A More Perfect Union
  • Home
  • About
  • Agendas
  • Classroom
  • Drive
  • Resources
    • 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

Today's Agenda

9/27/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​

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. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    A. print money 
    B. create an army 
    C. issue passports 
    D. provide public education​
  3. Guided Instruction: The Old South
  4. ​Reflection Question: What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/26/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​

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: Did President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction give more power to the national government or to the states? Explain.
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one right that ONLY applies to United States citizens? 
    A. speak freely 
    B. own a weapon 
    C. practice a religion 
    D. run for federal office​
  3. Guided Instruction: Congressional Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: How does your goal for Reconstruction compare to those of the Radical Republicans?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/25/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.

​Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess their 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 did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
  2. Citizenship Question: Who makes federal laws? 
    A. the Congress 

    B. the Supreme Court 
    C. the Attorney General 
    D. the Justice Department
  3. Guided Instruction: The Trials of Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: Most freedmen never see the "forty acres and a mule" promised under Sherman's Special Field Order #15. Do you think this promise should have been honored? Explain.
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/24/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.

​Learning Target:
I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess their 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 do you think should be the goal(s) of Reconstruction?
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government? 
    A. to make treaties 
    B. to issue driver's licenses 
    C. to provide public education 
    D. to establish police departments
  3. Individual Learning: The Trials of Reconstruction
  4. Guided Instruction: Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
  5. ​Reflection Question: Most freedmen never see the "forty acres and a mule" promised under Sherman's Special Field Order #15. Do you think this promise should have been honored? Explain.
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/23/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.

​Learning Target:

I can compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & I can assess their 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: Complete the Anticipation Guide.
  2. Citizenship Question: If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? 
    A. the Secretary of State 
    B. the U.S. Attorney General 
    C. the President Pro Tempore 
    D. the Speaker of the House of Representatives
  3. Collaborative Learning: Creating a Plan for Reconstruction
  4. ​Reflection Question: How do you define the goal(s) of Reconstruction?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/20/2019

0 Comments

 
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​
Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: How did Southern states respond to Lincoln's election in 1860?
  2. Citizenship Question: Who signs bills to become laws? 
    A. the President 
    B. the Vice President 
    C. the Secretary of State 
    D. the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  3. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us: Civil War
  4. ​Reflection Question: How did changes in technology impact the course of the Civil War?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/19/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​
Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln?
  2. Citizenship Question: Who makes federal laws? 
    A. the Congress 
    B. the Supreme Court 
    C. the Attorney General 
    D. the Justice Department
  3. Collaborative Learning: Abraham Lincoln Activity
  4. ​Reflection Question: ​What important questions about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War have not been answered?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/18/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​
Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Building the New Nation Practice Questions
  2. Citizenship Question: What did the Declaration of Independence do? 
    A. declared freedom for the slaves 
    B. declared equal rights for women 
    C. declared freedom from Great Britain 
    D. declared an end to the war with Great Britain
  3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
  4. ​Reflection Question: How did Southern states respond to Lincoln's election in 1860?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/17/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​
Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: America's Founding Practice Questions
  2. Citizenship Question: How many amendments does the Constitution have? 
    A. 10 
    B. 27 
    C. 36 
    D. 50
  3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
  4. ​Reflection Question: What new political party was founded in the 1850s in order to oppose the spread of slavery into the Western territories?
0 Comments

Today's Agenda

9/16/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
​
Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​

Critical Vocabulary: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Why were Democrats more likely than Whigs to support western expansion in the 1840s?
  2. Citizenship Question: What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? 
    A. the Preamble 
    B. the Bill of Rights 
    C. the Articles of the Confederation 
    D. the Declaration of Independence
  3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
  4. ​Reflection Question: What made the Fugitive Slave Law so controversial in the North?
0 Comments
<<Previous

    RSS Feed

    A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

    ​-Jackie Robinson

    Announcements

    March 6: Bullitt Day
    ​March 30-April 3: Spring Break

    Resources

    Class Syllabus

    Archives

    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About
  • Agendas
  • Classroom
  • Drive
  • Resources
    • 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