Friday, November 22, 2013

Friday, 11/22

Social Studies 8 - Today students read chapter 20 section II in the text.  They finished the guiding the question regarding big business in the late 1800's.  If you did not finish section II you need to hand it in on Monday or Tuesday.



APUSH - Today we reviewed the Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso and started a discussion on the Compromise of 1850.  HW - follow syllabus, see everybody Tuesday.




Thursday, November 21, 2013

Thursday 11/21

Social Studies 8 - Today we modeled a reading activity where students need to answer a guiding question for one of the sections within a chapter.  We did not finish the entire activity so the homework is to finish it.

APUSH - Today we discussed the background on the Mexican War and students worked through some historical documents surrounding the war.  We will review them in class tomorrow and continue our discussion on the Causes of the Civil War.

Follow your syllabus for HW.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Wed. 11/120

Social Studies 8 - Test today.  No homework.

APUSH -              IC-       Manifest Destiny – Enlarging the USA
                              HW-    Read Chapter 17 “Manifest Destiny & its    Legacy,” pages 371-376,
Hippocampus Activities – Territorial Expansion & Sectional Issues:
1.     The Oregon Country

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Tuesday, 11/19:

Social Studies 8 -  Today we reviewed for the Wednesday test.  For those that view this blog here are two of the tougher questions on tomorrow's test:


  1. Which of the following was NOT a problem faced by farmers in the late 1800’s?
    1. Farmers incurred debts they could not pay back
    2. Farmers had no means to transfer their goods to market
    3. Farmers often did not get fair prices for their products
    4. Farmers had difficulty buying needed equipment because it was expensive 
    1. Cooperatives were:
      1. Indians coming together to fight white encroachment
      2. Democrats coming together to support the Populists
      3. Farmers coming together to buy seed and tools together to lower costs
      4. White settlers coming together to force Indians onto reservations

APUSH -   Homework:

Read Chapter 16, “The South and the Slavery Controversy”, pages 359-369
Hippocampus Activities – Nationalism & Economic Expansion:
1.     Slave Resistance
Hippocampus Activities – American Culture & Reform:
            1. Abolitionism

Monday, November 18, 2013

Monday, 11/18

Social Studies 8 - Today we discussed the transcontinental railroad in America.  We the finished our discussion of the Indians in retreat.  

Students took an in-class quiz on Chapter 19.

Test on Chapters 18 & 19 on Wednesday.


APUSH - Today students took the test on Unit IV.  

Tonight's HW:

Read Chapter 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy, pages 350-359.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Thursday, 11/14

Social Studies 8 - Today we discussed Pains Indians and how they were forced from their land after the Civil War.  We focused on:

* Battle of Little Big Horn
* Massacre at Wounded Knee

HW -      1) Ch. 19, section 5 (Read)  
               2) Reconstruction Terms Quiz

APUSH Test Review Sheet - Unit IV:



1.     Jackson’s Indian Policy
2.     American transportation
3.     Whigs
4.     Cherokee
5.     Utopian movement strict rules of celibacy
6.     Maine Law of 1851
7.     Amish in Pennsylvania
8.     Immigrants to America
9.     New England
10.  Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
11. Political democracy
12. Corrupt Bargain
13.  Calhoun and tariff
14. Jackson’s response to tariff issue
15. Indian resistance to “removal”
16. Jacksonian Democracy
17. Missouri Compromise
18. Jackson’s Bank War
19. Eli Whitney
20. Specie Circular
21. Trail of Tears
22. Maysville Road Veto
23. Kitchen Cabinet
24. Textile workers
25. William Lloyd Garrison
26. Radical abolitionists
27. Seneca Falls Convention
28. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
29. Mormons and Shakers
30. Transcendentalism
31. Education antebellum period
32. US Demographics
33. Oneida Community
34. Erie Canal
35. Slavery
36. Lowell System
37. American System
38. National Road
39. American Colonization Society
40. Federal transportation
41. Canal building
42. Second Great Awakening
43. Women reformers
44-50 Quotes from influential Americans:
Andrew Jackson/Nicolas Biddle/Henry Clay/Daniel Webster/Dorothea Dix

/Lucretia Mott/Wlliam Lloyd Garrison