With my 2014 American History class we just finished Presidential Debates for March Madness.

I was nominated for the Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher of the Year, and all the inofrmation had to be turned by March 15, 2014. Of course, I will not win but it was an honor.

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I will start working on this blog this week..

AP US History:  test on Constitution on Tuesday because I want to have time to discuss the convention and document on Monday.  My goal is to cover the first three president by Friday.  Love talking about Washington and Jefferson. Hoping my students will fall in love with history like I have.

Terms for ths week will focus on:

1763-1775

Proclamation of 1763       Boston Tea Party                    Battle of Saratoga      Thomas Paine
Common Sense                Coercive/Intolerable Acts       no taxation without representation
Stamp Act Congress         Loyalists/Tories                      Stamp Act                  Sons of Liberty
Olive Branch Petition       First Contitinental Congress   Second Continental Congress
Pontiac;s Rebellion          Boston Massacre                     Gaspee Affair              Tea Act
Quartering Act                 Paxton Boys                            Sugar Act of 1764     Deism
Townshend Acts              Appalachians                           Bill of Rights         Consittutional Convention
Shay's Rebellion             Federalist                                  Virginia Plan            New Jersey Plan
Northwest Ordiance      Jay's Treaty                                Treaty of Alliance 1778
Three/Fifths Compromise                        

Terms for AP US History:

1607- 1763

indentured servants       Navigation Acts      Mayflower Compact    Roger Williams
Great Puritan Migration   Peter Zenger trial   House of Burgesses
Anne Hutchinson          King Philip's War    William Bradford  George Whitefield
New England Confederation     Thomas Hobbes           John Locke  Jonathan Edwards
Freedom of consciences        New England Confederation   Iroquios Confederacy
mercantilism                Bacon's Rebellion     headright system  Halfway Covenant
Salem Witch trials      Middle passage          Albany Plan             Harvard College
Salutary neglect          city on a hilll           Phyllis Wheatly        James Oglethorpe
Puritain Theology      Chesapeake Bay     Mass. Bay Colony       Gov. Wm. Berkeley
backcountry               indentured servants   Stono Rebelllion        Great Awakening
Jamestown                 Sir Walter Raleigh     John Smith                Quakers
William Penn