Friday, September 26, 2025

Studying for the Reconstruction, Westward Expansion and Industrialization Test

The Reconstruction, Westward Expansion and Industrialization Unit Test is Wednesday, October 1.  Tests are 100% notes and discussion based.  The notes and discussions for this unit are based on The Americans textbook chapters 12, 13 and 14.  As you know, links are available for the textbook in each section post.  Hard back books are available in 2216 also!  The test is based on notes from:

Reconstruction

Chapter 12 Intro

Chapter 12 Section 1

Chapter 12 Section 2

Chapter 12 Section 3

Westward Expansion

Chapter 13 Intro

Chapter 13 Section 1

Chapter 13 Section 2

Chapter 13 Section 3

Industrialization

Chapter 14 Intro

Chapter 14 Section 1

Chapter 14 Section 2

Chapter 14 Section 3

The CP1 test will include 32 multiple choice (73 points) and 7 open response questions (27 points) on locked mode in google forms.  Bring a fully charged chromebook always!  Open response questions will be based on course essential questions and will require answering the question appropriately and always with specific evidence.  Class review game or in class study day is Tuesday, September 30.  CP2 will take a modified version of the CP1 test thus the post on the CP1 website!  The CP2 Test has 32 multiple choice (78 points) and 5 open responses (22 points)!   The SEI G block Test has 14 multiple choice worth 90 points and one open response worth 10 points.

The test focuses on the following essential questions which were especially prominent in this unit:

Essential Question #4- How is Power acquired and what measures does it take to Protect Itself?

-How did Andrew Johnson become President and what system protected him strangely enough?

Essential Question #5- How does the drive to acquire Wealth influence America?

-Pullman?

-Rockefeller?

Essential Question #8- How have citizens affected the growth and change of Political Parties and Government?

-Bimetallism?

Essential Question #10- How have advances in Technology impacted the development of the country and the American people?

-Steel Plow

-Incandescent Light Bulb

-Typewriter

-Steel

-Telephone

-Oil drilling and refining