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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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APUSH America’s History 8th Edition

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Globalization Socratic Seminar

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Out of Many AP Edition Chapter 6 Class Notes

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Units of time
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2nd millennium
British East India Company
Continental Congress
Governors of Massachusetts
18th century in the United States
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence Outline ? The Seven Years? War in America ??????????The Albany Conference of 1754??????? o???British officials wanted the colonies to consider a collective response to the continuing conflict with New France and the Indians of the interior. o???The conference adopted Benjamin Franklin?s Plan of the Union, which proposed that Indian affairs, western settlement, and other items of mutual interest be placed under the authority of one general government for the colonies, consisting of a president-general appointed by British rule and a Grand Council, legislative body that makes laws and raises money. This plan was rejected. ??????????Colonial Aims and Indian Interests o???There were three flash points of conflict in North America

Out of Many AP edition Chapter 7 Class Notes

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British Army officers
Military personnel
British MPs
American Revolutionary War
American Revolution
Loyalist
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Continental Army
George Washington
Franco-American alliance
Henry Clinton
Patriot

Chapter 7: The American Revolution ??????????The War For Independence o???Introduction ???At the start of the war Britain had the best-equipped and most disciplined army, along with a navy that was unopposed in American waters ???Due to the native officer corps and considerable experience in colonial wars, the Patriot forces proved formidable ???Initially the British thought they could regain political control by having one military victory ???This strategy did not work due to the geography on eastern North America ???Patriots had the advantage of fighting on their own land and the popular support for the American cause o???The Patriot Forces ???Forces include: ??????????350,000 eligible men ??????????Over 200,000 saw action ??????????No more than 25,000 were engaged at one time

Out of Many AP Edition Chapter 8 Class Notes

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United States
The Federalist Papers
5th United States Congress
Presidency of John Adams
Federalism in the United States
Quasi-War
United States presidential election
John Adams
James Madison
Alien and Sedition Acts
Democratic-Republican Party
Presidency of George Washington

Chapter 8: The New Nation The Crisis of the 1780s Economic Crisis Origins in the Revolution: ? shortage of goods resulting from the British Blockade ? demand for supplies by the army and the militias ? flood of paper currency resulting in inflation U.S. dollar compared to the Spanish dollar Most of the money ended up in the hands of merchants U.S. continued to be a supplier of raw materials and an importer of manufactured products especially from Great Britain British merchants began a major trade with Americans ??? Resulting in ??? exportable goods reduced by fighting ??? trade deficit rose ?????? Left the country with little sliver coin (currency) in circulation ???????????? Banks insisted on repayment of old loans 1784- country in deep economic depression

Out of Many AP edition Chapter 3

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Indigenous peoples of North America
Americas
Regions of the United States
English colonization of the Americas
Thirteen Colonies
Algonquian peoples
Dominion of New England
Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands
Colony of Virginia
New England Colonies
Powhatan
Jamestown, Virginia

Chapter 3: Planting Colonies in North America Outline? ? ??????????Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fe o???The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rose in revolt in August 1680, taking Santa Fe and trapping 3,000 survivors in the Palace of Governors of Santa Fe, sending two crosses?white for surrender and survival, red for defiance and death. o???In 1609, colonists founded La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco, the ?royal town of the holy faith of St. Francis,? and began to convert the Pueblo people into Christians, Spanish subjects, and a labor force for the colonial elite.

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African slave trade
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Racism
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African diaspora
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Cultural history of the United States
Atlantic slave trade
Black British history
Slavery in Africa
Slave codes
Slave ship

Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire Outline ? African Slaves Build their Own Community in Coastal Georgia Slavery was??originally prohibited in the original 1732 Georgia charter; the ban was lifted two decades later when Georgia became a Royal colony. By 1770, 15,000 slaves made up 80% of the population. Rice was one of the most valuable commodities of mainland North America, surpassed only by tobacco and wheat. The Atlantic slave trade grew to match rice production. ???Saltwater? slaves (slaves taken from Africa, rather than ?country born?) were inspected and branded on coastal forts in Africa, shipped overseas (where many died), then sold and marched to plantations Mortality rates were high for slaves, especially infants. Overseers could legally punish slaves and even murder them.

Out of Many AP edition Chapter 5

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Americas
2nd millennium
Thirteen Colonies
English colonization of the Americas
Colonial history of the United States
New England Colonies
American Revolution
Colonialism
Middle Colonies
English overseas possessions
Louisiana

Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America Outline ? Middle Colonies I.????????????????????The Middle Colonies a.???????Location ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????i.??????Along the lower Hudson River ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ii.??????Included New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania b.??????Religion ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????i.??????Puritan, Baptist, Quaker, Catholic, and Jewish congregations ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ii.??????Lutherans or Calvinists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Baptists ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????iii.??????Tolerance of religious practices and distinctions c.???????Politics and government

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