First Sheet - High School of American Studies @ Lehman College

HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE
MR. ELINSON’S U.S. HISTORY II
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Class Section HUS62H -
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Date:
Reading Schedule:
-pgs. 181-190 (Transportation Innovations) by Monday April 3rd, 2017(Quiz)
-pgs. 190-196* (end of page) by Friday April 7th, 2017 (Quiz)
-pgs 198-205 (“Peaceable Coercion”) by Thursday April 21st, 2017 (Quiz)
-pgs. 205-209 (THE WAR OF 1812) by Monday April 24th, 2017 (Quiz)
Our last five pages of the chapter will involve a timeline activity
HUS62H EXAM is on ______________
(NOTE: Many of the pages between pgs 186-196* have very little text, but we must still
plan ahead to complete them.)
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rationalism
localism
Jeffersonians
“crusade against
ignorance”
educated electorate
secular
paternal
illiteracy
intellect
“noble savages”
segregated
scarcely
prerequisite
epidemics
Benjamin Rush
purging
midwives
eroding
nationalism
Noah Webster
usages
Washington Irving
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acclaim
satirical
Mason Weems
ecclesiastical
“deism”
“unitarianism”
schism
denominations
revitalize
Methodism
Baptists
evangelical fervor
“camp meeting”
Second Great
Awakening
predestination
accelerated
preponderance
penetrated
egalitarian
repudiating
“freethinkers”
skilled mechanics
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Samuel Slater
ingenious
Eli Whitney
cotton gin
profound
preeminence
tonnage
interior
James Watt
Robert Fulton
Clermont
“turnpike era”
radiating
amenities
Thomas Jefferson
conciliatory
Pierre L’Enfant
provincial
inhospitable
pretension
etiquette
shrewd
 The lists will shrink as we come across more of the same terms this year. All words from the text
must be defined in our own words within our summary notes and they will be checked in class
and counted as Home Work on the due dates of the notes.