Border States
Battle of Antietam
Ulysses Grant
Robert E. Lee
writ of habeas corpus
N.Y.C. Draft Riots
Financing the War North & South
Military Advantages/Disadvantages of Union & Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
British Aide & the Civil War
54th Massachusetts Infantry
William T. Sherman
Election of 1864
Copperheads
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
13th, 14th , 15th Amendments
Freedmen’s Bureau
“Conquered Provinces”
Election of 1868
Scalawags & Carpetbaggers
Southern White “Redeemers”
Chapter 15: Reconstruction 1865-1877
“Ten Percent” Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Andrew Johnson
Black Codes
“Radical” Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
Ulysses S. Grant
National Woman Suffrage Association
Southern Republican Party
Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan (“Force”) Act
Compromise of 1877 & Home Rule
Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent
Protective tariffs
Trusts
gold standard/greenbacks
Alaska/Seward’s Icebox/Seward’s Folly Munn v. Illinois
Mining in the West
Homesteaders & “Exodusters”
“Long Drive” & “Open Range” Ranching
Railroads
Yellowstone National Park
Plains Indian Culture
Sand Creek Massacre
Assimilation
Chief Joseph
“Buffalo” Soldiers
Dawes Severalty Act
Sitting Bull
Custer’s Last Stand
A Century of Dishonor/Helen Hunt Jackson
Wounded Knee
The Ghost Dance
women’s rights in the West
“End of the Frontier”/Frontier Thesis (not in textbook)
Organize the terms above into Political, Economic, and Social categories. What trends or patterns emerge?