Friday, November 22, 2013

19th Century Reform Movements SEMINAR

Hello APUSH Magnet Historians….

Our SEMINAR continues in the comments to this BLOG post.  To begin with write a detailed question or comment to another group.  Every time I log on I will track your comments, questions, and responses on the seminar map we started in class  …
The following questions will be the focus of our Seminar:
• What is the biggest issue facing American society today? Why?
• Can social justice be achieved under the present system of government?
• Is human nature fundamentally good or bad?
• Can legislation change human behavior?
• Should we seek gradual or immediate changes to society?
• Can society be improved by active involvement or by withdrawal?
• What makes the good society?


Which Reform Movement was the most important and necessary for the 19th century?

Thursday, November 21, 2013

20th Century Reform Movements


Temperance
Sylvester Graham
Lyman Beecher
Adan Ballou

Education
Margret Fuller
Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mother Ann Lee

Labor Rights
Sarah George Bagly

Utopianism
Robert Owen
John Humphrey Noyes
Johan George Rapp

Other Social Issues
Dorothea Dix

Transcendentalist
Ralph Waldo Emrson
Henry David Thoreou
Theodore Parker

Second Great Awakening
Joseph Smith
Charles Grandison Finney

Abolitionist
Arthur Tampin
George Greenleaf Whittier
David Walker
Harriet  Tubman
Frederick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Theodore Dwight Weld
William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
Lydia Maria Child


Monday, November 18, 2013

19th Century Reformers

Make sure to write an introductory paragraph about your Reformer, focusing on the important events your character was involved in and conveying which reform movement(s) they were involved in.  Also post an image of this reformer.  Finally, finish by including your APPARTS and a link to the primary source.




1.     Susan B. Anthony (Alison
2.     Robert Owen (Javi)
3.     Joseph Smith (Javi)
4.     Ralph Waldo Emerson (Estela)
5.     Sylvester Graham (Estela)
6.     Angelina/Sarah Grimke (Itzel)
7.     Henry David Thoreau (Edgar)
8.     Lucretia Mott (Sabrina)
9.     Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Sabrina)
10.  Dorothea Dix (Itzel)
11.  Horace Mann (Alison)
12.  John Humphrey Noyes (Verenice)
13.  Adin Ballou (Jeanette)
14.  Lyman Beecher (Jeanette)
15.  Theodore Parker (Edgar)
16.  Lydia Marie Child (Dioner)
17.  Wendell Phillips (Dioner)
18.  Joann Georg Rapp (Paola)
19.  Charles Grandison Finney  (Paola)
20.  Margaret Fuller (Roger)
21.  Arthur Tappan (Roger)
22.  William Lloyd Garrison (Christian)
23.  Sojourner Truth (Melody)
24.  David Walker (Marisa)
25.  Mother Ann Lee (Verenice)
26.  Theodore Dwight Weld (Marisa)
27.  John Greenleaf Whittier (Elizabeth)
28.  Frederick Douglas (Christian)
29.  Sarah Bagley (Elizabeth)
30.  Harriet Tubman (Melody)

Blog an APPARTS of a primary source by a reformer.

The following questions will be the focus of our Seminar:
• What is the biggest issue facing American society today? Why?
• Can social justice be achieved under the present system of government?
• Is human nature fundamentally good or bad?
• Can legislation change human behavior?
• Should we seek gradual or immediate changes to society?
• Can society be improved by active involvement or by withdrawal?
• What makes the good society?


Which social issue did they follow.
1.     Temperance
2.     Education
3.     Feminism
4.     Labor Rights
5.     Abolitionist
6.     Utopianism
7.     Transcendentalist
8.     Second Great Awakening
9.     Other Social Issues


Monday, September 16, 2013

Slavery and the Empire


Watch the film "Black in Latin America" and discuss the parallels between the Slavery in the British Colonies and Slavery in the Spanish Colonies.  Then compare anti slavery movements in Mexico and the United States.  Later discuss how the remnants of slavery still exist today. Finally explain some interesting aspects of music and art that was influenced by the African presence in Latin America. Post a blog about this.

Then watch the film "Africans In America: The Terrible Transformation" add notes to each of the Colonies on the topic of slavery.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

FRQ Questions for British Colonies British Colonies


DIRECTIONS

Create an exhibition selecting one of the following essay questions as a guide for the objective of your exhibition.  You are required to focus on the particular topic assigned to you and include an APPARTS analysis of a primary source document you have selected.  

ECONOMIC
  • Analyze the role of trans-Atlantic trade and Great Britain’s mercantilist policies in the economic development of the British North American colonies in the period from 1650 to 1750.


  • Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750.



War & Rebellion

  • In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-63) alter the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?
  • Analyze the effect of the French and Indian War and its after math on the relationship between Great Britain and the British colonies. Confine your response to the period from 1754 to 1776.

  • Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances. Analyze the causes and significance of TWO of the following:

March of the Paxton Boys
Regulator movement
Shays’ Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion

  • Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783.

  • The French and Indian War (1754-1763) altered the relationship between Britain and its North American colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following in the period between 1763 and 1775.

Land acquisition
Politics
Economics

  • Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society.

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
Stono Rebellion (1739)

Slavery

  • Analyze the origins and development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies in the period 1607 to 1776.


  • Use TWO of the following categories to analyze the ways in which African Americans created a distinctive culture in slavery.

Family
Music
Oral traditions Religions



Forms of Government & Politics

  • Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.

  • Compare and contrast the British, French, and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763. 








Monday, August 19, 2013

2013 APUSH Scholars


    

Student
Blog
1.     
Estela Áldrete
2.     
Melody Barajas
3.     
Itzel Delgadillo
4.     
Sabrina Díaz
5.     
Vernice Elías
6.     
Roger Franco
7.     
Elizabeth García
8.     
Marisa García
9.     
Jeanette Gómez
10.  
Paola Gómez
11.  
Edgar Hernández
12.  
Javi Meléndrez
13.  
Dioner Membrilla
14.  
Christian Puerta
15.  
Alison Salazar