Some reviews sites for Midterm review 2010

Here is the best AP site (I think), she is called Ms AP, this site has quizzes online, notes and lots of links galore.

http://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/AHAPCourseMainPage.htm

This is a matching game site where you can learn terms to help you study for the Unit exams.
www.bubbabrain.com click on AP juniors and then go to AP US History This is basically a matching game that is timed.


This is the America's History by Henretta book site http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/henretta6e/?uid=0&rau=0

Just enter your email address and create a your profile. This site has matching games, self test for multiple choice and various activities for review.

This site is contains thousands of notecards. It will help you build yours. http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php


Here is Mr. Bullet's site which has many useful links to notecards, outlines and powerpoints.

http://ccsd.nv.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=12439&catfilter=872&PHPSESSID=8c1e035f5be2d8e3a714296095548b5a#showDoc

Causes of the Civil War 2009

Today you will pretend you are a reporter researching the Causes of the Civil War

Go to the site krugsushistory.blogspot.com

You will be assigned two events, for each you will:

1. Describe the event (year, what happened, who was involved)
2. Describe how the action of people or government led to the Civil War or further separating society
3. Describe how the people of the North reacted and People of the South
4. Was there a peaceful solution

Part B: Part B Then choose from one of the events and go back and write a report on the event in great detail.

Who
Why
Where
When
How
Tell me people's reaction (as if you were interviewing them) also really describe the historical setting, what it was like.

You must include Lincoln's reaction –main ideas from him about the event.
Websites you can choose from


Events and Websites you can choose from

Mexican American War
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/INDEX.HTM


Compromise of 1850

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm


http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html


Kansas Nebraska Act

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography6text.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html

Dred Sott Case
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html

www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/


John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

http://www.wvculture.org/History/jnobrown.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown.htm

http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/jbmenu.htm






Choose two political cartoons:

web.li.gatech.edu/.../write/civwar/causes.html

http://popartmachine.com/search/Political%20cartoons%201850 lots of cartoons from 1850's



This site has brief summary on the causes between the North and South in economy religion

Need to scan in FORM OF DIFFERENT SOCIETIES


http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html


Political Cartoons

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/SCARTOONS/car1860.html

www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons

This site contains cartoons from the Mexican American War to the Civil War, choose two cartoons from numbers 16-18. Pick two cartoons and tell them about them.




1. Describe the cartoon—(who are the characters in the cartoon)


2. What is the author’s purpose in this cartoon? (who is he demonizing?)

3. What symbols or emotions is he using?

Jackson PBS site

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/features/

This is a very good and useful site with an interactive timeline and it will help you understand the impact of the Jacksonian Presidency. It also has a glossary to help you with terms associated with Jackson Era.

review for Unit II 2009 Revolution thru Federal Period

Quiz to match the president with the event
http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark/TrivWhichPresident.htm


homepage of Newmark where quizzes are found

http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark/Quizzespage.html

don't forget bubbabrain.com

War of 1812 Debate and Supreme Court Cases in the Federal Era

http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark2/1812Debate.html War of 1812

You will preview 16 documents on reasons for going to war.

you must choose 2 short and 2 (5,6,7, 13, 14, and/or 15) long documents and do some analysis.

For each document:

---Note the author and where they are from.
---What are the main ideas of the document?
---What evidence are they using to support their view
---In your opinion how creditable is the evidence? Give judgment and your reasons for analysis


The last 15 minutes you will look at a supreme court case.

Supreme Court Cases www.landmarkcases.org



Click on the case you were assigned and go to the reading with the one star it is the easiest.

How did John Marshall mold a Federalist interpretation of law? Summarize the background, the constitutional issues and significance of the following important Supreme Court cases:

Marbury v. Madison,
McCulloch v. Maryland,
Gibbons v. Ogden,

http://law.jrank.org/pages/6933/Fletcher-v-Peck.html
Fletcher v. Peck, and

http://www.abanet.org/publiced/youth/sia/holtcases/dartmouth.html
Dartmouth College v. Woodward.


Answer questions on the case at the bottom on the same sheet you answered the war of 1812 on.

American Revolution Women and African Americans

AP US History
Unit II – revolutionary Period

What was it like for women and African Americans during the American Revolutionary?

PART I: Women in the American Revolution


Investigate women and their role in the American Revolution

http://www.bookrags.com/research/drinker-elizabeth-aaw-01/
Elizabeth Drinker Defends her Penn home

Deborah Sampson
Margaret Crobin
Mrs. John Christian Shell
Molley Pitcher

Look up the women on google and their name not wikipedia unless only site.


Who were these women when did they and when did they die?
What was their role in the American Revolution?
What did they do after the Revolution? Or what happened to them later?

Research what it was like for women during the American Revolution.
Take some notes
How did life change and how did traditional roles get obscured?



PART II is about African Americans One site you will go to is:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr4.html


I. This is the major site for African Americans during the Revolutionary War Years.


Describe what hardships African Americans faced fighting for the Patriots or British?
How did George Washington treat them?



Click on the list of names and pick two short and one longer soldier and tell me about their roles in the American Revolution, or hunt around the site for a couple of African Americans and take some notes on them.

Who were they? When lived and died?
Take notes on what they did and describe their hardships.
What happened to them after the revolution?

These are some of the more famous African Americans

Peter Salem,
Salem Poor,
James Forten,
Cuff Whitemore


II. Click on the Black Revolutionary Seaman---

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p51.html

What was it like aboard the ships were they treated different?
What about his uniform?
How did commanding officers react to them or what did they say about them.


Or some other soldier and tell me about them using above questions
George Liele
• Andrew Bryan
• David George

These guy help in the Revolution but we not soldiers, tell me who they were and what did they do?
When did they live?

Review Resources for 2009

Here is the best AP site (I think), she is called Ms AP, this site has quizzes online, notes and lots of links galore.

http://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/AHAPCourseMainPage.htm

This is a matching game site where you can learn terms to help you study for the Unit exams.
www.bubbabrain.com click on AP juniors and then go to AP US History This is basically a matching game that is timed.


This is the America's History by Henretta book site http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/henretta6e/?uid=0&rau=0

Just enter your email address and create a your profile. This site has matching games, self test for multiple choice and various activities for review.

This site is contains thousands of notecards. It will help you build yours. http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php


Here is Mr. Bullet's site which has many useful links to notecards, outlines and powerpoints.

http://ccsd.nv.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=12439&catfilter=872&PHPSESSID=8c1e035f5be2d8e3a714296095548b5a#showDoc