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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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apush ch 1 and 2

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Evaluation of Jefferson's presidency.

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President Jefferson Years in Office: 1800-1807 Overall Grade: 87 Foreign Affairs Pirate blackmail France and Spain pit against US. Impressment Foreign Events Tripolitian War US buys Louisiana Territory Embargo Act Non-Intercourse Act Chesapeake affair Analysis/Evaluation Avoids conflict with Britain and France Reduces trade Ends piracy attacks Grade: 90 Domestic Affairs Lewis and Clark make discoveries Embargo act leads to economic death Reduction of Navy Domestic Events Marbury vs. Madison Jefferson gives in to unconstitutional Louisiana purchase Analysis/Evaluation Reduction of navy served no helpful purpose Economic death Gain of Louisiana Grade: 78 Political Affairs 1800 election-Federalist vs. Democratic-Republicans 1804 Reelection

Jeffersonian Republic Outline (from American Pageant 12th Edition chapter 11)

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Moving to west

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Test #5 (missing 235-259) The Frontier Lures Settlers American Mission ? 1840s begin to move westward and southward ?the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions,? John L. O?Sullivan Manifest destiny ? express their belief that the US? destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory. Attitudes Toward the Frontier ? Attraction: Abundance of land in West. Harbors in Oregon Territory to help expand trade Had personal economic problems (Panic of 1837) Settlers and Native Americans ? Some Native Americans try to maintain traditions on new lands, some fought the whites off land, some advanced with the white culture

Lincoln DBQ

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Chapter 15 120 Chapter 15: A War for Union and Emancipation, 1861-1865 Overview Southerners may have talked about ?states? rights? or ?property rights? but they were going to war to preserve the political economy of slavery. Northerners made it clear that they were not going to war to abolish slavery. President Lincoln claimed to be fighting to restore the Union. Both sides began to mobilize men and supplies to the battlefield by the summer of 1861. In 1862, Lincoln adopted the radical Republican position that emancipation was a military necessity. Eventually Lincoln justified the war in abolitionist terms. After the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (January 1863) the war lasted

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