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US HISTORY ASSIGNMENTS

This page contains all the worksheets and assignments that appear throughout the year. Most of them are contained within the Interactive Notebook.

If you are a teacher, you are welcome to change the assignments, but please let me know via this link.

Students, you are not allowed to change these assignments without my permission. (*) indicates assignments that will not be used this year.

SUPPLIES YOU WILL NEED FOR THIS YEAR - Downloadable

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK (Pre-Instruction)

- Expectancy Sheet (US History)

- Textbook Scavenger Hunt

- Learn how to write in cursive

- Interactive Notebook Handout
- What is The Interactive Notebook?; More Info
- Table of Contents - Semester 1
- Table of Contents (BLANK WORD - For teachers)
- SOAP
- US History Course Outline

- WEB RESOURCE: Create a bibliography online

- ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #1

7th GRADE REVIEW

- World History Cornell Notes

NATIVE AMERICANS (Chapter 1)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "The World Before 1600"

- WEB RESOURCE: See the first map to use the word 'America'

- Unit 1 Title Page
- Native American Cultural Groups
- Timeline
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Reteaching"

EUROPEAN EXPLORATION (Chapter 2)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "European Colonies in America"

- Cornell Notes - Exploration
- "Life at Sea"
- SOAP: "A Description of Sea Sickness & Treatments"
- GUIDED NOTES: "Spain Explores/Map"
- European Exploration Graphic Organizer
- Cause & Effect Chart

ENGLISH COLONIES (Chapters 3 & 4)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "Colonial Life"

- Unit II Title Page; ...And an Example
- "Setting the Stage"
- "Why They Came" - Questions & Map
- SOAP: John Smith's Generall Historie
- GUIDED NOTES: "Chapter 3.1"
- Read about the voyages of the Mayflower
- Pilgrims Journal; Passenger Lists

- 13 Colonies PowerPoint; PowerPoint
- SOAP: Judith Giton Manigault

- Colonial vs. Contemporary Children; Directions

- Colonies Test - Study Guide

- ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #2

BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN IDENTITY (Chapter 5)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "Colonial Life"

- "Beginnings of American Identity": For Word 2003; For Word 2007

- French & Indian War Guided Notes
- GUIDED NOTES: French/Indian War Cause & Effect Chart
- SOAP: Alexander Henry
- See an online version of Henry's Book
- Timeline

AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Chapters 6 & 7)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "The Revolutionary Era"

- Unit III Title Page
- See a good example of the Page
- GUIDED NOTES: "Road to the American Rev."; Chart
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Tighter British Control"
- "Causes of the American Revolution"
- Stamp Act Bubble Chart
- SOAP: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
- GUIDED NOTES: "Building Revolution Vocabulary"
- PROJECT: "Leaders of the American Revolution"; Example
- GUIDED NOTES: "Leaders of the American Revolution"
- PROJECT: "Reactions to Common Sense"
- "Common Sense Matrix": PDF/Word; PowerPoint
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "The Revolution Video Notes"
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Revolution Notes #2"

- GUIDED NOTES: "Sequencing the Revolution"
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Revolution Notes #3"
- MAP: "Battles of the Revolution"

- GUIDED NOTES: "Sequencing the American Revolution"
- PROJECT: - American Revolution Personal Book
- SOAP: Abigail Adams
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Revolution Notes #4"
- DIRECTED RESPONSE: "War Ends Essay"
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "Reteaching Activity 6.4"
- TEST PREP: American Revolution Test - Study Guide

- SOAP: Joseph Plumb Martin

- ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #3

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (Chapter 8)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "Creating a New Government"

- Unit IV Title Page
- PROJECT: Challenges of Post-War America
- ACTIVITY: Analyzing Features of the Articles
- GUIDED NOTES: Notes Interpretation (EXAMPLE)
- PROJECT: Articles of Confederation 'STAR'; STAR Template
- Causes of the 1787 Convention
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes Interpretation (EXAMPLE)
- GUIDED NOTES: Guided Notes - "NW Ordinance/Shays's"; Article on the Rebellion

- SOAP: George Washington to John Jay

CONSTITUTION (CHAPTER 8a)

- UNIT PREVIEW - "Creating a New Government"

- Graphic Organizer: "Confederation to Constitution"

- GUIDED NOTES:Guided Notes: "Creating the Constitution - Qs"

- GUIDED NOTES:Guided Notes: "Ratifying the Constitution - Qs"

- Cornell Notes: "Principles of the US Constitution"; Worksheet

- Map: "Ratifying the Constitution"

- Guided Notes Interpretation (DIRECTIONS)

- SOAP: "The Federalist Number 51"

- PROEJCT: "Seven Principles of the US Constitution"

- Guided Notes: "Foundations of Government"

- PROJECT: "Goals of the US Constitution"

- GUIDED NOTES:Guided Notes: "Article I, Sections 1-3"

- PROJECT: "Comparing & Contrasting Members of Congress"

- GUIDED NOTES:Guided Notes: "Article I, Sections 4-10"

- PROJECT: "Preamble Visual Aid"

- SOAP: "The Federalist Number 78"

- Schoolhouse Rocks: Video; Audio

- GUIDED NOTES: "The Branches of Government"

* PROJECT: "Federalism Venn Diagram"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Limits on Congress & the States"

* WEB RESOURCE: Electoral College Map (2008 Election); (2012 Edition)

* Use pg. 256 of your textbook or this link to see Electoral College delegates

* GUIDED NOTES: "Article 2"

* DIRECTED RESPONSE: "Roles of the President"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Powers & Duties of the President"

* WEB RESOURCE: Visit the White House's Website

* EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE: "Get to Know Your President"; Biography

* GUIDED NOTES: "Identifying the President's Cabinet";

* WEB RESOURCE: Here are their names...;...and here's what they do.

* GUIDED NOTES: "The Judicial Branch"

* PROJECT DIRECTIONS: "Cases of the Supreme Court"

* PROJECT TEMPLATE: "Cases of the Supreme Court"

* RESEARCH: "Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court"

* WEB RESOURCE: Use this link, which contains MOST of the cases

* GUIDED NOTES: "Judicial Review & Treason"

* WEB RESOURCES: Salaries For Each of The 3 Branches; California Legal Driving Age

* EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE: "The Need for Laws"

* CORNELL NOTES: "The Bill of Rights" (website OR PDF)

* GUIDED NOTES: "The Bill of Rights"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments I-III"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments IV-VI"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments VII-X"

* PROJECT: Bill of Rights Collage (Directions; Example)

* WEB RESOURCE: Political Cartoons Website

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments XI-XV"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments XVI-XXI"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Amendments XXII-XXVII"

* WEB RESOURCE: Prep for the Amendments test using the Flipcards

* WEB RESOURCE: Prep for the Constitution test using this site

* Learn your political party: Take the SHORT or LONG quiz

* Try taking this quiz as well!

* TEST PREP: "Constitution Test - Study Guide"

* ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #4

* EXTRA CREDIT: #1; #2; #3; #4

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK - SEMESTER 2 (Pre-Instruction)

* Table of Contents
* Table of Contents (BLANK WORD - For teachers)
* SOAP
* US History Course Outline

THE NEW REPUBLIC (Chapters 9 & 10)

* UNIT PREVIEW: "Forging the New Republic"; See the earliest version of Lady Liberty

* Unit V Title Page (for visuals); Unit V Title Page (for topics)

* PROJECT: "The New Nation" Foldables

* CORNELL NOTES: "The New Nation Under Washington & Adams"

* PROJECT ANCILARIES: Worksheet; Hamilton/Jefferson Matrix

* PROJECT ANCILARIES: Painters of the Hudson River School

* WEB RESOURCE: States by Order of Entry

* CORNELL NOTES: "Lewis and Clark"

* SOAP: "Alexander Hamilton's Report on the Public Credit"

* MAP: "The Louisana Purchase"

* SOAP: "Jefferson’s Instructions to Meriwether Lewis"

* PROJECT: "New Nation Acrostic" (Directions)

* GUIDED NOTES: "Jefferson & The New Nation"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Lewis & Clark Video Qs"; Video Resource

* WEB RESOURCE: Play this cool game about Lewis & Clark

* WEB RESOURCE: A great video on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings

* CORNELL NOTES: "The War of 1812" Presentation; Worksheet

* WEB RESOURCE: See examples of American flags HERE, or HERE, or HERE

* WEB RESOURCE: Learn how to display your flag

* WEB RESOURCES: A flag timeline; Info on the flag's design

* GUIDED NOTES: "The War of 1812 Video Qs"; Video Resource

* PROJECT: "The War of 1812 Personal Book"

* WEB RESOURCES: USS Constitution; Mary Pickersgill; An excellent cheat sheet

* WEB RESOURCES: Ft. McHenry Photos; USS Constitution

* WEB RESOURCE: The oldest known versions of the SSB: 1901 & 1916

* GUIDED NOTES: "War of 1812 Timeline"

NATIONAL GROWTH & SECTIONALISM (Chapters 11 & 14)

* UNIT PREVIEW: "From Nationalism to Sectionalism"

* STUDY RESOURCES: 20 States Map; States by Order of Entry; Map w/numbers

* CORNELL NOTES: "19th Century Industrialization"; Worksheet

* GUIDED NOTES: "Inventions & Innovations Matrix"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Missouri & National Unity"

* SOAP: "The Monroe Doctrine"

* ESSAY & VENN DIAGRAM: "Sectionalism vs. Nationalism"

* MAP & QUESTIONS: "Immigration in the 1800's"; Editable Map

* GUIDED NOTES: "A Wave of Immigrants"

* PROJECT: "Creating Charts on Immigration"

* GUIDED NOTES: "American Literature & Art"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Education & American Literature"

* PROJECT: "1845 American Culture Fair"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Education & Women's Rights"

* PROJECT: "Leaders of the Abolition & Suffrage Movements"; RESOURCE GUIDE

* CHART: "Reform Movement Cause & Effect"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Reforming American Society"

* ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #5

ANDREW JACKSON (Chapter 12)
* Unit VI Title Page

* GUIDED NOTES: "Andrew Jackson"

* PROJECT: Climb the Ladder with Andrew Jackson

* RESOURCES: Timeline EXAMPLE; Biography; Bio #2; Timeline

* GUIDED NOTES: "A Changing Electorate"; RESOURCE GUIDE; Highly-Structured Essay

* GUIDED NOTES: "Indian Removal"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Major Issues of Jackson's Presidency"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Jackson's Policy Towards Natives"

MANIFEST DESTINY (Chapter 13)

*ART INTERPRETATION: "American Progress"

* CORNELL NOTES: "Manifest Destiny"; Worskheet

* MAP: "Opening of the West; Editable Map

* WEB ACTIVITY: Play this game about the Oregon Trail

* SOAP: "A Mexican Account of The Alamo"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The Texas Revolution"; Web Resource

* MAP: "Growth of the United States"

* SOAP: "Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The War with Mexico"

* WEB RESOURCE: See an interactive map of the US/Mexican War

* CHART: "Manifest Destiny Review" - Directions; Timeline Example

* CORNELL NOTES: "The Gold Rush"; Worksheet

* CHART: "US Expansion 1846-1853"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The California Gold Rush"

* CHART: "Presidents 1-8"

* CHART: "Cause & Effect of US Expansion"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Discovery of Gold in the West"

* ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #6

* UNIT REVIEW: "Expansion Leads to Conflict"

STAR TEST PREP (6th - 8th Grades)

* 6th Grade Study Guide: PPT/Worksheets

* 7th Grade Study Guide: PPT/Worksheets

* 8th Grade Study Guide: PPT/Worksheets

* Released Questions (Large File - 1MB)

CIVIL WAR (Chapters 15 - 18)

* UNIT PREVIEW/REVIEW: "The Civil War"

* Unit VII Title Page (for visuals and topics - AMEND TITLE); EXAMPLE

* WEB RESOURCE: See Union flags used during the Civil War

* PROJECT: "The Nation Breaking Apart"

* CORNELL NOTES: "The Civil War"; Worksheet

* GUIDED NOTES: "Differences in the North & South"

* CHART: "Presidents 9-15"; RESOURCE: How the Presidents Died

* SOAP: "The Castigation of Senator Sumner"

* GUIDED NOTES: "Growing Tensions"

* VISUAL SUMMARY: "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates"; PowerPoint

* WEB RESOURCE: Learn more about the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

* GUIDED NOTES & ESSAY: "Building Vocabulary"

* POLITICAL CARTOON: "Arguments of the Chivalry"...and another version

* PROJECT: Illustrated Pictorial Description; EXAMPLE

* STUDY RESOURCES: 35 States Map; States by Order of Entry; Map w/numbers

* REVIEW: Pre-Civil War Political Legislation

* GUIDED NOTES: "Slavery Dominates Politics"

* MAP: "The Divided Union"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The Deeply-Divided Union"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The War Erupts"

* SOAP: "Three to One You Don't Win"

* ART PROJECT: "Leaders of the Civil War"

* RESOURCES: "Leaders of the Civil War Cheatsheet"/Example

* GUIDED NOTES: "Battles of the Civil War"

* VIDEO NOTES: "Civil War Battlefields" #1;#2; #3; #4

* SOAP: "Reports of Maj. Robert Anderson"

* WEB RESOURCE: Lincoln's Assassins Prepare for the Kill!

* GUIDED NOTES: "Gettysburg and the End of the War"

* GUIDED NOTES: "The Tide of War Turns"

* SOAP: "The Gettysburg Address"

* WEB RESOURCE: See photos of Lincoln at Gettysburg HERE and HERE

* GUIDED NOTES: "Emancipation, Victory, and Assassination"

* CHART: "Civil War Cause & Effect"

* CHART: "Civil War Visual Summary"; Timeline Template

* PROJECT: "Casualties of the Civil War"; Chart Resources; More Resources

* WEB RESOURCE: New estimates of Civil War Deaths

* WEB RESOURCE: See images from Gettysburg; Burning of Atlanta; Fall of Richmond

* WEB RESOURCE: Learn how Lincoln was invited to Gettysburg

* WEB RESOURCE: See the last image of Lincoln

* WEB RESOURCE: See images from Lincoln's Funeral ...and plans to steal his body!

* TEST PREP: "Civil War Test - Study Guide"

* WEB ACTIVITY: Create Your Own Civil War Video

* ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #7

RECONSTRUCTION (Chapter 18)

* UNIT PREVIEW/REVIEW: "Reconstruction"

* CORNELL NOTES: "Reconstruction"; Worksheet

* PROJECT: "Reconstruction Personal Book"; Notes Worksheet

* COVER PAGE: "Reconstruction Packet Contents"

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Chapter 19)

* UNIT PREVIEW: "The Second Industrial Revolution"

* ASSESSMENT: Notebook Evaluation #8

THE UNIQUE & THE ODD

* WEB RESOURCES: See a $5,000 and $100,000 bill;

* WEB RESOURCE: Learn the 13 Districts that print paper money

* WEB RESOURCE: Abraham Lincoln's Coffin is Coming to Town!

* WEB RESOURCE: The Strange Events After Lincoln's Assassination

AMERICAN CULTURAL ICONS

* Hear one of the earliest known versions of the Star-Spangled Banner

* See the expansion of the US Capitol Building