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?