U.S. History Civil War/Reconstruction Test Review

This test on the Civil War (chapter 14) and Reconstruction (chapter 15)

Test date:  Monday, March 4th

Civil War:

The American Civil War:

• Causes of the war
• Napoleonic influence
• Major technological changes and role of technology in the war
• Comparisons between the North and the South
• Strategies and tactics of each side
• Major commanders for each side
• The details and significance of the following battles and campaigns:
• First Bull Run, The Valley Campaign, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, the Wilderness Campaign, the marches of Sherman and Sheridan
• The Civil War as “proto-total war”—role of resources and civilians

Reconstruction:

• Lincoln's outline for Reconstruction and the impact of his assassination
• Presidential Reconstruction under President Johnson
• Aspects of Johnson's reconstruction
• Congress and Presidential Reconstruction
• The Freedman's Bureau
• The Civil Rights Act
• The 14th Amendment
• The Election of 1866
• The role and experience of Freedmen during Reconsruction
• Radical Reconstruction
• Congressional goals of Reconcstruction
• The Reconsrtruction Act of 1867
• The Tenure of Office Act and the Impmeachment of Johnson
• The Election of 1868 and President Grant
• The 15th Amendment
• Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
• Sharecropping
• The End of Reconstruction
• Southern Resistance and the Ku Klux Klan
• Federal Response to the KKK
• The Grant administration and chagning attitudes towards Reconstruction
• The Elections of 1872 and 1877
• The Legacy of Reconstrution

Format:  15 multiple choice (3 pts each), 45 points; 2 essay questions (choose 1); 55 points.

Week 25: February 25-March 1

Ancient World 

Monday:  History Curriculum Overview for Course Sign-ups
Homework (due Tuesday): Work on your PEEP projects

Tuesday:  Muhammad and the Establishment of the Dar al-Isalm
Homework (due Wednesday):  Work on your PEEP projects

Wednesday:  The Umayyad and Abbasid Dynasties
Homework (due Thursday):  Work on your PEEP projects

Thursday:  Art and Culture of the Dar al-Isalm
Homework (due Friday):  Primary Document Readings--be prepared for a quiz

Friday:  Primary Document Quiz and Discussion
Homework (due Monday):  PEEP projects are due

Looking ahead:  Test on the Byzantine Empire and the Dar al-Islam on Wednesday, March 6th
 

Modern World

Monday:  Resistance to Imperialism
Homework (due Tuesday):  no additional homework; work on your PEEP projects

Tuesday:  The Weakening of the Qing Dynasty
Homework (due Wednesday):  read pages 641-645 (stop at "Collapse of the Old Order") and write a response to the following:  in what ways did China attempt to reform in the later half of the 19th century?  How effective were these attempts?

Wednesday:  The Taiping Rebellion and the Self-Strengthening Movement
Homework (due Friday):  read pages 645-651 (stop at "The Rise of Modern Japan") and write a response to the following:  what were the causes of the Revolution of 1911 and how did it change China?

Friday:  The Revolution of 1911
Homework (due Monday):  Work on your PEEP Projects

United States History

Monday:  From Gettysburg to Atlanta
Homework:  work on your PEEP Projects, review chapter 14

Tuesday 5th Period/Wednesday 6th Period:  The Burning and Beginning Reconstruction
Homework:  work on your PEEP Projects, review chapter 14

Wednesday 5th Period/Thursday 6th Period:  Reconstruction, continued
Homework:  work on your PEEP Projects, review chapter 14 

Friday:  Loose Ends and Review
Homework:  study for the test on chapters 14 and 15 (covered in class)--Test Date:  Monday, March 4th 
 




 

Ancient World History Announcement

Ancient World History: 

You do not have a primary document reading for this weekend, nor do you have a quiz tomorrow (February 25th).  This is due to our not having class on Friday.  More information about the assignment and quiz will be forthcoming.

Week 24: February 18-22

Ancient World

Tuesday:  Muhammad and the Beginnings of Islam

Homework (due Wednesday):  none

 Wednesday: The Dar al-Islam after Muhammad

Homework (due Thursday):  read pages 190-193 (stop at "The Crusades") and write are response to the following:  in what ways was the Abbasid dynasty different from the Umayyads?  How did those differences contribute to its success?

Thursday:  The Abbasid Dynasty

Homework (due Friday):  read pages 195 (beginning with "Andalusia")-200 (stop at "Islamic Society") and write a response to the following:  what were the major characteristics of Andalusia?  What were the major characteristics of Andalusia?  How did it change over time?

Friday:  Andalusia and Islamic Civilization

Homework (due Monday):  Primary document readings; be prepared for a quiz on Monday.

Modern World

Tuesday:  Imperialism in India and S.E. Asia

Homework (due Wednesday):  read pages 624-629 and write a response to the following:  what were the primary causes of the "scramble for Africa?"


Wednesday: The Scramble for Africa

Homework (due Friday):  read pages 630-634 and write a response to the following:  what were the major characteristics of anti-colonial resitance movements?  How successful were they in the late 19th/early 20th centuries?


Friday:  Resistance

Homework (due Monday)  read pages 637-641 (stop at "Efforts at Reform") and write a response to the following:  why were the Qing unable to deal with the crises it faced in the early/mid 19th century?

United States History

Tuesday 5th period/Wednesday 6th period:  The Major Battles, part 1

Homework:  none


Wednesday 5th perod/Thursday 6th period:  The Major Battles, part 2

Homework (due Friday):  read pages 444-453 and write a response to the following:  how did the nature of the war change from 1864-1865?  How signfificant were General Sherman's actions in redefining the war?


Friday:  The Hard Hand of War

Homework (due Monday):  begin reviewing chapter 14; test date TBA

Week 23: February 11-15

First of all go here:  http://laynehistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/peeps.html

Ancient World

Monday:  Defining the Byzantine Empire

Homework (due Tuesday):  read pages 367-368 and write a response to the following:  what did the Macedonian Dynasty achieve and how did it further define the Byzantine Empire as distinct from the Roman Empire?

Tuesday:  The Byzantine Army

Homework (due Wednesday):  none

 Wednesday: Concluding the Byzantine Empire (for now . . .) 

Homework (due Thursday):  read pages 183-187 and write are response to the following:  what were the major characteristics of Arabian culture prior to the time of Muhammad?  In what ways was Islam influenced by this culture?

Thursday:  The Origins of Islam

Homework (due Tuesday):  read pages 188-190 (stop at "The Abbasids") and write a response to the following:  what areas did the Umayyads successfully spread Islam to during their reign?  What, in your opinion, enabled them to be so successful?

Modern World

Monday:  Test on Chapter 20

Homework (due Tuesday):  read pages  608-613 (stop at "India Under the British Raj") and write a response to the following:  based on this reading, how was the imperialism of the 19th century different from the colonization of the New World in the 16-17th centuries?


Tuesday:  Motives and Methods of Imperialism


Homework (due Thursday):  read pages 613-617 (stop at "The Nature of Colonial Rule") and write a response to the following:  what impact did British Imperialism have on India?  Would you consider it to be positive or negative?


Thursday:  Imperialism in South and South East Asia

Homework (due Tuesday)  read pages 617-624 (stop at "Bantus, Boers, and British in the South" and write a response to the following:  who was primarily interested in Africa in the late 18th earn early 19th centuries and why?

United States History

Monday:  19th Century Warfare and Military Technology

Homework (due Tuesday 5th period; Wednesday 6th period):  read pages 430-434 and write a response to the following:  based on your reading, what were the objectives of each side at the start of the Civil War?


Tuesday 5th period/Wednesday 6th period:  Military Technology Continued; Objectives, Strategy and Tactics of the Civil War; the Early War

Homework (due Thursday):  read pages 434-439 (stop at "The Turning Point") and write a response to the following:  what is meant by your textbooks use of the term "Total War" and how did the Civil War represent that?

Thursday:  The Major Battles

Homework (due Tuesday 5th period/Wednesday 6th period)  read pages 339-444 (stop at "The Union Victorious, 1864-1865) and write a response to the following:  why, according to your textbook, is 1863 the "turning point?"  Do you agree?  Why or why not?

PEEPS!!!

Marking Period 3 Project

“History According to PEEPS”

Pyramid Interior, Raven Showalter, 2009

Your project this marking period is to make a diorama portraying a specific event or time period related to the subject of your particular history course.  The subject of your diorama must be related to a topic relevant to either:

• Ancient World History (if you're in Ancient World History)
• Modern World History (if you're in Modern World History)

Also, your diorama must include at least one PEEP (that’s right, one of those weird marshmallow chicks or bunnies that are in stores now in anticipation of Easter). 

In addition to making your diorama, you are to write a brief (1/2 page-3/4 page description of the event/time period your diorama represents. 

***You MUST have your topic approved by me by February 21st***

Project Due Dates (due to limited display space projects will be due depending on your class):

• Ancient World History:  Monday, March 10th
• Modern World History:  Monday, March 17th

  Your grade will be based on the following:

·       Due Date met, 10 pts.

·       Originality of topic, 10 pts.

·       Composition/design, 25 pts.

·       Portrayal of event/time period through the diorama, 30 pts.

·       Humor/use of PEEPS, 10 pts.

·       Written Description:  15 pts.

Have fun with this one J

U.S. History Chapters 11 and 13 Test Review

This test on chapter 11, pages 347-359 and all of chapter 13

Test date:  Friday, February 8

Chapter 11:

• African American response to slavery
• "social uplift"
• David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
• The Turner revolt
• The abolitionist movement
• William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberator, the American Anti-Slavery Society
• The "3-Pronged Attack" of the abolitionist movement
• The Underground Railroad
• Anti-abolitionists and their reasoning
• The Women's Movement
• Role of women in religious and social activism
• Women and the abolitionist movement
• Women and the right to vote
• The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
• Prominent women:
• Dorthea Dix
• The Grimke sisters
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Catharine Beecher
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucrecia Mott
• Susan B. Anthony

Chapter 13:

• Expansion and Manifest Destiny
• Settlement of Texas
• Moses and Stephen Austin; relationship with Mexico
• The Peace Party, the War Party, and the Texas Revolt
• Texas independence, 1836; the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto
• Oregon "fever" and the Oregon trail
• California and the California Gold Rush
• The Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Politics:
• Presidential elections:
• The election of 1844:  James K. Polk
• The election of 1848:  Zachary Taylor/Millard Fillmore
• The election of 1852:  Franklin Pierce
• The election of 1856:  James Buchanan
• The election of 1860:  Abraham Lincoln
• The collapse of the Whig party, the fracturing of the Democratic party; the emergence of the Know Nothing and Republican parties
• The Lincoln-Douglas debates
• The relationship between politics and expansion/slavery

• Slavery: 
• The Missouri Compromise (1820)
• The four major views on slavery in 1850
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Act
• The Free Soil Movement/party
• Frederick Douglass
• Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1855)
• "Bleeding Kansas"; John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek and Harper's Ferry
• The Dred Scott Decision

Format:  15 multiple choice (3 pts each), 45 points; 2 essay questions (choose 1); 55 points.

Modern World Chapter 20 Test Review

This test is on chapter 20 of your textbook and all related class material

Test Date:  Friday, February 8th

• The Haitian Revolution:
• The causes and significance of the Haitian Revolution
• How the Haitian Revolution compares with other revolutions we’ve studied
• The role of Toussanit L’Ouvertur

• The Independence of Latin America
• The causes, outcome, and significance of the Mexican Revolt of 1810
• The background and roles of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
• Mestizo goals for Latin American independence and government
• The significance and impact of independence in Latin America
• The failures of the revolutionn

• The major developments in the early History of the United States in the 19^th century
• The election of Andrew Jackson as president and characteristics of the Jacksonian era
• Westward expansion and “manifest destiny”
• The issue of slavery and the expansion of slavery including

·      The economic and social differences of the North and South

·      The Abolitionist movement

·      The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred-Scott decision

·         The causes and characteristics of the American Civil War, including

o   The election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession of the southern states

o   The goals, strategies, and commanders for both sides

o   Technology

o   The end of the war and Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan’s strategy

·         The recovery of the United States from 1865-190

• The major characteristics of the “mass” society—role of women, changing conditions of the working classes, access to education, childhood, and leisure

·     The major scientific and artistic achievements of the period, and how they shaped and reflected the mass society including:

o   Darwin, Curie, Mendeleev, Einstein, and Freud and their respective fields and contributions

·         Significance of/characteristics and examples of Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Abstract art

Format:  15 Multiple Choice (3 points each), 45 points; 2 essay choices (choose 1), 55 pts.

Ancient World Ch. 5 Roman Empire Test Review

This test covers chapter 5, pages 130-153

Test Date:  Thursday, February 7th

The Transformation from Republic to Empire:

• The impacts of Roman expansion
• The major people during the Civil War period
• Sulla vs. Marius
• The First Triumvirate
• Pompey
• Crassus
• Julius Caesar
• Caesar's Gallic Wars
• The Battle of Pharsal
• The Second Triumvirate
• Octavian
• Mark Antony (and Cleopatra)
• Marcus Lepidus
• The Battle of Actium

The Roman Empire:

• Significance of Augustus Caesar
• Political and military reforms
• The Emperors of the Pax Romana
• Significant emperors (i.e.—those discussed specifically in class)
• You do not need to know specific dates for each emperor, but you do need to know which “line” a specific emperor belongs to: for example, you should know that Tiberius was a Julio-Claudian emperor while Trajan was an Antonine emperor

• Characteristics of Roman society and culture, including aspects of daily life and significant artistic, literary, and scientific achievements

The Final Centuries:

• Problems of the 3^rd century
• Significance of Diocletian and his policies
• Military reforms, division of the Empire, the Tetrarchy, and the Great Persecution
• Significance of Constantine
• Civil War with Maxentius, the Battle of Mulvian Bridge
• The Edict of Milan, Constantinople, the Council of Nicaea
• The origin and spread of early Christianity (from the first century to the 4^th century)
• The role of Rome in early Christianity
• The impact of Christianity in Rome
• Emperor Theodosius
• The Germanic migrations/invasions
• Various groups
• Huns; Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Franks
• Aspects of Germanic culture
• Impact on Rome
• The Battle of Adrianople
• Causes of the fall/transformation of the western Roman Empire

What is the format of the test?

• 15 multiple choice questions, each worth 3 points (45 points total)
• 2 essay questions—you will pick one—worth 55 points

Week 22: February 4-8

Ancient World

Monday-Wednesday:  Completing chapter 5 in class

 

Homework:  Study for the test on chapter 5--review post coming soon.

 

Thursday:  Test on chapter 5

 

Homework (due Friday):  read pages 359-362 (stop at "A New Kind of Empire") and write a response to the following:  in what ways did Justinian attempt to keep the old Roman Empire alive?  How successful was he?

 

Friday:  The Byzantine Empire

 

Homework (due Monday):  read pages 362-367 (stop at "The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization") and write a response to the following:  in what ways did the Byzantine Empire ultimately distinguish itself as a new empire after the reign of Justinian?

 

Modern World

Monday-Wednesday:  completing chapter 20 in class

Homework:  review for the test on chapter 20--review post coming soon.

Friday:  Test on chapter 20
Homework (due Monday):  read pages  608-613 (stop at "India Under the British Raj") and write a response to the following:  based on this reading, how was the imperialism of the 19th century different from the colonization of the New World in the 16-17th centuries?

United States History

Monday-Wednesday/Thursday:  completing chapter 13 in class

Homework:  review for the test on chapters 11 and 13--review post coming soon.

Friday:  Test on Chapters 11-13

Homework (due Monday):  read pages 423-428 and write a response to the following:  how did the process of southern secession unfold in 1860-61?  Which states were quick to secede?  Which states were more hesitant?  Why?