Review Assignment for the Midterm – APUSH

 

Weds., Dec. 9

1. Primary Documents Analysis for your Research Paper due today

2. Review Game for Colonial Period Chapters 2 – 4 (Laura, Taylor, and Emily)

3. Review Game on  Revolutionary Period and the Constitution: Chapters 5 – 6 (Danny, Sallie, and Jenna)

Thurs., Dec. 10

1. Review Game on the New Nation: Chapters 7 – 9 (Sarah, Matt, and Emma)

2. Review Game for Jackson and Reform: Chapters 10 – 11 (Hartman, Rimsha, and Kristin)

Fri., Dec. 11

1. Review Game on Sectionalism through the Civil War: Chapters 12 - 14 (Jasmine, Pavel, and Jared)

2. Review Game on Reconstruction and the West: Chapters 15 – 16 (plus bits of Chapter 19 and 20 on race and politics) (Britt and Eugene)

You should have had your conference with me on your paper by today

Tues., Dec. 15

Midterm

 

 

Review Game – 50 points

 

            Each group will plan a 25-minute game to help the class review your section for the midterm.  Try to cover as much material as possible in 25 minutes. Feel free to use my buzzers or basketball hoop.

 

 

Themes

 

            As you study the facts that you have learned this semester, keep in mind the overall themes of American history in the following areas:

 

  • The roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the history of the U.S.  Political History: The developments and changes among political parties; the growth of democracy
  • War and diplomacy: armed conflict from the pre-colonial period on; the impact of war on American foreign policy and on politics, economy, and society
  • The growth of the power of the federal government
  • Religious and intellectual developments; reform groups on a broad range of issues; the influence of religion on politics, economics, and society
  • Economic transformations: changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time
  • Demographic changes in birth, marriage, and death rates, life expectancy and family patterns, population size and density.  The economic, social, and political effects of immigration and internal migration
  • Slavery and its legacies in North America: systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor in Native American societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West. The economics of slavery and its racial dimensions.  Patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery