Student Writing Samples
DBQ | DBQ Essay | Long Essay | SAQ
Period 1 — Chapter 1
Key concepts — 1.1-1.2
Chapter summaries — 1
Overview video — Period 1 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 1.1 | 1.2
Chapter videos — 1
Specific videos — Encomienda System | Pueblo Revolt | other Period 1 videos
Period 2 — Chapters 2-5
Key concepts — 2.1-2.2
Chapter summaries — 2-5
Overview video — Period 2 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 2.1 | 2.2
Chapter videos — 2 | 3 | 4-5
Specific videos — European Colonization Compared | King Philip’s War | Bacon’s Rebellion | Religion in the British Colonies | First Great Awakening | The Enlightenment | other Period 2 videos
Period 3 — Chapters 6-10
Key concepts — 3.1-3.3
Chapter summaries — 6-10
Video overview — Period 3 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3
Chapter videos — 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Specific videos — 1763 | Stamp Act | Paine’s Common Sense | Declaration | Articles | Constitution | Hamilton | Federalists and Democratic-Republicans | Sedition Acts | Origins of U.S. Politics | other Period 3 videos
Period 4 — Chapters 11-16
Key concepts — 4.1-4.3
Chapter summaries — 11-16
Video overview — Period 4 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3
Chapter videos — 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16
Specific videos — Judicial Review | The American System | Missouri Compromise | Nullification Crisis | The Marshall Court | Second Great Awakening | Antebellum Reforms
Period 5 — Chapters 17-22
Key concepts — 5.1-5.3
Chapter summaries — 17-22
Video overview — Period 5 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3
Chapter videos — 17 | 18 | 19 | 20-21 | 22
Specific videos — James K. Polk | Manifest Destiny | Mexican War | “Old” Immigration and Nativism | Compromise of 1850 | Kansas Nebraska Act | Dred Scott Case | Election of 1860 | The Civil War | Reconstruction | Amendments 13-15 | Compromise of 1877 | Plessy v. Ferguson
Period 6 — Chapters 23-26
Key concepts — 6.1-6.3
Chapter summaries — 23-26
Video overview — Period 6 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.3
Chapter videos — 23 | 24 | 25 | 26
Specific videos — The Frontier | 19th-century Native Americans | Tammany Hall and “Boss” Tweed | Business Practices | Election of 1896 | Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois | Labor Unions
Period 7 — Chapters 27-35
Key concepts — 7.1-7.3
Chapter summaries — 27-35
Video overview — Period 7 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.3
Chapter videos — 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35
Specific videos — Progressivism | Keys in Progressivism | Wilson’s 14 Points | Latin American Foreign Policy | New Immigration and Jane Addams | Nativism in the 1920s | The New Deal | Key People of the New Deal | World War II
Period 8 — Chapters 36-39
Key concepts — 8.1-8.3
Chapter summaries — 36-39
Video overview — Period 8 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.3
Chapter videos — 36 | 37 | 38 | 39
Specific videos — Taft-Hartley Act | Civil Rights in the 1950s | Brown v. Board of Education | Civil Rights in the 1960s | Korean War | Containment and the Cold War | Doctrines (Monroe-Reagan) | The Cold War in Cuba | Vietnam War | The Great Society | Truman | Eisenhower | JFK | LBJ | Nixon
Period 9 — Chapters 40-41
Key concepts — 9.1-9.3
Chapter summaries — 40-41
Video overview — Period 9 in Ten Minutes
Key concept videos — 9.1 | 9.2 | 9.3
Chapter videos — 40 | 41