2019-2020 Class Index (Archived)


 

 

Ballston Spa High School - A.P. United States History

Daily Class Index Archive 2019-2020

 

 

UPDATES 

6/6/2020

Omit Opportunities

Class #118

6/4/2020

What 2 Watch 4 June 4th to June 8th

Class #117

6/3/2020

Omit Opportunities 

Class #116

6/2/2020

Cold War and Civil Rights 1957 to 1980

UPDATES 

6/1/2020

The Final Countdown June 1st to June 8th (2.0)

UPDATES 

5/29/2020

The Final Countdown May 29th to June 8th (1.0)

Class #115

5/28/2020

Updates and Omit Opportunity on Becoming Robert Meeropol

Class #114

5/27/2020

Important Updates on Google Meet Format

Class #113

5/26/2020

Cold War Comes Home to the Crisis at Little Rock

UPDATES 

5/25/2020

The Week Ahead May 25th to May 31st

UPDATES

5/22/2020

Preparing for Google Meet #1 and #2
Class #112
5/21/2020 
Resource Links for Focused Study 1945-1985 (2.0)
Class #111
5/20/2020 
Resource Links for Focused Study 1945-1985 (1.0)
Class #110
5/19/2020 
The Atomic Cafe 

UPDATES 

5/18/2020

The Weeks Ahead May 18th to June 7th

TEST DAY

5/15/2020

2020 DBQ Rubric to Print

Google Meet Q and A 10:00 am

REVIEW  

5/14/2020

American Government 

Google Meet 8:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/14/2020

American Foreign Policy 1890-1941

Google Meet 5:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/13/2020

American Economy 1890 -1939

Google Meet 8:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/13/2020

Manifest Destiny and Civil War and American Identity - African Americans and Women  1865-1900
Google Meet 3:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/12/2020

 Second Great Awakening and Second Party System

Google Meet 8:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/12/2020

DBQ Era of Good Feelings 

REVIEW  

5/11/2020

The American Economy 1800-1848

Google  Meet 3:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/11/2020

1776 as a Turning Point

Google Meet 8:00 pm

REVIEW  

5/11/2020

The Week Ahead; Google Meet Q and A ,  Monday May 11th at 3:00pm

DBQ LINKS

5/9/2020

Resources for 2020 APUSH DBQ
Class #109
5/7/2020 
AP National Exam Review
Class #108
5/6/2020 
The Quest for Global Peace and Domestic Prosperity
Class #107
5/5/2020
Endgame, 1945

TIMED SAQ

5/4/2020

The Week Ahead; SAQ on World War II,  Monday May 4th at 2:30 pm
Class #106
 
4/30/2020 

Executive Order #9066

 

Class #105
 
4/29/2020 
December 7 1941
Class #104
 
4/28/2020

Storm Cellar Neutrality

 

TIMED SAQ

4/27/2020

The Week Ahead; SAQ on Assessment of the New Deal,  Monday April 27th at 2:30 pm

Class #103
 
4/23/2020 

Those Angry Days 1929-1941
 

Class #102
 4/22/2020

 
An Assessment of the New Deal
 

Class #101

  

4/21/2020

 
New Deal Court Challenges and Critics 
TIMED SAQ
4/20/2020

The Week Ahead; SAQ on FDR and the New Deal,  Monday April 20th at 2:30 pm

 

 

UPDATES

 

4/17/2020

Procedural Announcements
 

Class #100

 4/16/2020 
Bold Experimentation
 

Class #99

 4/15/2020 
FDR The Great Communicator
 

Class #98

  4/14/2020
Hoover's Humiliation
TIMED SAQ
4/13/2020

SAQ on the 1920s  Monday April 13th 1:00 pm

 

UPDATES

4/10/2020

Procedural Announcements 4/10/2020

 

Class #97

4/9/2020

Smoot,Hawley and Lange 

 

Class #96

4/8/2020

Stormy Weather

Class #95

4/7/2020

Blame it on Hoover
TIMED SAQ
4/13/2020

SAQ on the 1920's  Monday April 6th 1:00 pm

 

UPDATES

4/6/2020

Procedural Announcements 4/6/2020

Class #94

4/3/2020

American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration

Class #93

4/2/2020

Prosperity Lost: The Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s

Class #92

4/1/2020

Summer for the Gods - The Scopes Trial and The Economics of the 1920s

Class #91

3/31/2020

The Roaring Twenties: Change vs Resistance to Change


UPDATES

3/30/2020 

Procedural Announcements 3/30/2020

 

Class #90

3/27/2020

Anything Goes: America in the Roaring Twenties  


Module 7C
1919-1939
The Roaring Twenties through the Great Depression

Class #89

3/26/2020

TEST: Module #7b (1914-1919)Transition into the Roaring Twenties


Review 

3/25/2020

Q and A World War I (The Aftermath)

 

Class #88

3/24/2020

The Betrayal of Grand Expectations - Treaty of Versailles


Class #87

3/23/2020

Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order 

Review

3/20/2020

Q and A World War I (Causes and Mobilization)

 

Class #86

3/19/2020

America in World War I  

 

Class #85
3/18/2020 

Homefront Civil Liberties During World War I

 

Class #84
3/17/2020
The Homefront During World War I

UPDATES

3/17/2020

 Procedural Announcements  for School Closure 3/17/220

 

Class #83
 3/16/2020

World War One - Origins and US Involvement


UPDATES

3/16/2020

 Procedural Announcements  for School Closure 3/16/2020

 

Module  7B
1914-1919

America in World War I

Class #82

3/13/2020

TEST: Module #7a (1890-1914)New Directions in Foreign Policy

HW: Reading Us Diplomacy 1913-1917 

Class #81

3/12/2020

Progressive Era GainsProgressive Era Pains

HW: Review Suffrage Timeline; Module 7a Modular Quiz  closes 11:59 Thursday, 3/12/2020

Class #80

3/10/2020

Progressive Era GainsProgressive Era Pains

HW: Reading State and National Progressivism

Class #79

3/9/2020

LAB: Progressive Presidents

Class #78

3/6/2020

LAB: The Progressive Movement

Class #77

3/5/2020

Dollar Diplomacy to the Progressive Movement
HW Reading: Progressive Roots

Class #76

3/3/2020

Spanish American War as a Turning Point

HW Reading: America's First Iraq

Class #75

3/2/2020

Spanish American War (1898)

HW Reading: The Spanish-American War: Manifest Destiny Goes Abroad

Module 7A
 1896-1916 
Roots of Imperialism, Progressive Reform and World War I 

Class #74

2/27/2020

Populism Rewind and Imperialistic Impulses
HW: 
Time Period #6 Module C Quiz  closes 11:59 Sunday 3/1/2020

Class #73

2/26/2020

Raise Less Corn and More Hell  - The Rise of Populism [1892 to 1900]; The Election of 1896

HW: Reading: The Populists Party

Module 6C
 1863-1890 

Gilded Age Politics and the Rise of Populism  

Class #72

2/25/2020

TEST:Time Period 6a and 6b; Politics in the Gilded Age [1876 to 1896]

HW: Reading: The Garfield Assassination Complete Notes on Module 6c "Problems Facing American Farmers"

Class #71

2/24/2020

Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America
 
HW: Reading Cultural Conflict in the Gilded AgeModule 6b Modular Quiz  closes 11:59 Monday, 2/24/2020

Class #70

2/13/2020

Huddled Masses  [1880 to 1920];Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America
HW: Document Activity - Age of Immigration

Class #69

2/12/2020 

Social Thought in the Gilded Age; Progress and Poverty in Urban America
HW: Reading 
Capital District in 1900

Class #68

2/11/2020 

The State of the Union - Labor Organizes

HW: In Unions There Is Strength

Class #67

2/6/2020 

The Impact of Industrialization on American Society;  The State of the Union - Labor Organizes
HW: Reading Blessed Barons (Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan)

Class #66

2/6/2020

Ingredients of IndustrializationAmerican Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism [1865 to 1900]
HW: 
Module 6a Modular Quiz (25 Points) closes 11:59 Thursday, 2/7/2020

MODULE 6B

1863-1890 

 

Class #65

2/4/2020

The Final Promise and Bloody Footprints - Migration and Settlement
HW: Reading: A Clash of Culture

Class #64

1/31/2020

Rival Rails: The Race to Build the Transcontinental RailroadThe Conquest of  the West  
HW:  How the Capital Region helped put California on the map

MODULE 6A

1863-1890 

Election of 1876 to the Battle of Wounded Knee 

Class #63

1/30/2020

Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
HW: Mid Year Evaluation in Google FormsModule 5c Modular Quiz (25 Points) closes 11:59 Friday 1/31/2020

Class #62

1/29/2020

Impeached: The Trial Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy;  Let Us Have Peace - The Grant Presidency

HW: Reading Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK

Class #61

1/27/2020

Winter Quarterly Process [1491-1877]; Impeached - The Trial of Andrew Johnson

HWReading Impeachment and its Legacy

Class #60

1/17/2020

Capitol Men: The First Black CongressmenOn the Ground in 1865 - Realities of Reconstruction

HW: Reading Impeachment and its Legacy

Class #59

1/16/2020

Tailor Made Reconstruction ; Radical Republicans and the Politics of Reconstruction 

HW: Revisit notes from pages 7-13 on the early stages of Reconstruction

Class #58

1/14/2020 

Quarterly Exam Analysis and Strategies; 

Class #57

1/13/2020 

Gone with the WindRe-Electing Lincoln 1864;With Malice Toward None? Early Reconstruction Battles Killing Lincoln 

HW: Reading The Aftermath of the Nightmare

MODULE 5C
1863 to 1877
End of the Civil War to the Compromise of 1877

Class #56

1/10/2020 

TEST: Time Period #5b 1860-1863;  Reconstruction Era BeginsRe-Electing Lincoln 1864 

HW: Reading The Election of 1864 and Lincoln Second Inaugural

Class #55

1/8/2020

Module 5b SAQ (12 minutes);The Summer of '63 - Gettysburg and Vicksburg
HW: Reading Clement Vallandigham;  
Module 5b Modular Quiz (25 Points) closes 11:59 Thursday 1/9/2020 

Class #54

1/7/2020

Lincoln as Commander in Chief 

HW:  Reading: The Battle For Freedom: Antietam and the Emancipation ProclamationPrepare for Module 5b SAQ Class #55 1/8/2020

Class #53 

1/6/2020

Crossroads of Freedom- Antietam and Emancipation (1863)

HW: Reading: The Dead at Antietam

Class #52 

12/19/2019

This Mighty Scourge - The American Civil War

HW: Reading Witness to The First Battle of Bull Run  ; 2019 Winter Break Assignment

Class #51  

12/18/2019

Abraham Lincoln Ascendant: The Election of 1860And War Came - 1861

HW: Reading Girding for War 

Class #50 

12/16/2019

Module 5a SAQ (12 minutes); An Incompatibility of Temper; Abraham Lincoln Ascendant: The Election of 1860

HW: Module 5a Modular Quiz (25 Points) closes 11:59 Tuesday 12/17/2019; Reading Ballston Journal on Lincoln and Slavery

Class #49 

12/13/2019 

A House Divided 1854-1859
HW:
  Reading Political Climate of the 1850s; Prepare for Module 5a SAQ Monday 12/16/2019
Class #48 
12/11/2019
A Hell of a Storm 1850 to 1854HW: Reading Clay's Compromise

Class #47 

12/10/2019

To The Halls of Montezuma'The Legacy of 1848 - What did the Mexican War Unleash?  

HW: Reading The Wilmot Proviso

Class #46 

12/9/2019

Manifest Destiny - An Expression of Our National SpiritThe Revolutionary Birth of the Texas RepublicPresidency of James K Polk

HW: Reading Historical Context of Manifest Destiny 

Class #45
12/5/2019

TEST: Time Period #4c  1824-1828; 1831-1835 Years of Transformation Manifest Destiny - An Expression of Our National Spirit

HW:  Omit reading: Darkness Visible - 1831 Year of Eclipse

MODULE 5A
1848-1859

Manifest Destiny, Section Tensions and the Brink of Civil War  

Class #44
12/4/2019

Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery  Antebellum Non Conformists

HWReading Grimke Sisters and the Seneca Falls Convention Module 4c Modular Quiz (25 Points) closes 11:59 Friday 12/6/2019

Class #43

 12/3/2019 

The Second Great Awakening 

HW: Impact of Second Great Awakening

Class #42

11/26/2019

The Invisible War;  In Defense of Slavery

HWThanksgiving Break Assignment

MODULE 4C 
1824-1848
Antebellum Reform movements and Utopian Communities

Class #41

 11/22/2019 
Fall Quarterly Exam - Day #2 (DBQ Essay) 

Class #40

11/21/2019

Fall Quarterly Exam Day #1 (55 SBMC )

HW: Time Period #4b Modular Quiz (30 Points) Closes Sunday 11/24 at 11:59 

Class #39

11/20/2019

Slavery in Antebellum America: All Night Forever; The Invisible War

HW: Prepare for Quarterly Exam; Class #40

Class #38

11/18/2019

Immigration and Cultural ConflictSouth and the Growth of King Cotton 
HW: Reading Democracy in America  

Class #37

11/14/2019

The North and the Market RevolutionImmigration and Cultural Conflict
HW: Reading Antebellum Migration - The March of Millions

Class #36

11/13/2019

Liberty and Power in the Age of Jackson 

HW: Reading: Andrew Jackson - The American Franchise ; Organize evidence for  Modified SAQ

Class #35

11/12/2019

LAB: An Introduction to Time Period #4b - The Elections of 1824 and 1828

HW: Complete Notes and WS on the Jackson Presidency

Class #34

11/8/2019

Fall Quarterly Exam Prep: DBQ Era of Good Feelings 

HW: Time Period #4a Modular Quiz (30 Points) Closes Friday 11/8 at 11:59

MODULE 4B

1824-1828

The Age of Jackson through the Northern and Southern World View

Class #33

11/6/2019

Strive for 5 Marshall Court; James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings (Election of 1824)
HW: Reading - The Era of Good FeelingsTime Period #4a Modular Quiz (30 Points) closes Friday 11/8 at 11:59

Class #32

11/5/2019

John Marshall and National SupremacyJames Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
HW: Review notes on Marshall Court 15-16; Revisit Marshall reading  from Class #29

Class #31

11/1/2019

Nascent Nationalism and Post War Expansion 

HW: Reading Nascent Nationalism and the American System  

Class #30

10/31/2019

What So Proudly We Hailed 1812

HW: Review notes on the War of 1812 

Class #29

10/30/2019

 John Marshall and Judicial ActivismRESET ; The Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

HW: Review notes on Marbury vs. Madison and watch video review of caseReading on John Marshall's Court

MODULE 4A

1800 -1824

The Jeffersonain Republic to the Era of Good Feelings 

Class #28

10/28/2019

TEST: Time Period #3b  1783 to 1800 American Sphinx: Thomas Jefferson’s First Term as President [1800-1804]

Class #27

10/24/2019

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

HW: Time Period #3b Modular Quiz (25 Points); Schoology ID Quiz. Both close 11:59 Sunday 10/27

Class #26

10/24/2019

The Presidency of John Adams 

HW: Omit options for Test on Module 3bOptional Reading - A Summary of the Adams Presidency

Class #25

10/22/2019

Laying the Cornerstone of Foreign Policy 1793-1796 and The Presidency of John Adams

HW: Review Notes on Washington PresidencyOmit options for Test on Module 3b 

Class #24

10/21/2019

Launching the New Ship of StateMutinous Moonshiners in Western Pennsylvania  

HW:  Reading Alexander Hamilton, The Man Who Made America Prosperous

Class #23

10/19/2019

Ratification of Constitution 
HW:  SAQ for Module B Class #23; Document Activity - Ratification of US Constitution in Schoology - due at 11:59 Sunday

Class #22

10/17/2019

Ratification Debate: Federalists vs the Anti-Federalists

HW: SAQ for Module B Class #23; Document Activity - Ratification of US Constitution in Schoology - due at 11:59 Sunday

Class #21

10/15/2019 

Plain, Honest Men - Philadelphia 1787 ; A Brilliant Solution - Compromises at the Constitutional Convention [1787]

HW: Colonial Organization Quiz in Schoology due at 11:59 Tuesday 10/15/2019

Class #20

10/11/2019

Test Top Three ; America's First ConstitutionThe Horrid Specter of Anarchy - Shays Rebellion 

HW: Reading The Constitution that Failed 
Module 3B
1783 to 1800
The Critical Period to the Controversial Election of 1800 

Class #19

10/9/2019

TEST: Time Period #3a 1754-1783Aftermath of the Revolution - The Critical Period

Class #18

10/8/2019

Fighting the Revolution ;The World Turned Upside Down

HW:  Reading Consequences of Revolution ; Time Period #3a Modular Quiz (35 Points); closes at 11:59 on Tuesday 10/8

Class #17

10/7/2019

Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered

HW: Review notes pages 19-22 up to Fighting the Revolution - Homefront

Class #16

10/3/2019

The Logic of Resistance,We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident

HW: Prepare for Module A SAQ; Reading No Taxation Without Representation 

Class #15

10/2/2019

Rejection of Empire 1766-1770 

HW: Reading on Evolving British Tax Policy

Class #14

10/1/2019

Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America

HW: Review Notes on Pontiac's Rebellion and the Paxton Boys pages 6-7; Imperial Tax Policy pages 10-11

Class #13

9/27/2019

TEST: Time Period #2 1607- 1754 The Great War for Empire 1754-1763

 

Module 3A 
1754-1783  
French and Indian War (1754-763) to The Treaty of Paris (1783)
  Time Period #3 1754 to 1800

Class #12

9/25/2019

The First Great AwakeningColonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

HW: Review Time Period #2 Notes; Time Period #2 Modular Quiz -closes at 11:59 on Thursday 9/26

Class #11

9/24/2019

SAQ (12 minutes) ; Traders in the Wilderness (Middle Colonies); Resistance and Rebellion in the English Colonies 

HW: Reading Origins and Legacy of Pennsylvania Quakers

Class #10

9/23/2019

Blood and Betrayal: New England vs. Native Americans [1621 to 1676]
HW: Prepare for SAQ on Time Period #2 on Radicals in the Wilderness

Class #9

9/20/2018

Radicals in the WildernessIdeological Problems and Developments

HW: Thesis Statement on Origins of Slavery Submit by Friday 9/20 at 11:59 pm ; Reading on The Puritans and Dissent

Class #8
9/19/2019 

Skill Workshop: Crafting a ThesisRadicals in the Wilderness(The New England Colonies) 

HW: Reading Origins of slavery and Thesis Statement on Origins of Slavery Submit by Friday 9/20 at 11:59 pm

Class #7
9/17/2019 
English Settlement in the ChesapeakeAn Economy of Slaves - Sugar and Slaves—The Caribbean 
HW: Read over Time Period #2 narrative; Review notes pages #1-#9
  Time Period #2 1607 to 1754
Class #6
9/16/2019 
Document Analysis - Exploration and Discovery; TEST: Time Period #1 1491-1607
Class #5
9/13/2019 

Gentlemen in the Wilderness - The Planting of English America, 1588 - 1607 

HW: Time Period #1 On-Line test (20 Questions); Prepare for Time Period #1 Test

Class #4 
9/11/2019 
European Exploration and DiscoveryA review of Time Period #1 1491-1607 [Dutch and English]
HW:  Register for APUSH through College Board website ; Create Remind Account ASAP        
Class #3 
9/10/2019

SAQ European Exploration and DiscoveryA review of Time Period #1 1491-1607 [French]

HW:  Register for APUSH through College Board website ; Create Remind Account ASAP                                                

Class #2 
9/9/2019

A review of Time Period #1 1491-1607 [Exploration and Settlement]

HWRegister for APUSH through College Board website ; Create Remind Account ASAP

Class #1 
9/4/2019

 Introductions and course expectations ; The Encounter              
 HW: Register for APUSH through College Board website ; Create Remind Account ASAP

                                                                                                

  Time Period #1 1491 to 1607

 

 



 

 



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