US History (Period Per 7) Assignments

Last chance to make up tests from this semester.  Session runs from 3:30 to 5:30 PM in room 128.

Red Tray closes at 3pm.  Look now through your folders for anything recent that you should have turned in.

Look through the following events. Which of these would best tell us about…

…the law, politics, culture, economics, and social impact of the Civil Rights Movement?

…the evolution of the Cold War through the 1960s?

Affirmative Action

Amendment XXIV

American Indian Movement

Atomic Atmosphere Test Ban Treaty

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

Birmingham Municipal Strikes

Brown v Board of Education

California Proposition 209 of 1996

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Congress of Racial Equality

Cuban Missile Crisis

Democrat National Convention, Chicago in 1968

Dred Scott v Sanford

Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

Equal Rights Amendment Proposed by Congress

Fall of Saigon

FEPC

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Hart-Celler Act

Kennedy

L.B. Johnson

Little Rock HS integration

Malcolm X

March on Washington of 1963

Martin Luther King Jr.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Moon Landing

National Organization for Women

Nixon

Plessy v Ferguson

Regents v Bakke

Sputnik

Tet Offensive

United Farm Workers

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Read ch. 24 sections 1 and 2

Read Chapter 23, sections 3 and 4.

Read chapter 23, sections 1 and 2.

Read ch. 21, sec. 1.  Know the following events:

Sputnik, Vanguard, Explorer, Mercury space programs;

Cuba's Revolution, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis;

Peace Corps, Atomic atmospheric test ban Treaty of 1963;

Berlin Wall, Kennedy's 16,000 "Advisors" to Vietnam;

Election of 1960, Kennedy's assassination and "Lost Legacy."

Read ch. 20, sec. 4

Read Ch. 20, sections 2 and 3.  If you haven't already, read the "I have a Dream" Speech.  A copy is found at

 

Read ch. 20, section 1.  Research the following:  Dred Scott v Sandford (1854), Plessy v Ferguson (1896), A. Philip Randolph, Executive Order 9981 (1948), Brown v Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, & the Little Rock crisis of 1957.

The essay exam is on the Truman & Eisenhower Years; Cold War & the Baby Boom

 

Study topics:

Arms race

Army-McCarthy Hearings

Baby Boom

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Airlift

Blacklisting

Bretton Woods Conference (IMF, WB, GATT)

Brinksmanship policy

Closed Shop

Cold War

Containment Policy

Demobilization

Discretionary income

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Electronic media

G.I. Bill (1944)

George Kennan

Harry Truman

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Korean War

Land reform

Limited war

Marshall Plan

Massive retaliation policy

Military-Industrial Complex

Nationalization

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Potsdam Conference

Sputnik

Suburbia

Suez Crisis

Taft-Hartley Act

Truman Doctrine

UDHR (aka IDHR)

United Nations

Vigilante

Yalta Conference

 

Study Questions:

In what ways can powerful countries manipulate other countries?

What is the difference between legitimate fear and the exploitation of fear?

Were the “good old days” really that good?

What are the benefits and drawbacks of conformity?

What are the effects of a consumer society?

Read ch. 19, section 3

Read ch. 19, section 2

Read ch. 19, section 1

Read ch. 18, section 2

Complete "snowflakes" (Guided Inquiry Analysis; What Who Where When Why How important) on the following topics:  Bretton Woods Institutions, Yalta, Potsdam, Hiroshima, UN, Containment policy, Truman doctrine, Marshall plan, Berlin blockade, IDHR or UDHR, NATO, Korean war.

Ch. 17, sec. 3

Imagine pitch will be given in class today.  All project materials are due then.  Period one use pink form.  All others may use the attached pdf 2 pages

Read ch. 17, sec. 2.

Exam on America in World War II. 

Who benefits from war?  Who suffers?

How can fear affect people's actions?

How do people respond to war when they are not directly involved?

How does the world impact us?  What can we do about it?

What is the value of integrity?

 

Read ch. 16, sec. 3

Read Ch. 16, sec. 2

Read ch. 16, sec. 1

Read Ch. 15, sec. 3.

Read Chapter 15, section 2.  Study questions found at the end of the reading.

Read ch. 15, section 1.  Be ready for a homework evaluation when you get back.

These study questions will NOT appear on the test but WILL help you study.  Something that YOU have to put on the test are our vocabulary terms and events of the era being studied!

-What causes an economic "meltdown"?

-Why is land management everyone's concern?

-Is it fair to say that governments never change?

-In what ways do people respond to crisis?

-Should governments be involved in the economic welfare of individuals?

-Should people give up their political freedoms for economic security?

14:3

14:2

Periods 1, 2, and 5 complete the attached chart

14:1 (skip 13:3 for now)

Periods 7 and 6 are required to complete the attached chart (see pdf) and bring it to class.

13:2.  Please bring your textbook to class for this day only.

Read Chapter 13, section 1.

Final Part One; “Join or Die” Essay Test.

To prepare for this Final, you should select and study 3 events from EACH of the following eras that best demonstrate America’s ability (or failure) to work together:

1. Founding Years (1492-1816)
2. Civil War Years (1816-1877)
3. Industrialization (1868-1901)
4. Progressives (1890-1917)
5. Expansionists (1898-1917)
6. Roaring 20s (1918-1929)

Read Ch. 12, sec. 3.  Know Quota system, Scopes Monkey Trail, Bootleggers & Speakeasies.

Read 12, sec. 2.  Know Lindbergh, Lost Generation, Harlem Renaissance.

Read 11, sec. 4 and ch. 12, sec 1.  Known Henry Ford, Assembly Line, Scientific Management, Standard of Living, Model T, Automobile Economy, Credit, Buying on Margin, Mass Media.

Read 11, sec. 3.  Know Welfare Capitalism, Managerial Revolution.

Final make up for Essay Exam on Progressives and Expansionists.  7AM, room 128.  Bring Cornell Formatted Notes

Read 11, sec. 2.  Know Harding, Collidge, Hoover, Teapot Dome, Mellon, Dawes Plan, Kellogg-Briand Plan.  HW Eval worth 6 points!

Read ch. 11, sec 1.  Know Sacco & Vanzetti, Palmer Raids, Garvey Movement, Prohibition.

Essay Exam on the Progressives and Expansionists.  Please note that Cornell Formatted Notes are due at the time you take your test.  Also, the make up will be 7 AM in Room 128 on Dec. 18th.  Study Questions and topics:

Use the events and subjects below to answer the following study questions:

How do you change the world socially?  politically?  economically?

Why do “actions speak louder than words”?

Can a democracy run a “just war”?

Short of war, how can a major poser influence others?

Is politics moral?  should it be?

 

Amendment XIX

Amendment XVI

Amendment XVII Veracruz Invasion

Amendment XVIII

Children’s Bureau

Federal Reserve

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Hiram Johnson

Hull House

Influence of Sea Power

Jones, Mayor of Toledo, 1897

Jungle

League of Nations Debate

Northern Securities v. US

Open Door Notes

Panama Canal

Panamanian Revolution

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Sherman Antitrust Act

Spanish-American War

Theodore Roosevelt

William Taft

Wisconsin Idea

Woodrow Wilson

World War I

 

Alliance

Annexing territory

Arbitration

Big Stick diplomacy

Bolshevism

Conscription

Corollary

Coup

Direct primary

Dollar diplomacy

Emigrate

Expansionism

Grassroots politics

Initiative

Irreconcilables & Reservationists

Lobbyists

Manifest destiny

Mobilization

Moral diplomacy

Neutrality

Progressive

Propaganda

Recall

Referendum

Regulatory commission

Self-determination, national

Socialism & Capitalism

Square Deal

Yellow journalism

Zimmerman note

 

Read Ch. 10, sec. 4.  Study Questions:

Why was the League of Nations so important to Wilson?  Why did the Senate oppose it?  What is bolshevism?  irreconcilables?  reservationist?

Read Ch. 10, sec, 3.  Study Questions:

What did Hoover, Creel, and the AFL do for the War effort?

What is mobilization? conscription? propaganda?

Read Ch. 10, sec. 2.  Study Questions:  ~List the events that led up to the US involvement in WWI.  ~How did Wilson continue the policies of TR and Taft?  ~What did the UK hope to gain by releasing the Zimmerman Telegram?  ~Define Self-determination, Coup, Alliance, Neutrality, Emigrate.  Don't forget to complete the questions on p. 303 for your Weekly Log.

Read ch. 10, sec. 1  Bring your textbook to class.  Study Questions:  Define -Big Stick Diplomacy, -Dollar Diplomacy, -corollary.  -Why (according to Nash) did T. Roosevelt mediate in the Russo-Japanese War?

Reading & written work!  Read Ch. 7, section 4 (on "Empire").  Make a timeline of all the dates listed in the reading!  Due in class (late work is 1/2 credit)!

Read Ch. 9, sec. 2.  Study Questions:

What was Wilson's background?  Why was that an advantage?

What is a regulatory commission?

How did Wilson reform banks?  regulate trusts? reduce tariffs?

Answer questions on p.261 in your weekly log! Also read ch. 9, sec. 1; study questions:

What is arbitration?

What did T. Roosevelt think about the environment, trusts, consumers?

How did the Coal Strike of 1902 expand the President's power?

 

Ch. 8, sec. 3.  Some study questions:

What is a direct primary, initiative, referendum, and recall?

What was Muller v Oregon?

Why did the progressives go after political reform before economic reform?

Special note:  Last chance to make up Exam:

 

Read ch. 8, sec. 2.  Study Question:  Contrast the methods of the activists from the analysts. 

Essay exam on U.S. Reconstruction, Industrialization, & the New Immigration (from 1865 to 1900)

 

Make up on Monday morning, Nov. 3 in rm. 128, 7 AM

• Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
• Did political parties function well?
• Did the US economically recover from the Civil War?
• Were the Captains of Industry good for the nation?
• Did the New Immigration have an impact on the US?

Use the following events, people, and ideas to create a five-paragraph essay on the above study questions:

• Abraham Lincoln
• Amendment XIII
• Amendment XIV
• Amendment XV
• American Federation of Labor
• Amnesty
• Andrew Johnson
• Bell’s Telephone
• Bessemer Process
• Black codes
• Carpetbagger
• Century of Dishonor
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Civil War
• Dawes Severalty Act
• Edison’s Light Bulb
• Emancipation
• Gerrymandering
• Hayes-Tilden Compromise
• Haymarket Bombing
• Homestead
• How the other half Lives
• Hull House
• Immigrant
• Injunction
• Jungle
• Lynching
• Monopoly
• National market
• New Immigration
• Octopus
• Political machine
• Populists
• Pullman Strike
• Reconstruction
• Sharecropping
• Significance of the Frontier
• Social Darwinism
• Standard Oil
• Strike
• Suburb
• Tenement
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Tweed Prosecution
• U.S. Grant
• Union
• Urbanization
• US Steel
• Vertical & horizontal integration

Progressive oral report due:  Two min., no aids.

Read Ch. 7, sec. 3.  Study Questions:

List the violent failures of the early labor movement.

Who were the Populists?

Bring your textbook to class.

We will be outlining ch. 8, sec. 1 in class.

Read Ch. 7, sec. 2.  Study Questions:

Describe Social Darwinism.

Contrast vertical integration & horizontal integration monopolies.

Define:  National market 

Read ch. 7, sec 1.  Study Questions:

How did the federal transportation policy promote westward movement?

Contrast Native Americans' view and Settlers' view of westward movement.

Define:  Homestead, Transcontinental railroad, Government boarding school.

Read ch. 6, sec. 3.  Study Questions:

What were the reasons for the decline of Reconstruction?

Define Amnesty, Black codes, Sharecropping, Carpetbagger, Gerrymandering.

A makeup exam will be given 7AM Monday morning 9/29/14 in rm 128.   See the assignment last week (9/25 or 9/26) for details.

Read 6:2  Study Questions:

What is Emancipation, Lynching?

What were the social, economic, and political consequences of the Civil War?

 

The upcoming essay on the years before the Civil War must be in Five Paragraph Format and demonstrate a knowledge of all the facts and processes involved. Here are some basic study questions:

-How did religion influenced our founding years?

-How did the Age of Enlightenment influence our founding documents?

-How did the relationship between Great Britain and her American English colonies become a war?

-What were the most important debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the US Constitution?

-What caused the Civil War?

A makeup exam will be given 7AM Monday morning 9/29/14 in rm 128. 

Read Ch. 6, section 1:  Be able to identify the following:

- Missouri Compromise (1820)

- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

- Compromise of 1850

- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

- Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)

- John Brown at Harper's Ferry (1859)

Read ch. 5, sec. 3 (!).  Study Questions:

• Research the "Abominable Tariffs."  What was the role of Jackson?  Calhoun?  Clay?

• How did the Second Great Awakening relate to reform movements of this time?

• Compare differing abolitionist strategies for ending slavery.

• Define Nullification, Secede, Abolitionism, Temperance.

Read ch. 4, sec. 3.  Study Questions:

-What did Hamilton do for our money that got him on the Ten Dollar Bill?

-Why did John Adams sign the Allen & Sedition Acts?
-How did Jefferson & Madison respond?

-Why is Marbury v Madison important?

-Explain how the War of 1812 got started.

For those absent during the US Geography test; the make up is Friday, 9/12 at 7AM in rm. 128.  Do not be late!

Read ch. 4, section 1 (on the Articles of Confederation).  Study Questions:

• List the flaws of the Articles of Confederation.

• Research the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 (what was it and how is it important?)

• Research the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (what was it and how is it important?)

Read Ch. 3, sec. 2. Study Questions:  What tactics did Washington use to win the war?  What contribution did Thomas Paine make? Thomas Jefferson?

Ch. 3, sec. 1 Study Questions:

What was the Proclamation of 1763 and why did the English Colonists not like it?

What was the purpose of the Sugar Act and how did it violate the Magna Carta?

What was the Stamp Act?

What is the importance of the Boston Massacre?

Why did the First Continental Congress meet?  What about the Second Continental Congress?

Who authored the Declaration of Independence and why is it important today?

Geography test.  See attached lists.  Helpful links will be posted in a few days.

Ch. 2, sec 4.  Study Questions: 

Pope’s Rebellion, King Philip’s War, Bacon’s Rebellion, & the Seven Years’ War were all called “The French & Indian Wars.” How were the French involved in most of them?   Why were the Indians upset? What is a legislature? What is revivalism? What was the Great Awakening? Who was involved? How was it important?

Read chapter 2, section 3.  Here are some study questions:

Be able to compare and contrast the New England, Middle, and Southern English Colonies in America.

¿Why did the French adopt a different policy towards the American Indians than the Spanish?

¿What were the pros and cons of the Puritan sense of religious purpose?

Read the textbook (Nash) all of chapter one.

Study questions:

Contrast the Five Themes of Geography.

Give examples of each in the United States.