mines and battles

indian battles

gold and sivler mines

take home test.

Put the following events in order, and write a definition and why it’s important.
End of Reconstruction
Start of Civil War
Kansas Nebraska Act
Dred Scott
Mexican American War
Second Great Awakening

I Civil War- Write a paragraph describing civil war.

II Causes: List 2 and explain
A ____________________
B ____________________
III How war was fought (look up):
A ____________________
B: ____________________
IV Radical Reconstruction (two things)
A ____________________
B ____________________
V Hayes Tilden (effects on African Americans)
A ____________________
B ____________________

Tuesday, September 22

Here are the next set of terms.
They are not homework due wednesday.
But they are due thursday.

Crittenden's compromise
Confederacy
p. 214
Casualties
13th amend
14th amendment
15th amendment
Chapter 5, Section 5 terms (p. 225, questions 1, 2, 3)

Ch 1-3 Questions

1. What is the main idea of Ch1-3?
2. What is a republic?
3. Describe the Governements of VA and MA?
4. How was Penn the most democratic state?
5. Example of Religious freedom in the independent states?
6. What happened to voting?
7. Articles of Confederation: What was it: What were weaknesses?
8. What happened to the economy after the war? Why?
9. What was Shay’s rebellion?
10. What was the Constitutional Convention?
11. What was the Great Compromise?
12. 3/5 compromise?
13. What is popular sovereignty
14. What is federalism?
15. What is separation of powers?
16. What are checks and balances?
17. What is the veto?
18. What is an amendment and how do you do it?
19. What is ratification?
20. What is a Federalist? Anti Federalist?

Chapter 1-2 Terms.

1. Mercantilism
2. Navigation Acts
3. Glorious Revolution
4. John Locke
5. Enlightenment
6. Great Awakening
7. French and Indian War
8. Proclamation of 1763
9. Stamp Act
10. Townsend acts
11. Boston Tea Party
12. Intolerable Acts

Take Home Test.

Essays: On separate paper, typed or written legibly, write answers for the following questions. Pick 4.



1. List and Explain the advantages the Colonials had in the Revolutionary War.

2. What were the Major Causes of WWI, and clarify specific events that led to the US entering the war?

3. How did the ending of WWI lead to WW2?

4. Describe the US economy in the 1920’s. What factors led to it’s rise and fall?

5. What effects did the Great Depression have on ways of life in the 30’s in America?

6. How did the FDR administration and the New deal Address the Great Depression, redefine the role of government, and affect American life?

7. What were the concerns, successes, and limitations of progressivism?

8. How did inventions, production and power transform work production and labor in the early 20th century?

9. Describe the events leading to WWII, starting with the End of WWI, and ending with the US’ entry into war.

10. What were the key people and events of the Civil Rights Movement in the 50’s and 60’s?

11. Give a basic chronology of Vietnam. Reference the War, and the US Perception and Response to the War.

12. How did advances in technology affect the ‘face’ of the American west?

13. What were the major factors contributing to the urbanization of America in the late 19th/Early 20th century?

Cultural Literacy Terms:
Identify Each of these terms AND explain it’s significance to the Era of it’s time. Complete sentences are recommended to help preclude ambiguity.


1. Brown v. Board of Education
2. Watergate
3. MLK Jr.
4. Gulf of Tonkin
5. Ho Chi Mihn
6. Pentagon Papers
7. Appeasement
8. Axis Powers
9. Midway
10. Pearl Harbor
11. Okinawa
12. Battle of Britain
13. Dunkirk
14. Maginot Line
15. Sudetenland
16. Stalingrad
17. Bay of Pigs
18. Berlin Wall
19. Sputnik
20. Brinksmanship
21. Containment
22. New Deal
23. Dallas 1963
24. Bay of Pigs
25. Cuban Missile Crisis
26. Dust Bowl
27. Prohibition
28. Watergate
29. Khmer Rouge
30. Beatniks
31. Internment
32. Holocaust
33. Freedom Riders
34. Battle of the Bulge
35. McCarthyism
36. The Maine
37. Alvin York
38. Treaty of Versaille
39. Bessemer Process
40. Seabiscuit
41. Robber Baron
42. Andrew Carnegie
43. Spanish Influenza

last notesand review

Tet Offensive
Henry Kissinger
My Lai
Pentagon Papers
Fall of Vietnam

1. containment plan?
2. Marshall Plan?
3. Berlin Airlift?
4. HUAC?
5. Korean War
6. Who was Douglas MacArthur?
7. Joe McCarthy? McCarthyism?
8. Sputnik?
9. Brinksmanship?
10. Brown v. Board of Education?
11. Rosa Parks?
12. Peace Corps?
13. Bay of Pigs?
14. Cuban Missile Crisis?
15. Ho Chi Minh?
16. Dien Bien Phu
17. Ngo Dien Diem
18. Advisors
19. Gulf of Tonkin?
20. Ho Chi Minh Trail?
21. What was the Tet Offensive?
22. What is Agent Orange?
23. What is Napalm?
24. My Lai?