End of Semester APUSH Project

End of Semester APUSH Project

Due Monday, January 6th or Thursday, January 9th

5 bonus points will be awarded if turned in Jan 6th by 2:30 pm

The first semester of APUSH is divided into four eras, Colonial (1607-1776), “Revolutionary” (1776-1800), Early Antebellum (1800-1830) and Late Antebellum (1830-1860). Your task is to organize the people, events, policies, court cases, etc. into their respective eras. You will choose 1 item from each era and write a complete APUSH essay. You will need three primary source documents to validate your essay.

Your essay must be handwritten, blue or black ink, front page only. You will need to use internal documentation, using the primary source documents you discovered. This is a major grade and major grade work is expected.

The Federalist PapersConstitutional Convention, 1787

Battle of SaratogaWhiskey Rebellion, 1794

Three- Fifths CompromiseThomas Paine, Common Sense

John Peter Zenger trialPatrick Henry

Stamp Act, 1765Marquis de Lafayette

John Smithmercantilism

John RolfeAlien and Sedition Acts, 1798

XYZ affairShays’ Rebellion

Salutary neglectAdams-Onis Treaty

Marbury v MadisonQuaker

Great AwakeningHarford Convention

The American SystemJefferson’s Embargo

Corps of DiscoveryTecumseh

Mayflower CompactWilliam Penn

House of BurgessesMetacom’s Rebellion

Jamestown, 1607impressment

Plymouth, 1620Indian Removal Act

First Continental CongressWorcester v Georgia

Olive Branch PetitionSeneca Falls Convention

“Join or Die”pet banks

Gadsden Purchase“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”

Bank WarProclamation of 1763

French and Indian War, 1754-1763“peculiar institution”

Missouri CompromiseUnderground Railroad

Dred Scott v SanfordWilliam Lloyd Garrison

Sojourner TruthManifest Destiny

John C. CalhounLincoln-Douglas debates

Kansas-Nebraska ActJohn Marshall

Africans brought to North America, 1619Nat Turner leads a slave revolt

Ralph Waldo EmersonCompromise of 1850

Brigham Youngspoils system

Dorothea Dixcult of domesticity

Specie CircularNeal Dow

Horace MannJohn C Freemont

TranscendentalismTrail of Tears

SacajaweaTexas Annexation

Loose versus strict interpretationKnow Nothing Party

Mexican-American WarCalifornia Gold Rush

Jacob Leisler’s RebellionBacon’s Rebellion

Roger Williams’/Anne Hutchinson’s expulsion from Massachusetts Bay

“Revolution of 1800”Emergence of the two party system

Details:

The essay must be handwritten, but the other writing portion may be typed. Please turn in the assignment in the following order:

Essay

Chart pertaining to the essay

Three primary sources—you must turn in the entire document

Each essay is worth 25 points, 4 total, = 100. In order to receive full credit you must have the following:

Essay, chart pertaining to the essay, three primary sources (printed out, completely)

For additional learning (and up to 10 bonus points), you may answer the following questions separately.

Discussion Questions:

1. Which social group (women, blacks, Indians, immigrants) experienced the greatest gains from the colonial era to the Civil War? Explain.

1. Which social group experienced the greatest setbacks and was the most disenfranchised/discriminated group in America by the Civil War? Explain.

1. Did these social groups experience more similarities or differences from the colonial era to the outbreak of the Civil War? Explain.

1. Which of the four eras (colonial, revolutionary, early or late antebellum) was the most significant in terms of social change? Explain.

1. Which social group (women, blacks, Indians, immigrants) had the largest impact in shaping American society? Explain.