AP United States History

Period 6

AP US History

Welcome

Assignments

Quizzes

Assigned Dec. 4
Answer the following questions from chapter 7 and submit your response by email to evmartimast@gmail.com

  1. Jefferson and the Republicans championed the rights of the states and advocated a strict adherence to the Constitution, but once in office, they found new situations that demanded governmental actions that, in some cases, went beyond what the Federalists had done. What caused Jefferson and his party to change their approach to governing, what reservations did they have about what they were doing, and how were they able to rationalize this apparent change in program and philosophy?
  2. How did the Federalists respond to Republican programs? If the Federalists favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution, why did they protest when Jefferson used a loose interpretation as well? What was it in the Republican program that the Federalists saw as a threat, and how did they respond?

Assigned Nov. 16
Read the article The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours) for class next week.

Assigned Oct. 21st
Read and analyze the transcripts of the and the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Due Oct. 26th

Assigned Oct. 19th
Research in pairs

Analyze the degree to which the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government with respect to any TWO of the following:

Write a minimum of four paragraphs (intro, topic 1, topic 2, close) with supporting details from the text of the Articles
Due Oct. 23rd

Readings

Assigned Oct. 12th
Read "A Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew" by James Kirby Martin and answer the study questions.

  1. Despite the desire of many colonists to separate from Great Britain, there was not much unanimity among Americans. Why? How would you explain the dissension?
  2. Historians have frequently looked back on American society in the colonial period as the least aristocratic in the world. Do you agree? Were there any aristocratic values in colonial America? Describe them. How does class conflict in the Continental Army expose those aristocratic values?
  3. In the 1770s, soldiers complained that the public did not much care about what was happening to them. Do you agree that the public was apathetic toward the soldiers in the 1770s? Why or why not?

Analysis of History

Assigned Oct. 2nd
Setting the Scene: The Road to Revolution
Consider the situation In the early 1770s. We see the implementation of the Tea Act, which was followed by the Boston Tea Party. Bostonian's resistance to pay for property damage resulted in the Parliament closing the port of Boston and reducing self government in that colony. The Coercive - or Intolerable Acts - also inflamed colonial opinion against Britain and did not succeed in isolating Massachusetts.

At the time the First Continental Congress was debating the language of a statement of grievances the British Parliament considered the Conciliatory Propositions offered by Lord North.

Before either side could present a resolution to the crisis the first shots of war were fired at Lexington and Concord.

The Question
In the grand scheme of things, was the fall of British control of the colonies inevitable? Was there anything Britain could do to maintain the status quo?

Do you think that Britain could have made any set of laws, at the colonists' consent, that would eliminate total rebellion? Would any resolution have lasted or just delayed the inevitable?

Answer the questions above in the form of a short essay. Be sure to include supporting information from the textbook.

Readings

Assigned Sep. 16th
Read Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition and be ready to discuss in our next class.

GSPRITE Chart Assignment

Assigned Sep. 16th
Create a set of notes that analyzes and evaluates the colonies up to 1700.

Complete for Each of the Colonial Regions:

Don't forget the evaluations!!! Are each of these things good/bad, beneficial/detrimental to the colonies, colonists themselves??????
(This is historical thinking...)
Due Sep. 25th

Quizzes

Please take the online quizzes for chapters one through three and send the results to evmartimast@gmail.com.

Chapter 1: The Collusion of Cultures
Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
Chapter 4: Empire in Transition
Chapter 5: The American Revolution
Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic
Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era

In Class

#apush @josemartimast analyzing the works of T. Paine... You know, the writer of Common Sense and American Crisis pic.twitter.com/QJcXhoASzu

— Erik Veiga (@evmartimast) October 9, 2015

My AP US History class working in groups to tackle a discussion question about the colonial period @josemartimast pic.twitter.com/hFtOULmBqa

— Erik Veiga (@evmartimast) September 11, 2015

Course Description

The United States History course consists of the following content area strands: United States History, Geography, and Humanities. The primary content emphasis for this course pertains to the study of United States history from Reconstruction to the present day. Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history.

Advanced Placement

The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessar y to deal critically with the problems and materials in U. S. history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials - their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance - and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.

Supplies

Students should have the following supplies available for use in class:

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