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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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History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment Freedmen?s Bureau black codes Radical Republicans Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson Key Content Questions (3 points each ? these answers will be more than a sentence) Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. 1. Discuss the ways in which former slaves exercised their rights in the early years of Reconstruction. 2. Describe economic changes in the South during Reconstruction.

History Alive! Chapter 10 Study Guide

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Study Guide for Chapter 10 The Civil War Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Anaconda Plan Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address Sherman?s March to the Sea Draft riots Copperheads Bread riot 54th Massachusetts Regiment Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. What were the key elements of the Union?s Anaconda Plan? Explain the significance of the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. What contributions did women make to the war effort? Give three examples of women who played a role in the war.

History Alive! Chapter 6 Study Guide

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Study Guide for Chapter 6 Creating the Constitution Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. (2 pts each) Articles of Confederation Constitutional Convention Northwest Ordinance Constitution of the United States Great Compromise Electoral College Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. (3 pts each) Did the first state constitutions live up to the ideals and philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Explain. Summarize the main weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Identify key influences on the ideas and political views of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

History Alive! Chapter 20 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 2.28.17 Study Guide for Chapter 20 The Spanish-American War Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Yellow journalism: This was a style of exaggerated reporting that often stretched the truth of the stories which were published in a particular newspaper. This was most significant for the newspapers themselves as this strategy helped them gain readers by the thousands. USS Maine: This was an American battleship that was sent by President William McKinley to Cuba in order to protect American interests. Unfortunately, it was sunk in the Havana harbor, shortly after the de L?me incident. This came as an extreme shock and a reason for alarm for many Americans and eventually pushed America to war with Spain

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Saaim Khan 2.28.17 Study Guide for Chapter 20 The Spanish-American War Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Yellow journalism: This was a style of exaggerated reporting that often stretched the truth of the stories which were published in a particular newspaper. This was most significant for the newspapers themselves as this strategy helped them gain readers by the thousands. USS Maine: This was an American battleship that was sent by President William McKinley to Cuba in order to protect American interests. Unfortunately, it was sunk in the Havana harbor, shortly after the de L?me incident. This came as an extreme shock and a reason for alarm for many Americans and eventually pushed America to war with Spain

History Alive! Chapter 14 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 1.19.17 Study Guide for Chapter 14 Labor?s Response to Industrialism Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term. Working class: These workers were the ones who made the wealth of Rockefeller and Carnegie possible. They accepted low pay and dangerous conditions because they could not afford to lose their jobs. Many working-class families lived in run-down tenements in poor slums. They were ?crushed? by the upper class because they were not above the ?separation? line. Child labor: The American industry relied on the labor of children, because they had the ability to squeeze into tight spaces since they were small. They often worked longer hours than adults for the same pay.

History Alive! Chapter 12 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 12/06/2016 Chapter 12 Study Guide Key Content Terms (2 points each) Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Chisholm Trail: This was an important cattle drive trail that stretched from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. This trail became significant because it allowed cattle herders or cowboys to transport live cattle to certain ?cow towns? such as Abilene. The cattle would then be shipped to meatpacking centers in places like Chicago, via train from those ?cow towns?.

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Saaim Khan 11.06.16 Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment: This was the first of three Reconstruction-era amendments that freed slaves completely from their masters. Republicans in Congress pleaded with President Johnson to add the requirement that Southern states must grant freedmen the right to vote. Johnson, however, did not accept those pleas and said that white men alone should manage the South.

History Alive! Chapter 10 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 10.16.16 Study Guide for Chapter 10 The Civil War Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Anaconda Plan: The military plan that stated that the Union would surround the South and squeeze it to death. The four elements of this plan were to set up a naval blockade, gain control of the Mississippi, squeeze in on the South, and take the capital of the South, which was Richmond, Virginia. Emancipation Proclamation: This was an act by Lincoln, which declared that all slaves, who were residing in ?slave states? to be free. However, slaves living in Union states were not affected by this emancipation.

History Alive! Chapter 6 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 9-13-2016 Study Guide for Chapter 6 Creating the Constitution Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. (2 pts each) Articles of Confederation- It was the nation?s first constitution and it gave the state government more power than the national government. Constitutional Convention- A convention conducted in Philadelphia 1787, to tackle the question of how a more effective government should be structured. It was run by George Washington the man who wasn?t supposed to be king. Northwest Ordinance- A land policy that established rules for the creation of states in the West. It illustrated the steps required for a territory to achieve statehood.

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