APUSH 2024-2025

AP US History Summative Assessment of Writing about Historical Texts Directions: 1- The class will introduce the assignment 10/3 2- 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 3- Read sources 10/3 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...