AP US History (Period 5) 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=440144

Today is the day of your Unit 9 Exam (you will NOT need a Scantron). YES THE TEST HAS BEEN MOVED! (The objective questions have not been moved).

Unit 9 Objectives (Chapters 20-22) are due today to turnitin.com. **NOTE - Your similarity percentage should not be above 40%!!**

Terms for Unit 9 are due today. Be sure to have completed the terms for your group members AT LEAST TWO DAYS in advance so that everyone has a fair chance to study! Your terms quiz is also today!

Unit 8 Objectives (Chapters 17-19) are due today to turnitin.com. **NOTE - Your similarity percentage should not be above 40%!!** Today is also the day of your Unit 8 Exam (you WILL need a Scantron).

Terms for Unit 8 are due today. Be sure to have completed the terms for your group members AT LEAST TWO DAYS in advance so that everyone has a fair chance to study! Your terms quiz is also today!

Just an announcement for those who were not in class on Friday 11/14 - the "expansion project" was postponed until Monday in class. If you had planned to "make it up" over the weekend (because you had asked me about it in advance), please don't. We will do it in class on Monday. :-)

Unit 7 Objectives (Chapters 15-16) are due today to turnitin.com. **NOTE - Your similarity percentage should not be above 40%!!** Today is also the day of your Unit 7 Exam (you will need a Scantron).

Terms Unit 7 are due. There is also a Terms Quiz today!

Objectives for Unit 6 - Chapters 13-14 are due to turnitin.com by 3pm. Today is also the Unit 6 Exam - you will not need a Scantron (you are using the back of the Unit 5 exam).

Terms for Unit 6 are due today. Be sure you have finished them far enough in advance for all of your group members to have ample study time (at least two days!). Terms Quiz for Unit 6 is today.

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!!! Objectives for Unit 5 (Chapters 11-12) are due to http://turnitin.com today! Objectives must be submitted prior to 3pm! Today is also the day of the Unit 5 exam (you will  need a new Scantron).

Terms for Unit 5 are due. There is also a terms quiz today! Be prepared for some older terms to be included as well as the current unit.

Objectives for Unit 4 are due to http://turnitin.com today! Objectives must be submitted prior to 3pm! Today is also the day of the Unit 4 exam (you will not need a Scantron - you will be using the back of the Scantron from unit 3).

Terms for Unit 4 are due today! There is also a terms quiz.

Read the US Constitution (found in the back of your textbook) to prepare for an in class activity today!

Read the Articles of Confederation handout and answer the three questions on the worksheet at the end.

Rise to Rebellion reading is due (NOTE THE DATE CHANGE - you are welcome!) There is an exam today so be prepared and be sure to have your Rise to Rebellion books in class today.

Objectives for Unit 3 (Chapters 6-8) are due today. Today is also the day of the Unit exam! REMEMBER the answers to these review questions are to be submitted through http://turnitin.com

Chapter 6

1. Explain what caused the great contest for North America between Britain and France, and why Britain won.
2. Describe France’s colonial settlements and their expansion, and compare New France with Britain’s colonies in North America.
3. Explain how Britain’s colonists became embroiled in the home country’s wars with France.
4. Describe the colonists’ role in the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War), and indicate the consequences of the French defeat for Americans.
5. Indicate how and why the British victory in the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) became one of the causes of the American Revolution.

Chapter 7

1. Explain the ideas of republicanism and radical Whiggery that Britain’s American colonists had adopted by the eighteenth century.
2. Describe the theory and practice of mercantilism, and explain why Americans resented it.
3. Explain why Britain adopted policies of tighter political control and higher taxation of Americans after 1763 and how these policies sparked fierce colonial resentment.
4. Describe the first major new British taxes on the colonies and how colonial resistance forced repeal of all taxes, except the tax on tea, by 1770.
5. Explain how colonial agitators kept resistance alive from 1770–1773.
6. Indicate why the forcible importation of taxable British tea sparked the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, and the outbreak of conflict between Britain and the colonists.
7. Assess the balance of forces between the British and the American rebels as the two sides prepared for war.

Chapter 8

1. Explain how American colonists could continue to proclaim their loyalty to the British crown even while they engaged in major military hostilities with Britain after April 1775.
2. Explain why Thomas Paine’s Common Sense finally inspired Americans to declare their independence in the summer of 1776, and outline the principal ideas of republicanism that Paine and other American revolutionary leaders promoted.
3. Explain both the specific political grievances and the universal ideals and principles that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence used to justify America’s separation from Britain.
4. Show why the American Revolution should be understood as a civil war between Americans as well as a war with Britain, and describe the motivations and treatment of the Loyalists.
5. Describe how Britain’s original strategic plan to crush the Revolution was foiled, especially by the Battle of Saratoga.
6. Describe the fundamental military strategy that Washington and his generals, especially Nathanael Greene, adopted, and why it proved successful.
7. Describe the key role of the French alliance in winning American independence, including the final victory at Yorktown.
8. Describe the terms of the Treaty of Paris, and explain why America was able to achieve a diplomatic victory that far exceeded its military and economic strength.

Terms for Unit 3 are due. There is also a terms quiz that day!

Chapters 6-7 - Unit 3

1. French Huguenots
2. Edict of Nantes
3. Quebec
4. Samuel de Champlain
5. Huron Indians
6. Robert de la Salle
7. King William’s War
8. Queen Anne’s War
9. Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
10. War of Jenkin’s Ear
11. King George’s War
12. George Washington
13. Fort Duquesne
14. Fort Necessity (1754)
15. French and Indian War/Seven Years War
16. Albany Congress (1754)
17. Gen. Edward Braddock
18. William Pitt
19. Louisbourg (1758)
20. Gen. James Wolfe
21. Peace of Paris
22. Chief Ponitac’s War
23. Daniel Boone
24. Proclamation of 1763
25. Republicanism
26. Radical Whigs
27. Mercantilism
28. Navigation Law of 1650
29. Enumerated goods
30. George Grenville
31. Molasses Act
32. Sugar Act
33. Quartering Act
34. Stamp Act
35. Admiralty Courts
36. Tea Act
37. “Taxation without Representation”
38. “Virtual Representation”
39. Stamp Act Congress
40. Non-importation Agreements
41. Sons of Liberty
42. Declaratory Act
43. Charles Townshend
44. Townshend Acts
45. Boston Massacre
46. Crispus Attucks
47. King George III
48. Lord North
49. Samuel Adams
50. Committees of Correspondence (1772)
51. British East India Company
52. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson
53. Boston Tea Party (1773)
54. Edmund Burke
55. Coercive Acts
56. Repressive/Intolerable Acts (1774)
57. Boston Port Act
58. Quebec Act (1774)
59. First Continental Congress
60. John Adams
61. Declaration of Rights
62. The Association
63. Battle of Lexington
64. Battle of Concord
65. John Hancock
66. “Minute Men”
67. Valley Forge
68. Ethan Allen
69. Loyalists/Tories
70. Thomas Hutchinson
71. Marquis de Lafayette
72. Benedict Arnold
73. Paul Revere
74. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
75. Benjamin Franklin
76. James Otis
77. Thomas Jefferson
78. Baron von Steuben
79. James Wolfe
80. Gaspee Incident
81. Second Continental Congress
82. Battle of Bunker Hill
83. Olive Branch Petition
84. Hessians
85. Comte de Rochambeau
86. Declaration of Independence
87. Common Sense
88. Thomas Paine
89. Nathaniel Greene
90. Abigail Adams
91. Richard Henry Lee
92. Battle of Trenton
93. Battle of Saratoga
94. Battle of Yorktown
95. Lord Charles Cornwallis
96. Treaty of Paris (1783)

Objectives for Unit 2 are due today. Today is also the day of the Unit 2 Exam! Be sure to study.

 

Chapter 3

1. Describe the Puritans and their beliefs, and explain why they left England for the New World.
2. Explain how the Puritans’ theology shaped the government and society of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
3. Explain how Massachusetts Bay’s conflict with religious dissenters, as well as new economic opportunities, led to the expansion of New England into Rhode Island, Connecticut, and elsewhere.
4. Describe the conflict between colonists and Indians in New England and the effects of King Philip’s War.
5. Summarize early New England attempts at intercolonial unity and the consequences of England’s Glorious Revolution in America.
6. Describe the founding of New York and Pennsylvania, and explain why these two settlements as well as the other middle colonies became so ethnically, religiously, and politically diverse.
7. Describe the central features of the middle colonies, and explain how they differed from New England and the southern colonies.

Chapter 4

1. Describe the basic economy, demographics, and social structure and life of the seventeenth-century colonies.
2. Compare and contrast the different forms of society and ways of life of the southern colonies and New England.
3. Explain how the practice of indentured servitude failed to solve the colonial labor problem and why colonists then turned to African slavery.
4. Describe the character of slavery in the early English colonies and explain how a distinctive African American identity and culture emerged from the mingling of numerous African ethnic groups.
5. Summarize the unique New England way of life centered on family, town, and church, and describe the problems that afflicted this comfortable social order in the late seventeenth century.
6. Describe family life and the roles of women in both the southern and New England colonies, and indicate how these changed over the course of the seventeenth century.

Chapter 5

1. Describe the demographic, ethnic, and social character of Britain’s colonies in the eighteenth century, and indicate how colonial society had changed since the seventeenth century.
2. Explain how the economic development of the colonies altered the patterns of social prestige and wealth, and brought growing class distinctions and class conflict to British North America.
3. Identify the major religious denominations of the eighteenth-century colonies, and indicate their role in early American society.
4. Explain the causes of the Great Awakening, and describe its effects on American religion, education, and politics.
5. Describe the origins and development of education, culture, and journalism in the colonies.
6. Describe the basic features of colonial politics, including the role of various official and informal political institutions.
7. Indicate the key qualities of daily existence in eighteenth-century colonial America, including forms of socialization and recreation.

Terms for Unit 2 are due today! There will be a quiz on the terms today as well.

1. Calvinism
2. Predestination
3. Church of England
4. Puritans
5. Separatists
6. Mayflower Compact
7. Massachusetts Bay colony
8. Great Migration
9. Captain Myles Standish
10. Antinomianism
11. Fundamental Orders
12. Pequot War
13. King Philip’s War
14. New England Confederation
15. English Civil War
16. Dominion of New England
17. Navigation Acts
18. Glorious Revolution
19. Salutary neglect
20. Quakers
21. Blue laws
22. Martin Luther
23. William Bradford
24. John Winthrop
25. Anne Hutchinson
26. Roger Williams
27. Massasoit
28. Metacom
29. Charles II
30. Sir Edmund Andros
31. William III
32. Mary II
33. Henry Hudson
34. New Amsterdam
35. William Penn
36. Indentured servants
37. Headright system
38. Bacon’s Rebellion
39. Middle passage
40. Slave codes
41. Congregational Church
42. Half-Way Covenant
43. Salem Witch Trials
44. William Berkeley
45. Nathaniel Bacon
46. Paxton Boys
47. Regulator movement
48. Triangular trade
49. Molasses Act
50. Harvard College
51. Great Awakening
52. Old lights
53. New lights
54. Poor Richard’s Almanac
55. Royal colonies
56. Proprietary colonies
57. Jonathan Edwards
58. Benjamin Franklin
59. George Whitefield
60. John Trumbull
61. Phillis Wheatley
62. John Peter Zenger

Terms Unit 1 are due today. Make sure to get them to your group at least TWO DAYS in advance so you can study for the Terms Quiz that is also today!

Objectives for Chapters 1-2 due (summer assignment).

Reading due - Chapters 1 and 2 of your textbook AND pages 1-58 of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (hereafter referred to as "Zinn book"). There will be an exam today on this summer reading!