You will be expected to complete a number of artsy assignments in your APUSH Notebook this year. These project will be extremely useful when it comes time to review for the AP test. Watch this video to understand what I am looking for.
Students will complete one two-page caricature per time period. See the course calendar for due dates.
Below I have included things I would focus on for each time period.
Time Period 1
Spanish Colonization and the Columbian Exchange
Las Casas/Sepulveda debate
Spanish, French, and English colonization compared and contrasted
Time Period 2
Chesapeake/New England comparison
City Upon a Hill
Drawing the Color Line
Bacon’s Rebellion/King Phillip’s War
Time Period 3
French and Indian War
Setting the Table for the American Revolution
Hamilton’s vison of America vs. Jefferson’s vision of America
Washington’s Farewell (focus on key warnings)
Time Period 4
Revolution of 1800
The Market Revolution and First Industrial Revolution
American System
The Age of Jackson (the rise of the common man, Indian Removal, War on Bank, Nullification)
Time Period 5
Manifest Destiny
Transcendentalism
Mexican American War
Setting the Table for the Civil War (two pages)
Time Period 6
Gilded Age
The Last Indian Wars and massacres
Time Period 7
Key Labor Unions and their differences
Second Industrial Revolution (a job at Ford’s)
WWI Janus (ways the US was neutral, ways the US was not neutral, before joining the war)
Great Depression/New Deal
The Four Freedoms/WWII
Year Long Caricatures
*a big thanks to Karl Johnson for providing these caricatures.
APUSH With Mr. Baker 