January 9, 2012
Objective: I will analyze the events that culminate in the Louisiana
Purchase.
Daily Challenge:
1. In the election of 1800, which candidates were tied in the Electoral
College?
2. What court case established Judical Review?
January 10,2012
Objective: I will examine the foreign and domestic conflict that arose in the
early 1800s.
Challenge:
Why did Napoleon abandon his plan for an American Empire?
What three explorers were commissioned by Jefferson to explore the newly
aquired western territory?
January 11, 2012
Objective: I will examine the events that led to the War of 1812.
Challenge:
How much did the Louisiana Purchase cost?
Why was Sacagawea important to the Lewis and Clark expedition?
January 12, 2012
Obkective: I will examine the career of James Madison.
Daily Challenge:
Why was the American government upset with the British?
Why was the Embargo Act a failed policy?
January 13, 2012
Daily Challenge:
Objective: I will describe the War of 1812 and its
impact on the United States.
What was the first state added to the Union west of the Mississippi River?
January 23, 2012
Objective: I will describe the Industrial Revolution.
Daily Challenge:
What year was the Battle of New Orleans?
January 24, 2012
Objective: I will analyze the Era of Good Feelings.
Daily Challenge:
What country did the Industrial Revolution start?
January 25:
Objective: I will review the information of Chapter 10.
Daily Challenge: The election of which president marked the beginning of the
Era of Good Feelings?
January 26:
Objective: I will play a review game for Chapter 10.
Daily Challenge:
What treaty transferred ownership of Florida from Spain to the United States?
January 30, 2012
Objective: I will examine the political policy of Jackson and the crisis over
tariffs.
Daily Challenge:
What is a tariff?
January 31, 2012
Objective: I will describe how the Native Americans were forced off their
land in the Southeast.
Daily Challenge:
How did John Quincy Adams win the Election of 1824?
February 1, 2012
Objective:
I will examine why Jackson wanted to destroy the National Bank.
Daily Challenge:
What were the five civilized tribes?
February 2, 2012
Objective:
I will apply knowledge of the Jacksonian Era to complete assignment.
Daily Challenge:
How did William Henry Harrison win the support of laborers?
February 13, 2012
Objective: I will examine why problems arose between the Mexican Government
and American settlers in Texas.
Daily Challenge:
What was Manifest Destiny?
February 14, 2012
Objective: I will examine why Texas joined the Union.
Daily Challenge:
Why did Adrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren ignore Texas request to become a
state?
February 15, 2012
Objective: I will interpret events in 12-2 and create an illustration.
Daily Challenge:
Who were the Old Three Hundred?
February 16, 2012
Objective: I will describe how the United States acquired California and New
Mexico.
Daily Challenge:
Who was the first elected President of Texas?
February 17, 2012
Objective: I will explain why Americans began to settle in the Southwest.
Daily Challenge:
How did the Mexican government attempt to assimulate American settlers?
February 29, 2012
Objective: I will explain how new kinds of transportation and communitcation
spurred economic growth.
Challenge: What are some of the ways the North and the South were different?
March 1,2012
Objective: I will sumarize how working conditions in industries changed.
Challenge: What invention made agriculture possible in the Great Plains ? Who
invented it?
March 2, 2012
Objective: I will describe life in the Antebellum South.
Challenge: Where did the two largest groups of immigrants, from 1820 to 1860,
come from?
March 12, 2012
Objective: I will explain how religious and philosophical ideas inspired
various reforms and movements.
Challenge: Read pages 416-417. How much of the labor force in the US was made
up of children under 10 in 1820?
March 13, 2012
Objective: I will explain how the anti slavery and the women's movements were
related.
Challenge: What is a utopia?
March 14, 2012
Objective: I will evaluate waht progress women made towards equality during
the 1800s.
Challenge: What African American abolitionist as also an advocate for women's
rights?
March 26, 2012
Objective: I will describe how the debate over slavery was related to the
admission of new states.
Challenge: Define Vocabulary for Chapter 15 and Chapter 16 section 1.
March 27, 2012
Objective: I will describe how the Dred Scott case, the Lincoln-Douglas
Debates , and John Brown's raid affected Americans.
Challenge: What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
March 27, 2012
Objective: I will understand how secession led to the Civil War.
Challenge: What happened at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
March 28, 2012
Objective: I will compare Northern and Southern populations, industries,
resources, and war aims.
Challenge: What started the Civil War? When did that event occur?
March 30, 2012
Objective: I will review the French and Indian War.
Challenge: What was the capital of the CSA?
April 2, 2012
Objective: I will review for the CRT.
Daily Challenge: What was the first european settlement in what is now the
United States?
April 3, 2012
Objective: I will reivew for the CRT.
Challenge:
Examine the maps on pages 117 and 133. Why is France not represented on the
map on page 133?
April 4, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: List three acts of Parliment that resulted in protest by the
colonist.
April 5, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: Who said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my
country?"
April 6, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: What battle is referred to as the "turning point" in the American
Revolution?
April 9, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: Where did Washington and the Continental Army train during the
difficult winter of 1777?
April 10, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: Where did Cornwallis surrender to Washington, ending the American
Revolution?
April 11, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: What was the act President Jefferson endorsed to punish Britain
for impressment?
April 12, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: What was the difference between Ferderalist and Anti-Federalists?
April 13, 2012
Objective: CRT Review
Challenge: What battle was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed?
April 23, 2012
Objective: I will identify early successes and failures of both sides in the
Civil War.
Challenge: What event started the Civil War?
April 24, 2012
Objective: I will describe why Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Challenge: Early in the Civil War, which army had success in the west? Which
had success in the east?
April 25, 2012
Objective: I will describe the daily life of a soldier in the Civil War.
Challenge: Define the Key Terms for Chapter 17 section 1 on the back of your
Daily Challenge Form.
April 26, 2012
Objective: I will identify the battles that turned the tide of the Civil War
in 1863.
Challenge: What is habeas corpus?
April 27, 2012
Objective: I will compare Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction and the plan of
the Radical Republicans.
Challenge: In 1863, what two battles were the turning point in the Civil War?