1. US History Summer 2014
Mountain View/Marana High School
Mr. Klein
2 weeks June 2 –
June 13
US History ~100’s-
1900
1. Make a name
tent
city, state of birth

2. Quick Klein rules
• Be productive
• Be respectful
• Raise hands
• Cellphones
• Follow break/time schedules
• Marana Summer School rules handout

3. Group Pretest – 20 minutes
1. Make a top ten list of
most important events,
ideas, laws, people in the
United States circa 1400-
1896
2. Explain top 3 choices
3. Each person shares and
writes which city or state
you have never been to
that you would like to
visit & short reason why

4. Let’s all get books
• Return on day of final to get exam
• In your groups decide which state you
would like to “represent” for group
activities (pages R30-R31)
• For example: Group 1 is Louisiana
(1812), write your group on backside
of name tent

5. Syllabus
bring paper and pencil
Break time?

6. Thematic approach to history
• Short class
• Minimize lectures
• History: Why should I care
about this?
• Today: What are Americans?
• Other days: rebellion,
economics, war/military,
separation, religion,
expansion, race,
law/government

7. My top 10 events, 1400-1900s
take notes, leave spaces (Cornell?)
1. 1492
2. 1776 – Declaration of Independence
3. 1791 – Bill of Rights ratified
4. 1861 – US Civil War begins
5. 1831 – Trail of Tears
6. 1803 – Louisiana Purchase
7. 1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
8. 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation
9. 1876 – invention of telephone
10. 1886 – invention of automobile
11. 1865 – Assassination of Lincoln

8. Today: What is an American?

9. 1. For each group member, Describe a time when
you felt out of place.
Try to use a non-school example
Assignment #1 in your groups

10. “American” History

15. American Dream?
2. Make up a definition of what that phrase means to
your group

18. Source: The Atlantic Magazine

19. 1491

21. 1492 AD
• Italian Christopher Columbus convinces
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of
Spain to give him money.
• Looks for shorter way to China and
India
• Hero?
• Show cartoon
#4 write down 2+ examples of bias in
cartoon
1492 AD

23. Americans?

24. #5 What does it mean to be an
American?
5+ characteristics turn in
10 points

25. Why do people move to the United States?
Americans?

26. New Americans 1600’s
• Euros create colonies
• Spaniard – “peninsulares”
• English – “Englishmen”
• Dutch – “Dutchmen”
• French – “Frenchmen”
No Americans yet
Duality: Mexican-Americans
African-Americans, Asian-
Americans

27. Chapter 2 Individual Assignment
1. Describe each of the 4 European colonial
expansions
2. Why might Popé’s Pueblo Revolt only be a recent
addition to US history text books?
3. Draw a map of the British Colonies
4. In 1776, the Presido of Tucson was a part of which
colonial empire?
5. How was Maryland a different type of British
Colony?
6. Page 67 #1, 2 and #3

28. A strategy for images
• OPTIC
“O” Overview (what is it?, source, year)
“P” Parts (what is in it?, numbers, people etc)
“T” Title
“I” Interrelationship between parts
“C” Conclusion “What could I think?”

30. “History of Mexico”
Diego Rivera mural

32. 1940’s

38. Reasons to change name ?

40. Last Assignment
• Write a 4 paragraph letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Godell
regarding the controversy over the Redskins name.
• First paragraph: intro to issue
• Second paragraph: 3 detailed historical examples of conflict
between Native Americans and new Americans (Ch.s 1,2,3,7,
13, see index also)
• Third paragraph: based on paragraph 3, should the
commissioner suggest Redskins name change?
• Fourth paragraph: conclusion
• 20 points, graded for completeness, -5 for missing history, -3
for historical mistakes, -15 for not “IYOW”

41. Ideas
Name tents
Short interview, travel in US,
Outline of class notes
What does an American act, look, etc?
Native Americans or their tribes
Syllabus
Colonial begings