1. Take out a half sheet of paper and label it FF quiz 6

2. Agenda FF quiz Warmup Periodization practice Objectives Students will be able to define Periodization Students will be able to memorize fluency facts

3. Periodization Historical thinking involves the ability to analyze and construct models that historians use to organize history into discrete periods. To accomplish this, historians identify “turning points.” – “Turning point”= when a decisive change in a situation occurs Changing periodization can change a historical narrative. When did Reconstruction end? When did slavery end? When did American expansion end?

4. Periodization Explain ways that historical events and processes can be organized within blocks of time. Analyze and evaluate competing models of periodization of U.S. history.

5. Periodization practice: the personal 1. What are the major turning points for your life? List 3 and explain why they were a decisive change 2. Divide your life so far into 3 distinct periods. What would you label them? What are other ways you could divide up your “history”? How would that change the story potentially?

6. Periodizing American History Pre Colonial Colonial American Revolution Early Republic Market Revolution Civil War and Reconstruction The Gilded Age World War I

7. Periodization Practice: the Civil War Which of the following events was the most critical turning point in the arguments that led to the American Civil War? Explain why. 1820-The Missouri Compromise 1854-The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1860-Lincoln’s election to the presidency

8. Short Answer Question: Periodization 1. Using your knowledge of United States history, answer parts a, b and c. a)Briefly explain why ONE of the following periods best represents the beginning of a democracy in the United States. Rise of political parties in the 1790s Development of voluntary organizations to promote social reforms between the 1820s and the 1840s Emergence of the Democrats and the Whigs as political parties in the 1830s b)Provide at least ONE piece of evidence from the period to support your explanation. c)Briefly explain why ONE of the other options is not as persuasive as the one you chose.

9. In your own words… What is periodization?

10. Fluency fact practice Choose one fluency fact that you don’t yet know. Who What When Where Why – Significance? Context (connect to events happening at the same time)?