APUSH 2024-2025

Student learning objective-  Students will explain the point of view, intended audience, purpose and historical situation of an excerpt. Directions-  In groups of 4 on Friday, October 31, do your best to answer the questions after reading the provided excerpts.  The groups will lead class discussion 11/3.  It will be evident if you tried your best. Group 1 - Hoke, Olson, McKeen, Black-Ida Tarbell- History of the Standard Oil Company What is Ida Tarbell's point of view? Who is the intended audience? What is the purpose? What is the historical situation at the time? How does this connect to other time periods, especially today? Group 2 - Beiner, Kullgren, Joshi, Escalante -Upton Sinclair-  The Jungle What are the most shocking details in the Jungle? Despite the excerpt being referred to as fiction by the website due to names, what are multiple historically factual issues pointed out in the Jungle? (Historical situation) What is the solution to the problems? What ...

Catching up on 60 Second Presidents: 60 Second Presidents- Grover Cleveland What is notable? 60 Second Presidents- Benjamin Harrison What is notable? Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 4- The Progressives This lesson aligns with Essential Question #8 -  How have citizens affected the growth and change of Political Parties and Government ? Skill- Students will be able to identify a Progressive point of view. Review- What was the time period of 1870's-1890's called? Review- What does that mean? The Americans Textbook- Chapter 17- Progressive Era What is Chapter 17 of that textbook called? What is that supposed to mean? What from the timeline is Progressive? What from the timeline is not Progressive? What is harder- studying history or living life?  Why? 60 Second Presidents- McKinley Why was McKinley assassinated? 60 Second Presidents- Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt became the ____________ President ever What was TR's attitude toward trusts/monopolies?  Is this Progressiv...

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 3- Spanish American War Student Learning Objective - Students will be able to explain the causes and effects of the Spanish American War. Causes of Spanish American War : -US imperialist desire - De Lome Letter     - Discussion Question #1- What is the main idea of the De Lome Letter?     - Discussion Question #2- If were President McKinley, how do you react to the De Lome letter? - Sinking of U.S.S. Maine     - Discussion Question #3- What does the report conclude about the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898? - Yellow Journalism     - Discussion Question #4- What does the New York Journal conclude about the sinking of the USS Maine? Effects of Spanish American War : -Popularity of US imperialism policy - Political cartoons !     -POV? - More political cartoons!     -POV? -Popularity of T.R. -Treaty of Paris (1898) - Platt Amendment " From the Spanish inhabitants of Cuba, the revolution, which neither f...

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 2- "Imperialism" Continued Student Learning Objective - Explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation's proper role in the world.   Open Door Notes 3. What is the main idea of this excerpt of the Open Door Notes? 4. What is the purpose of this? 5. What audience is ignored by these notes? Boxer Rebellion 6. What caused the Boxer Rebellion? 7. What happened during the Boxer Rebellion? 8. What was an effect of the Boxer Rebellion? 9. What would an anti-imperialist say about the Open Door Notes and the Boxer Rebellion? 10. What would an imperialist say about the Open Door Notes and the Boxer Rebellion? Pancho Villa 11. What action did the US take in Mexico in the early 1900's? 12. Why? Panama Canal 13. Why have a Panama Canal? 14. Why did the French construction effort fail despite their experience in Egypt and the Suez Canal? 15. How did the US get rights to the Panama Canal zone and construction rights? 16. How does th...

7.2 Daily Video on AP Classroom Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 2- "Imperialism" Student Learning Objective - Explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation's proper role in the world. What does imperialism mean? How can I remember what it means? Imperialism and Star Wars  and imperial star destroyers Hitler and storm troopers Hunger Games Peace Keepers What are some synonyms for imperialism? Historical background: US was a former British colony 1823- Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny? Alaska acquisition Historical developments: "Census of 1890"- West is closed? Anti-Imperialists Pro-Imperialists Hawaii Spanish American War Cuba Teller Amendment Platt Amendment Puerto Rico Guam Philippines Roosevelt Corollary  “Let me insist again . . . upon the fact that our duty is twofold, and that we must raise others while we are benefiting ourselves. In bringing order to the Philippines, our soldiers added a new page to the honor-roll of American history...

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 1- Contextualization Student learning objective - Students will be able to explain the context in which America grew into its role as a world power. Discussion Question #1- What about pre-1890 explains why 1890-1945 was the way it was? Discussion Question #2- What do you know about that happened 1890-1945 and why is it important? 20th Century timeline Discussion Question #3- What happened after 1945 that shows the importance of 1890-1945?  Explain. 7.1 Daily Video on AP Classroom HW- Read Chapter 27 of the American Pageant and study the ID's.  Chapter 27 Quiz is Thursday, 10/30.

Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 12- Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age Student Learning Objective - Explain the continuities and changes in the role of government in the US economy. Historical developments: Laissez-Faire capitalism supporters ask for no government intervention in the economy Labor strife at times saw government intervention Sherman Anti-Trust Act- government intervention Foreign policy makers look outside US borders for opportunities “The necessities of our altered relationship to the Pacific Ocean [after the late 1840s] found expression in a comprehensive treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the sovereign kingdom of Hawaii. . . . “[The line] from San Francisco to Honolulu [in Hawaii] marks the natural limit of the ocean belt within which our trade with [eastern Asia] must flow. . . . When we survey the stupendous progress made by the western coast during the thirty years of its national life as a part of ...

Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 7-  Labor in the Gilded Age Student Learning Objective - Explain the socioeconomic continuities and changes associated with the growth of industrial capitalism from 1865 to 1898. Optional: Watch the following videos on AP Classroom assigned to you under my assignments 6.7 Daily Video #1 on AP Classroom 6.7 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom  The following is required : https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-homestead-strike Discussion Question #1- Why did the workers at the Homestead Steel Works go on strike? http://resourcesforhistoryteachers.pbworks.com/w/page/125026035/The%20Pullman%20Strike%20of%201894 Discussion Question #2- Why did the Pullman sleeper car factory workers go on strike? https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-haymarket-affair Discussion Question #3- What happened in the Haymarket Affair? Discussion Question #4- Unionism was not legal completely until the 1930's.  Explain the struggles of workers in the late 1800's. Discussion ...

Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 5- Technological Innovation Student Learning Objective - Explain the effects of technological advances in the development of the US over time. 1- Groups form 2- Groups pick an invention from the list 3- Groups identify how the invention revolutionized industries, life, etc. 4- Groups check with each other and Mr. Cook 5- Groups present their findings to the class https://nevadainventors.org/30-inventions-1800s/ Group #1- What invention revolutionized industries, life, etc.? (Stick to 1865-1898) Group #2- What invention revolutionized industries, life, etc.? (Stick to 1865-1898) Group #3- What invention revolutionized industries, life, etc.? (Stick to 1865-1898) Group #4- What invention revolutionized industries, life, etc.? (Stick to 1865-1898) Group #5- What invention revolutionized industries, life, etc.? (Stick to 1865-1898) Discussion Question #2- What inventions led to others which were groundbreaking? (Could start earlier than 1865!) Discussion Question...

AP US History Summative Assessment of Writing about Historical Texts Directions: 1- This assignment final draft will be turned in on Turnitin.com. Students log in using Google. Students join the class on turnitin.com 10/3: class ID- 50422718 class enrollment key- pcookapush 2- T he class will introduce the assignment 10/6 3- Read sources 10/6 4- Thesis statements turned in 10/6 5- Write intro and start body paragraphs 10/6? 6- Preliminary Works Cited turned in 10/7 7- Time to work on essay 10/8 and 10/9 Based on the Dawes Severalty Act and documents provided identify the purposes of the assimilation of the Native Americans. Then, assess the effectiveness of the assimilation of the Native Americans. You MUST use specific passages from the primary source documents and use relevant outside knowledge to support and develop your position. [Three days: first to read documents and second and third to write the essay responding to the prompt using the 2 sources and a source of your...

Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 3: Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development Student Learning Objective - Explain the causes and effects of the settlement of the West from 1865 to 1898. “All Indian peoples in the years after the Civil War saw their sovereignty erode. . . . “Reformers regarded Indian nations as legal fictions which the federal government should no longer recognize. . . . [Civilian and military leaders] disdained Indian sovereignty. . . . Reformers pushed the federal government toward direct supervision of the lives of individual Indians. . . . “The reform policy had three basic components. The first was the suppression of Indian norms of family life, community organization, and religion. . . . Reformers tried to educate Indian children in order to instill mainstream American Protestant values in place of tribal values. Finally, reformers sought a policy of land allotment that would break up communal landholding patterns and create private ownership. In the end, Ind...