Creating a studying outline ----post here

[bsa...@gmail.com]

I want us to generate a list of any historical content that you feel we
have not covered or you have forgetten. While you are taking the three
practice exams and filling in your answers on the scantron sheets keep
a list of questions that you were not confident of the answer. However,
I don't want the numbers what I want is a list of historical events,
people, happenings that you don't know. We will then use this focused
list to review the weekend before the test. So post here your list of
lacking info so that we can fill in the gaps.

I hope everyone is enjoying the break
peace
Ben

[whit...@gmail.com]

hey ben, I was just looking at the test packet and noticed you gave us
4 tests but told us to do 3. Are they 3 particular ones you would like
us to do? Also, are the review grids for our own benefit or will you
be collecting them?
thanx
whitney

[bsa...@gmail.com]

Do the first three tests and I will be collecting them.

[J. Pizzle]

Okay, so here's some of the stuff we havn't covered that I discovered
in the first multiple-choice test:
Civil Rights movement and its leaders and goals.
Economy past WWII (Presidents, their policies, etc.)
Cold War including Vietnam War and McCarthyism

Stuff I totally forgot:
Who is William James?
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Whig Party
A lot of stuff about Jackson and Jefferson, as well as Adams, Quincy
Adams, those early presidents.
Reconstruction still confuses me very much.

And, of course, a general overview of absolutely everything would help,
but I imagine that is mostly up to us. Besides the above, I actually
feel quite confident about everything else. I feel as if no matter how
fast we moved, the outlines and the essays really did a good job
hammering into our heads certain events, people, and policies that help
us create a story in our mind which helps us re-create American history
as a whole. Kazzam!

[Lily]

ya I agree with Joe, those are basically some of the stuff that I dont
really remember either. I forgot about some of the same stuff, but I
also dont really remember much about the differences and similarities
between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitiution. Also,
some of the material on early settlement are kind of a blurr to me. I
also didnt know who William James was. I dont really remember much
about the early presidents either. Then there was the stuff that went
past World War II that we havent covered yet. A lot of what we have
done in class helped to answer the questions. I think the multiple
choice questions helped to see what I need to go over and what I need
to know more about.

So are we supposed to do both the grids and the 3 multiple choice
tests, or do we just do the 3 tests? Should we guess at the questions
that go past WWII or just leave them blank?

hope everybodys having a good vacation. thanx.

[elvent...@yahoo.com]

this is kind of off topic but i looked at the US history SAT and i
noticed that about 15-20% of the questions were about the 60s and 70s
and i think one or 2 up to the 80s, are we going to go that far these
next few weeks?

hope everones enjoying thier vacations!! :)

-Colleen

[mbbu...@yahoo.com]

Greetings from Spain!!! Hi everyone from Maria, Hannah, Lucy, and
Will! Hope everyone else is having a good vacations.

[becca]

yeah, so the study list joe put up seems good...but i also want to
review important legislation--the specific supreme court cases got me
pretty confused. also, it might be helpful to practice more varieties
on the multiple choice--what was up we the quote questions? maybe make
up multiple choice in the same way we made up essay question,.see if we
can figure out some more tricks. with review, it also might be nice to
add a little more specificity to our history stories, i struggled
remembering marbury vs madison and all that.

hope everyone is having a good vacation, see ya soon...

[Eva]

Stuff to go over and/or have not yet covered....

1. Fundamentalism & modernism
2. Deism
3. Early American diplomats and their goals/tactics
4. Monroe Doctrine
5. Reconstruction
6. Sioux Wars
7. Stimson Doctrine
8. Burlingame Treaty
9. Harlem Renaissance
10. Vietnam War
11. Founding fathers & their motives
12. Articles of Confederation
13. Reconstruction
14. Whig Party
15. McCarthy
16. Cold War
17. Gilded Age
18. John L. Lewis
19. William James
20. Civil Rights Movement

So obviously we should try to hit all the major turning points and
events after WWII... But based on the previous posts, i think a lot of
us would benefit from a review of the Reconstruction, Articles of
Confederation, the major Supreme Court cases, William James, the Whig
Party, and the goals of the early presidents.
Ahhhhh vacation is over!!! =( But this AP crap will be over soon
toooooo =)

[Ricky Wat]

In particular, Can we focus on how the time periods such as what
economic, religious, social, political, demographic development
occurred between the centuries? An example would be the over arching
themes of the first half of the nineteenth century, second half, second
latter half etc... Most importantly, how what were the Presidents
during the time period and where their social, political, and
economical goals and outlook was during the centuries.

[Eva]

yeahhh i agree with ricky cause that would definately give us a good
idea of how to fit together the different time periods and how one led
to another..... etc. also can we briefly go over Roosevelt's important
New Deal programs cause right now theyre just a jumble of letters in my
mind!!

[whit...@gmail.com]

k I've got a few things.

never covered/ don't remember
-John Lewis, William Green
-George Whitefield, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph Smith
-washington's neutrality proclamation
-national labor union v. AFL
-deists
-the film Birth of a Nation
-antebellum years: education etc.
-hoover, harding
-post WWII presidents, Carter, Nixon, Eisenhower, Truman
-Ander Mellon, George Wallace
-McCarthysim
-Vientnam war, cold war,
-McCarthyism
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-william James
-civil rights
-the volstead act and the taft- harley act (there were just a lot of
acts I didn't remember)
-Leopold-Loeb trial, Albert B. Fall trial

[happykit...@yahoo.com]

Here are my questions:

-Seneca Falls Convention
-cult of domesticity
-The 2nd Sioux war
-Wagner Labor Relations Act
-The MArshall Plan
-The Korean War
-The Viet. war
-the American system
-the Tennessee Valley authority
The cuban Missile Crisis

[akada...@gmail.com]

I think that the hardest thing for me is that i struggle with the
dates. So when the questions are asking about immigration from
1800-1820 i have no idea who the dominant groups are that immigrated.
Immigration in general would be good to go over.
Also colonies/ important people from colonies and states and the whole
continental congress/ articles of confederation/ the revolution and the
wars(1812/ French-Indian) from early America
The Native American groups/ Iroquios confederacy and some of Jackson's
policies
Nullification and Jacksonian democracy(i think i get it but an overview
would be nice)
The beginning of industrailization like the canal age and things/ some
major inventions

But dates are the hardest for me.. and this is a working list... there
are a lot of things that i still have no idea about i just feel like i
don't have a grasp of the large picture and i'm trying to remember
everything individually and not connected to the whole( i don't know if
im making any sense) but if we could work more on connecting things
together(maybe by doing webs or more tables i don't know...) that would
help a lot more when it comes to dates on the exam.. so that way i have
a general sense of what is happening at the time they are asking about
and i can eliminate answers based on that.

[Ricky Wat]

Yeah, I totally agree with Eva and Akshata. We should go by the periods
such as in 25 year intervals, so we get the general sense of what was
the overall development of the economy, stagnant, rapid fast or slow,
immigrant development (particular big groups during such specific 25
year time frame.), political develop between major politic partyes
(simply republicans favored bam bam bam, during this 25 yeasish)
religious development (rise of particular religious groups and overall
influence on society), WOMENS RIGHTS (during which 25 year periods were
they most strongly advocated, which 25 years suffrage laws were passed,
stuff got done etc...)

Most of the questions on the exam ask for the Overall general scheme of
things, so if you KNOW what is going on around that particular time
period like Akshata said, you can eliminate a large portion of
questions and you can pinpoint automatically the question if you know
what was happening overall during that time period. Sometimes, specific
things are good, but its always better to reconnect everything on a
higher level.

[saml...@yahoo.com]

I think that it might be useful to go over the major events of each
president or what each president was known for. Also i have trouble
remembering specific acts. We should also review the warlords amd their
ideas.

[mbbu...@yahoo.com]

I feel like we really haven't gone over the social changes that were
going on at the time. Also the cause and effect type questions I'm
having trouble with. I don't remember the people we've learned about
in the beginning of the year or what they did either. I'm not being
really specific because most of the things people have already mentions
I'm having trouble with as well.