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Welcome to the GAP History Message Board.
This page is meant to help the Parent/Guardian, and students stay aware of the activities in class.
The first class meeting will be Monday August 25th. The students will be able to pick up their class schedules in the class room.
We will conduct a regular class for the normal 75 minutes.
Our room is air conditioned. PLEASE Be on Time!
SYLLABUS FOR G.A.P. HISTORY
JIM BORTNICK - ROOM C-17
Course description: A survey of the establishment of an independent United States, beginning with early exploration and colonialization of the Americas. The course will overview major topics throughout U.S. History ranging from our break from British rule through our civil war, and all the way to the U.S. role as a world power in the 20th century.
Text: The A Plus System.
Objectives:
This course will blend the following Standards that were established by the B.O.E. of USD 265 and the State
B.O.E..
1. All Students will demonstrate knowledge of the United States Constitutional Democracy and citizen
participation in its preservation.
2. All students will demonstrate an understanding of human and cultural diversity and recognition
of the contribution that diversity makes in our country and the world.
3. All students will demonstrate research abilities.
4. Students will be able to recognize the impact of geography on society.
5. Students will be able to understand basics of global economics and of U.S. economics.
6. All students will be able to identify and analyze historical events, as they relate to and impact U.S.
History.
CLASS FORMAT
Lecture discussion
Biographical research
Term Papers 1 each semester
Class presentations
Out side readings
Pop quizzes, chapter quizzes, & tests
GRADING SCALE
93% to 100% = A
85% to 92% = B
76% to 84% = C
70% to 75% = D
The following scale is approximate
TESTS & QUIZZES - 25%
RESEARCH - 25%
DAILY WORK/ HW - 20%
CLASS PARTICIPATION- 20%
ATTENDANCE - 10%
ATTENDANCE IS CRITICAL
Much more information to come. see you in class.
Record this address in your agenda,
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Your first take home quiz
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SESSION NAME earlyamericans
Due By 6:00pm Fri. Sept. 5/03.
Your first assignment is due
Thursday Sept4/03. Research!!!!
Follow the handout,OUTLINE OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD
given 8/25.
We have now completed our overview of early exploration of the New World. We will now move into the battle for influence in North America. We will visit the conflict between France and England for control of America, from about 1608 - 1763.
Chapter 6 will be critical for the completion of your next assignment. A reseach essay about the French and Indian war will be due Fri. 9/12/03. 6:00 pm
Along with Chp 6 read the outside reading listed below, (French & Indian War)
The Essay and Extra Credit are to be entered on the Quia site. Extra Credit is due 9/12/03 6:00 pm
Session Names.
frenchindianwar
xcperson
We have come along way in our review of early American History. We have just recently finished the Jeffersonian era, and will glance through the Age of Jackson. See below for the first major research of the 2nd qt. Our goal is to be at the Progressive period by mid-2nd qt. Our pace will be very quick untill the Progressive section. At that point we will slow down the pace but pick up the intensity. There will be more research assignments. You will also be expected to know data base information and to be able to anylize documents of the the various periods we will be covering.
The Age of Jackson Research
Due Fri 10-31-03
200 points
Session Name - ageofjackson
PLC Schedule
Tues.Oct.21
Tues.Oct.28
Wed.Nov.5
Wed.Nov.12
Tues.Nov.18
Wed.Dec.3
Tues.Dec.2
Wed.Dec17
Tues.Jan.6
Wed.Jan.21
Tues.Jan.27
Wed.Feb.4
Tues.Feb.10
Tues.Feb.17
wed.Feb.25
Tues.March 2
Wed.March 10
Tues.March 16
Tues.March 30
Wed.April 7
Wed.April 14
Tues.April 20
Wed.April 28
Tues.May 4
Wed.May 12
Tues.May 18
REASEARCH TOPICS - DUE DEC 2
1. TIMELINE TO THE CIVIL WAR
2. MIDDLE PASSAGE
3. ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
4. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
5. LINCOLN"S MARCH TO THE WHITEHOUSE
6. MAJOR POLITICAL FIGURES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO DISUNION
250 POINTS
4 SOURCES - (2 ELECTRONIC - 2 PRINT)
NO ENCYCLOPEDIA
8 PAGES - DOUBLE SPACE - 12 FONT
APPROX. 200 LINES ON QUIA.
WORKS CITED IS TO BE PLACED ON TO QUIA.
THE SOUTHS COUNTER ATTACK TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
50 POINTS
1 SOURCE
2 PAGES 50 LINES
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United States History Test Coverage
1. Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650
A. Europe in the sixteenth century
B. Specish, English, and French exploration
C. First English settlements
1. Jamestown
2. Plymouth
D. Spanish and French settlements and long-
term infulence.
E. American Indians
2. American and the British Empire, 1650-1754
A. Chesapeake country
B. Growth of New England
C. Restoration colonies
D. Mercantilism; the Dominion of New England
E. Origins of slavery
3. Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
A. Social structure
1. Family
2. Farm and town life; the economy
B. Culture
1. Great Awakening
2. The American mind
3. "Folkways"
C. New immigrants
4. Road to Revolution, 1754-1775
A. Anglo- French rivalries and Seven Years' war
B. Imerial reorganization of 1763
1. Stamp Act
2. Declaratory Act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Tea Party
C. Philosophy of the American Revolution
5. The American Revolution, 1775-1783
A. Continental Congress
B. Declaration of Independence
C. The War
1. French alliance
2. War and society; Loyalists
3. War economy
D. Articles of Confederation
E. Peace of Paris
F. Creating state governments
1.Political organization
2. Social reform: women, slavery
6. Constitution and New Republic, 1776-1800
A. Philadelphia Convention: drafting the Constitution
B. Federalists versus Anti-Federalists
C. Bill of Rights
D. Washington's presidentcy
1. Hamilton's financial program
2. Foreign and domestic difficulties
3. Beginnings of political parties
E. John Adams'presidency
1. Alien and Sedition Acts
2. XYZ affair
3. Election of 1800
7. The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816
A. Jefferson's presidency
1. Louisiana Purchase
2. Burr conspiracy
3. The Supreme Court under John Marshall
4. Neutral rights, impressment, embargo
B. Madison
C. War of 1812
1. Causes
2. Invasion of Canada
3. Hartford Convention
4. Conduct of the war
5. Treaty of Ghent
6. New Orleans
8. Nationalism and Economic Expansion
A. James Monroe; Era of Good Feelings
B. Panic of 1819
C. Settlement of the West
D. Missouri Compromise
E. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe
Doctrine
F. Election of 1824: End of Virginia dynasty
G. Economic revolution
1. Early railroads and canals
2. Expansion of business
a. Beginnings of factory system
b. Early labor movement; women
c. Social mobility; extremes of wealth
3. The cotton revolution in the South
4. Commercial agriculture
9. Sectionalism
A. The South
1. Cotton Kingdom
2. Southern trade and industry
3. Southern society and culture
a. Gradations of white society
b. Nature of Slavery: "peculiar instition"
C. The mind of the South
B. The North
1. Northeast industry
a. Labor
b. Immigration
c. Urban slums
2. Northwest agriculture
C. Westward expansion
1. Advance of agriculture frontier
2. Significance of the frontier
3. Life on the frontier; squatters
4. Removal of American Indians
10. Age of Jackson, 1828-1848
A. Democracy and the "common man"
1. Expansion of suffrage
2. Rotation in office
B. Second party system
1. Democratic Party
2. Whig Party
C. Internal improvements and states' rights:
the Maysville Road veto
D. The Nullification Crisis
1. Tariff issue
2. The Union: Calhoun and Jackson
E. The Bank War: Jackson and Biddle
F. Martin Van Buren
1. Independent treasury system
2. Panic of 1837
11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis
A. Manifest destiny and mission
B. Texas anexation, the Oregon boundry, and California
C. James K. Polk and the Mexican War; Slavery and
the Wilmot Proviso
D. Later expansionist efforts
12. Creating an American Culture
A. Cultural nationalism
B. Education reform/ professionalism
C. Religion; revivalism
D. Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
E. Trenscendentalists
F. National literature, art, architecture
G. Reforms crusades
1. Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth
century
2. Abolitionism
3. Temperance
4. Criminals and the insane
13. The 1850s: Decade of Crisis
A. Compromise of 1850
B. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
C. Kansas-Neraska Act and realignment of parties
1. Demise of the Whig Party
2. Emergence of the Republican Party
D. Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis
E. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
F. John Brown's raid
G. The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
H. The secession crisis
14. Civil War
A. The union
1. Mobilization and finance
2. Civil liberties
3. Election of 1864
B. The South
1. Confederate constitution
2. Mobilization and finance
3. States' rights and the confederacy
C. Foreign affairs and diplomacy
D. Military strategy, campaigns , and battles
E. The abolition of slavery
1. Confiscation Acts
2. Emancipation Proclamation
3. Freedmen's Bureau
4. Thirteenth Amendment
F. Effects of war on society
1. Inflation and public debt
2. Role of women
3. Devastation of the South
4. Changing labor patterns
15. Reconstruction to 1877
A. Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
B. Radical (congressional) plans
1. Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
2. Military reconstruction
3. Impeachment of Johnson
4. African-American suffrage: the Fifteenth
Amendment
C. Southern state governments: problems, achievements,
weaknesses
D. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
16. New South and the Last West
A. Politics in the New South
1. The Redeemers
2. white and African Americans in the New South
3. Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow
B. Southern economy; colonial status of the South
1. Sharecropping
2. Industrial stirrings
C. Cattle kingdom
1. Open-range ranching
2. Day of the cowboy
D. Building the Western railroad
E. Subordination of American Indians: dispersal of
tribes
F. Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
G. Mining bonanza
17. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
A. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal,
electricity, steel, oil, banks
B. Laissez-faire conservatism
1. Gospel of Wealth
2. Myth of "self-made man"
3. Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
4. Social critics and dissenters
C. Effects of technological development on worker/work-
place
D. Union movement
1. Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
2. Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman
18. Urban Society
A. Lure of the city
B. Immigration
C. City problems
1. Slums
2. Machine politics
D. Awakening conscience; reforms
1. Social legislation
2. Settlement houses: Jane Addams and Lillian Wald
3. Structural reforms in government
19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements
A. Education
1. Colleges and universities
2. Scientific advances
B. Professionalism and the social sciences
C. Realism in literature and art
D. Mass culture
1. Use of leisure
2. Publishing and journalism
20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age
A. A conservative presidency
B. Issues
1. Tariff controversy
2. Railroad regulation
3. Trusts
C. Agrarian discontent
D. Crisis of 1890s
1. Populism
2. Silver question
3. Election of 1896: McKinley verses Bryan
21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914
A. Seward and purchase of Alaska
B. The new imperialism
1. Blaine and Latin America
2. International Darwinism: missionaries,
politicians, and naval expansionists
3. Spanish-American War
a. Cuban independence
b. Debate on Philippines
C. The Far east: John Hay and the Open Door
D. Theodore Roosevelt
1. The Panama Canal
2. Roosevelt Corollary
3. Far East
E. Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
F. Wilson and Moral Diplomacy
22. Progressive Era
A. Origins of Progressivism
1. Progressive attitudes and motives
2. Muckrakers
3. Social Gospel
B. Municipal, state, and national reforms
1. Political: suffrage
2. Social and economic: regulation
C. Socialism: alternatives
D. Black America
1. Washington, Du Bois, and Garvey
2. Urban migration
3. Civil rights organizations
E. Women's role: family, work, education,
unionization, and suffrage
F. Roosevelt's Square Deal
1. Managing the trusts
2. Conservation
G. Taft
1. Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
2. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
H. Wilson's New Freedom
1. Tariffs
2. Banking reform
3. Antitrust act of 1914
23. The First World War
A. Problems of neutrality
1. Submarines
2. Economic ties
3. Psychological and ethnic ties
B. Preparedness and pacifism
C. Mobilization
1. Fighting the war
2. Financing of the war
3. War boards
4. Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
D. Wilson's Fourteen Points
1. Treaty of Versailles
2. Ratification fight
E. Postwar demobilization
1. Red scare
2. Labor strife
24. New Era: The 1920s
A. Republican governments
1. Business creed
2. Harding scandals
B. Economic development
1. Prosperity and wealth
2. Farm and labor problems
C. New culture
1. Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
2. Women, the family
3. Modern religion
4. Literature of alienation
5. Jazz age
6. Harlem Renaissance
D. Conflict of cultures
1. Prohibition, bootlegging
2. Nativism
3. Ku Klux Klan
4. Religious fundamentalism versus modernists
E. Myth of isolaion
1. Replacing the League of Nations
2. Business and diplomacy
25. Depression, 1929-1933
A. Wall Street crash
B. Depression economy
C. Moods of despair
1. Agririan unrest
2. Bonus march
D. Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan
26. New Deal
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
1. Background, ideas
2. Philosophy of New Deal
B. 100 Days; "alphabet agencies"
C. Second New Deal
D. Critics, left and right
E. Rise of CIO; labor strikes
F. Supreme Court fight
G. Recession of 1938
H. American people in the Depression
1. Social values, women, ethnic groups
2. Indian Reorganization Act
3. Mexican-American deportation
4. The racial issue
27. Diplomacy in the 1930s
A. Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
B. London Economic Conference
C. Disarmament
D. Isolationism: neutrality legislation
E. Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany
F. Appeasement
G. Rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease
H. Atlantic Charter
I. Pearl Harbor
28. The Second World War
A. Organizing the war
1. Mobilizing production
2. Propaganda
3. Internment of Japanese Americans
B. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D
Day
C. The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
D. Diplomacy
1. War aims
2. War-time conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam
E. Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations
29. Truman and the Cold War
A. Postwar domestic adjustments
B. The Taft-Hartley Act
C. Civil rights and the election of 1948
D. Containment in Europe and the Middle East
1. Truman Doctrine
2. Marshall Plan
3. Berlin crisis
4. NATO
E. Revolution in China
F. Limited war: Korea, MacArthur
30. Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
A. Domestic frustrations; McCarthyism
B. Civil rights movement
1. The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education
2. Montgomery bus boycott
3. Greensboro sit-in
C. John Foster Dulles's foreign policy
1. Crisis in Southeast Asia
2. Massive retaliation
3. Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle East,
Latin America
4. Khrushchev and Berlin
D. American People: homogenized society
1. Prosperity: economic consolidation
2. Consumer culture
3. Consensus of values
E. Space race
31. Kennedy's New Frontier;Johnson's Great Society
A.New domestic programs
1.Tax cut
2.War on powerty
3.Affirmative action
B.Civil rights and civil liberties
1.African Americans:political, cultural,and economic roles
2.The leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.
3.Resurgence of feminism
4.The New Left and the Counterculture
5.Emergence of the Republican Party in the South
6.The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision
C.Foreign Policy
1.Bay of Pigs
2.Cuban missile crisis
3.Vietnam quagmire
32. Nixon
A.Election of 1968
B.Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
1.Vietnam: escalation and pullout
2.China:restoring relations
3.Soviet Union:detene
C.New Federalism
D.Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade
E.Watergate crisis and resignation
33. The United States since 1974
A.The New Right and the conservative social agenda
B.Ford and Rockefeller
C.Carter
1.Deregulation
2.Energy and inflation
3.Camp David accords
4.Iranian hostage crisis
D.Reagan
1.Tax cuts and budget deficits
2.Defense buildup
3.New disarmament treaties
4.Foreign crises:the Persian Gulf and Central America
E.Society
1.Old and new urban problems
2.Asian and Hispanic immigrants
3.Resurgent funadmentalism
4.African Americans and local,state,and
national politics
new session name for Mckinley's War Message
mcwarmessage due 2/2
26-27 due 2/6
26-30 due 2/13
test fri 2/20
usj due 2/23
Building a Research Project.
Examine the publicly stated reason for the entry of the United States in The Great War.
What were the real reasons? Why did neutrality fail? Is it an accurate statement to claim the United States entered WWI to make the world safe for democracy? At what point during the course of events leading up to WWI could the United States have avoided War?
Your Group needs to build a project referring to the question above.
Your Project needs a Minimum of 8 documents. Use the following as a guide for your Documents.
1. Domestic Politics / Public Opinion
2. Foreign Politics / Public Opinion
3. Demographics
4. Quotes
5. Economics
6. Events
7. Personalities
8. Geo/Political
Each person must contribute a minimum of 2 building blocks. Turn in your documentation.
Place the finished project on to Quia. Cut and Paste. Or photo copy
How to build your project..
Where to look.
I Visuals
A. Pictures
B. Cartoons
C. Posters
D. Diagrams & flow charts
E. Maps
F. Charts
G Graphs
II Printed Material
A. Newspapers
B. Magazine or Pamphlet
C. Book
D. Poems
III Personal Documents
A. Speeches
B. Letters
C. Diary
IV Political Documents
A. Party Platform
B. List of groups supporting legislation
V Public Records
A. Laws, Proclamations, executive orders
B Court Decision
C. Legislative Debate, Congressional Records
D. Government Agency reports
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