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Quarter 1 : Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction

The American Pageant Textbook
Quarter 1 - Week 1 - 08/09/21-08/13/21
Introductions/Distribution of Class Syllabus and Laptop Usage Forms
Weekly Theme: The Economics of Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery

Weekly PowerPoint: The South and Slavery
Quarter 1 - Week 2 - 08/16/21-08/20/21
Weekly Theme: Southern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Southern Defense of Slavery

Weekly PowerPoint: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Class Mini-Presentations on Three Main "Justifications" for Slavery
Quiz 1.1 Study Guide
Quiz 1.1

Quarter 1 - Week 3 - 08/23/21-08/27/21
Weekly Theme: Northern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery in New Jersey
No Weekly PowerPoint: Class Presentations on Abolitionist Leaders
Abolitionist Leaders Website
Assigned Abolitionists
Abolitionist Leader Assignment

Quarter 1 - Week 4 - 08/30/21-09/03/21
Weekly Theme: The Road to Secession
Weekly Readings: Bleeding Kansas/Charles Sumner (Sections 6-8)
                                  The Martyrdom of John Brown (Sections 2-5)
Weekly PowerPoint: Drifting Toward Disunion

Test 1.1 Study Guide
Sample Paper 3 #1
Sample Paper 3 #2

Test 1.1

Quarter 1 - Week 5 - 09/06/21-09/10/21
Weekly Theme:  The Republican Party and Lincoln
Weekly Reading: Lincoln's Election (1860)

Weekly PowerPoint: Girding for War-The North and South
Quiz 1.2 Study Guide
Quarter 1 - Week 6 - 09/13/21-09/17/21
Weekly Theme: 'The Cause'
Quiz 1.2
Ken Burns Civil War Documentary Episode 1

Quarter 1 - Week 7 - 09/20/21-09/24/21
Weekly Theme: Rebel Yells and Northern Offense
Weekly Readings: A Just War? (Pages 1-9)
                                  Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom
Weekly PowerPoint: The Furnace of Civil War

Civil War Assignment
Quarter 1 - Week 8 - 09/27/21-10/01/21
Weekly Theme: Dichotomous Plans of Reconstruction
Weekly Reading: War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South (OPTIONAL)
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Test 1.2 Study Guide
Test 1.2

Quarter 1 - Week 9 - 10/04/21-10/08/21
Weekly Theme: Southern Resistance to Reconstruction
No Weekly Reading: Literacy Test
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction (Continued)
Quiz 1.3 Study Guide
Quiz 1.3
Test 1.3 Study Guide
Test 1.3

Quarter 2: Corruption, Expansion, and Imperialism

The American Pageant Book
Quarter 2 - Week 1 - 10/11/21-10/15/21
Weekly Theme: The "Spoils" of the Gilded Age
Weekly Reading: The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics
Weekly PowerPoint: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

Quarter 2 - Week 2 - 10/18/21-10/22/21
Weekly Theme: Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
Weekly Reading: Robber Baron Turned Robin Hood
Weekly PowerPoint: Industry Comes of Age
Quiz 2.1 Study Guide
Quiz 2.1

Quarter 2 - Week 3 - 10/25/21-10/29/21
Weekly Theme: Labor Unions and Protest
Weekly Reading: Paternalism and the Pullman Strike
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
2nd Industrial Revolution Project (Test 2.1) - Due Thursday Nov. 4th (A) and Friday Nov. 5th (B)

Quarter 2 - Week 4 - 11/01/21-11/05/21
Weekly Theme: Urbanization and Civil Rights
Weekly Reading: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington: Approaches to Developing Citizenship
Weekly Reading Questions
Weekly PowerPoint: America Moves to the City 
Projects Due: November 4th (A) and November 5th (B) - Mini-Presentations

Quarter 2 - Week 5 - 11/08/21-11/12/21
Weekly Theme: The Wild Wild West
Weekly Reading: Wounded Knee and the Prospect of Pluralism
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Quiz 2.2 Study Guide
Quiz 2.2

Quarter 2 - Week 6 - 11/15/21-11/19/21
Weekly Theme: Silver or Gold? Economic Turmoil
Weekly Reading: The Election of 1896 (Read through page 145)
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (continued)
Test 2.2 Study Guide
Test 2.2

Quarter 2 - Week 7 - 11/29/21-12/03/21
Weekly Theme: Remember the Maine!
Weekly Reading: Breaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion
Quiz 2.3 Study Guide
Quiz 2.3

Quarter 2 - Week 8 - 12/06/21-12/10/21
Weekly Theme: Global Spheres of Influence
Weekly Reading: American Triumph: Explaining the Canal Project
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion (continued)
Test 2.3 Study Guide
Test 2.3
Semester Exam Study Guide

Quarter 3: Problems at Home and Conflict Abroad

The American Pageant Book
Quarter 3 - Week 1 - 01/03/22-01/07/22
Weekly Theme: Roosevelt's Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Weekly PowerPoint: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
American Imperialism Review Assignment
Muckrakers Assignment
History of the Americas Document Activities:
page 132 #1-5, page 138-139 #1-3 and page 139 #1-3.

Quarter 3 - Week 2 - 01/10/22-01/14/22
Weekly Theme: Wilsonian Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Women During Progressivism (pages 1-22)
Weekly PowerPoint: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions
Quiz 3.1 Study Guide

Quiz 3.1
Quarter 3 - Week 3 - 01/17/22-01/21/22
Weekly Theme: Causes of World War I
Weekly Reading: Steps to War
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War
Sample IA Investigative Questions
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions Due

Quarter 3 - Week 4 - 01/24/22-01/28/22
Weekly Theme: The War to End War
Weekly Reading: Interlude Between War and Peace
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War (continued)
History of the Americas Document Activities :
page 148 #1-5, page 159 #1-5, page 164 #1-3, page 180 #1-3 plus define Amendments 13-19

Quarter 3 - Week 5 - 01/31/22-02/04/22
Weekly Theme: Wrapping Up WWI
Weekly Reading: History of the Americas pages 160-180 (will be on next quiz)
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
Test 3.1 Study Guide
Test 3.1
All Quiet on the Western Front Viewing Guide

Quarter 3 - Week 6 - 02/07/22-02/11/22
Weekly Theme: Gangsters and Flappers
Weekly Reading: Prohibition Experiment of the 1920s
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
History IA Mini-Outlines Due

Quarter 3 - Week 7 - 02/14/22-02/18/22
Weekly Theme: The Laissez-Faire Presidents
Weekly Reading: Warren Harding Article
                                Warren Harding Article Questions
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties (continued)
Quiz 3.2 Study Guide
Quiz 3.2

Quarter 3 - Week 8 - 02/21/22-02/25/22
Weekly Theme: Boom to Bust
Weekly Reading: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 Stock Market Crash
Weekly PowerPoint: The Politics of Boom and Bust

Quarter 3 - Week 9 - 02/28/22-03/04/22
Weekly Theme: Relief, Recovery, Reform
Weekly Reading: The Bonus Army
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Test 3.2 Study Guide
Test 3.2

Quarter 3 - Week 10 - 03/07/22-03/11/22
Weekly Theme: New Deal Alphabet Soup
Weekly Reading: Dreamers With Shovels (Optional Extra Credit)
Dreamers With Shovels Questions
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal (continued)
Quiz 3.3 Study Guide
Quiz 3.3
Optional Extra Credit Assignment

Quarter 4: WWII, Civil Rights, and a Post-Cold War Era

The American Pageant Book
All course materials and assignments for 4th Quarter are on Canvas.
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