SEQ TEST (Oral & Written) Tuesday, 3/3: Read post for details

You will have documents to analyze & I will call on you for answers in addition to collecting your written work. 

Details:

• The written & oral portions will each count as 50% your test grade. 
• Each of you will be called on at least once.
• "I don't know" will be a 0 for the oral section, which counts as 50% of the grade.

My suggestion?  Study. Start now.
Make a free account at www.shmoop.com & start searching social studies, US History, study guides, find your topic), or do a google search for the historical context of these topics.  Another site, khanacademy.org, is also a great site for a brief review or overview of topics & is also free to join.

You will need to know facts about & understand the historical context of the following topics:

• Did the 13th Amendment really end slavery? Defend
• What Thomas Nast is best known for
• How Reconstruction affected African Americans - details needed
• Compromise of 1877 - what it was, how it changed life for African Americans & how it led to Jim Crow - details needed
• Reconstruction Amendments - which ones, what did they do
• Rise, Goals, & Methods of the KKK - examples & details needed
• 14th Amendment - definition
• Jim Crow Laws/Era - definition, details, & examples needed
• 15th Amendment - definition
• Ways African Americans were prevented from voting (poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause) - details & examples on 3 main ways
• Republican Party (anti-slavery) vs. Democratic Party (pro-slavery) - what they wanted 
• Disenfranchise - definition
• Paper, blue or black pen, & a working highlighter are all part of the test grade as well

Remember, historical context means what caused something to happen or 

what led to something happening. 
Although you need details & examples for some questions, 

simply describing the topic 

is not historical context. 

If you do that as your answer orally or in writing, it will be a 0 on that portion of your exam.
The Regents gives no second chances!!