Last Minute Study Ideas

Hello, All:

Here are some last minute study ideas:
1.  Watch the video below:

2.  Review the following slideshows: 

• Geography to Reconstruction
• Industrialization
• Progressive Era 
• Cold War 

3.  Familiarize yourself with TWO of the following:

• Amendments
• Supreme Court Cases
• Reform Movements 
• Actions of the Federal Government 
• Books (i.e. The Jungle)

4. Tune into the LIVE Hip Hughes Review .  

STUDY!!!

Hi!  I'm Muffin.  Mr.  Tesler's dog.  I get very, very sad, when his students don't study!  Please study, so I don't have to be sad!  

Regents Review Resources

Hello!

Here is a compilation of some of the BEST Regents Review sites on the 'net!

These sites are great, but will only work if YOU USE THEM!!!

Review Packets:
1.  The last minute review
2. Review multiple choice and vocab questions 
3. Hip Hughes 114 things to know for the Regents Exam
4. Pass the Regents - US History Review Packet 

Old Regents Exams:
NY State Ed. Dep't - Old Exams, and Answers
Interactive Multiple Choice -

SLIDESHOWS:  CLICK HERE for the FOLDER 

Videos: Very Helpful!

The 2 Hour Review is great!  Hip Hughes also has tons of other videos that will be EXTREMELY HELPFUL.  For a complete list of Hip Hughes videos, please click HERE.
Hip Hughes Constitution Videos: CLICK HERE 
Hip Hughes Supreme Court Cases


Audio/Video Sites
1.  Hip Hughes History - Short, to-the-point videos, that cover practically everything that you need to know for the Regents exam!
2. Mr. Betts Class - Crazy, cool, fun song parodies.  The guy is super-talented as well.
3. My Fresh Prep - These jams are F-R-E-S-H!  Play 'em at your next party!

HW Assignments Week of 6/4/18

In addition to completing a worksheet, each night, you will complete the multiple choice (50 questions) of a regents linked below.  Complete the answers on looseleaf.  DO NOT look up the answers on-line.  No one cares about your score; EVERYONE cares if you cheat!

PLEASE NOTE: copies of the exams have been made for you.  If you do not get a copy of a particular practice test, you can click on the link in Monday's assignment for all of them!
MONDAY NIGHT 6/4:
If you have the review book, please read Chapter 6.
Review Slideshow #2 - Industrialization
Complete the review worksheet (if you didn't get a copy, click the link)
Complete Practice Test #1- If you didn't get a copy, you can click the link.

Tuesday Night: 6/5
If you have the review book, please review Chapter 7
Review the slideshow on the Progressive Era
Complete the worksheet on the Progressive Era.


Wednesday Night: 6/6
Read pp. 68-72 of the review book
Review the Imperialism Slide Show 
Complete the Imperialism Worksheet
Complete Practice Test #2 and Practice Test #3

CHECK YOUR ANSWERS TO THE PRACTICE TESTS HERE! 

Thursday: 6/7
Read Chapter 8 of the Review Book
Review the 1920's Slide Show 
Complete the Great Depression Worksheet
Complete Practice Test #4

Friday: 6/8
Read Chapters 9 and 10 of the Review Book
Review the Slideshow on the Cold War
Complete the worksheet, "The Cold War."  
Complete Practice Test #5

HW Week of 5/29/18

Hello, All:

Here is your HW for the week of 5/29:

Wednesday:
1. Carefully review the following reading.  If you have the review book, it's pages 20-31

2. Using the reading, and the slideshow "Foundations of Government," complete questions 1-24 on the following worksheet

Thursday:
1.  Read "The Constitution Tested" (Chapter 5 in the Review Book)
2.  Carefully view the SLIDESHOW, "The Constitution Tested"
3.  Complete Questions 25-33 of the Review Guide 

Friday:
1.  Review parts 1 and 2 of Thursday's HW
2.  Carefully view the slideshow, "Reconstruction" 
3.  Complete the remaining questions on the study guide.

***THERE WILL BE A MULTIPLE CHOICE REVIEW EXAM ON MONDAY 6/4/18...The questions on the exam will come directly from the review sheet***

***USE THE REGENTS REVIEW RESOURCES TO HELP YOU!***

***THIS FILE WILL ALSO BE VERY HELPFUL, to complete the study guide, and to study for the exam***

HW Tonight 5/23/18

Hello, All.

Here is your HW assignment for 5/23.

1. Watch the video below:

2.  Complete the WORKSHEET you received in class.  If you didn't get a copy, CLICK HERE. 

Exam 5/23/18 WWII

WWII Exam:
15 Matching

Atlantic Charter	Benito Mussolini	Neutrality Acts	Office of Price Administration	Adolf Hitler
Internment	Appeasement	Manhattan Project	Totalitarian	Rationing
Genocide	Lend Lease	Holocaust	Allies	Axis Powers

Multiple Choice (25):
Factors that encouraged an American policy of neutrality during the 1930s

How Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I during the 1930's

Purpose of the NEUTRALITY ACTS

At start of WWII, national debate focused on whether the United States should continue which foreign policy?

Purpose of: Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease, Destroyers for Bases Deal

IMMEDIATE effect of the Lend-Lease program

WHY US became involved in WWII (not Pearl Harbor)

IMMEDIATE cause of US involvement in WWII Why Japanese people were interned during WWII

Effect of Korematsu vs. United States

Why Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving Americans of Japanese descent who were interned during World War II

How World War I and World War II brought about changes for minorities and women

Effect of the experiences of African Americans serving in the military forces during World War II

Why the ROSIE THE RIVETER poster was used

Why RATIONING was used

What the MANHATTAN PROJECT was

How President Truman JUSTIFIED the use of the atomic bomb

Study aides:

Khan Academy

Hip Hughes:  Watch "Korematsu v. US," "Pearl Harbor Explained," "Dropping the A-Bomb," "The Homefront Explained." 

HW Week of 5/14/18

MONDAY: 1. Watch the video below.

2.  Complete the worksheet  you were given at the end of class, today.  PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE A QUIZ ON THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE VIDEO TOMORROW! 

THURSDAY: 
1. Complete page 3 of the packet you received in class, on Tuesday.
2. FOR EXTRA CREDIT:
Finish the video, "America the Story of US: WWII," and answer the questions on the worksheet.

Test FRIDAY - Great Depression/New Deal/1920's

40 Multiple Choice

Here's what you need to know!

• What the contributions of Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington show about the Harlem Renaissance
• Why the 1920's are called the "Roaring 20's"
• Which change in the buying habits of American consumers occurred during the 1920's?
• Which factor contributed most to the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933?
• What National Prohibition, as authorized by the 18th Amendment, stated 
• What The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Social Security Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are examples of
• major long-term result of the New Deal
• What FDR supported after he became President in 1933 
• Why conservatives opposed the New Deal 
• What was the HARLEM RENAISSANCE 
• view of government's role in the United States economy during the 1920's
• The 1925 trial of John Scopes reflects the conflict between?
• major purpose for the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 
• Why President Herbert Hoover's refused to provide funds for the unemployed during the Depression 
• difference between the administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Herbert Hoover 
• What the Dust Bowl experiences of the Oklahoma farmers during the Great Depression demonstrated 
• During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, what was the greatest obstacle to his New Deal programs?
• Which groups were most helped by the Wagner Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed during the New Deal?
• Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington are most closely associated with...
• How did Franklin D. Roosevelt change the federal government's role in the economy?
• What did the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933 show?
• How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt's respond to the Supreme Court decisions that declared several New Deal laws unconstitutional?
• What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?
• What was a goal of many Harlem Renaissance writers?
• What the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial were examples of 
• During the New Deal, what was the main purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Acts? 
• What did The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) of 1935 gave labor unions the right to do? 
• What conditions in the 1920s helped cause the Great Depression of the 1930s? 
• What was a major goal of the Government in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 
• Why movies were popular during the Great Depression

Here's some helpful study information: 

Khan Academy

The Great Depression - From the American Yawp 

Hip Hughes - 1920's

Court Packing
Hip Hughes - New Deal 

Crash Course - Depression 

Crash Course - New Deal 

USH Assignments 5/7-5/11/18

Monday Night:
1.  Continue watching the video, "America the Story of Us: Bust."


2. Complete the worksheet you received in class today.

Tuesday Night:
1. Watch 

2.  Complete the attached worksheet.  If you do not get a copy, you will have to print out a copy 

HW Assignments Week of 4/30

CLICK HERE

HW Assignments week of 4/23/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 4/23/18. 

MONDAY NIGHT:
1. Complete the following exercises on the attached worksheet

• Terms and Names 
• Main Ideas - ALL 
• Critical Thinking - #2 and #3

2. Begin studying for your test THURSDAY on WWI.  Your exam study guide can be found below.  

EXAM STUDY GUIDE: 
15 matching/fill-ins 
Terms to know: 

• militarism 
• no man’s land
• Zimmermann note 
• convoy system 
• conscientious objector 
• armistice
• Great Migration
• War Industries Board
• Espionage and Sedition Acts

Fill-Ins

• reparation
• War Guilt Clause        
• Propaganda 
•  Nationalism       
• Selective Service Act 
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand 

Multiple Choice

Why Americans were not able to remain neutral in thought as well as action, during WWI
How WWI affected the US economy 
How WWI helped women get the right to vote (suffrage) 

Reasons for Opposition by members of Congress to the Versailles Treaty

The goal of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points

What was the "clear and present danger" ruling in the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States

What President Woodrow Wilson’s statement “The world must be made safe for democracy” was used to justify

major reason for United States entry into World War I

situation that was the immediate cause of the United States entry into World War I in 1917

At the beginning of World War I, what traditional United States foreign policy did President Woodrow Wilson follow?

Ideas consistent with the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States

major reason for the isolationist trend in the United States following World War I

action best demonstrated the United States effort to isolate itself from European conflicts after World War I

Extra Credit: Review the video, and complete the worksheet you received in class, today.   CLICK THE LINK FOR THE VIDEO. You will receive 5 points on your exam.  

THURSDAY:

1. Watch: Crash Course US History - The Roaring 20's

2. Complete the attached worksheet.

FRIDAY: To Be Determined

HW Assignments Week of 4/16/18

Hello, All: 

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 4/16.

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Review for your test on Imperialism (Wednesday)
WEDNESDAY: 
1.  Watch the following Crash Course Video
2.  CLICK HERE for Chapter 19 of your textbook. 
3.  Read Chapter 19, Section 1.
4.  Complete the Reading Study Guide, as found in your HW packet.

Thursday:
1. Read Chapter 19, Section 2. 
2. Complete the Reading Study Guide that accompanies that section

Friday:
1. Read Chapter 19, Sections 3 and 4.
2. Complete the Reading Study Guides for both section.
3. Complete the assignment, "Telescoping the Times"

***Prepare for an exam, Tuesday or Wednesday, on Chapter 19***

Imperialism Exam Study Guide

Hello, All:

We will have an exam on Chapter 18, this coming Tuesday.  The exam will consist of 40 questions.  15 matching questions, and 25 multiple choice. 

The vocab terms (matching section) can be found in your homework packet. 

Multiple Choice:
Why Commodore Matthew Perry’s visit to Japan was important to the United States
the main goal of those who supported United States imperialism was to...
Why news organizations owned by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were engaging in yellow journalism before the Spanish-American War...
One result of the Spanish-American War of 1898
Why The Spanish-American War (1898) marked a turning point in United States foreign policy
A primary reason for the establishment of the Open Door policy (1899)
Why there was increased interest in building a canal across Central America in the late 1800
Why after the Spanish-American War, the United States saw the need to build the Panama Canal
How President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy was used by the United States
What The Big Stick policy and Dollar Diplomacy were attempts to do...
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what motivated the US's intervention of the United States in Latin America?
Places to Study:

1.  Chapter 18 of textbook

2.  Packet from class

3.  Class notes

Websites:
Khan Academy 
Hip Hughes - Imperialism

Imperialism

How did the US Justify Imperialism

Spanish American War

Latin America/Asian Foreign Policy

Online Quizzes

More Online Quizzes

HW Week of 4/9/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 4/9/18. 

MONDAY NIGHT:
1.  Finish your Progressive Era DBQ Essay
2.  If you finished the essay, you can start Tuesday's HW

TUESDAY NIGHT:
1. Watch:

2. Complete the worksheet that accompanies the video. 

WEDNESDAY: 

READ Chapter 18 Section 1 

Complete the Reading Study Guide 

THURSDAY: 

READ CHAPTER 18 Section 2 

Complete the Reading Study Guide 

FRIDAY:
READ CHAPTER 18 Section 3 and Section 4 

Complete the Reading Study Guides: 

Section 3   

Section 4 

Complete "Telescoping the Times" 

PREPARE FOR A TEST, TUESDAY ON CHAPTER 18 (STUDY GUIDE TO BE POSTED THIS WEEK)!

HW Week of 3/19/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 3/19/18.  Please be mindful of due dates, and please complete assignments on time.  Failure to complete assignments will result in a grade of 55. 

MONDAY NIGHT:
1.  STUDY FOR YOUR TEST TUESDAY.  Please refer to the study guide to help you prepare. 

TUESDAY NIGHT: 
1.  Watch: 

2.  Complete the WORKSHEET that accompanies the video. 

3.  Read Chapter 17 Section 1 in The Americans.  

4.  Complete the guided reading worksheet 

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: 

1.  Read Chapter 17 Section 2 

2.  Complete Chapter 

THURSDAY NIGHT: 

1. Read Chapter 17 Section 3

2. Complete the guided reading worksheet. 

FRIDAY NIGHT: 

1. Complete the assignment, "Telescoping the Times" 

FOR PERIOD 8: CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO

Exam Study Guide

Test TUESDAY on CHAPTER 13

15 multiple choice
15 identifications


Multiple Choice:
What did Helen Hunt Jackson's book discuss? 
Which region of the United States was most directly affected by the passage of the Homestead Act?
Effects of:  

• The invention of the steel plow, 
• the passage of the Homestead Act
• completion of the transcontinental railroad 

How did the railroads influence the cattle industry?
Subject of the painting, American Progress
Reasons for the decline of the Plains Indians 
Why did Farmers support farmers supported free and unlimited coinage of silver?
The two factors which did the most to stimulate rapid settlement of the west
What did the Homestead Act give to settlers? 
Purpose of the Dawes Act
What the Dawes Act did (how it worked)
What was a cause of economic hardship (difficulty) for farmers in the decades following the Civil War 
Which group most often supported the views of the Populist Party?

Vocab: 

Morrill Act	Sitting Bull	Pullman Strike	William Jennings Bryan	Assimilation
Wounded Knee	Exodusters	Homestead Act	Populism	Bimetallism
Soddy	Dawes Act	Great Plains	Treaty of Fort Laramie	Grange

HW Week of 3/12

MONDAY NIGHT
1.  Watch the video below. 

2. Complete the worksheet, linked HERE 

3.  Read Chapter 13 Section 1 of the Textbook. 
4.  Complete the Reading Study Guide  for Chapter 13 Section 1

TUESDAY NIGHT: 
1.  Read Chapter 13 Section 2 
2.  Complete the Reading Study Guide for Section 2 

WEDNESDAY NIGHT 
1.  Read Chapter 13 Section 3 
2.  Complete the Reading Study Guide for Section 3 

THURSDAY NIGHT:
1.  Review Chapter 13 
2.  Complete the Chapter 13 Assessment 

FRIDAY:
Prepare for a quiz/test TUESDAY 3/20 on Chapter 13 

Here's a slideshow to help you with the work for this week, and the exam.  

Period 2 Extra Credit

Here is the video from class, today.  

HW Tonight 2/27/18

Period 2: Finish the worksheet/reading we started in class, today. 

Period 8:
Continue watching the video, "Triangle"

Complete the questions on the worksheet you were given, in class today. 

Exam Study Guide Chapters 14 and 15

15 Vocab Words
25 Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice Questions:

• According to the theory of laissez faire, when does the economy function best? 
• What did The Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to do? 
• What idea did Social Darwinism promote? 
• Effects of business practices of railroads 
• Effects of industrialization (urbanization, immigration)
• How the federal government aided the growth of transcontinental railroads
• Why the federal government placed few restrictions on immigration, Between 1870 and 1920. 
• Why John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan were sometimes called robber barons
• How the completion of the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroads contributed to the industrial growth of the United States 
• important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion
• Major purpose of both the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and the Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan (1907)
• In the late 1800s, WHY were most strikes by unions unsuccessful
• During the late 1800s, which group strongly supported an open immigration policy?
• What factors allowed employers to cut worker's wages in the late 19th Century?
• During the late 19th century, Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, and Eugene Debs were leaders of what movement? 
• Two late-nineteenth-century inventions that drew many women out of the home and into the workforce
• What motivated Nativism in late 19th century?

Vocab:

Mass Transit

Ellis Island

Vertical Integration

John D. Rockefeller

Interstate Commerce Act

Transcontinental Railroad

Andrew Carnegie

Mass Transit

Angel Island

Urbanization

Chinese Exclusion Act

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Nativism

Horizontal Integration

Tenement

 

HW Week of 2/19/18

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 2/19 (February Break) 

1.  Complete the assignments for Thursday and Friday of 2/12.  Those assignments are as follows: 

1.  Read Chapter 14 Section 3 of your textbook. 

2.  Complete the worksheet that accompanies the reading.  

3. CLICK HERE for the Chapter 14 Assessment.  

• Complete: 
• a. Terms and Names
• b. Main Ideas 1-8
• c. Critical Thinking, questions 2 and 3 

4. CLICK HERE for Chapter 15 of your textbook, The Americans.  If you would like to borrow a textbook, please let me know ASAP.  

• READ each section of the chapter (1, 2, and 3)
• Complete the worksheets that correspond to each section of the Chapter 
• CLICK HERE for a link to the folder containing the worksheets.  In the event that you are not given copies, you are responsible for printing out the worksheets. 

ALL WORK IS DUE ON TUESDAY, FEB. 27th.  This will count as FIVE (5) HW assignments.  Failure to submit the assignment will result in a grade of 55.  

***THERE WILL BE AN EXAM ON CHAPTERS 14/15 on FRIDAY MARCH 2nd*** BE PREPARED!!! 

HW Assignments Week of 2/12/18

Hello, All: 

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 2/12.  Please note due dates for your HW assignments.  It is important to note that if you choose not to complete your homework by the due date, you will receive a grade of 55.  Late assignments are not accepted, except if a student is LEGALLY absent from school. 

MONDAY NIGHT:  Due 2/13
1.  Watch: 

2. Complete the Worksheet that accompanies the video.  CLICK HERE for a link to the worksheet.  In the event that you are not provided a copy of the worksheet, you are responsible for printing the worksheet. 

TUESDAY NIGHT: Due Wednesday 2/14 

1.  READ Chapter 14 Section 1 of your textbook, The Americans.  

2.  Complete the Reading Study Guide, that accompanies the reading 

WEDNESDAY:  

1.  Read Chapter 14 Section 2 of your textbook.  

2.  Complete the worksheet that accompanies the reading.   

THURSDAY: 

1.  Read Chapter 14 Section 3 of your textbook. 

2.  Complete the worksheet that accompanies the reading.  

FRIDAY:

CLICK HERE for the Chapter 14 Assessment.  

1.  Complete: 

a. Terms and Names

b. Main Ideas 1-8

c. Critical Thinking, questions 2 and 3 

Extra Credit/Extension

CLICK HERE for a link to Chapter 12 of our textbook, The Americans.

Complete the assignment as follows on p. 402. 

1. Copy the VISUAL SUMMARY. 
2. Answer the MAIN IDEA QUESTIONS 1-8. 
3. Answer the CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS 2, 3, 4. 

This Week's HW Assignments 2/5-2/9/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 2/5/18.  Please note the due dates for the assignments.  Homework that is not completed will result in a grade of 55.  Please remember that homework is worth 20% of your semester grade.

Monday Night 2/5.  Due 2/6.
Read Chapter 16, Section 3 of the textbook, and answer questions 2, 3 and 4

Tuesday Night 2/6. Due 2/7
Read Excerpts of the P.v.F. decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) and answer questions 1-7.

Wednesday and Thursday Night: Review for a test, FRIDAY on Reconstruction.
The test will consist of 25-30 multiple choice questions, and approximately 10-15 vocab words.

The vocab words will come directly from Chapter 12, sections 1, 2, 3 of your textbook. 

CLICK HERE for a link to review multiple choice questions.   The questions will be VERY similar to the ones contained on the website.

HERE IS A LINK TO STUDY THE VOCAB WORDS

MORE STUDY STUFF!

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HW Assignments week of 1/29/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 1/29/18.

Please make sure that you are aware of due dates.  Missed assignments will be given a grade of 55. 

TUESDAY NIGHT: Homework #1 (Second Semester).  Due Wednesday 1/31/18
1.  Watch the Crash Course video, "Reconstruction."  

2. Complete the WORKSHEET that follows the lesson.  In case you were absent, or left your handout in school, you can obtain a copy of the file, here.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: HW#2 Due 2/1/18 

In your textbook (online), Read Chapter 12, Section 1 and answer Questions 2, 4 and 5, on page 382 of the reading. Please make sure that you write out the answers in complete sentences.

THURSDAY: HW #3 Due 2/2/18 

Read Chapter 12, Section 2 and answer questions 2, 3 and 5. Please make sure that you write out the answers in complete sentences.

FRIDAY: Due 2/5/18

Read Chapter 12, Section 3 and answer questions 2, 3 and 5.

Tonight's HW

Based on today's class...

Please complete the Civil War Study Guide

If you need a copy, click here

Here's a link to the PowerPoint Slide/Lecture from class, today.  




EXTRA CREDIT.  NOTE:  YOU MUST COMPLETE THE HW IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXTRA CREDIT.  

1.  Watch: 

2: Complete the worksheet, found here.  You must print out the worksheet, if you would like to complete the extra credit assignment. 

Good Luck!

Indian Removal Act - Station Assignment

CLICK HERE for the link to the stations. 

Based on the information from the stations, and your knowledge of US History, answer the scaffolding questions that correspond to each station. 

If you don't finish in class, please finish the assignment, tonight, for HW. 

Good Luck!