American Senior High School

Mr. Anthony Perno & Mr. Victor Wisniski

Days to Graduation:

Syllabi Cambridge American History Advanced Placement Government and Politics Advanced Placement European History Advanced Placement Macroeconomics Advanced Placement Human Geography Class Rules

Cambridge International Exams [Paper #5]

• 2009 Nov
• 2009 June
• 2008 Nov
• 2008 June
• 2007 Nov
• 2007 June
• 2006 Nov
• 2006 June
• 2005 Nov
• 2005 June
• 2004 Nov
• 2004 June
• 2003 Nov
• 2003 June
• 2002 Nov
• 2002 June
• 2001 Nov

Source Evaluation Documents and Tools

• Virginia Fornication Laws
• Massachusetts School Law
• William Penn on Government
• Washington on Self-Improvement
• The Four Turnings
• Historical Methods
• Causes of the Civil War
• Teaching Source Evaluation #01
• Analyzing Primary Sources
• Reading a Primary Source

Cambridge Study Guides

• Cambridge Assignment Calendar
• Syllabus and Previous Exam Questions
• Cambridge Cycles of American History

School Resources

• Teacher Portal Sign-In
• District E-Mail
• Textbooks
• School Calendars

Lectures

• Understanding the Dec. of Indpend.
• Agitations and Extremists [Worksheet]
• Extremists
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Decision & 14th Amendment
• Radical Republican Reconstruction
• Industrial Revolution
• The Four Turnings
• Cycles of American History
• The Second Turning
• Cycles of Rule
• Sectional Map 1861
• Gilded Age - Progressives
• Monroe Doctrine
• Coming of Depression

Advanced Placement Modern European

• 2010 A
• 2010 B
• 2009 A
• 2009 B
• 2008 A
• 2008 B
• 2007 A
• 2007 B
• 2006 A
• 2006 B
• 2005 A
• 2005 B
• 2004 A
• 2004 B
• 2003 A
• 2003 B
• 2002 A
• 2002 B
• 2001 A

European Documents

• Aristotle on Politics
• The Plague Doctor
• Black Death
• England's Prisons
• Bear Bating
• Helvetius
• The Prince
• On Revolution
• Tormenta
• Street Butchers
• On World War I
• Witch DBQ
• DBQ Scoring Guide

Law Studies

• Elements of a Trial
• Writing and Opening Statement
• Direct Examination Exercise
• Writing a Closing Argument
• Hearsay and Exceptions
• When and How to Object
• When and How to Impeach a Witness
• Simplified Rules of Evidence and Procedure
• Degrees of Murder
• On Motive
• Law Project #01 [Hatfields v. McCoys]
• FLREA Mock Trial Home Page

Advanced Placement Human Geography

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

Human Geography

• Syllabus
• The National Geographical Society
• Course Goals [National Geographical Society]
• Human Geography [Wikipedia]
• Gall-Peters - Mercator Projection Debate
• Controversy over the 38 State Union
• American High School Floor Plans
• Essay: Nine Billion by 2300
• Certain regional stereotypes

Favorite Essays

• The Death of Benny Paret, by Norman Mailer
• H. L. Mencken On Pedagogy
• Orwell and Huxley Today, Neil Postman

Macroeconomics

• Consumer Price Index Comparison Chart

Favorite Historical Microcosms

• On Search and Destroy, Michael Herr
• On the Pioneer Spirit, David Milch
• The Roman view of Jesus, [I Claudius] Robert Graves
• Livia Adresses the Gladiators [I Claudius, Robert Graves

Prurient History

• A Strange Case of Bestiality, William Bradford
• The legal significance of Penetration

Advanced Placement Macroeconomics

• 2010 A
• 2010 B
• 2009 A
• 2009 B
• 2008 A
• 2008 B
• 2007 A
• 2007 B
• 2006 A
• 2006 B
• 2005 A
• 2005 B
• 2004 A
• 2004 B
• 2003 A
• 2003 B
• 2002 A
• 2002 B
• 2001 A

Debate over the Pledge

• Supreme Court Decision
• Ninth District Court of Appeals Decision
• Short History of the Pledge

The Debate

• Restore the Pledge [Left]
• Save the Pledge [Right]

U.S. Presidential Election Maps

1884 1896 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944

1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 2000

History Lite

• Trolley Dodgers
• Goebbels originated the term the "Iron Curtain"
• Typhoid Mary
• Jesses Owens
• E.g. and I.e.
• Ockham's Razor
• Chain Gangs
• First time in the News [Obama & McCain]
• A Deceitful Web Page to avoid: On the Issues

Short Histories

• The Vietnam War
• Tariff and American Politics
• Political Parities
• The Crash of 1929

Student Projects

Advanced Placement Government and Politics

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

Court Decisions

• Wall of Separation & Lemon Test
• The Ten Commandments
• Charter Schools
• Endorsement Test & Lemon Test
• Right to Worship
• Right to Assemble
• Free Speech: Symbolic Speech
• Obscenity
• Cyberspace: Pornography
• Incorporation
• Gun Control

Jack the Ripper

• Jack the Ripper Casebook

Presidential Election Web Pages

• Presidential Campaign Commercials
• Interactive Election Map
• Presidential Political Predictions

Colonial History

• Magna Carta
• Ann Putnam's Deposition April 1692
• The Confession of Ann Putnam
• Martha Cory's Testimony, Salem, 1692
• Conclusions of the Massachusetts Bay Elders
• Indentured Servant Contract
• Virginia Fornication Laws
• Mayflower Compact
• Massachusetts School Law
• William Penn on Government
• Parris "Christ Knows How Many Devils There Are"
• An Observation of the American Colonies
• Maryland Act of Religious Toleration

Revolution

• Stamp Act Grievances
• Second Treatise on Civil Government
• Common Sense [Excerpt]
• Wage Cruel War
• Declaration of Independence
• A Tory View
• Treaty of Paris 1783

New Republic

• Jay on Treaty with British
• Federalists Paper #10
• Federalists Paper #30
• Federalists Paper #5
• Henry on Ratification
• Henry on a Bill of Rights
• Constitution of the United States
• 1st, 5th, 10th, 14th Amendments
• Failed Amendments
• National Bank Debate
• Washington Declares Neutrality
• Washington's Farewell Address
• Alien Acts
• Naturalization Act
• Jefferson's 1st Address
• The Burr Decision
• Kentucky Resolutions
• Warhawks 1812
• Monroe Doctrine

Jacksonian Era

• Election of 1828 [Broadside]
• Bank Veto
• Jackson On Nullification
• Jackson's Farewell Address
• Lowell Factory Rules

Abolition and Slavery

• Garrison: The Liberator
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
• William Lloyd Garrison Renounces War
• Garrison justifies Organization Against Slavery
• Garrison on the Constitution
• Defense of Slavery As a Benefit to Society
• Calhoun's Positive Good Theory of Slaver
• Lincoln on the Know-Nothings

Westward Expansion

• The Destiny of a Race, Thomas Hart Benton
• The Missouri Compromise
• Westward Expansion - Trek to Salt Lake
• Westward Expansion - hardships on the trail
• Westward Expansion - Women's Rights
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
• Treaty with Mexico 1853

Sectional Crisis

• The Wilmot Proviso
• Howell Cobb’s Letter to Georgia Unionists
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act 1850
• John C. Calhoun Challenges the Compromise (1850)
• William H. Seward Calls for the Compromise (1850)
• Webster calls for Compromise
• An Anonymous Georgian, “Plain Words”
• Resolutions of the Nashville Convention
• Garrison, On the United States Constitution
• Ralph Waldo Emerson on the new Fugitive Slave Law
• The Georgia Platform (1850)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Lecompton Constitution
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Appeal of the Independent Democrats
• Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech
• Lincoln - Douglas Debates
• Seward’s Irrepressible Conflict Speech
• Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown
• John Brown from the Docket
• Horace Greeley on John Brown’s Raid

Sectionalism and Secession

• 1860 Campaign Song: Lincoln and Liberty
• Platform of the Constitutional Party 1860
• Republican Party Platform 1860
• Democratic Party Platform 1860
• Democratic Party (Southern) Platform 1860
• Angry Southerner writes of Lincoln
• Howell Cobb to the People of Georgia 1860
• South Carolina Causes of Secession
• South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
• Floyd County Resolutions on Secession
• Lincoln’s Letter to Stephens on Slavery
• James Buchanan on Secession
• Southern Complaints
• South’s bid for Economic Independence
• The Folly of the South (Congressional Speech)
• Crittenden Pleas for Peace
• Crittenden Compromise 1860
• Jefferson Davis on Secession
• Lincoln on Secession
• Sectional Embitterment
• On Nationalism
• Northern Disdain for the South
• Northern Complaints regarding Secession
• Defenses of Slavery
• Opinions On American Democracy

Civil War

• Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
• Lincoln: A Special Message to Congress
• Editorial in Cincinnati Commercial
• Lincoln Replies to Horace Greeley
• Lincoln proposes an amendment on Slavery
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Gettysburg’s Address
• Senator Sherman on Nationalism
• A Whig Account of the New York Draft Riots
• Sherman to the Defenders of Atlanta
• Hood replies to Sherman
• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• Thanksgiving Proclamation

Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson offers Amnesty to rebels

Westward Expansion II

• The Day the Transcontinental Railroad was Finished
• War Department's Indian Policy
• Turner -The Significance of the Frontier
• Letter from a Gold Miner
• Geronimo, His own story
• A Missionary Tells of the Trail of Tears
• A Cowboy Talks of the Trail
• Ten Bears Speaks of his Land
• English Only Indian Schools

Industrial Revolution

• Andrew Carnegie writes about attaining Wealth
• Taylor on Taylorism
• John D. Rockefeller Defends his Business Practices
• Journalist Henry D. Lloyd Warns against an Age of Combination

The Gilded Age

• Waving the Bloody Shirt
• Honest Graft
• Defense of the Spoils System
• President Hayes Favors Civil Service Reform
• Congressional aide speaks on civil service reform
• The Pendleton Civil Service Act
• Cleveland Veto - Literacy Test for Immigrants
• William Randolph Hearst Creates the Yellow Press
• The Ferris Wheel [The 1892 Chicago Exposition]
• The Chinese Exclusion Act [1882]
• New York City

Labor Movement

• An Assessment of America’s Slaughterhouses
• Knights of Labor State their Demands
• A Union Leader Sees Worker Regimentation
• The testimony of a machinist before the Senate Committee on Labor
• Working Conditions in the Sweatshop
• Sweat Shop Payroll
• Western Union Telegraph Company employee contract
• Gompers on strikes and violence
• Clemency for the Haymarket Anarchists
• A Railroad Strike Turns Violent
• A Worker Stresses Seasonal Unemployment
• Union Maid, by Woody Guthrie
• AFL Perspective on Women in the Work Force

The Populist Movement

• The Populists Party Platform 1892
• William McKinley, The Gold Standard
• W. J. Bryan “Cross of Gold” Speech
• The Platform of the Populist Party 1896
• The Republican Platform 1896
• Rebuttal of the Populist complaints
• Frank Norris, The Octopus

New Manifest Destiny

• Mahan - Influence of Sea Power on International Politics
• Mahan - The Interest of America in Sea Power
• The Open Door Notes
• Beveridge envisions the March of America's Flag
• Schurz Questions American Military Expansion
• W. J. Bryan on the Philippine Problem
• Beverage - On War in the Philippines
• Beveridge - The Philippines are ours forever
• TR on Expansion
• TR on the Strenuous Life and Expansionism
• Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
• The Anti-Imperialist League
• William McKinley on Annexation of the Philippines
• Supreme Court Decision - An Insular Case

The Progressives

• The New Social Gospel
• Teddy Roosevelt Insists on Regulatory Legislation
• Theodore Roosevelt Describes the Muckrakers
• H. L. Mencken bemoans the Progressives
• Witnesses at a Temperance Meeting
• The Wonders of Phrenology Revealed
• Bishop McIlvaine Decries the Curse of Intemperance
• Some of the Reasons Against Women's Suffrage
• President Grover Cleveland Upholds the Dignity of Labor
• The Brandeis Brief States the Case for Protective Legislation
• The Girls Bill [eight hour day]
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [Interviews with Survivors]
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [City Report]
• Women who do not work
• Jane Addams on the need for Reform
• Adkins v. Children's Hospital/, [Supreme court]
• Muller v. Oregon, [Supreme Court]
• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
• Socialist Platform for the 1908 Presidential Election
• Candidate Teddy Roosevelt Campaigns for a Square Deal
• Prohibition and Personal Liberty

Women's Movement

• The Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1848]
• The Status of Women, Past, Present, and Future, Susan B. Anthony
• Why Women Should Vote, Jane Addams
• Why Women Should Not Vote
• Emily Dickerson
• On Women Smokers, W.E.B.
• NOW Platform of 1966

Segregation, Civil Rights, and Black Activism

• Fred. Douglass Argue the Case for Enfranchisement
• Civil Rights Act 1866
• Black Codes of Mississippi
• The Atlanta Compromise
• Black feminist Activist critiques B. T. Washington
• The Mis-education of the Negro
• W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
• W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Niagara Movement"
• Black Activist on Tuskegee
• Dissenting Opinion: Plessy v. Fergson
• World War I Stimulates Black Activism
• Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
• Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
• Sharecropping: The Ills of the South
• Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a Dream”
• Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from the Birmingham jail
• Malcolm X Demands Black Liberation
• Malcolm X Speech to Mississippi Youth
• Stokely Carmichael's Assertion of Black Consciousness
• Stokely Carmichael's "What We Want"
• Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton Define Black Power
• On Black Power, Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
• James Forman's Black Manifesto
• The Black Panther Program
• Statement by the minister of defense of the Black Panthers
• A Critical Assessment of Black Power from the Black Press
• The Kerner Commission
• A Citizens' Guide to Civil Rights

World War I

• Senator Norris Opposes Involvement in World War I
• W. J. Bryan on Lusitania
• The Zimmermann Telegram
• The Sussex Pledge
• A Question of War with Germany
• Wilson's War Message
• Four Minute men
• The Espionage Act
• Schenck v. United States, Justice O. W. Holmes
• Critique of the War by Eugene Debs
• Majority Opinion: Debs. v. United States
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• Against the League of Nations
• Henry Cabot Lodge on The League Nations proposal
• Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson on Compromise
• Woodrow Wilson defends the League
• Woodrow Wilson Appeals to the Nation on the League
• John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace
• W.E.B. Du Bois on the League and Politics
• Jane Addams on the League
• H. L. Mencken on World War I

The Roaring Twenties

• Will Rogers on Calvin Coolidge
• The Klan's Fight for Americanism
• Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
• H. L. Mencken on Calvin Coolidge
• Aimee McPherson Rises from the Sea
• The Biggest Thing That Lindbergh Has Done

Depression and a New Deal

• Rebuttal of Keynesian Economics
• Schechter v. United States
• New Deal Record on Race

Isolation and World War

• Neutrality Act 1937
• Neutrality Act 1939
• Japanese Quarantine Speech
• The Atlantic Charter
• War Message - Infamy
• Congressional Declaration of War on Japan
• Congressional Declaration of War on Germany
• Statement on North African Policy
• Casablanca Conference
• The Moscow Agreement
• Tehran Conference
• Joseph Goebbels' Iron Curtain Speech
• The Cairo Conference Statement on War
• Yalta conference
• Potsdam Conference

Cold War

• Containment Doctrine
• George F. Kennan Recalls
• Marshall Plan
• Domino Theory
• A Call for Bipartisan Support
• Critique of Containment by Walter Lippmann
• on the Sources of Soviet Conduct
• Whittaker Chambers Hears the Voice of the People
• Lillian Hellman Defies HUAC
• J. Edgar Hoover Notes the Communist Interest in Hollywood
• Joseph R. McCarthy's Wheeling Speech
• Joseph McCarthy, Press Account
• Edward Dmytryk Recalls the Hollywood Ten in Washington
• McCarthy Attacks George C. Marshall
• Victor Navasky Tallies up the Cost of McCarthyism
• Detente

Vietnam War

• The Geneva Accords [1954]
• On Aid to Vietnam [1954]
• NSC Memo #68
• Kennedy Letter to Diem
• JFK evaluates Diem
• LBJ's Message on Tonkin
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• LBJ's War Message
• Johnson Admin's Policy Review
• Defense Department Review
• A Negative Report
• George Ball Dissents
• LBJ Why Vietnam?
• A Call for Sustained Reprisal
• Assessment of Conditions in Vietnam
• William Fulbright Challenges the War
• The War Powers Act [1973]

New Frontier

• JFK, on The New Frontier
• MEMO: JFK to LBF on the Space Race
• JFK on Civil Rights
• LBJ on The Great Society
• Little Murders, by Jules Feiffer
• The Counter Culture Critiqued
• Brenda and Eddy, Billy Joel
• College Protests polarizes the Nation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• SDS Militants Endorse Revolution
• A Police Riot in the Streets of Chicago
• Chicago Riots [City Report]
• Watergate Impeachment Articles

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