US History (Period 3 & 5) Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Lucas Plotnik
- Term
- Fall 2012
- Department
- Social Studies
- Location
- Room 33
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Past Assignments
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11.3 Homework
I. Terms
A. War Industries Board
B. National War Labor Board
C. Committee on Public Information
E. Espionage and Sedition Acts
F. The Great Migration
II. Questions
A. How did the war affect workers wages, household incomes and stockholders profits?
B. Describe the attacks on civil liberties that took place during the war?
C. How did women play a part in the war effort?
I. Terms
A. War Industries Board
B. National War Labor Board
C. Committee on Public Information
E. Espionage and Sedition Acts
F. The Great Migration
II. Questions
A. How did the war affect workers wages, household incomes and stockholders profits?
B. Describe the attacks on civil liberties that took place during the war?
C. How did women play a part in the war effort?
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I. Terms
A. Selective Service Act
B. Convoy System
C. Conscientious objector
II. Questions
A. Describe in detail how the United States found ways to transport men, food and equipment across the ocean.
B. Describe the new weapons used in WWI.
C. What new Hazards were introduced during WWI?
A. Selective Service Act
B. Convoy System
C. Conscientious objector
II. Questions
A. Describe in detail how the United States found ways to transport men, food and equipment across the ocean.
B. Describe the new weapons used in WWI.
C. What new Hazards were introduced during WWI?
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Lincoln Optional Assignment
1) Watch the movie
2) Write 1-2 paragraphs describing the challenges Lincoln faced while trying to pass the 13th amendment.
3) Staple your ticket stub to your paper.
1) Watch the movie
2) Write 1-2 paragraphs describing the challenges Lincoln faced while trying to pass the 13th amendment.
3) Staple your ticket stub to your paper.
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Chapter 10, Section Four Homework
I. Terms
A. Roosevelt Corollary
B. Dollar Diplomacy
C. Panama Canal
D. Francisco” Pancho” Villa
II. Questions
A. How did the United States gain the territory needed to build the Panama Canal?
I. Terms
A. Roosevelt Corollary
B. Dollar Diplomacy
C. Panama Canal
D. Francisco” Pancho” Villa
II. Questions
A. How did the United States gain the territory needed to build the Panama Canal?
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Chapter 10, Section 3 Homework
I. Terms
A. Platt Amendment
B. Protectorate
C. Open Door Notes
II. Questions
A. What were the aims of the Filipinos and the Americans during the Philippines American war?
B. Why did Secretary of State John Hay issue the policy statements known as the Open Door Notes?
I. Terms
A. Platt Amendment
B. Protectorate
C. Open Door Notes
II. Questions
A. What were the aims of the Filipinos and the Americans during the Philippines American war?
B. Why did Secretary of State John Hay issue the policy statements known as the Open Door Notes?
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Chapter 10, Section Two Reading Guide
I. Terms
A. Yellow Journalism
B. U.S.S. Maine
II. Questions
A. Describe how Spain reacted to the Cuban rebels.
B. How did journalist encourage the war effort against Spain
C. What territories did the United States gain as a result of the war?
I. Terms
A. Yellow Journalism
B. U.S.S. Maine
II. Questions
A. Describe how Spain reacted to the Cuban rebels.
B. How did journalist encourage the war effort against Spain
C. What territories did the United States gain as a result of the war?
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Chapter 10 Section One Reading Guide
Section One
I. Terms
A. Imperialism
B. Alfred T. Mahan
II. Questions
A. Describe each of the three factors that fueled American Imperialism
B. Compare and Contrast ”Manifest Destiny” with American Imperialism.
C. Describe the events that led Hawaii to become a state
Section One
I. Terms
A. Imperialism
B. Alfred T. Mahan
II. Questions
A. Describe each of the three factors that fueled American Imperialism
B. Compare and Contrast ”Manifest Destiny” with American Imperialism.
C. Describe the events that led Hawaii to become a state
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Check your grade, if you are using a free late for any assignment it will be a zero on the 10-week report card if you have not turned it in yet.
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Chapter Seven, Section Three Homework
I. Terms
A. Political machine
B. Graft
C. Boss Tweed
D. Patronage
E. Pendleton Civil Service Act
II. Questions
A. Describe the role of the political Boss
B. Describe the relationship between immigrants and the political machine.
C. Describe the fight between the stalwarts and the reformers
I. Terms
A. Political machine
B. Graft
C. Boss Tweed
D. Patronage
E. Pendleton Civil Service Act
II. Questions
A. Describe the role of the political Boss
B. Describe the relationship between immigrants and the political machine.
C. Describe the fight between the stalwarts and the reformers
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Chapter Seven, Section Two Homework
I. Terms
A. Urbanization
B. Tenements
C. Social Gospel movement
II. Questions
A. Why did immigrants settle in the cities?
B. What was the Americanization movement? How did immigrants respond to it?
C. Describe problems faced in urban areas. (be specific)
I. Terms
A. Urbanization
B. Tenements
C. Social Gospel movement
II. Questions
A. Why did immigrants settle in the cities?
B. What was the Americanization movement? How did immigrants respond to it?
C. Describe problems faced in urban areas. (be specific)
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Chapter Seven Section One Homework
I. Terms
A. National Reclamation Act (1902)
B. Steerage
C. Ellis Island
D. Angel Island
E. Nativism
F. Chinese Exclusion Act
G. Gentlemen’s Agreement
II. Questions
A. What challenges did immigrants face when they arrived in America? Which group do you think faced the greatest challenges? Why?
B. Why did nativist dislike immigrants? What arguments can you make against nativism?
I. Terms
A. National Reclamation Act (1902)
B. Steerage
C. Ellis Island
D. Angel Island
E. Nativism
F. Chinese Exclusion Act
G. Gentlemen’s Agreement
II. Questions
A. What challenges did immigrants face when they arrived in America? Which group do you think faced the greatest challenges? Why?
B. Why did nativist dislike immigrants? What arguments can you make against nativism?
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Please review the attached presentations regarding the Civil War.
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Chapter Four, Section Two Homework
Fort Sumter
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Conscription
II. Questions
A. Describe the strengths and strategies of the Union.
B. Describe the social and economic changes that occurred during the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Conscription
II. Questions
A. Describe the strengths and strategies of the Union.
B. Describe the social and economic changes that occurred during the Civil War.
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Chapter Four, Section Four
Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
II. Questions
A. Describe Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction
B. Describe the opposition to reconstruction and how support for reconstruction faded
Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
II. Questions
A. Describe Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction
B. Describe the opposition to reconstruction and how support for reconstruction faded
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Chapter Four Section Three
Section Three Due_______
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg
Total War
Sherman’s March
Appomattox
Thirteenth Amendment
II. Questions
A. What ideas about the United States did Lincoln express in the Gettysburg Address?
Section Three Due_______
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg
Total War
Sherman’s March
Appomattox
Thirteenth Amendment
II. Questions
A. What ideas about the United States did Lincoln express in the Gettysburg Address?
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Chapter Four, Section Two
I. Terms
Fort Sumter
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Conscription
II. Questions
A. Describe the strengths and strategies of the Union.
B. Describe the social and economic changes that occurred during the Civil War.
I. Terms
Fort Sumter
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Conscription
II. Questions
A. Describe the strengths and strategies of the Union.
B. Describe the social and economic changes that occurred during the Civil War.
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Chapter Four Section One
Popular sovereignty
Underground Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Harpers Ferry
Confederacy
II. Questions
How did the tension between states’ rights and national government authority manifest itself in the events leading up to the Civil War?
Popular sovereignty
Underground Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Harpers Ferry
Confederacy
II. Questions
How did the tension between states’ rights and national government authority manifest itself in the events leading up to the Civil War?
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Chapter Three, Section Four Homeowrk
I. Terms
Market Revolution
Free Enterprise
Commonwealth V. Hunt
II. Questions
A. How did improvements in transportation facilitate the market revolution?
B. What social/cultural changes occurred as a result of the Market Revolution
I. Terms
Market Revolution
Free Enterprise
Commonwealth V. Hunt
II. Questions
A. How did improvements in transportation facilitate the market revolution?
B. What social/cultural changes occurred as a result of the Market Revolution
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Chapter Three, Section Two
. Terms
Cotton Gin
American System
Missouri Compromise
Jacksonian Democracy
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis
. Terms
Cotton Gin
American System
Missouri Compromise
Jacksonian Democracy
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis
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Chapter Three, Section One
I.Terms
Jeffersonian republicanism
Marbury V. Madison
Judicial Review
Louisiana Purchase
Impressment
Monroe Doctrine
II. Questions
A. Describe the causes and effects of the war of 1812
B. How did the Monroe Doctrine assert American Nationalism?
I.Terms
Jeffersonian republicanism
Marbury V. Madison
Judicial Review
Louisiana Purchase
Impressment
Monroe Doctrine
II. Questions
A. Describe the causes and effects of the war of 1812
B. How did the Monroe Doctrine assert American Nationalism?
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Alexander Hamilton
Jay’s Treaty
Alien and Sedition Acts
Nullification
Whiskey Rebellion
II. In a complete Paragraph compare and Contrast Jefferson and Hamilton’s views of government.
Jay’s Treaty
Alien and Sedition Acts
Nullification
Whiskey Rebellion
II. In a complete Paragraph compare and Contrast Jefferson and Hamilton’s views of government.
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Study for Unit One Exam on chapters one and two
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Section Three
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I. Terms
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Federalism
Checks and Balances
Ratification
II. Questions
In many ways the final draft of the constitution was a series of compromises among different interest groups. Describe the conflicts that arose during the drafting of the constitution and what the compromises were.
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I. Terms
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Federalism
Checks and Balances
Ratification
II. Questions
In many ways the final draft of the constitution was a series of compromises among different interest groups. Describe the conflicts that arose during the drafting of the constitution and what the compromises were.
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I. Terms
Loyalist
Patriots
Saratoga
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Egalitarianism
II. Questions
How did the Revolution effect life in the colonies?
Write one to two complete paragraphs describing the effects beyond death and destruction.
I. Terms
Loyalist
Patriots
Saratoga
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Egalitarianism
II. Questions
How did the Revolution effect life in the colonies?
Write one to two complete paragraphs describing the effects beyond death and destruction.
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Chapter 2, Section One Reading Guide
I. Terms
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
II. Questions
Do you feel that King George and George Greenville had good reasons to create new taxes on the colonist?
Explain why you feel this way in one to two complete paragraphs.
I. Terms
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
II. Questions
Do you feel that King George and George Greenville had good reasons to create new taxes on the colonist?
Explain why you feel this way in one to two complete paragraphs.
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Chapter One, Section Four Reading Guide
Triangular Trade
Stono Rebellion
The Enlightenment
Great Awakening
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
II. Answer the following questions in at least one paragraph, be sure to include a thesis statement.
1. Compare and contrast the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening including the effects in the colonies.
2. Describe causes the effects of the French and Indian War.
Triangular Trade
Stono Rebellion
The Enlightenment
Great Awakening
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
II. Answer the following questions in at least one paragraph, be sure to include a thesis statement.
1. Compare and contrast the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening including the effects in the colonies.
2. Describe causes the effects of the French and Indian War.
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Complete Reading Guide for Ch. 1 Section Three
I. Vocabulary
John Smith
Jamestown
Joint-stock company
Indentured servant
Puritan
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
II. Question
Compare and contrast the English settlement at Jamestown to the Puritan settlements in New England. Be sure to include the reasons for founding along with social, political and economic differences.
I. Vocabulary
John Smith
Jamestown
Joint-stock company
Indentured servant
Puritan
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
II. Question
Compare and contrast the English settlement at Jamestown to the Puritan settlements in New England. Be sure to include the reasons for founding along with social, political and economic differences.