Welcome to APUSH!

Students -

Welcome to the LASA APUSH web site.  You will find our course calendar at the top of this page, and below you will find links to our syllabus and late work / makeup policies.  You will receive copies of these handouts on the first day of class, but these electronic copies are available in case you need them.

2014-2015 APUSH Syllabus

2014-2015 APUSH Policies

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions about policies and procedures, materials, review books or anything relating to the course as we begin the school year.

Turnitin.com Login Information

Here is the login information for turnitin.com for those of you doing the paper -

Class ID - 8092821
Password - lasaapush

Terms List 9 - Due Wednesday at 3.40

I have received over 20 emails for extensions on Terms List 9.  I know all of you are very busy this week.  So am I, and so is Mr. Risinger.  As I've been saying in class over the past couple of weeks, Terms List 9 is absolutely due by Wednesday at 3.40pm.  If it isn't in my hand by then it's late.  I simply can't extend the deadline past that (which I've also said multiple times to all of the classes).  I hope this helps at least some of you.

Review for Native Americans (colonial period to 19th C)

Here is Ms. Pettigrew's review for Native Americans.

Native Americans

Review for projected Part B essays

I made half-page charts for four of the five projected Part B essays.  Ms. Pettigrew is working on the chart for Native Americans, and I'll work on the Part C topics tonight and tomorrow.  Hope you all find this useful, and let me know if you'd like to see changes in the format for Part C.

Review for projected Part B essays

Projected essay topics

Ms. Pettigrew and I have looked over the essay topics from the last few years, and we've made some projections for this year.  Here is our 2014 APUSH top-ten list in (roughly) chronological order -

1. English colonization (17th and 18th centuries)
2. Native Americans (colonial period / early 19th century / late 19th century)
3. Causes of the American Revolution
4. The 'Critical Period' (1776-1795)
5. Reform movements of the Second Great Awakening
6. Imperialism and the New Manifest Destiny
7. Populism and Progressivism
8. Economic development (early 20th century / mid-20th century)
9. The Great Depression
10. Domestic politics (1950s - 1960s)

This is our best guess as to likely topics for this year.  Obviously, this isn't a comprehensive list, and anything can (and does) pop up in a given year.  These things seem likely because they are either common essay topics that weren't on the exam last year, OR because they are topics that haven't appeared in awhile on the exam.  Hopefully these will help to guide your study over the weekend and early next week.

Lecture 9a - Jacksonian Democracy

Ha!  You all didn't think I was ever going to do these!

Lecture 9a - Jacksonian Democracy

Remember, the password is apushlasa.