1. Power Statements PEDS Change over time
AP U.S. History
Power Statements
PEDS
Change over time

2. Power Statement
A power statement is one sentence that states the subject and characterizes the impact of the subject.
This can be used when reading passages in the textbook or and other readings.
It can also be used when trying to characterizing an event, person, etc.

3. Example:
The Articles of Confederation though weak kept the Union together long enough to form British colonies.

4. Collaborative Activity
Create a power sentence for the following topics.
Group 1: The Incans (4)
Group 2: The Aztec (4)
Group 3:The Mayans (5)
Group 4: Agricultural Revolution (8)
Group 5:Prince Henry the Navigator (11)

5. Sample Power Sentences
The agricultural revolution transformed the tribes into cultural empires.
The Incans created a powerful empire and developed a complex political system and large network of roads that welded together many tribe under on rule.

6. PEDS Political Economics Diplomacy (relation with others)
Social/Cultural

7. PEDS
When answering a discussion questions or studying an historical person, event, etc. consider the political, economic, diplomatic, and social aspect.

8. Example: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
The New Deal by the FDR administration was an implementation of active government involvement in end the Great Depression and laying a foundation for the movement toward socialism in America today.

9. Collaborative Activity
Cartoons

10. Change overtime/impact
Highlight transition
Highlight impact

11. Example
Surviving Hard Times: American society during the Great Depression
Americans were dealing with the drawbacks of the Great Depression by exposing themselves to the entertainment of the 20th century which included radio, movies, and literatures opposed to those who were finding was to adapt to absence of love ones and poverty.

12. Collaborative Activity