Honors US History (Period 3) Assignments

FINAL EXAM! You will need two new 100 question Scantrons (the green ones like you usually use). Your study guide is posted here: http://www.bmhs-la.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=346572&type=u&pREC_ID=677937 

Today is the day of your Unit 7 Exam (you will need a Scantron). YES THE TEST HAS BEEN MOVED! (Review questions have NOT been moved).

Review Questions for Unit 7 (Chapters 13-15) are due today to turnitin.com. Remember, these must be answered independently, in paragraphs, and in your own words. Your turnitin.com similarity percentage should not exceed 40%. You may use your textbooks and/or other references to thoroughly explain each answer but be sure to put those ideas into your own words!

 

Terms for Unit 7 (Chapters 13-15) are due today! There is a terms quiz as well. Please make sure you are completing your terms for your group members AT LEAST TWO DAYS in advance so everyone has a fair chance to study!

The following is classwork for Monday (you will have a sub) but several students have asked for a preview so here it is:

 

Review Questions for Unit 6 (Chapters 11-12) are due today to turnitin.com. Remember, these must be answered independently, in paragraphs, and in your own words. Your turnitin.com similarity percentage should not exceed 40%. You may use your textbooks and/or other references to thoroughly explain each answer but be sure to put those ideas into your own words!

 

1. What is manifest destiny?
2. Indicate how American anti-British feeling led to various conflicts over debts, Maine, Canadian rebellion, Texas, and Oregon.
3. Explain why the movement to annex Texas gained new momentum in the 1840s AND why the issue aroused such controversy.
4. Indicate how the issues of Oregon and Texas became central in the election of 1844 and why Polk’s victory was seen as a mandate for “Manifest Destiny.”
5. Describe how the issues of California and the Texas boundary created conflict and war with Mexico.
6. Explain the consequences of the Mexican War, especially its effect on the slavery question.
7. Describe the changes in American religion and their effects on culture and social reform.
8. Describe the utopian and communitarian experiments of the period.
9. Explain why abolitionism was at first unpopular in the North and describe how it gradually gained strength.
10. Describe the fierce southern response to abolitionism and the growing defense of slavery as a “positive good."

Terms for Unit 6 (Chapters 11-12) are due today! There is a terms quiz as well. Please make sure you are completing your terms for your group members AT LEAST TWO DAYS in advance so everyone has a fair chance to study!

Chapter 9-10 (Unit 5) Review questions are due to turnitin.com. Remember, these must be answered independently, in paragraphs, and in your own words. Your turnitin.com similarity percentage should not exceed 40%. You may use your textbooks and/or other references to thoroughly explain each answer but be sure to put those ideas into your own words!

1. Describe the effects of Irish and German immigration on American society.
2. Describe the early development of the factory system and Eli Whitney’s system of interchangeable parts.
3. Describe the economic strengths and weaknesses of the “Cotton Kingdom.”
4. Describe the southern planter aristocracy and indicate its strengths and weaknesses.
5. Describe the non-slaveholding white majority of the South and explain its relations with both the planter elite and the black slaves.
6. Explain how the “corrupt bargain” of 1824 weakened Adams and set the stage for Jackson’s election in 1828.
7. Describe the “Tariff of Abominations” and explain why it aroused such furor in the South.
8. Analyze the significance of Jackson’s victory in 1828 as a triumph for the “New Democracy.”
9. Describe the “spoils system” and indicate its consequences for American public politics.
10. Explain how and why Jackson attacked and destroyed the Bank of the United States and indicate the political and economic effects of his action.
11. Analyze the political innovations of the 1830s, including national conventions, the birth of the Whig party, and the second two-party system.
12. Describe Jackson’s policies toward the southeastern Indian tribes.

Unit 5 Exam (Chapter 9-10) is today!

Terms for Unit 5 (Chapters 9 and 10) are due! There is also a Terms Quiz today! Make sure to get your terms to your group members at LEAST 2 days prior to the quiz so everyone has a chance to study properly.
Your complete terms list is available on Mrs. DeLay's homepage - choose the tab labeled HUSH Terms - http://www.bmhs-la.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=346572&type=u&pREC_ID=635014

Chapter 7-8 (Unit 4) Review questions are due to turnitin.com. Remember, these must be answered independently, in paragraphs, and in your own words. You may use your textbooks and/or other references to thoroughly explain each answer.

1. Describe the conflicts between Federalists and Republicans over the judiciary and the important legal precedents that developed from these conflicts.
2. Analyze the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase.
3. Describe the original intentions and actual results of Jefferson’s embargo and explain why it failed.
4. What were the causes of the War of 1812?
5. Explain why the Federalists so strongly opposed the war and how their opposition affected the war effort and their own party.
6. Describe the “Era of Good Feeling” and explain why it got this nickname.
7. Describe the major economic developments of the period, particularly the tariff, finances, and the panic of 1819.
8. Describe the conflict over slavery that arose in 1819 and the terms of the Missouri Compromise that temporarily resolved it.
9. Describe the Monroe Doctrine and explain its real and symbolic significance for American foreign policy.
10. Describe the early development of the factory system and Eli Whitney’s system of interchangeable parts.
11. Describe the impact of new technology and transportation systems on American business and agriculture, particularly in expanding the market economy and creating a sectional division of labor.

Unit 4 Exam (Chapter 7-8) is today! Be sure to check out the Power Points and Notes page http://www.bmhs-la.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=346572&type=u&pREC_ID=649395

Terms for Unit 4 (Chapters 7 and 8) are due! There is also a Terms Quiz today! Make sure to get your terms to your group members at LEAST 2 days prior to the quiz so everyone has a chance to study properly.
Your complete terms list is available on Mrs. DeLay's homepage - choose the tab labeled HUSH Terms - http://www.bmhs-la.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=346572&type=u&pREC_ID=635014

Unit 3 Exam (Chapters 5 and 6) is today!

Terms Quiz today! Terms (in your group) are also due. Each group needs to turn in one printed copy of the group's terms.

1. First Continental Congress
2. Patrick Henry
3. Samuel Adams
4. John Adams
5. George Washington
6. John Dickinson
7. John Jay
8. Joseph Galloway
9. Suffolk Resolves
10. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
11. Paul Revere
12. William Dawes
13. Minutemen
14. Lexington
15. Concord
16. Battle of Bunker Hill
17. Second Continental Congress
18. Declaration of Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms
19. Olive Branch Petition
20. Thomas Paine
21. Common Sense
22. Declaration of Independence
23. Thomas Jefferson
24. Patriots
25. Loyalists/Tories
26. Valley Forge
27. Continentals
28. Battle of Saratoga
29. Battle of Yorktown
30. Treaty of Paris (1783)
31. Articles of Confederation
32. Unicameral legislature
33. Land Ordinance of 1785
34. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
35. Shays’ Rebellion
36. Mary McCauley
37. Deborah Sampson
38. Abigail Adams
39. Annapolis Convention
40. Constitutional Convention
41. James Madison
42. Alexander Hamilton
43. Gouverneur Morris
44. John Dickinson
45. Checks and balances
46. Virginia Plan
47. New Jersey Plan
48. Connecticut Plan/Great Compromise
49. Three-fifths Compromise
50. Commercial Compromise
51. Electoral College
52. Unicameral
53. Bicameral
54. Federalists
55. Anti-Federalists
56. The Federalist Papers
57. Bill of Rights
58. Henry Knox
59. Judiciary Act of 1789
60. Excise taxes
61. Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
62. Jay Treaty (1794)
63. Pinckney Treaty (1795)
64. Right of deposit
65. Whiskey Rebellion
66. Democratic Republican Party
67. Two-term tradition
68. John Adams
69. XYZ Affair
70. Alien and Sedition Acts
71. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
72. Revolution of 1800

Unit 2 Review Questions are due today! There is also an exam on Chapters 3-4 reading and notes!

UNIT 2 - CHAPTERS 3-4

1. Describe the various conditions affecting women and family life in the seventeenth century colonies.
2. Describe the basic population and social structure of the eighteenth century colonies and indicate how they had changed since the seventeenth century.
3. Explain the causes and effects of the religious changes of the early eighteenth century, especially the Great Awakening
4. Describe the origins and development of education, culture, and the learned professions in the colonies.
5. Explain how France and Britain came to engage in a great contest for North America and why Britain won.
6. Describe the theory and practice of mercantilism and explain why Americans resented it.
7. Explain why Britain attempted tighter control and taxation of Americans after 1763 and why Americans resisted these efforts.
8. Describe the major British efforts to impose taxes and tighten control of the colonies.
9. Describe the methods of colonial resistance that forced repeal of all taxes except the tax on tea.
10. Explain how sustained agitation and resistance to the tea tax led to the Intolerable Acts and the outbreak of war.

Terms for Unit 2 Chapters 3-4 are due:

1. Self-government
2. Religious toleration
3. Hereditary aristocracy
4. Social mobility
5. Subsistence farming
6. Great Awakening
7. Jonathan Edwards
8. George Whitefield
9. Georgian style
10. Cotton Mather
11. Benjamin Franklin
12. Poor Richard’s Almanac
13. Phillis Wheatley
14. John Peter Zenger
15. Andrew Hamilton
16. Colonial legislatures
17. Town meetings
18. Limited democracy
19. John Locke
20. King William’s War
21. War of the League of Augsburg
22. Queen Anne’s War
23. War of the Spanish Succession
24. King George’s War
25. War of the Austrian Succession
26. French and Indian War
27. Seven Years’ War
28. George Washington
29. Edward Braddock
30. Albany Plan of Union (1754)
31. Peace of Paris (1763)
32. Salutary neglect
33. George II
34. George III
35. Whigs
36. Parliament
37. Pontiac’s Rebellion
38. Proclamation of 1763
39. Sugar Act (1764)
40. Quartering Act (1765)
41. Stamp Act (1765)
42. Patrick Henry
43. Stamp Act Congress
44. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
45. Declaratory Act (1766)
46. Townshend Acts (1767)
47. Writs of assistance
48. John Dickinson
49. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
50. Samuel Adams
51. James Otis
52. Lord Frederick North
53. Boston Massacre (1770)
54. Crispus Attucks
55. Committees of Correspondence
56. Gaspee Incident
57. Tea Act (1773)
58. Boston Tea Party (1773)
59. Intolerable Acts
60. Coercive Acts (1774)
61. Boston Port Act
62. Quebec Act (1774)
63. Enlightenment
64. Deism
65. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Turn in your completed Terms for Unit 1. Each group turns in one printed set of terms. Be sure to have your terms to your group at least TWO DAYS early so everyone can study for the quiz! Be prepared for a quiz on these terms today as well!

 

Unit 1

1. Iroquois
2. Inca
3. Aztec
4. Renaissance
5. Ferdinand and Isabella
6. Protestant Reformation
7. Henry the Navigator
8. Christopher Columbus
9. Amerigo Vespucci
10. Papal line of demarcation
11. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
12. Pedro Alvares Cabral
13. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
14. Juan Ponce de Leon
15. Ferdinand Magellan
16. Hernan Cortes
17. Francisco Pizarro
18. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
19. Hernando de Soto
20. John Cabot
21. Giovanni de Verrazano
22. Jacques Cartier
23. Samuel de Champlain
24. Father Jacques Marquette
25. Robert de la Salle
26. Henry Hudson
27. Joint stock company
28. Father Junipero Serra
29. Virginia Company of London
30. Jamestown
31. Captain John Smith
32. John Rolfe
33. Virginia House of Burgesses
34. Puritans
35. Plymouth colony
36. Separatists
37. Pilgrims
38. Mayflower Compact
39. Massachusetts Bay colony
40. John Winthrop
41. Great Migration
42. Proprietary colonies
43. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
44. Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore
45. Act of Toleration (1649)
46. Sir William Berkeley
47. Bacon’s Rebellion
48. Indentured servant
49. Headright system
50. Roger Williams
51. Anne Hutchinson
52. Thomas Hooker
53. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
54. Halfway covenant
55. New England Confederation
56. Metacom
57. King Philip’s War
58. Restoration colonies
59. Quakers
60. William Penn
61. Charter of Liberties (1701)
62. James Oglethorpe
63. Mercantilism
64. Navigation Acts
65. Dominion of New England
66. Glorious Revolution
67. Triangular trade
68. Middle Passage

Read Chapters 1 and 2 by today. There will be an exam.

Answer the following review questions (due today!)

1. Describe the pre-Columbian Native Americans and discuss how the coming of the Europeans affected them.
2. Why did European countries begin to explore outside the boundaries of Europe?
3. Explain why countries began colonization of the New World (as opposed to just exploration and exploitation).
4. Describe the initial difficulties and later successes of Virginia and Maryland, the Chesapeake colonies.
5. Explain why both white indentured servitude and African slavery became common labor systems in the southern colonies.
6. Describe the Puritans and their beliefs and explain why they left England for the New World.
7. Explain how conflict with religious dissenters, among other forces, led to the expansion of New England.
8. Explain why New York, Pennsylvania, and the other middle colonies became so ethnically, religiously, and politically diverse.
9. How did England prove dominant in the Eastern half of North America?