AP US History Assignment Sheet / Mr. Klipfel: Unit 5+

 

 

Wednesday, 9 November        

Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and its Legacy: Outline due for stamping

 

Thursday, 10 November          

TERM PAPER DUE

Quiz Chapter 17*      

 

Monday, 14 November           

Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle: Outline due for stamping

 

Tuesday, 15 November           

Quiz Chapter 18*

 

Wednesday, 16 November      

Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion: Outline due for stamping

 

Friday, 18 November  

Quiz Chapter 19*    (   or 17, 18, and 19   or   18 and 19   )

 

Monday, 21 November           

DBQ #2 (on chapters 13-19 with an emphasis on chapters 16-19)

Chapter 17-19 Outlines Due

 

Monday, 28 November…………………….. 

Chapter 20: Girding for War: North and South, 1861-1865: Outline due for stamping

Chapter 21: Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865: Outline due for stamping

Quiz Chapters 20-21 and Civil War Assignment (TBA) Due

 

Thursday, 1 December

Chapter 22: The Ordeal Reconstruction: Outline due for stamping

 

Monday, 5 December

Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age: Outline due for stamping

Quiz Chapters 22-23

 

Monday-Friday, 5-9 December           

TERM PAPER WEB PAGE LAB TIME

 

Friday, 10 December   

TERM PAPER (PRINTED), GRADED DRAFT AND WEB PAGE DISK DUE

 

Monday, 12 December

TERM PAPER WEB PAGE CORRECTIONS DUE (Fixing links, images, etc.)

 

Tues.-Thurs., 14-16 December

Final Exams: Chapters 1-24 / 20% of SEMESTER GRADE

Chapter 20-24 Outlines Due

 

 

 

Chapter 17: genteel, default, repudiate, intrigue, protectorate, dark horse, predecessor, indemnity, lionized, quibble

John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, David Wilmot, John Slidell, Nicholas Trist, Robert Gray, Winfield Scott, James K. Polk, John C. Fremont, Lord Ashbuton, Stephen W. Kearny, joint resolution, Manifest Destiny, Fiscal Bank, Bear Flag Revolt, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Caroline, "all of Mexico," Tariff of 1842, Californios, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Liberty Party, Wilmot Proviso, Aroostook War, Walker Tariff

 

·        What led to the rise of the spirit of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s, and how did that spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?

·        How did rivalry with Britain affect the American decision to annex Texas, the Oregon dispute, and other lesser controversies of the period?

·        Why did the crucial election of 1844 come to be fought over expansionism, and how did Polk exercise his "mandate" for expansion in his reach for California?

·        What were the causes and consequences of the Mexican War?

·        How was the Manifest Destiny of the 1840s related to the sectional conflict over slavery?

 

Chapter 18: vigilante, topography, mundane, filibuster, consulate, isthmus, vanquished, ominously, sovereignty, pygmies

Chapter 19: forensic, apportionment, affidavit, vassalage, indictment, deluged, mediocre, fire-eater, homesteads, conscientiously

Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglass, Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor, John C. Calhoun, Winfield Scott, M.V. Buren, Daniel Webster, Matthew Perry, Harriet Tubman, William Seward, James Gadsden, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, popular sovereignty, filibustering, Free Soil Party, Fugitive Slave Law, “conscience” Whigs, Underground Railroad, Compromise of 1850, "fire eaters," Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Seventh of March Speech, Ostend Manifesto, “higher law,” Harriet Beecher Stowe, John C. Fremont, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Bell, Hinton R. Helper, Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Roger Taney, Jefferson Davis, James Buchanan, John Breckenridge, John Crittenden, Charles Sumner, self-determination, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Impending Crisis of the South, Pottawatomie massacre, Lecompton Constitution, “Bleeding Kansas,” American (Know-Nothing) Party, panic of 1857, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry raid, Constitutional Union Party, Crittenden Compromise

 

·        What urgent issues created the crisis leading up to the Compromise of 1850?

·        How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues concerning slavery? What were the compromise's effects?

·        Why were proslavery southerners so eager to push for further expansion in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere in the 1850s?

·        What were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

·        Why could sectional issues be compromised in 1820 and 1850, but not in 1854?

·        How did each of the crisis events of the 1850s help lead toward the Civil War?

·        What role did violence play in increasing the sectional conflict?

·        How did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic Party and benefit the Republicans?

·        What were the causes and consequences of Lincoln's election in 1860?

 

Chapter 20: arbitration, appropriation, habeas corpus, moral suasion, arbitrary, quota, greenback, peculator, profiteer, loopholed

Chapter 21: mediation, flank, garrison, implore, reconnaissance, squadrons, obsolete, logistics, irretrievably, riffraff

Napoleon III, Maximilian, Charles Francis Adams, Clara Barton, William Seward, Edwin M Stanton, Jefferson Davis, Morrill Tariff Act, National Banking Act, Trent affair, Alabama, King Cotton, draft riots, Clement Vallendigham, J.W. Booth, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, William Sherman, George B. Meade, Salmon P. Chase, David Farragut, George Pickett,  Merricmack/Virginia, Monitor, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, Copperheads, Union Party, First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, doctrine of ultimate destination/continuous voyage

 

·        How did the Civil War change from a war of preserving union to one of abolishing slavery?

·        How did careful Union diplomacy manage the Civil War crisis with Britain?

·        How did the North and the South each handle their economic and human-resource needs?

·        What impact did the draft, the use of black troops, and Lincoln's suspension of civil liberties have on the conduct of the war?

·        How did the military stalemate of 1861-62 affect both sides in the Civil War?

·        What were the primary military strategies of each side?

·        What were the costs of the Civil War to the nation as a whole? What issues were settled by the war, and what new problems were created?

 

Chapter 22-23: posthumously, bootstrap, dogmatic, sharecrop, peonage, scalawag, carpetbagger, integrated, interloper, odious

Oliver O. Howard, Andrew Johnson, Alexander Stephens, Thaddeus Stephens, Charles Sumner, William Seward, Freedmen's Bureau, 10% plan, Wade-Davis Bill, "conquered provinces," radical Republicans, Black Codes, sharecropping, Civil Rights Act, 14th and 15th Amendments, Military Reconstruction Act, scalawags, Ex parte Milligan, carpetbaggers, KKK, Force Acts, Tenure of Office Act, "Seward's Folly," Ulysses S. Grant, Horatio Seymour, Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, Jay Cooke, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Winfield Hancock, Charles Guiteau, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Reed, William McKinley, James B. Weaver, Tom Watson, Adlai E. Stevenson, William Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan, soft/cheap money, hard/sound money, contraction, resumption, Gilded Age, spoils system, crop-lien system, pork-barrel bills, populism, grandfather clause, “Ohio Idea,” Tweed Ring, Credit Mobilier, Liberal Republicans, Resumption Act, Bland-Allison Act, Greenback Labor Party, Grand Army of the Republic,  Stalwart, Half-Breed, Compromise of 1877, Pendleton Act, Mugwumps, “Redeemers,” Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow, Chinese Exclusion Act, People’s Party/Populists, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, McKinley Tariff

 

·        What were the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War? How did Reconstruction address or fail to address them?

·        How did freed blacks react to the end of slavery? How did northern and southern whites react?

·        How did the white South's intransigence and President Johnson's political bungling open the way for the congressional Rep. program of Reconstruction?

·        What was the purpose of the Congress' Reconstruction program? What were its effects in the South?

·        Why did Reconstruction apparently fail so badly?

·        What made politics in the Gilded Age extremely popular (80% participation) yet so often corrupt and unconcerned with issues?

·        What were causes and effects of the Grant Administration’s scandals?

·        How and why did the civil service emerge to replace political patronage?

·        How did the politics of the Gilded Age still partially reflect the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction?

Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age

Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, James Hill, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J P Morgan, Terence Powderly, Samuel Gompers, land grant, stock watering, pool, rebate, vertical/horizontal integration, trust, interlocking directorate, capital goods, plutocracy, injunction, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Grange, Wabash case, Bessemer process, US Steel, gospel of wealth, William Graham Sumner, New South, yellow dog contract, National Labor Union, Haymarket riot, AFL

 

  • How did large trusts develop, and what were their effects on the economy?
  • What early attempts were made to control corporate giants, and how successful were these efforts?
  • How did the new industrial revolution impact workers, and how did unions respond?
  • Why were the economic transitions of 1865-1900 seen as a threat to democracy while those of 1815-1860 were not?