Westward Expansion: Economic Development 🚂

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and effects of the settlement of the West from 1877 to 1898

⏰ What We Did

• Take notes on Topic 6.2, examining the introduction of mechanization in American farming, the development of farmers' cooperatives, government support for transportation to the West, and the broad economic development that arose along those transportation routes

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development (Guided Notes)

Catch-Up Day 🥫

⏰ What We Did

• With Q3 ending on F 11 April 2025, used today's class to catch up on any previous missing work

Failure of Reconstruction 👎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how and why Reconstruction resulted in continuity and change in regional and national understandings of what it meant to be American

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Topic 5.11, highlighting the social, political, and economic changes and continuities during Reconstruction, as well as the events leading to the end of Reconstruction

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 5.11: Failure of Reconstruction (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 5.11: Failure of Reconstruction (Guided Notes)

Reconstruction 🏗

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the effects of government policy during Reconstruction on society from 1865 to 1877

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Topic 5.10, examing the governments established in the Southern states following the Civil War, the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constituton, and the women's movement after the war

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 5.10: Reconstruction (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 5.10: Reconstruction (Guided Notes)

Government Policies During the Civil War 🦅

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War impacted American ideals over the course of the war

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Topic 5.9, defining "martial law" and the suspension of habeas corpus at the start of the Civil War, and examining the implementation of the Conscription Act and the Emancipation Proclamation, the purpose of the Gettysburg Address, and the issues surrounding the Election of 1864

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 5.9: Government Policies During the Civil War (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 5.9: Government Policies During the Civil War (Guided Notes)

Military Conflict in the Civil War: Course and Conclusion 💥

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the various factors that contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Topic 5.8b, highlighting the course of the war, the reasons why the Union won, and population and economic costs of the Civil War

⚙️ Resources

• APUSH Topic 5.8b: Military Conflict in the Civil War: Course and Conclusion (Google Slides)
• APUSH Topic 5.8b: Military Conflict in the Civil War: Course and Conclusion (Guided Notes)