US History (Period 1) Assignments

For your Final, you will have to be able to thoroughly identify and explain the cause & effect of all of the following events:

• Iranian Hostage Crisis
• Iran-Contra Scandal
• Gulf War (Desert Storm)
• North American Free Trade Agreement
• 2000 Presidential Elections

Look up the following items about LBJ:

•Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (1965)

•My Lai Massacre (1967)

•Tet Offensive (1968)

•Fair Housing Act (1968)

•Democratic National Convention in Chicago protests (1968)

 

Make-up for the Exam on the Cold War before 1960 will be given at 7AM in room 128.  Do not be late.

Bring your textbooks to class; we will be researching & talking about...

•Dred Scott v Sandford (1854)

•13th, 14th, 15th Amendments (1865-1870)

•Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

•A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington (1941)

•Executive Order 9981 (1948)

•Brown v Board of Education (1954)

•Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

•Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)

Exam.  Be albe to answer the following prompts using facts & processes from the Cold War before 1960:

Per. 1:  Read ch. 19:2 for a HW evaluation

Everyone:  Bring your textbook to class; we will be doing 19:3 (rise of Richard Nixon)

Bring your textbook to class; we will be doing 19:2 (the Second Red Scare)

Bring your textbook to class; we will be doing 19:1 (Labor Unions under Truman)

Read 18:2.

Bring your textbook to class; we will be doing 18:3 (the Poor of the 1950s)

 

Bring your textbook to class; we will be doing 18:1 (the GI Bill)

 

Bring your book to class.  We will be taking a look at Ch. 17-3; esp. Brinkmanship, Sputnik, Military-Industrial Complex, SANE.

Textbooks are required for class.  We will be outlining 17:2

Bring your textbook.  We will be looking at Truman's Cold War up to 1947 (17:1).  We will also be looking at the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, GATT, and the WTO.

Make up for the essay exam on WWII.  Only people with excused absences may participate.  Make up is at 7AM sharp.

Essay test on America in World War II.

Read 16:3.

Read 16:2

Read 16:1.

Read 15:3.

Research the battles of Iwo Jima & Okinawa

Know the main points of the following war conferences:

•Casablanca (1943)

•Tehran (1943)

•Yalta (1945)

Excused absences only:  Make up for the test on the New Deal and WWII in rm. 128 at 7AM.  Do not be late.

Research Pearl Harbor (1941) and Midway (1942)

Test on chapters 14 and 15 (the New Deal & WWII)

Read 15:2 America First movement; protests & laws, Pearl Harbor

Read 15:1 Rise of the Axis Powers, Appeasement

Read 14:3 Minorities in the New Deal, Socialized Government

Excused absences only:  Make up for the Elevator Pitch on the New Deal Programs.  7AM, room 128.  DO NOT BE LATE.

Elevator pitch postponed to Wed.  Be ready to go on Wed.

Read 14:2 Critics, Courts, 2nd New Deal, Art & Politics

Note:  Elevator Pitch on the New Deal programs is due on this day.  See Mr. Gray for details.

Excused absences only:  Make up for test on Roaring 20s and Great Depression at 7AM in rm 128.  Do not be late.

Read chapter 14, section 1 (14:1) on FDR, First Hundred Days, Fireside Chats

Research the WWII attacks on Pearl Harbor and Midway.  Be ready to write about them.

Essay test on ch. 12 and 13; the Roaring 20s culture, The Crash, the culture of the Great Depression.

Read 13:3  on the arts of the Great Depression

Read 13:2 on the impact of The Great Depression

Read 13:1 on The Crash

Don't forget to read 12:3 if you haven't already done so.

Read 12:3 on the Jazz Era (Prohibition)

Read 12:2 on the Harlem Renaissance

Read 12:1 on technology in the Roaring 20s

Bring your textbook to class!

Final Essay Exam on Expansionism and the Politics & Economy of the Roaring 20s.

 

One of the following questions will be on your test:

•Does the US need foreign trade?

•How does diplomacy work?

•When do you compromise and when do you not?

•How do politicians use anarchism?  Do they?

•Is business wise?  Should it run government?

 

Use examples from the US's history in 

•Imperialism

•Big Stick, Dollar, & Moral Diplomacy

•US Homefront in WWI.

•Fight over the League of Nations

•Red Scare, Women's Suffrage

•Politics and Economics in the Roaring 20s.

 

Some of the events you should use:

• ACLU
• Amendment XIX
• Amendment XVIII
• Dawes Plan
• Espionage & Sedition Acts (1917-1918)
• First Red Scare
• Ford’s Assembly Line
• Gentlemen’s Agreement
• Hawaii Annexation
• Influence of Sea Power
• Influenza Epidemic
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• League of Nations debate
• NAACP
• National Origins Act
• Open Door Notes
• Panama Canal
• Panamanian Revolution
• Plessy v Ferguson
• President Coolidge
• President Harding
• President Hoover
• President T. Roosevelt
• President Taft
• President Wilson
• Spanish-American War
• Tea Pot Dome scandal
• The Crash
• UNIA (“Back to Africa”)
• World War One
• Veracruz Invasion

 

Read n11-4 Assembly Line.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: How did the assembly line technique make life better? How did it make it worse?

Read n11-3 New Industry.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: What were people missing that they approved of the glorification of business? How did business provide it?

Read n11-2 Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Dawes Plan.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: Why did Conservatives become popular in the 1920s?

Read n11-1 Red Scare, Garvey’s UNIA, Women’s Suffrage.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: In what ways did the War bring about massive turmoil in the US?

Read n10-4 The 14 Points, Wilson v Lodge.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: Why did the League of Nations fail to gain support in the US?

Read n10-3 WWI Home front, Propaganda.  As always review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: How did WWI change life at home?

No homework is due today; our in-class topics will the Moral Diplomacy & the Zimmerman Telegram; our focus will be on how our relationship with Mexico got us into World War I.  If you need to review these subject, you will find them in the textbook at n10-2.

Read n10-1 Imperialism, Panama, Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy.   Review the Section Assessment before class.  Study question: Compare Big Stick Diplomacy with Dollar Diplomacy.

Make up for exam 7AM in room 128.  Do not be late.

No homework is due today; our in-class topics will be the Open Door and the Spanish-American War.  We will focus on how business drives our foreign policy.  If you need to review, you'll find the materials in 07-4 in the textbook.

Essay exam:  

 

 

Your test will be a standard 5 paragraph essay on ONE of the following prompts:

•When does laissez-faire hurt the public good?

•If corruption is so bad for the economy, why is it tolerated?  Is it?

•What is the worth of a reputation?

•How does one person change the world?

•Why do "grass-roots" movements succeed?

•Who runs the country; money or politics?

 

You will be expected to demonstrate understanding (facts & processes) on the following topics:

Review day:  Bring your textbook and all your notes.

Read ch 9-1 T. Roosevelt & Taft as Progressives

Study question:  Who accomplished more, TR or Taft?

There will be NO 7AM makeup for the "Elevator Pitch."  Just bring your presentation to the next class and we'll all see what you got.

Read 8-3 Grassroots Progressive Politics, Labor Reform

Study question:  Why did the Progressives turn from economic reform to politics?

Read ch. 8-2  Social Progressives & Muckrakers

Study question:  How did the Progressives get backing?

Make up essay exam at 7AM in rm. 128.

Read 7-3 Populists & Early Labor Failures

Study question:  Why do utopians fail?

NOTE:  Your "Elevator Pitch" on the Progressives is due on this day.

Read ch. 8-1  New Immigrants, Political Machines, Trusts.  

Study question:  How did the New Immigrants impact society & politics?

Read ch. 7-2.  Know what the industrial monopolies were as well as their impact.

Essay test on 1787 through 1873.  Topics of study

•Debate, ratification, & first implementation of the Constitution

•Second Great Awakening & early abolitionism

•Early westward expansion

•Federal authority vs. States' rights

•Effects of the Civil War (esp. Reconstruction)

Make up on Friday morning at 7AM (10/13) in rm. 128.

Read and outline 7-1.  Study question:  What was the impact of the First Transcontinental Railroad?

Read and outline 6-3.  Study question:  What were the social, political, and economic ideas behind Reconstruction and why did it fail?

Read and outline 6-2.  Study question:  How did the North win the Civil War and what hope did the South have?

Read and outline 6-1.  Study question:  What were the historical causes of the Civil War?

Read and outline 5-3.  Study question:  What was the cause and effect of the Second Great Awakening?

Read and outline 5-2.  Study question:  How does technology influence culture, politics, & the economy?

Read and outline 5-1.  Study question:  How did the promise of new land influence the culture, politics, & economics of the new US?

Read and outline 4-3.  Study Question:  Why couldn’t the Founding Fathers agree about the nature of the Constitution?

Make up for the Essay Test on American History before the Constitution at 7AM in rm. 128.  Make ups for the Essay tests are only given to people who were legitimately absent the day of the original exam.

Read and outline 4-2.  Study question:  ¿What were the issues surrounding the Constitution’s creation and ratification?

Test on American History before the Constitution using a standard 5-paragraph essay format.  Prepare to document three events from each of the following subjects:

•Geography of the English Colonies (compare and contrast; land use, etc.)

•French/Indian War, First Great Awakening (and Ben Franklin's role)

•Causes of the American Revolution

•American Revolution itself

•Articles of Confederation (pluses & flaws), Events that led up to the US Constitution.

Tests will be graded upon the proper use of facts and processes.

Make-up for the test will be at 7AM, Friday 9/15 in rm. 128.

 Read and outline 4:1

 Read and outline 3:2.

 Read and outline 3:1.

 Review your cram outline for 2:4 just before class.  You will have a homework evaluation if the water don't rise.

 2:4. Read chapter 2, section 4; write out an outline ("cram outline"), scan it just before class, and be ready to take a homework evaluation.  Some study questions:  What happened in the (last) French-Indian War?  What was the Second Great Awakening?

Read Ch. 2, sec. 3 (not 1).  Make a "cram outline."

Super Quiz on US Geography.  See attached.

Bring your textbook!

Make a simple outline on ch. 1, sec. 2.

Criteria:

 1.  1 Paragraph in the text = 1 line on the outline

 2.  Each line should 3-5 words.  No more!  (Think subject>verb>object)

 3.  AbrEV8

Exceptions:  Make sure you record...

 a.  Definitions - record them in your own words

 b.  Lists

 c.  Dates

This is due at the beginning of class (no make-ups on this one if you are in school)

Don't forget your textbook!

 Read the textbook:  Chapter 1, section 1.  Be ready to take a quiz on the reading.