APUSH 2025 SYLLABUS  ESSAYS 1. Why did the US and USSR not get along? How was the Cold War an international conflict? 2. Why did the US and USSR not get along? What effect did the Cold War have on US citizens? 3. Why did the US and USSR not get along? How did they indirectly challenge one another during the Cold War This multiple choice packet is due the day after the Cold War Test ... DON'T TAKE LONGER THAN 55 MINUTES. GROOVY SOCIAL STUDS 1960s TUNE!     WWII On Location Videos ... Pearl Harbor Ghettos Battle of Britain Sudetenland Appeasement D-Day / Normandy The Anne Frank House Manchuria Uncle Sid The Good Neighbor Policy. Winston Churchill's Underground War Room The Amalfi Coast in Italy WWII Memorial CLICK HERE FOR WWII SONG     APUSH FINAL PAPER INFORMATION The essay for the New Deal test will be open-packet, based on the Hundred Days. Great Depression and FDR Song     For the next test ... Compare and Contrast Essays: 1. How did imperialism c1900 conflict with the Enlightenment ideas the US was founded on? 2. How did foreign policy from 1898-1919 conflict with Washington’s Farewell Address? 3. Why were the Roaring 20s the epitome of "Boom and Bust"?   Paper Topic: The Roaring 20s represented a deterioration of morals. Support, modify, or refute this statement.  3 Pages.   CUMULATIVE ASSESSMENT REVIEW: 1. Use videos below (first half). 2. Flashcards up to Gilded Age 3. Videos up to Gilded Age 4. APUSH Review Sheet (Relevant parts)   US Review in 18 Minutes! Brace yourself.   New DBQ Rubric Video -- Test will be on Populism, Progressivism, and Age of Reform flaschards (near Jackson).     Gilded Age Review Sheet       1. Evaluate the extent to which the year 1877 ushered in change for the United States. (CONTINUITY AND CHANGE ESSAY) 2. Evaluate the extent to which the Gilded Age can be considered a golden era. (COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY) 3. Evaluate the extent to which the West can be considered the "story of America" when considering the nineteenth century. (TURNING POINTS ESSAY) Immigration Paper is 4pgs, but you can go up to 6 if you have extensive family history you want to share. The first 2.5 pages should answer the following question using all three parts of the packet: Evaluate why immigrants were either uprooted or transplanted. The other 1.5 pages should be your family history, and whether you believe your relatives were uprooted or transplanted. NOTE: You might argue uprooted on one part of the paper, and transplanted on the other part.   mugwumps ringtone. Right Click to download.   TURNER PAPER INFO: Read the Turner Thesis, and in 1.5-2 pages ... 1. What is his thesis? 2. Do you agree with his thesis? No intro or conclusion needed, just your thoughts please. YOUR thoughts ... not what you searched on the internet or what Chat GPT said. Don't circumvent reading the packet. Please cite from the packet.   Civil War and Reconstruction Review Sheet   AbraJam Lincoln of the Social Studs Reads the Gettysburg Address ...       Ghost or Person...you judge.     Antietam Gettysburg CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR!!!    Random history "on locations" ... "Seward's Folly" (Alaska) Ordinance of Nullification Compromise of 1850 John Brown Lecompton Constitution John C. Calhoun The Alamo Trail of Tears   October 15 - Next Paper Topic 4 pages: Evaluate the short-term and long-term causes and effects concerning slavery controversies during the antebellum period. October 14 - Washington-Monroe test will have multiple choice and short answers (instead of an essay). Click for Belgium statue, I wasn't kidding.   September 16 - Random videos and test essay questions: Battle of Saratoga Valley Forge Take a walk on the Freedom Trail. Mayflower Barn. Test Essays: eFlash cards and video reviews can be found on the navbar to the right.  We will choose 1 of the following 3 essays for the test: 1. Explain how the Constitution reflected continuity and change when considering the Articles of Confederation. 2. Explain short-term and long-term causes of the American Revolution, as well as the short-term and long-term effects. 3. Compare and contrast similarities and differences regarding the colonial period to that of the new United States.   9/1 - You found the web page! Below is the syllabus for the next few weeks. This page gets updated frequently, and will give you a syllabus, some links, my thoughts, advice, pictures, and occasional review material. You can check out flashcards and youtube videos to help you review:     AP JOIN CODES - SEE GOOGLE CLASSROOM   ALL papers will be handed in to turnitin.com. I will post grades there as well. Please enroll now! Class ID: 45037722 Enrollment Key: Hamilton   Paper 1: George Washington ... 3 pages Question: Based on his overall military career, to what degree should George Washington be remembered as a successful hero? Paper 2: 4 pages. Use two packets (Ben Franklin and the Documents on Federalist/Anti-Federalists) Question: Evaluate whose arguments for ratification have more merit, the Federalists or Anti-Federalists. Don’t only illustrate why one side is correct, but evaluate why the other side is not! Be sure to use both the Benjamin Franklin reading and the documents to prove your thesis.   Here's a link to most of the on-location videos in the PowerPoints...   Syllabus (Reading is due on the days below) March 19 -  Cold War 1; 820-829 March 20 - Cold War II; 835-841 March 24 - Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis; 874-879, 902 March 25 - Middle East; 864-865, 930-931, and Rocky IV … this time it’s personal. March 27 - Korea and Vietnam; 831-834, 886, 893-894 March 28 - Presidential Wrap Up I; 887, 904-907, 911-915 April 2 - Vietnam II; 899-901 April 3 - Test April 5 - Multiple Choice packet due (see top of syllabus)