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United States History (APUSH) Summer Assignment – 2018 Mrs United States History (APUSH) Summer Assignment – 2018 Mrs. Butterfield Welcome to AP United States History! The US History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in US History. The program makes demands on students, equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials – their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance. The class is fast paced so that we can cover everything in order to prepare you to take the EOC and AP Exams. As a result, a summer assignment is required as a “slow start” to help you get a handle on things and help prepare for the class. This preparation is to be done BEFORE you arrive to class. The goal of these assignments will be to introduce students to the pace of the class, the level of work that will be expected, and get you thinking about history. The expectation is that these assignments will be completed by the FIRST day of class. Assignments: Assignment 1: (10 points) Join Remind for IMPORTANT information: Assignment 2: (50 points) Become familiar with College Board and the AP US History Course a. Visit the College Board Website for AP United States History https://apstudent.collegeboard.org b. Create an account (if you do not already have one) c. Explore the AP United States History Course overview and course description d. Identify the following information: 1. How is the AP US History test laid out? MC? SAQ’s? Essays? 2. What is the time limit of the AP exam? How much time for each section? 3. What are the 9 chronological periods of US History that are covered? 4. What are the 7 themes in US History that are developed in the course? 5. What are the historical reasoning skills that are developed in the course? Assignment 3: (100 points) Task: As a student of American History it is important to know the men who have led this country in its first 242 years. As such, each of you will make a set of Presidential flashcards to be used as a review tool and a source of information for tests. Step 1: Using an index card, create a flash card for each President by writing the name of the President on the Card a. You will make a card for Washington through Trump b. Grover Cleveland will have 2 cards because he was elected 2 times but NOT consecutively Step 2: On the reverse side of the name include the following information: a. Dates in office b. Vice President (you will need to look this up) b. Significant events from time in office (see attached spreadsheet) Presidential Flashcards Dates Significant Significant Significant Significant Significant President in Office Event Event Event Event Event George Washington 1789-1797 1st Bank of the US 1st Cabinet Established 2 term tradition Jay's Treaty Warned against Political Parties John Adams 1797-1801 Alien Act Sedition Act XYZ Affair Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act Non Intercourse Act Marbury vs. Madison Enabling Act James Madison 1809-1817 War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent Macon's Bill No 2 Tariff of 1816 James Monroe 1817-1825 Monroe Doctrine "Era of Good Feelings" Missouri Compromise Panic of 1819 Adams Onis Treaty John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 "American System" Tariff of "Abominations" Corrupt Bargain Erie Canal Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 Indian Removal Act Spoils System "Bank Wars" "Common Man" Trail of Tears Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 Independent Treasury Bill Panic of 1837 Arooostook War Amistad Case William Henry Harrison 1841 Died in Office John Tyler 1841-1845 Webster-Ashburton Treaty Manifest Destiny Texas Annexation Opened Trade w/China Legalized Labor Unions James K Polk 1845-1849 Mexican American War Oregon Country w/Britain Established 49th Parallel River/Harbors Bill Seneca Falls Convention Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 Underground RR Gold Rush Died in Office Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Galphin Scandal Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law "2nd Era of Good Feelings" Uncle Tom's Cabin Published Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 Began Transcontinental RR Kansas-NE Act Gadsden Purchase Ostend Manifesto Apache Wars James Buchanan 1857-1861 Dred Scott Case Panic of 1857 John Brown Raids Mt Meadow Massacre Crittendon Compromise Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Civil War Emancipation Proclamation 13th Amendment Assassinated Gettysburg Address Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 Presidential Reconstruction Charged with Impeachment Purchased Alaska 14th Amendment KKK formed Ulysses S Grant 1869-1877 Credit Mobilier Scandal 15th Amendment Whiskey Ring Scandal Completed Transcontinental RR Rutherford B Hayes 1877-1881 Compromise of 1877 Civil Rights Act of 1875 Jim Crow Laws Bland-Allison Silver Act James Garfield 1881 Tried to End Spoils System Assassinated Treaty of Washington Pan American Conf Chester Arthur 1881-1885 Pendleton Civil Service Act Chinese Exclusion Act Edmunds Act Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 Dawes Severalty Act Haymarket Square Riot Interstate Commerce Act 1st Democrat since Civil War Presidential Succession Act Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 McKinley Tariff Sherman Silver Purchase Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Homestead Strike Battle of Wounded Knee Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 Panic of 1893 Pullman Strike Plessy v. Ferguson Willaim McKinley 1897-1901 Gold Standard Annexed Hawaii Spanish American War Open Door Policy Dingley Tariff Law/Assassinated Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Meat Inspection Act "Square Deal" National Park System Willaim Howard Taft 1909-1913 16th Amendment Dollar Diplomacy Trust- buster Imperialist Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 Federal Reserve Act WWI 18th Amendment 19th Amendment League of Nations Warren G Harding 1921-1923 Teapot Dome Scandal Roaring Twenties Five Power Treaty Died in Office Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 Volstead Act Dawes Plan Kellogg-Briand Pact Immigration Act of 1924 Isle of Pines Treaty Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 Hawley Smoot Tariff Black Tuesday RFC Hoovervilles Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945 New Deal WWII Social Security 21st Amendment FDIC Harry S Truman 1945-1953 WWII Manhattan Project United Nations Integrated Military Berlin Airlift Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-1961 Korean War "McCarthyism" NASA Interstate Hwy Act Brown vs. Board of Education John F Kennedy 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis Peace Corps Bay of Pigs Berlin Wall Built Assassinated Lyndon B Johnson 1963-1969 Great Society Vietnam War Civil Rights Act of 1964 24 th Amendment Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Richard M Nixon 1969-1974 Ended Vietnam Détente Policy with China Watergate 26th Amendment Postal Reorganization Act/EPA Gerald R Ford 1974-1977 Helsinki Accords Campaign Reform Laws Gave Nixon full pardon Only President Never Elected WIN (Whip Inflation Now) Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 Oil Crisis Iranian Hostage Crisis Middle East Peace Talks Camp David Accords SALT II Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 Ended Cold War Reagonomics Iran Contra Scandal Increased Patriotism/Sandra Day O'connor Tax Reform George Bush 1989-1993 Operation Desert Storm Americans w/Disabilities Act "No new taxes" Clean Air Act Tiannamen Square Incident Bill Clinton 1993-2001 NAFTA Family Medical Leave Act Impeached Brady Act George W. Bush 2001-2009 911 Operation Iraqi Freedom No Child Left Behind Hurricane Katrina Barak Obama 2009 - current Health Care Reform 1st Black President Ended War in Iraq Assignment 4: (150 points) Task: As a student of American History it is important to know significant terms, events, people, and places. Therefore, each of you will need to begin writing terms NOW. Because of the large number of terms that you will be responsible for – getting a head start now will be beneficial to your success. Step 1: Using an index card, create a flash card for each term/person/event by writing the name of the term/person/event on the front side of the card Step 2: On the reverse side of the index card: include the following 2 components: (a) identify/define the term/concept (the definition cannot include the term itself) (b) ACE: apply or connect the term/concept to something that is relevant to other events, people, places, etc., or to some other period in history, or provide an example of the term/concept. If any relevant picture/symbols/ etc. come to mind add those too. (c) 2 different examples are shown below If you have any questions, please contact me BEFORE the assignment is due: [email protected] Terms to create cards for: Chapter 1: Chapter 3: 1. Atlantic World 1. Enlightenment 2. Bartolomé de Las Casas 2. George Whitefield 3. Cahokia 3. Great Awakening 4. conquistadores 4. John and Charles Wesley 5. Elizabeth I 5. John Peter Zenger 6. encomienda 6. Jonathan Edwards 7. globalization 7. middle passage 8. imperialism 8. primogeniture 9. mercantilism 9. Salem witch trials 10. mestizos 10. Scotch-Irish 11. Popé 11. slave codes 12. Protestant Reformation 12. Stono Rebellion 13. Puritans/Pilgrims 13. triangular trade Chapter 2: Chapter 4: 1. Anne Hutchinson 1. Albany Plan 2. Antinomianism 2. Boston Massacre 3. Bacon's Rebellion 3. Boston Tea Party 4. Dominion of New England 4. Coercive Acts 5. George and Cecilius Calvert 5. Committees of correspondence 6. headright system 6. Currency Act 7. indentured servant 7. Daughters of Liberty 8. James Oglethorpe 8. First Continental Congress 9. Jamestown 9. French and Indian War 10. John Smith 10. George Grenville 11. John Winthrop 11. George III 12. King Philip's War 12. impressment 13. Massachusetts Bay Company 13. Iroquois Confederacy 14. Mayflower Compact 14. Paxton Boys 15. Navigation Acts 15. Proclamation Line of 1763 16. Pequot War 16. Sons of Liberty 17. Powhatan 17. Stamp Act 18. Quakers 18. Sugar Act 19. Roger Williams 19. Tea Act 20. theocracy 20. Townshend Duties 21. Virginia House of Burgesses 21.
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