HOLIDAY BREAK ASSIGNMENTS

HOLIDAY BREAK ASSIGNMENTS: 

A. Chapter 14 IDs due Monday, January 8, 2018.  

Chapter 14 Review Video < Use video to complete your IDs. The video usually covers the main points which should be included in your IDs. 

B. Thinking Like a Historian 14: The Civil War was a war about States' Rights and slavery, often viewed as an evil that nearly destroyed our union. However, a few aspects of life improved due to the Civil War. Formulate a thesis that argues how the Civil War was a good thing for the quality of life in America. Use three sources from pages 458 and 459, in addition to TWO outside sources that support your argument. Both sources must be cited (a link is fine). 

C. Chapter 14 Vocabulary Quiz on January 8, 2018. BE READY! 

Chapter 14 Terms to Know: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, George McClellan, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, total war, Crittenden Compromise, draft (conscription), habeas corpus, King Cotton, greenbacks, contrabands, Radical Republicans, Emancipation Proclamation, scorched-earth campaign, hard war, March to the Sea. (18 in total)

D. Ideally you should be done with Chapter 14 by December 29th. The following week  you should start reading Chapter 15. Chapter 15 IDs due on Monday, January 8, 2018 as well. The week of January 8th you can begin working on Thinking Like a Historian 

REMEMBER: DO NOT LEAVE THE WORK TO THE LAST MINUTE. FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL! 

Lesson on Thursday, December 21, 2017

Aim: What were the causes of the Mexican War, and in what ways did it bring about a grown sectional crisis during the 1850s?

Bell Ringer: Review J71 / A: European diseases took the lives of thousands of natives. White settlers also undertook systematic campaigns of extermination. Congress abetted these assaults. In 1853, Congress authorized five reservations of only 25,000 acres each and refused to provide the Indians with military protection. Some settlers simply murdered Indians to push them off non reservation lands. While the native population of California declined rapidly, the white American population surged, from 380,000 in 1860 to 560,000 by 1870. This same period witnessed increasing numbers of Chinese migrants, drawn by the work in the economic staples of mining, ranching, and farming. 

Agenda: 

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkqvqqjMAA (3 min)

2. America Compared: The Gold Rush / Complete questions 1 & 2

3. The Compromise of 1850:

A. "slavery follows the flag" - planters could by right take their slave property into new territories - won support in ____________.

B. "squatter sovereignty" AKA Popular Sovereignty (Stephen Douglas) 

C. Map 13.6: Fugitive Slave Law, Abolish Slavery in D.C. / Why did the Fugitive Slave Law fail? 

D. Seward's argument: slavery is morally unjust, politically unwise, and socially pernicious vs. Calhoun's justification.


4. Journal 72 - How did the Compromise of 1850 resolve the various disputes over slavery, and who benefited more from its terms? (10 min)


5. Gadsden Purchase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2FzuPyFlY (5 min)

6. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin / Why many in the U.S. came to view slavery as inherently evil in the 20th century, when it was so ardently defended in the 19th century? 

Assignment: Create a concept map - consider why Uncle Tom's Cabin was so successful. Why did this book strike such a chord with Americans in both the North and the South? Refer to the University of Virginia's superb site "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" and trace the work's influence from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century.

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html (rest of class)



Home Learning: 

1. Long Essay Question: due Monday, January 8th. 

2. Journal 73 - What were the main policy objectives of the Republican and American parties? 

3. Study for tomorrow's Chapter 13 Vocab. Quiz

Lesson on Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Aim: What were the causes of the Mexican War, and in what ways did it bring about a grown sectional crisis during the 1850s?

Bell Ringer: Review J69 / A: The ideology both reflected and fueled an exaggerated sense of entitlement and confidence that helped to produce subsequent events such as the Mexican War, the impact of the gold rush on California's indigenous population, and Bleeding Kansas. (5 min)

Agenda:

WAR, EXPANSION & SLAVERY

1. PBS's interactive timeline of the Mexican War to explore the cause of the war and to show visually how it affected the country's national boundaries. http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/timeline_flash.html (10 min)

2. Journal 70 - How was the American acquisition of California similar to, and different from, the American-led creation of the Texas Republic (discussed in Chapter 12)? (10 min)

3. Grade journals 51-70 (2CW grades)

4. Chapter 13 Review video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2gW4M38u6E (13 min)

5. Students should recognize that U.S. western expansion was firmly grounded in the notion of white racial superiority. Calhoun's quote about government for the white men provides an opportunity to discuss the concept of ethnocentrism in U.S. history.

AMERICAN VOICES 

6. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-us-history-sample-responses-leq-3.pdf Mexican War Long Essay Question.

Home Learning:

1. Complete Long Essay Question

2. Journal 71 - What were the main changes caused by the huge increase in California's population and its composition between 1849 and 1870?

Lesson on Monday, December 18, 2017

Aim: What were the causes of the Mexican War, and in what ways did it bring about a grown sectional crisis during the 1850s?

Bell Ringer: Review Period 4 Exam (10/15 min)

Agenda:

1. Most important events: All events that led to the Civil War (Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, secession), 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Reconstruction, and Compromise of 1877.

2. Manifest Destiny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japRb6U_FuQ (5 min)

3. Reminder: innovations in markets, transportation, and technology that had developed in the United States during the first half of the century fueled the expansionist urgency of the mid-nineteenth century.

The impact of Manifest Destiny in popular beliefs about American progress and its future. Identify all the people and events rendered in the Manifest Destiny painting and ask yourself how they contribute to John Gast's vision of "American Progress"

4. The Mexican War was accompanied by intense debate over whether or not to allow slavery in the newly acquired territories.

5. Journal 69 - Did the idea of Manifest Destiny actually cause events, such as the political support for territorial expansion, or simply justify actions taken for other reasons? (10 min)

6. Pastorla Economy: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle.

7. Next essay: American Voices or Thinking Like a Historian? (decide as a class)

Home Learning:

1. Pastoralism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayHA5rkkew

2. Complete Chapter 13 IDs, due tomorrow December 19, 2017

3. Formulate a thesis for your next essay, due Wednesday, December 20, 2017

4. Chapter 13 Vocal. Quiz: Thursday, December 21, 2017

Lesson on Thursday, December 14, 2017

1. Chapter 12 Vocabulary Quiz

2. Complete Thinking Like a Historian 12

Home Learning:

Review Chapters 9-12 IDs to study for PERIOD 4 EXAM

Lesson on Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Aim: How did the creation of a cotton-based economy change the lives of whites and blacks in all regions of the South?

Bellringer: Journal 68 - What issue divided the Mexican government and the Americans in Texas, and what proposals sought to resolve them? (10 min)

Agenda:

1. J68 A: They disagreed about the amount of control the government should exert over Texas as well as the practice of slavery in Texas. The president of Mexico wanted to exercise control over the region and abolish slavery. 

2. Check HW / review and grade. (10 min)

3.  The Texas Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQlENtGy9c (15 min)

4. The African American World - CUL

5. Thinking Like a Historian 12 (prelude)

Home Learning: 

1. How Powerful is Texas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8A_v3_Nks
2.  Thinking Like a Historian 12, due tomorrow.

Lesson on Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Aim: How did the creation of a cotton-based economy change the lives of whites and blacks in all regions of the South? 

Bellringer: Review J65 / A: The slave trade had devastating effects on black families. Marriages and families were torn apart, and parents lived in fear of having their children taken from them to be sold. Despite these challenges, marriages and families worked to stay together. (5 min)

Agenda: 

1. Chapter 12 Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGFtiCk7Gs (15 min)
2. Journal 66 - Between 1800 and 1860, what changes occurred in the South's plantation crops, labor system, defense of slavery, and elite planter lifestyle? (10 min) 
3. A: Cotton became the principal plantation crop of the South. The South depended on the fortunes of the northern U.S. and Europe, which imported cotton from the South. Slavery spread to the Deep South, through the domestic slave trade. The slavery regime increased in harshness and severity as a result of violence, slave resistance, and justification by white planters. Prestige was maintained through marriages of planters' offspring. 
4. Read: America Compared (p. 387) and answer both questions. (10 min)
5. Have students read the appendix from Douglass's Narrative in which he discusses the relationship between slavery and Christianity: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#link2H_APPE (10 min)
6. Journal 67 - By 1860, what different groups made up the South's increasingly complex society? How did these groups interact? (rest of class)
7. Home Learning: Thinking Like a Historian 12: due tomorrow, December 13, 2017