US History (Period Per 7) Assignments

Bring your textbook to class.  It is due.

Last make-up day for the Cold War test.  7AM in rm. 128.  If you have a Zero Period, make special arrangements immediately.

Review Brown v Board of Ed (1954)

Quiz on the Civil Rights Movement; topics:

Randolph's "March on Washington" (1941)

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Research ("snowflake") the following topics of the Cold War for a Homework Evaluation in class:

~Containment Policy

~Truman Doctrine

~Marshall Plan

~Iron Curtain

Exam Make-up 7AM in rm. 128

Essay Exam on America in World War II.  Make up on Friday, 4/1/2016 7AM in rm. 128.

 

You will expected to be able to do the following: 

• Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge.
• Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers).
• Analyze Roosevelt's foreign policy during World War II (e.g., Four Freedoms speech).
• Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler's atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans.

Appropriate vocabulary terms can be found at the end of each section in your textbook.

Bring the following items to class:

1.  Your textbook and materials for making an outline.

2.  Your High School Four Year Plan (for your Counselor)

3.  Your Skills Mastery Form for every AP you are taking next year.

Make-up Exam on Gt. Depression & New Deal 7AM in rm. 128

15:1 Plan, read & outline, and then scan just before class.

Please bring some 3x5 cards to class as you'll want to start your events snowflakes early!

Please bring your textbook to class Wed.

Essay Exam on the Great Depression & New Deal. Make-up is 7AM in room 128 on Friday, March 4, 2016.

 

Be able to address the following Study Questions using the subject of the test, events from that era, and appropriate vocabulary:

¿What causes an economic meltdown?

¿Why is land management everyone’s concern?

¿What occupations survive economic crisis?

¿Is it fair to say that governments never change?

¿In what ways do people respond to crises?

¿Should the government be involved in the economic welfare of individual citizens?

 

Study Events:

Bonus Army

Civilian Conservation Corps

Dust Bowl

F.D. Roosevelt, President

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

First Hundred Days

Grapes of Wrath

Great Depression

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Herbert Hoover, President

National Industrial Recovery Act

New Deal

Pearl Harbor Attack

Second New Deal

Securities & Exchange Commission

Social Security Administration

Stock Market Crash

Wagner Act

Works Progress Administration

 

Study Vocabulary:

Depression

Discrimination

Dole

Federal Regulation

Foreclosure

Margin

Mass Media

Moratorium

Speculation

Status Symbol

Stock

Subsidy

Unemployment

Unionization

 

Ch. 14: 3 with Outline.

Read and Outline ch. 14, sec. 2.  Scan your outline before class for a homework evaluation.  Don't forget to use the formatting!

Make up for Alphabet Agencies Elevator Pitch Project 7AM today in Rm. 128.  Please be on time and plan to stay to 7:50

Outline ch. 14, sec. 1 using the format listed previously.  Study your outline for a homework evaluation.

Outline ch. 13, sec. 3.  

Some clarification on the outline procedure:  Read each paragraph.  Summarize the main idea of each into about 5 abbreviated words in your own handwriting.  Write up a new line for each paragraph.  Include headings and sub-headings.  Scan the result before getting to class.  Grading will be on the above formatting and on how well it works, NOT the outline itself.

Outline ch. 13, sec. 2

Review before class.

Outline ch. 13, sec 1.

Final Exam Study Questions:

What does history teach us about working together (or failing to) in the following eras?

1. Founding Years
2. Civil War and Reconstruction
3. New Money & New Immigration (Gilded Age)
4. Progressives & Expansionists
5. Roaring ‘20s

Look up the following:  Prohibition, Volstead Act, Amendment XXI, Carrie Chapman

Look up the following for a Homework Evaluation:

• Palmer Raids
• Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” movement
• American Civil Liberties Union
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

In class, we will be analyzing the Civil Rights in the 1920s: events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties (including the KKK of the 1920s and immigration quotas) and responses by various organizations (ACLU, NAACP, ADL).

In class, we will be surveying the unifying qualities of the Harlem Renaissance in music, art, and literature (esp. Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes). There is no homework for this day.

Look up the following for a Homework Evaluation:

• Teapot Dome Scandal
• National Origins Act of 1924
• Great Depression’s “Crash” of 1929

In class, we will be discussing the policies of the Roaring 20s Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. We will be looking for similarities in economic philosophy, isolationism, corruption & personal integrity.  If you miss class, make it a point to research those with an eye for finding examples of how the country worked together (or failed to)...

Last make up for the exam Progressives & Expansionists at 7am in rm. 128.  If you fail to make the original test date and fail to make the makeup, you will fail the exam.

You are required to research the following questions:

• How was propaganda used in WWI?
• What was the Sedition Act of 1918?
• What was the Fourteen Points?   Were any achieved?
• What was the result of the “referendum” of 1920?

Essay Exam on the Progressives & Expansionists.  See the attached study guide. Make up is Monday, 12/14 in rm. 128 at 7am.  If you fail to make the original test and fail to make the makeup, you will fail the exam.

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. 

Read ch. 10, sec. 1   Study Questions:  Define -Big Stick Diplomacy, -Dollar Diplomacy, -corollary.  -Why (according to Nash) did T. Roosevelt mediate in the Russo-Japanese War?  Be able to explain how the US got the Panama Canal built!

Read ch. 7, section 4 (yes, that's right).  Study Questions:

What is an Empire?

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

What was the Open Door policy?

Why did the US take Hawaii?

How did the US end up at war with Spain?

 

Read ch. 9, sections 1 and 2. Study Questions:

What is arbitration?

What did Th. Roosevelt think about the environment, trusts, consumers, Japanese in California?

How did the Cole Strike of 1902 expand the President’s power?

How did Taft outdo Th. Roosevelt?

How did Taft cross Th. Roosevelt?

Explain the Election of 1912!

What is a regulatory commission?

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

 

NOTE:  The "Forklift worksheet" is due by Friday!  (Red tray, period 1 and 5).

Bring your textbook to class.  You will need it for a required assignment.

Read 8:3. Study Questions:

Summarize the main points of the Wisconsin idea.

Explain how Amendment XVII came about.

Why is Muller v Oregon important?

Why did the Progressives think political reform had to come before economic reform? Do you think they were right? Why?

Read ch. 8, sec. 2.  Study Questions:  Contrast the methods of the activists from the analysts.  Who was Ward, Sinclair, Rauschenbusch, Kelly, & Wells?

Elevator Pitch on a Progressive.  Rubric and explanations are in class but, in a nutshell:  Student needs to research assigned Progressive, create notecards with 3 references in them, practice aiming at a 2 min. presentation (give or take 30 seconds), turn-in the cards, and present to peers without any aids.

Read ch. 7, sec. 3 (after you have read ch. 8, sec. 1)

What were the Populists and what happened to them?

 

Read Ch. 7, sec. 3.  Study Questions:

List the violent failures of the early labor movement.

Who were the Populists?

Read ch. 8, sec. 1

Describe how a political machine works.

Where did the New Immigrants come from?

What is tenement, suburb, urbanization, political machines, & trust combinations?

Read Ch. 7, sec. 2.  Study Questions:

Who was Edison?  Carnegie?  Bell?

What is consumerism?

What is the Gilded Age?

Describe Social Darwinism.

Contrast vertical integration & horizontal integration monopolies.

Define:  National market 

Read ch. 7, sec 1.  Study Questions:

Who built theTranscontinental railroad?  How?

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.

Read 6:2  Study Questions:

What is Emancipation, Lynching?

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

 

Essay Exam on the Founding Years, Leading up to the Civil War.  You will be asked to write a 5-paragraph formatted essay on the following topics to address the following questions.  Study topics are to be found in chapter 1 through 5 in the textbook.  Your Cornell-formatted notes are due when you take the test (no late work at all).

Study Questions:

~Why are people different?  Why don't we all have one culture? politics? economics?

~Why do people revolt against an established order?

~When should you compromise and when should you not?

~Why should you care about other people's liberties?

 

The make up for this exam in 7AM in room 128 on 10/2/15.

All 3x5 flash cards are due.  They should cover all the major events leading up to the Civil War (all the topics we are using for the upcoming essay exam).

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, sections 2 & 3.  Study Questions:

-What is the Bill of Rights and why was it not part of the original Constitution?  Why was it added?

-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.

 

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? 

Period 1 is to also complete their case study of the Declaration of Independence.

Answer the four questions on page 45 to your Weekly Log.

Read 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. 

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?

Don't forget the Place Names assignment!  (see homework for Aug. 28, 29) Learn those States, etc.

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?

Don't forget the Place Names assignment!  (see homework for Aug. 28, 29) Learn those States, etc.