Sunday, November 22, 2009
8th grade HW notebooks/folders Due 11/24
Saturday, November 21, 2009
7th Grade Study sheet - Test tuesday after Thanksgiving Break
Exam 2 Fall 09 Grade 7 If every question is completed using RAFT on a separate sheet of paper it can be turned in for up to 5 points at the time of the exam
1) Why were Europeans so interested in going to the Far East? What were these places called? What were they looking for?
2) How did the First People reach America, according to scientists?
3) What were the astrolabe, caravel, and the magnetic compass? How did they transform navigation?
4) What area of the world was Columbus trying to reach?
5) What area of the world did Columbus actually reach? What did he call the area he reached?
6) What is a primary source? What is a secondary source?
7) Why did colonial farmers settle near oceans and rivers?
8) During what time period, did most explorers explore?
9) When did the English Colonies begin in America?
10) When did the Colonies declare freedom from England?
11) Why were European explorers searching for a Northwest Passage?
12) What was the main reason people came to the Colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island?
13) What was the Virginia House of Burgesses? Why was it created?
14) Why were African slaves brought to America?
15) Before England controlled New York in 1664, who did the colony belong to?
16) How did Native Americans help early colonies?
17) Who wrote the Mayflower Compact? What was its purpose?
18) What does the term “Body Politick” mean?
19) List the New England Colonies.
20) List the Middle Colonies.
21) List the Southern Colonies.
22) Name the five tribes of the Iroquois League?
23) Why did those five tribes work together?
24) What type of government is a Democracy?
25) What civilization did Pizarro conquer with the help of native allies?
26) What group of colonies produced the most lumber, fish and rum?
27) In what group of colonies was tobacco mostly grown?
28) Why were different crops produced in different regions of the country?
29) What areas of North American did the Spanish control?
30) What were the Spanish looking for in Mexico?
31) Who conquered the Aztec?
32) What is a cash crop? Give example from the colonies
33) What is mercantilism?
34) What are the triangles of trade?
35) Why did the Puritans and Pilgrims leave England to come to America?
36) What were the main resources that the French were interested in taking from North America?
37) What areas of North America did the French control?
8th grade test - Required Study sheet posted below for you
1) Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, such an important book?
2) What were The Compromise of 1850 and The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 about?
3) What was the outcome of the Supreme Court Dred Scott decision of 1857?
4) What political party did Abraham Lincoln help start?
5) What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
6) Why do we remember Fort Sumter?
7) What advantages did the North have over the South in the Civil War?
8) What was the main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War?
9) What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
10) What amendments ended slavery, guaranteed the rights of citizenship, and the right to vote?
11) What was sharecropping?
12) What did the Bessemer process do for the production of steel?
13) What is a corporation? A stock? A trust?
14) What does the term Manifest Destiny mean?
15) Why was the battle of Gettysburg important? What was the Gettysburg Address? What American ideals did it celebrate?
16) What was the result of most of the peace treaties between the American Government and Native American Tribes in the 1800’s?
17) What was the result of the Mexican War?
18) What were the dates of the American Civil War and Reconstruction?
19) What were the NY Draft Riots?
20) What were the causes of the American Civil War?
21) How did the Assembly Line transform factories?
22) How did the railroad transform America?
23) What was the Trail of Tears?
24) Why was the Erie Canal so important to NY and the rest of the country?
25) How did the Railroad change America and the relationship between the states?
26) What problems and dangers did children experience in factories?
27) What was the purpose of the black codes? How were they different from the post-war amendments to the Constitution? Who made them?
28) What was the purpose and Freedman’s Bureau? What did it do?
29) Why did Reconstruction come to an end in 1877? Explain
30) How did the Supreme Court decision Plessey v Ferguson (1896) hurt civil rights in America and encourage segregation? What is segregation?
Extended Response - Compare and Contrast
Each must have an intro. sentence with dates, restate question, six clear/explained proofs, conclusion statement that tries to pick a side
1) Reconstruction Success/Failure? - clearly explain three proofs for each (DATES?)
2) Was Manifest Destiny winning/losing the West? - clearly explain three proofs for each (DATES?)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Parent teacher Conferences 11/10
HW Due Thursday and Friday 11/12-13
Monday, November 2, 2009
7th grade response to mystery question
Sunday, November 1, 2009
HW for week of 11/2-11/6
p. 5 all key terms section 2-3
and Academic vocabuary
7th grade - read 46-57
p. 51 S3A 1-3 all questions use RAFT
p. 57 S4A 1-4 all questions use RAFT
