US History

08/23 ; U.S. History Block B ; Distribute Books, Note Packets, Discuss Expectations, Read Chapter 1 !

08/26; U.S. History Block B ; Notes over First Americans, Commercial Revolution, Prince Henry, Voyages of Columbus, Dead Reckoning, Ampolleta, Geographic Revolution, Columbian Exchange, Cabot 08/27; Notes over Explorers; Da Gama, Vespucci, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Chapter 1/Questions 08/ 28; Chapter 1 / Worksheet 08/29; Notes over Cortes, Moctezuma, Magellan, Verrazano, Narvez, Pizarro, the Incas, Cartier, De Vaca, De Soto, St. Augustine, Castillo de San Marcos, Coquina 08/30; Video over "Explorers".

09/02; U.S. History Block B; No School! Labor Day! 09/03: Notes over Jamestown, John Smith & Pocahontas, House of Burgesses, Mayflower & the Pilgrims, Review for test ! 09/04; Review for test ! 09/05; Review for test! [1st half], Test ! [2nd half], Read Chapter 3/ American Colonies Take Shape 09/06; Go over tests! Notes over La Salle, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Settlement of Savannah, Blackbeard the Pirate, Triangular Trade.

09/09; U.S. History Block B; Notes over Pequot War, Types of Colonies, Indentured Servant, William Penn, Bacon's Rebellion, Ft. Necessity & George Washington, Ft. Duquesne & Daniel Boone 09/10; Chapter 3 / Worksheet [1st half], Notes over French & Indian War Battles; Louisburg, Quebec & Montreal, Ft. Ticonderoga, Treaty of Paris 09/11; Notes over Pontiac's Rebellion, Proclamation of 1763, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act 09/12; Review for test! 09/13; Review for test ![1st half], Test! [2nd half]

09/16; U.S. History Block B; Notes over 1st & 2nd Continental Congress, George Washington, Dr. Church & Cryptography, Battles at Breed's Hill, Moore's Creed Bridge, Nathan Hales, Brooklyn Hts. & Harlem Hts., Common Sense & Declaration of Independence 09/17; Video over the "American Revolution" 09/18; Chapter 4 / Questions / Revolutionary War Maps 09/19; Chapter 4 / Worksheet [1st half], Notes over Battle of Quebec & Benedict Arnold, Dorchester Hts., Battles of Trenton & Princeton, Ben Franklin, Privateers, Mercy Warren, Patrick Henry, Treaty of Alliance, Commercial Treaty 09/20; Notes over Battles of Savannah, Charleston, Kings Mt., Cowpens, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris, Teams selected for [War Games}

09/23; U.S. History Block B; Notes [behind schedule-Homecoming Activities] Commercial & Alliance Treaties, Battles of Savannah,Charleston, Kings Mt., Cowpens, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 09/24-26; War Games Review 09/27; Review [1st half] Test ![2nd half]

09/30; U.S. History Block B; Go over tests! Notes over Shay's Rebellion, Constitution & Washington as 1st President, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Alien & Sedition Acts, Hamilton & our Treasury Dept. 10/01; Notes over Adams as 2nd President, Jefferson & the Louisiana Purchase, Barbary States, James Madison & the War of 1812 10/02; Notes over Adm. Perry & Lake Erie, Battle of Thames,Ft. McHenry, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Battles of New Orleans, Video 10/03; Review for test ! 10/04; Test ! [1st half] Maps [ 2nd half] Alamo & Mexican War.

10/07; U.S. History/ Block B; Notes over Effects of the War of 1812, James Monroe as President, Seminole Wars, Problems with Russia, John Quincy Adams as President, Andrew Jackson as President, Indian Resettlement Act, Depression of 1837 10/08; Notes over Mountain Men & Fur Companies, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, Mexican Revolution & Settlement of Texas, Jim Bowie & David Crockett [work on maps 2nd half] 10/09; Notes over Mexican War & Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Chapter 9 Questions & Worksheet 10/10; Review for test ! 10/11; Review for test ! [1st half], Test ! [2nd half]

10/14; U.S. History / Block B; Test ! [postponed because of college visit}, Notes over President's Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce 10/15; Notes over President Buchanan, Election of Lincoln, John Brown, Dred Scott Case, Secession, Causes of the Civil War, Chapter 11 / Worksheet 10/16; Notes over Civil War Battles; Ft. Sumter, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Surrender at Appomattox, Review for test ! 10/17; Review for test!, Check Notes ! 10/18; Review & Test !

10/21; U.S. History/ Block B; Lincoln Assassination & John Wilkes Booth, President Johnson & Impeachment, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Ulysses S. Grant as President, Corruption & Scandals, Depression of 1873, Election of 1876 10/22; President Hayes & Foreign Trade, Garfield & Assassination, President Arthur & Pendleton CIvil Service, Grover Cleveland, Laissez-Faire Theory, Interstate Commerce Act & Dawes Act, President Harrison & McKinley Tariff, Sherman Anti-Trust 10/23; Chapter 12 / Questions 10/24; Chapter 12 / Worksheet, Notes over Depression of 1893, JP Morgan, Review for Test ! 10/25; No School !

10/28; U.S. History/ Block B; Review for test ! 10/29; Review for test ! Test ! [2nd half] Read Chapter 15 10/30; Go over tests! Notes over Westward Expansion, Mining in the West, Reasons for violence in Tombstone, Gunfight at OK Corral, Wyatt Earp, Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid 10/31; Maps [in class]; Forts & Battle of the West, Cattle Trails 11/01; Chapter 15/ Questions & Worksheet

11/04; U.S. History / Block B; Notes over Sioux War, Sitting Bull, Gen. Custer, Apache War, Geronimo, Union & Central Pacific Railroads, Comstock Lode, Sand Creek Massacre, Destruction of the Buffalo, Ghost Dance, Soldiers in the West, Butch Cassidy & Robberies in the West 11/05-07; Film "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" 11/08; Review for test !

11/11; U.S. History / Block B; Teddy Roosevelt & the Panama Canal, Square Deal, Insular Cases, Muckrakers, Meat Inspection Act, Food & Drug Act, Election of 1908, Taft as President, Amendment 16, Work on Chapter 17/18 Questions 11/12; Notes over Election of 1912, Wilson as President, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Farm Loan Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Problems with Mexico, Pancho Villa, Chapter 17/18 Worksheet 11/13; Review for test ! 11/14; Review for test ! {1st half], Test ! {2nd half} 11/15; Go over tests ! Update Grades ! Read Chapters' 20-21, Questions over the Twenties, Great Depression, New Deal.

11/18; U.S. History / Block B; Notes over Red Scare, Harding as President, Teapot Dome Scandal, Coolidge as President, Golden Twenties, Stock Market Crash, Hoover as President 11/19; Notes over the Great Depression, FDR as President, New Deal, Chapter's 20-22 / Worksheet 11/20; Notes over New Deal Agencies, Neutrality Acts, Collective Bargaining, Good-Neighbor Policy, Review for test ! 11/21; Review for test ! 11/22; Test ! Notes over Japanese Aggression & Causes of W.W.II.

11/25; U.S. History/ Block B; Notes over Palawan Massacre, Siam-Burma Railroad, Bridge over Kwai River, Merrill's Marauders, Battle of Midway, Kamikaze, Guadalcanal, Sullivan Brothers, John Kennedy, Carlson's Raiders, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa 11/26; Chapter 24 / Worksheet [1st half], Notes over Potsdam Ultimatum, Hiroshima, Nagaski, Surrender of Japan 11/27; W.W.II. Video 11/28-29; Thanksgiving Break, No School !

12/02; U.S. History/ Block B; Notes over W.W.II. in Europe, Causes, Goals of Hitler & Goering, Gestapo, SS, Axis, Mussolini, Geopolitics, Rhineland, Luftwaffe, Blitzkrieg, Sonar, Radar, Battle of the Atlantic, Dunkirk 12/03; Notes over Battle of Britain, North Africa, Operation Barbarossa, Invasion of Sicily, Italian Campaigns, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, V-E Day, Audie Murphy, Eric Erickson 12/04; Review for test ! 12/05; War Games ! 12/06; War Games [1st half] Test / Part 1 [2nd half]

12/09; U.S. History; Review, W.W.II. Part 2 / Test 12/10; Go over tests! Notes over Truman & the Fair Deal, Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Warsaw Pact, Eisenhower Doctrine, GNP, U2 Incident, Kennedy & the New Frontier, Peace Corp, Area Redevelopment & Trade Expansion Act 12/11; Notes over Space Program, Bay of Pigs & Cuba Missile Crisis, Assassination of Kennedy, Johnson & his Great Society,War in Vietnam 12;12 Chapters' 25-33 Questions / Worksheet 12/13; Notes over Nixon & Watergate Scandal, Ford & Inflation & Unemployment, Carter & Panama Canal Treaty, U.S. Hostages, Reagan & Iran-Contra Scandal, Berlin Wall, Challenger, Marines in Lebanon, Bush & Persian Gulf War, Americans with Disabilities Act, Clinton & NAFTA, George W. Bush & NCLB, 9/11 Attack, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Obama & Affordable Care Act, Trump & Tax Cuts & Jobs Act.

12/16; Review for test ! 12/17; Review for test ! 12/18; Test ! 12/19; Go over tests! Update 2nd Quarter & Semester Grades ! 12/20; Video!

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01/06; U.S. History; Block A; Distribute Textbooks, Note Packets, Go over Expectations for class! Notes over First Americans, Culture, Civilizations, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, Anasazi, Archaeologist & Carbon 14, Commercial Revolution, Price Henry, Read Chapter 1. 01/07; Notes over Diaz, Columbus & his voyages, Dead Reckoning, Ampolleta, Geographic Revolution, Columbian Exchange of Products, Chapter 1-Questions 01/08; Notes over Explorers; Cabot, Da Gama, Vespucci, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Cortes & Moctezuma, Read Chapter 2. 01/09; Notes over Explorers; Magellan, Verrazano, Pizarro, Cartier, De Vaca, De Soto, Defeat of the Spanish Armada 01/10; Chapter 2/ Worksheet [1st half], Notes over Sir Walter Raleigh, Jamestown, John Smith & Pocahontas, Mayflower & the Pilgrims, Squanto, the Puritans.

01/13; U.S. History; Block A; Review for test ! 01/14; Review for test! [1st half] Test [2nd half] 01/15; Go over tests! Notes over La Salle, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Settlement of Savannah, Triangular Trade 01/16; Notes over Blackbeard the Pirate, Pequot War, Types of Colonies, Indentured Servant, William Penn, Bacon's Rebellion 01/17; No School ! [weather]

01/20; U.S. History; Block A; Chapter 3 / Questions [1st half], Chapter 3/ Worksheet [2nd half] 01/21; Notes over Advantages for French & British, French & Indian War Battles; Ft. Duquesne, Ft. William Henry, Louisburg, William Pitt as Prime Minister, Battles of Quebec & Montreal, Treaty of Paris 01/22; Notes over Pontiac's Rebellion, Proclamation of 1763, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act Congress, Review for test ! 01/23; Review for test! [1st half], Test [2nd half] 01/24; No School ! [weather ]

01/27; U.S. History; Block A; Notes over Reasons for Rebellion in the Colonies, Paul Revere, American Revolution Battles; Lexington, Concord, Second Continental Congress, Washington as Commander of American Army, Battles of New York, Quebec, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Chapter 4/ Questions 01/28; Notes over Battles of Trenton & Princeton, Brandywine Creek, Privateers, Mercy Otis Warren, British Plan at New England, Chapter 4/ Worksheet 01/29; American Revolution Video 01/30; American Revolution Maps 01/31; Notes over Commercial Treaty, Treaty of Alliance, Patrick Henry, Battle at Saratoga, Problems of Benedict Arnold, George Rodgers Clark & Capture of Western Forts, Francis Marion

02/03; U.S. History; Block A; Notes over the Battles of Savannah, Charleston, Camden, Kings Mt., Cowpens, Surrender of the British at Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 02/04-05; War Games Review 02/06; Revolutionary War Test 02/07; Go over tests ! Notes over Shay's Rebellion, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, George Washington as 1st President, Hamilton & Jefferson, Jay & Pickney Treaties

02/10 ; U.S. History; Block A; Notes over President John Adams, XYZ Affair, Alien & Sedition Acts, Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions, Election of 1800, Jefferson as 3rd President, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Barbary States, Tributes, Embargo Act of 1807, Warhawks, President Madison & War of 1812 02/11; War of 1812 Maps 02/12; Notes over Battle of Thames, Lake Erie, Ft. McHenry, Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent 02/13; Review for test ! 02/14; No School !

02/17; U.S. History; Block A; Review for test ! Complete Maps ! 02/18; Review for test ! [1st half] Test ! [2nd half] 02/19; Go over tests! Update Grades ! Read Chapter 9, Notes over Effects of the War of 1812, James Monroe as President, Problems in Florida & Georgia, Adams-Onis Treaty, Seminole Wars, Monroe Doctrine, Chapter 9 / Questions 02/20; Notes over Missouri Compromise, John Quincy Adams as President, Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson as President, Indian Resettlement Act, Chapter 9 / Worksheet 02/21; Notes over Mountain Men of the West, Mexican Revolution, Settlement of Texas, The Alamo

02/24; U.S. History; Block A; Film "The Alamo" 02/25; Notes over Jim Bowie, Land Speculation, Natchez Sandbar Fight, Texas Rangers, Reasons for the Mexican War, Capture of Mexico City, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Gadsden Purchase 02/26; Review for test! 02/27; Review for test ! 02/28; Review for test !

03/02; U.S. History; Block A; Review for test ! [1st half] Test ! [2nd half], Read Chapter 11 03/03; Notes over President's Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce 03/04; Notes over President Buchanan, Election of Lincoln, John Brown, Dred Scott Case, Secession, Causes of the Civil War 03/05; Chapter 11/ Questions [1st half], Chapter 11/Worksheet [2nd half] 03/06; Notes over Civil War Battles; Ft. Sumter, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Surrender at Appomattox.

03/09; U.S. History; Block A; Review for test ! Civil War Video 03/10; Review for test! [1st half], Test ! [2nd half] 03/11; Go over tests! Notes over Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth, President Johnson & Impeachment, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jim Crow Laws, Ulysses S. Grant as President, Scandals & Corruption, Read Chapter 12 03/12; Chapter 12 Questions, Notes over Depression of 1873, Election of 1876, President Hayes & Foreign Trade, President Garfield & Assassination 03/13; Chapter 12-Worksheet / Check Notes

03/16; U.S. History; Block A; Notes over Cleveland Presidency, Benjamin Harrison as President, Sherman Silver Purchase, Wilson-Gorman Tariff, Depression of 1893 03/17; Chapte