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Today's Agenda

12/13/2017

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Today's Agenda

12/12/2017

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Learning Target:
I can prepare for my first semester Final Exam, covering U.S. History from 1492-1877.

Critical Vocabulary: Encomienda System, Columbian Exchange, Pueblo Revolt, Starving Time, Headright System, Bacon’s Rebellion, Mayflower Compact, King Philip’s War, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, French and Indian War, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise, Elastic Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Hamilton’s Economic Plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807, War Hawks, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Market Revolution, Lowell Textile Mills, Abolition Movement, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Manifest Destiny, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott Decision, Raid at Harpers Ferry. Election of 1860, Anaconda Plan, Major Civil War Battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Compromise of 1877

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete Round 5 of the Tournament of Champions.
  2. Collaborative Learning: Kahoot Review Game
  3. ​Reflection Question: Practice U.S. Citizenship Questions.

Homework: Study Guide
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/11/2017

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Learning Target:
I can prepare for my first semester Final Exam, covering U.S. History from 1492-1877.

Critical Vocabulary: Encomienda System, Columbian Exchange, Pueblo Revolt, Starving Time, Headright System, Bacon’s Rebellion, Mayflower Compact, King Philip’s War, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, French and Indian War, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise, Elastic Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Hamilton’s Economic Plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807, War Hawks, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Market Revolution, Lowell Textile Mills, Abolition Movement, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Manifest Destiny, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott Decision, Raid at Harpers Ferry. Election of 1860, Anaconda Plan, Major Civil War Battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Compromise of 1877

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete Round 1 of the Tournament of Champions.
  2. Individual Learning: Study Guide
  3. ​Reflection Question: Practice U.S. Citizenship Questions.

Homework: Study Guide
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/8/2017

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Learning Target:
I can prepare for my first semester Final Exam, covering U.S. History from 1492-1877.

Critical Vocabulary: Encomienda System, Columbian Exchange, Pueblo Revolt, Starving Time, Headright System, Bacon’s Rebellion, Mayflower Compact, King Philip’s War, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, French and Indian War, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise, Elastic Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Hamilton’s Economic Plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807, War Hawks, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Market Revolution, Lowell Textile Mills, Abolition Movement, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Manifest Destiny, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott Decision, Raid at Harpers Ferry. Election of 1860, Anaconda Plan, Major Civil War Battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Compromise of 1877

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Put the following events into chronological order:
  2. Individual Learning: Study Guide
  3. ​Reflection Question: Practice U.S. Citizenship Questions.

Homework: Study Guide
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/7/2017

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Learning Target:
I can prepare for my first semester Final Exam, covering U.S. History from 1492-1877.

Critical Vocabulary: Encomienda System, Columbian Exchange, Pueblo Revolt, Starving Time, Headright System, Bacon’s Rebellion, Mayflower Compact, King Philip’s War, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, French and Indian War, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise, Elastic Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Hamilton’s Economic Plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807, War Hawks, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Market Revolution, Lowell Textile Mills, Abolition Movement, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Manifest Destiny, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott Decision, Raid at Harpers Ferry. Election of 1860, Anaconda Plan, Major Civil War Battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Compromise of 1877

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Put the following events into chronological order: 
  2. Individual Learning: Study Guide
  3. ​Reflection Question: 

Homework: Study Guide
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/6/2017

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Learning Target:
I can prepare for my first semester Final Exam, covering U.S. History from 1492-1877.

Critical Vocabulary: Encomienda System, Columbian Exchange, Pueblo Revolt, Starving Time, Headright System, Bacon’s Rebellion, Mayflower Compact, King Philip’s War, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Enlightenment, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, French and Indian War, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, U.S. Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise, Elastic Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Hamilton’s Economic Plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo of 1807, War Hawks, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, Bank War, Market Revolution, Lowell Textile Mills, Abolition Movement, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Manifest Destiny, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Forty-Niners, Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas”, Dred Scott Decision, Raid at Harpers Ferry. Election of 1860, Anaconda Plan, Major Civil War Battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Civil War Amendments, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Compromise of 1877

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Put the following events into chronological order: 
  2. Individual Learning: Study Guide
  3. ​Reflection Question: 

Homework: Study Guide
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/5/2017

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Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What does this image tell us about the governments that emerged in the South as Reconstruction came to an end?
  2. Individual Learning: The Trials of Reconstruction
  3. Guided Instruction: The Old South
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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Today's Agenda

12/4/2017

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Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess its effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Thirteenth Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction Plan, Black Codes, Sharecropping, Debt Peonage, Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction Plan, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, “Swing Around the Circle” Tour, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, 1868 Presidential Election, Ulysses Grant, Fifteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan, Enforcement Acts, Amnesty Act, Election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Compromise of 1877, Redeemers, Lost Cause, Old South, Henry Grady, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Jim Crow Laws, Lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: How did the 1866 elections change the course of Reconstruction?
  2. Individual Learning: The Trials of Reconstruction
  3. Guided Instruction: Congressional Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: Why did the North's commitment to Reconstruction wane during the 1870s?

Homework: The Trials of Reconstruction
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Tentative Test Date: Week of December 11
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    -Mark Twain
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  • Classroom
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    • Unit 1
  • Study
    • New Deal Breakout
    • Review Slides
    • Trading Cards
    • US History Flashcards
    • US Presidents Flashcards
  • Et Cetera
    • Class Toolbox
    • Crash Course Videos
    • iTunes U >
      • US History to 1877
      • US History since 1877
    • Khan Academy Videos >
      • US History Overview 1
      • US History Overview 2
      • US History Overview 3
    • Pinterest Boards
    • U.S. History Timeline