Greetings, and welcome to your APUSH website.  I hope you are all having a great summer!  Throughout the year, this will be where you can find the reading questions, primary sources, and anything related to the class.  You should be steadily reading through the first four chapters of the book, and then finishing the Fun Packet reading questions and open-book test.  This is due the first day we start school.

This course is a LOT OF TIME, but in the end, I think you'll be proud at what you accomplished.  See you in September!

The Course Overview/Parents Letter. 

Chapter Reading Questions  

Here is the Cornell outline for taking notes.

The Brinkley Online Practice Quizzes http://Brinkley_online_quizzes (similar to what you'll get in class).

Here is the APUSH Essay Rubric we'll use in class 

Here is a copy Thomas Paine's The Crisis #1.

Here is a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Federalist # 10 - by Publius (Madison)

These are the Supreme Court Cases you should be familiar with by May. 

The History Channel's website http://www.history.com 

The Sullivan Ballou letter from class

The Reconstruction notes

Pre-war observations and the 1862 notes.

The War Begins - Civil War notes

Road to the Civil War - use them if you would like. 

Here is the APUSH Essay Rubric we'll use in class 

Here are the DBQ Tips, and the Free Response Essay Tips.   

"The Jungle" excerpts - This is mentioned in Ch. 18 and again in Ch. 22.  It details the meatpacking industry, and might give you a glance into the working conditions for many poor and immigrant laborers at this time.  Oh, and word to the wise - don't read it before lunch or dinner.

"Cross of Gold" speech - This the full text of William Jennings Bryan speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention. A description of the crowd from the History Matters website: The response, one reporter wrote, "came like one great burst of artillery."  Men and women screamed, and waved their hats and canes.  "Some," wrote another reporter "like demented things, divested themselves of their coats and flung them high in the air." (www.historymatters.gmu.edu)