History vs. Hollywood Assignment

Now that we have taken the final exam, there is one last obstacle to overcome - The History vs. Hollywood Project

Working with a partner or by yourself, you will select a historical movie about anything in American History (that is approved by Mr. Jensen).

Link to Assignment Directions

You do have an option to record your presentation using a video screen reporter such as Screencastify or Nimbus.  Both are Google Chrome Extensions that allow you to record yourself giving the presentation using a laptop with a camera on it.

Articles to prepare with:

Example of how you could write/organize your paper

Historical Movies help students learn?

21 Surprisingly Inaccurate Movies

10 Most Historically Inaccurate Films

A website that may be of use:

www.moviemistakes.com

Hopefully, this is not your reaction to your APUSH score in July!!

5-6-19

Want to try to guess your score?  Link to APPASS

Links to Review Materials:

Link to Gilder Lehrman Study Guide Videos

Link to High School Test Prep AP US History Exam

AP US History Practice Exam

PowerPoints of Mine you can review with:
Early Cold War

Civil Rights and other Social Issues

The Vietnam War

JFK to Ford

The Watergate Scandal

Ford and Carter Years

Reagan Years

George H W Bush

Clinton, Bush, Obama

5-2-19

Link to Happy Days Video

Hint: Hover over screen to where you can see the gear symbol for settings and adjust the speed to 1.25 to watch it a little faster.

4-2-19

Link to Gilded Age Video

3-7-19

Link to Federalist Era/Jacksonian Era Quiz.

2-27-19

Link to Jacksonian Era DBQ

2-21-19

Link to Late Colonial/Revolutionary Period Quiz

2-13-19

Link to Colonial Period Quiz

2-5-19 Chapter 6 Duel for North America

Link to Biography of America Part 3

Link to French & Indian War DBQ

Questions For Class Discussion 
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 - 1692

1. Why was family life in New England so different from family life in the South?
   
2. Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America? What were the effects of slavery on the Africans who were brought to the New World? What were the effects of the Africans on the New World?
   
3. What was attractive and unattractive about the closely knit New England way of life?
   
4. Were the Salem witch trials a peculiar, aberrant moment in an age of superstition, or did they reflect common human psychological and social anxieties that could appear in any age? How harshly should those who prosecuted the witches be condemned?
   
5. Considering the extreme differences during the seventeenth-century between New England and the southern colonies, was the Civil War inevitable?

What is this American Article - Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Key Terms:
-Conquest by the cradle
-Colonial "Melting Pot"
--Paxton Boys
-Social Structure of Colonial Society
-Colonial Economy
--Triangular Trade
--Molasses Act
-Religion in America
--Great Awakening
-Education in America
-Press
--John Peter Zenger
-Politics in America


Questions For Class Discussion 
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700 - 1775

1. How democratic was colonial American society? Why was it apparently becoming less equal?
   
2. How were the various occupations and activities of colonial America related to the nature of the economy? Why were occupations like lawyer, printer, and artisan taking on greater importance?
   
3. What were the causes and effects of the Great Awakening? How did such an intense religious revival affect those who experienced conversion as well as those who did not? How did the Awakening help to create a sense of shared American identity?
   
4. In what ways was colonial life attractive, and in what ways would it seem tedious and dull to the average twenty-first-century American? How were the educational, cultural, and leisured sides of colonial life affected by the basic nature of the economy?
   
5. To what degree was a unique "American" nationality developing in the eighteenth-century colonies? Were regional differences in the colonies growing more pronounced or retreating in the eighteenth century?
   
6. What shaped how ordinary colonists thought? What were important sources of influence on an ordinary colonist? Did England control these sources or did the colonists? What implications did this have for the future England and the colonies?

Day 4 1-29-19

Questions for Class Discussion - Chapter 3

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619–1700

Link to American Pageant - Chapter 3

1. Did the Puritans really come to America seeking religious freedom? How did they reconcile their own religious dissent from the Church of England with their persecution of dissenters like Hutchinson and Williams? Does their outlook make them hypocrites?

2. How were government and religion—or church and state—related in New England and the middle colonies? How does the colonial view of these matters compare with more recent understandings?

3. Was an American Revolution, separating the colonies from England, inevitable after the Glorious Revolution had encouraged colonists to end the Dominion of New England, England’s serious attempt at enforcing royal authority? Did England’s “salutary neglect” contribute to future problems in its empire? How might have England been able to successfully enforce its rule on the colonies without causing rebellion?

4. Dutch colonization efforts in New Amsterdam most closely resembled English colonization efforts in which region: New England, the middle colonies, or the southern colonies? The Dutch had a powerful presence in the East Indies, so why were the Dutch less successful in the West Indies and North America? What is the lasting influence of the Dutch in English North America?

5. How does the founding of the New England colonies compare with the origin of the middle colonies? In what ways were New England and the middle colonies each like the South, and in what ways were they different?

6. In what ways were the middle colonies more open and diverse than New England? In what ways were they less democratic?

7. How did different events in England affect the New England and middle colonies in the New World? Which was the most affected and least affected by events in the Old World: New England, middle colonies, or southern colonies?

8. What were the push and pull factors for immigrants coming to each region of English colonies (New England, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies)?

Key Terms - Chapter 3:
Puritan Separatists
*Mayflower Compact
-Plymouth Bay - William Bradford
-Massachusetts Bay - John Winthrop
*Great Migration
Puritan Dissenters:
*Anne Hutchinson
*Roger Williams
-Rhode Island
-"Separation of Church and State"
Thomas Hooker
*Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Puritans v. Indians
-Pequot War
*King Philip's War
*New England Confederation
*Dominion of New England
-Reinforce *Navigation Acts
-Sir Edmund Andros
*Glorious Revolution
-*English Bill of Rights
-*Salutary Neglect
Dutch in America
Quakers

-*William Penn

Link to Biography of America Video #2 - New England & Virginia

APUSH - Day 2 Chapters 1 & 2

New World Encounters/The Beginning of America Video

Link to Quizlet signup for AP US History Class

Link to American Pageant Chapter 2

American Pageant Chapter 1 & 2 Review (Really good!)

American Pageant Chapter 2 Summary mp3 File

Questions For Class Discussion 
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500 - 1733

1. What did England and the English settlers really want from colonization? National glory? Wealth? Adventure? A solution to social tensions? New sources of goods and trade? Did they get what they wanted?
   
2. How did Spanish success in the New World influence the English colonial efforts? How did England's earlier experience in Ireland influence its colonial efforts in the New World? How did different events in England (and Europe) affect England's southern colonies in the New World?
   
3. Were the English colonizers crueler or more tolerant than the Spanish conquistadores? Why did the Spanish tend to settle and intermarry with the Indian population, whereas the English either killed the Indians, drove them out, or confined them to separate territories? How did this pattern of interaction affect both white and Indian societies?
   
4. Was the development of African slavery in the North American colonies inevitable? (Consider that it never developed in some other colonial areas, for example, Mexico and New France.) How would the North American colonies have been different without slavery? What role did the Spanish encomienda system and British sugar colonies play in introducing slavery to the southern colonies?
   
5. How did the reliance on plantation agriculture affect the southern colonies? Were their societies relatively loose because they were primarily rural, or because they tended to rely on forced labor systems?

Key Terms from Chapter 2:
Protestant Reformation (effects of):

The Lost Colony:

Defeat of the Spanish Armada:

Push Factors in England:

-Enclosure

-Primogeniture

Joint-Stock Companies:
(Virginia Company of London)

Jamestown:

John Smith:

"Starving Time":

Lord De La Warr:

Anglo-Powhatan Wars:

John Rolfe:

House of Burgesses:

Indentured Servants:

Maryland's Act of Toleration:

West Indies' Sugar Trade:

Slave Codes:

Iroquois Confederacy:

APUSH Review Period 1 - Must watch to tie it all together!

Spring Semester, Day 1

Hello and welcome to the blog of Mr. Jensen's AP US History Class.  You will need to bookmark this page to be able to access it for important assignments and other notifications.

Student Information Form

Why are you here?

Primary Source Analysis

"Indifference to history isn't just ignorant; it's a form of ingratitude." -David McCulloch, 2002
Complete a HIPPO Analysis on the above quotation.

AP US History Syllabus

Link to sign up with Remind

Where do you stand politically?

America Before Columbus Article

Be prepared to discuss the answers that preface the article.

Link to American Pageant Chapter 1 pdf

Link to Chapter 1 Slideshow

Read pages 13-23 in American Pageant.

Key Terms:

Columbian Exchange

Microbes vs. Muskets

Conquistadores

Bartolome de Las Casas

Encomienda System

Pope's Rebellion

"Black Legend"

3 Sister Farming