APUSH DBQ Outline Format

DBQ OutlineYour outline is due Monday 11/7

Intro:

a) Intro sentence

b) Thesis- What you are trying to prove

Body:

a) 1st Body paragraph topic sentence

  • 1st document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc
  • 2nd document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc

b) 2nd Body paragraph topic sentence

  • 1st document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc
  • 2nd document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc

c) Repeat as needed

APUSH Chapter 12 Terms and Questions

Chapter 12

  • War of 1812
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Hartford Convention
  • Tariff of 1816
  • American System
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Panic of 1819
  • Land Act of 1820
  • Tallmadge Amendment
  • peculiar institution
  • Missouri Compromise
  • McCulloch v Maryland
  • loose construction
  • Cohens v Virginia
  • Gibbons v Ogden
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Russo-American Treaty
  • Oliver Hazard Perry
  • Francis Scott Key
  • James Monroe

Ch 12 Questions

  1. What was the intended purpose of Henry Clay’s American System?
  2. What justifications were given for the Monroe Doctrine?

 

APUSH Chapter 11 Terms and Questions

Chapter 11

  • Revolution of 1800
  • Judiciary Act of 1801
  • Midnight judges
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Orders in Council
  • Impressment
  • Chesapeake Affair
  • Embargo Act
  • Non-Intercourse Act
  • Macon’s Bill no. 2
  • war hawks
  • Battle of Tippecanoe
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Marshall
  • Toussaint L’ouverture
  • Aaron Burr
  • James Madison
  • Tecumseh

Ch 11 Questions

  1. Why was the establishment of judicial review so significant to the future of the United States?
  2. Was an embargo the best means of addressing European depredations on American shipping?

US History WWI Poster

Due on Friday November 4th.

During times of war it is common for a government to use propaganda posters in order to raise money or support. In order to make sure you fully understand the impact these posters had on the war effort, your job will be to create a war effort poster that meets the following standards and addresses the following issues:

Standards and Issues-

  • Posters must be relevant to the topic, and school appropriate
  • Posters must fill up a majority of the paper given to you
  • Posters must have at least one central image and a slogan enticing the American people to either buy war bonds, gladly accept rations, collect items, grow their own food, or support the war in another way (ex. join the military, fight for your country)
  • Finally, it needs to convince me that the topic is worth my time thinking about
  • Be colorful, neat, spelled correctly, correct grammatically, and show effort
  • Not bigger than 11X17

 

Extra Credit All Classes

Tonight is the last presidential debate. I will give you extra credit If you watch it and write a summary/ reflection about it. In the reflection you should tell me your thoughts about it (with examples from the debate), who did well and why, and your overall impression of the event. The summary should show your thoughts and effort. It should be a minimum of 9 sentences in length.

Chapter 9 & 10 Terms and Questions

Chapter 9 The Confederation and The Constitution1776-1790

Terms to Know:

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Civic Virtue

Republican motherhood

Articles of Confederation

Old Northwest

Land Ordinance of 1785

Northwest Ordinance

Shay’s Rebellion

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

Common law

Civil law

Three-fifths compromise

Antifederalists

Federalists

 

People to Know:

Lord Sheffield

Daniel Shays

Patrick Henry

Alexander Hamilton

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

 

Chapter 10 Launching the New Ship of State1789-1800

Terms to Know

Bill of Rights

Judiciary Act of 1789

Funding at par

Assumption

tariff

Excise tax

Bank of the United States

Whiskey Rebellion

Reign of Terror

Neutrality Proclamation

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Treaty of Greenville

Jay’s Treaty

Pinckney’s Treaty

Farewell Address, Washington

XYZ Affair

Convention of 1800

Alien Laws

Sedition Act

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

 

People to Know

Alexander Hamilton

George Washington

Louis XVI

Edmond Genêt

“Mad Anthony” Wayne

John Jay

John Adams

 

Chapter 9

  1. How did the revolutionary American ideas of natural human rights, equality, and freedom from governmental tyranny affect developments in the immediate post –Revolutionary period?
  2. Which problems of the post-Revolutionary period and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation lead to the adoption of a new Constitution?

Chapter 10

  1. What were the most important issues facing the new federal government, and how did the Washington administration address them?
  2. What were the philosophical disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson that led to the creation of the first American political parties?

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APUSH Sample Short Response Questions for Chapter 7 & 8

Sample Short Response Questions for Chapter 7 and 8

Question 1

Answer a, b, and c. (1 paragraph; 7-9 sentences)

a.)  Briefly explain ONE pressure that began to unite the British colonies against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights between 1750-1800.

b.)  Briefly explain a SECOND pressure that began to unite the British colonies against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights between 1750-1800.

c.)  Briefly explain ONE motivation factor that kept the British colonies allied to their Mother land between 1750-1800.

Question 2

“To these grievous acts and measures, Americans cannot submit, but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state, in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures:

  1. To enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association.
  2. To prepare an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America: and
  3. To prepare a loyal address to his majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.”

-Excerpted from the demands of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances of 1774 (Passed by the Fist Continental Congress)

Answer a, b, and c. based on the information above

a.)  Briefly explain ONE event that led to the colonist getting together for the First Continental Congress.

b.)  Briefly explain what the colonist felt was being violated by England that gave them the right to respond the way they did

c.)  Briefly explain ONE way that the British were threatened by the Declaration of Rights and Grievances of 1774.

Question 3

Answer a, b, and c.

a.) Identify and briefly describe one of the primary arguments supporting the Patriot cause during the American Revolution.

b.) Identify and briefly describe a second primary argument supporting the Patriot cause during the American Revolution.

c.) Identify and briefly describe one of the primary arguments supporting the Loyalists cause during the American Revolution.

Question 4

Answer a, b, and c.

a.) Identify and briefly describe one of the Britain’s strengths that they had at the start of the American Revolution.

b.) Identify and briefly describe one of the main strengths that the Colonist’s possessed during the American Revolution.

c.) Identify and briefly describe one of obstacles that the Colonists had to overcome to be victorious in the American Revolution.