US History (Period 6) Assignments

The Final will be multiple choice.  Review the following topics as they will be included:

Affirmative Action,  Alger Hiss case,  Amendment XXIV,  Amendment XXVI, American Federation of Labor, American Indian Movement, Battle of the Bulge, Bay of Pigs invasion, Beat Generation, Berlin Blockade & Airlift, Berlin Wall, Birmingham municipal strikes, Blood plasma, Bonus Army, Brown v Board of Education, California Central Valley Project, California Master Plan, California Proposition 209, Camp David Peace Accords, Casablanca Conference, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Cold War, Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Riders, Containment Policy, Crash of 1929, Cuban Missile Crisis, Department of Energy, Dred Scott v Sanford, Dust Bowl, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive privilege, Federal Reserve, Four-Forty Second Regimental Combat team, G.I. Bill (1944), Great Depression causes, Great Society, Head Start, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Hollywood Ten, Hoover, International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, Interstate highway system, Iran-Contra Scandal, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iron Curtain, Iwo Jima & Okinawa, Kennedy, Korean War, Korematsu v US, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Little Rock integration protests, Malcolm X, March on Washington 1963, Marshall Plan, Thurgood Marshall, McCarthyism, Battle of Midway, Montgomery bus boycott, Mutual assured destruction, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Labor Relations Board, National Organization for Women, New Deal, New Frontier, Nixon, Normandy Invasion, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pearl Harbor attack, Penicillin, Plessey v Ferguson, Jackson Pollock, Potsdam Conference, Radar in WWII, A. Phillip Randolph, Reagan, The Reagan coalition, Regents v Bakke, Religious Right, Rock and Roll, Roe v Wade, F.D. Roosevelt, Rosie the Riveter, Second Red Scare, South-East Asia Treaty Organization, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Space Defense Initiative, St. Lawrence Seaway, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Taft-Hartley Act, Tariff, Teheran Conference, Tennessee Valley Authority, Relief – Recovery – Reform, Townsend Clubs, Truman, Truman Doctrine, Tuskegee Airmen, United Farm Workers,  United Nations, Vietcong, Volunteers In Service To America, Voting Rights Act of 1965, War on Poverty, Watergate Scandal, Watts Riots, White collar & blue collar jobs, Works Progress Administration, World War II strategies, Yalta Conference.

Read 25:3 on Bush Sr.

Make-up for Exams in rm. 128 at 7 AM.  Excused absences only.

Read 22:1 on "Women's Lib" Movement:  NOW, ERA, Roe v Wade

Read 21:2 on the Warren Court

Read 21:1 Kennedy's Cold War & Johnson's Great Society:  New Frontier, Berlin Wall

Read 20:4 Malcom X, Watts, MLK assassination

Read 20:3:  CORE, Selma, Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965)

Read 20:2 Montgomery Bus Boycott:  Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, et al

Read 20:1 Brown v Board of Education, Little Rock protests

Read 19:3 Eisenhower's Domestic Politics:  Checkers, NASA, Kennedy-Nixon Debates

Read 19:2 The Second Red Scare:  HUAC, Hiss, McCarrian Act, Rosenbergs, McCarthyism

Bring your textbook to class.  We will be looking at 19:1 - Truman's Domestic Policy:  Taft-Hartley Act, ReElection, Fair Deal

Make up for the exam is 7AM in rm. 128.  

Exam on 17:1 through 18:2.

Please bring your textbook to class.

Read 18:2

Note:  Baby boom, Growth of TV, Role of women in the 1950s.

Read 18:1

Note:  G.I. Bill (1944), Growth of the service sector, Suburbs

Read 17:4

Note:  CIA, Suez crisis, Castro's Cuba

Read 17:3

Note:  Atomic bomb, Brinkmanship, Sputnik 

 

Read 17:2

 

A quiz is being planned that will cover the following subjects:

• International Monetary Fund
• World Bank
• World Trade Organization (and "GATT")
• UN
• Containment Policy
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin airlift
• NATO (and SEATO)
• Communist China
• Korean War

*Note that the first three will require research beyond the textbook!

 

Read 17:1

Note:  Yalta, UN, Containment policy, Truman doctrine, Marshall plan

Make up for WWII Exam at 7:00 AM in room 128.

World War II Essay exam.  The purpose is to see what you learned in this US History unit and how you use it.  Demonstrate your knowledge of Society & Culture, Politics & Warfare, and Economics & Environmental in WWII and it's impact on those fields.

Read 16:3

Read 16:2

Read 16:1.

Make up for Exam on the Great Depression & New Deal.  Exam starts at 7:05 AM in rm 128.  Do not be late.  Make-up is available only to those who have an excused absence from the original test date.

Make up for Elevator Pitch planned for 7:20 AM in rm. 128.  Do not be late, plan to stay until 7:50, have more data memorized as someone else may present your subject as well.

Read 15:3

Read Ch. 15, sec. 2

Research the "America First" movement, the Lend-Lease Act (1941) & the Atlantic Charter (1941)

THIS IS THE NEW DATE FOR THE NEW DEAL ELEVATOR PITCH PRESENTATIONS!

 

SPECIAL NOTE ON MAKE-UP PRESENTATIONS:

Excused absences will have to present at a later date; those presentations must have twice as much information available as some agencies will be duplicated at the same meeting - you will need to tell us more than the previous speaker.  The actual date is yet to be determined (although it will start at 7AM and last until all have presented).  Watch this site for more information.

THE DATE FOR THIS MAKE-UP IS BEING PUT OFF INDEFINITELY.  

 

THE TEST WAS DELAYED.  PERIOD FIVE WILL TAKE IT THIS THURSDAY, PERIODS 2, 4, AND 6 WILL TAKE IT THIS FRIDAY.  

 

Essay Exam on the Great Depression and the New Deal

 

The test will require you to be knowledgable in the 

politics, and

economics & environment of the Great Depression & New Deal.

Make-up for excused absences will BE POSTED AT A LATER DATE

Read 14:3 about the Programs of the New Deal; Section Assessment?

ALSO, your Elevator Pitch on the Alphabet Agencies of the New Deal is due!

 

Read 14:2  Critics of the New Deal

Check the Section Assessment!

Read 14:1 on FDR

As always, look at the section assessment at the back.

Read 13:3 Lifestyle

As always, look at the section assessment at the back.

Read 13:2

As always, look at the section assessment at the back.

 

Read 13:1 The Crash

As always, look at the Section Assessment at the end.

 

•How did the US expand it's influence throughout the Pacific Rim around 1900 and is imperialism "better" for everyone?

•Analyze the foreign policies of Th. Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson and what is more effective; threats, bribes, or being right?

•What was the impact of WWI on the home front and afterwards.  What does war do to a democracy?

•Analyze the 1920s attacks on Civil Rights and the resulting reactions.  Why can't a majority enjoy extra-constitutional privileges?

•Use the expansion of radio, movies, and the Harlem Renaissance to explain the role of culture in a materialistic society?

 

"What one event before 1900 best demonstrates Americans' ability to put aside our differences and work together?" 

 

PLEASE NOTE:  THERE IS NO MAKE-UP FOR MISSING THE FINAL.

Read 12:2 and 12:3 on the Jazz Age.

Study

•Materialism

•Harlem Renaissance authors, musicians

•National Origins Act (1924)

Read 12:1 on a Standard of Living and the influence of the first American automobiles 

Study

•Middle Class

•Credit

•Mass market

•Standard of living

 

Read 11:3 and 11:4 on business in the Roaring 20s.

Study:

•American Plan

•Welfare Capitalism

•White collar worker

•Assembly line

Read 11:2 on the Roaring 20s Presidents

Study questions:

•What was the Tea Pot Dome Scandal?

•What was Calvin Coolidge best known for?

•What was Andrew Mellon's role in the Administration?

•Why did Herbert Hoover gain such popularity during the Coolidge Administration?

•What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact and what was the Dawes Plan?

Read 11:1 on the First Red Scare, Marcus Garvey

Study Questions:

• Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
• What were the Palmer Raids?
• What were the factors that encouraged the “Great Migration”?
• What was the “Garvey Movement”?
• What was Prohibition?

Read 10:4 on the League of Nations debate

Study questions:

•What was the European objections with the 14 Points?

•What was America's objections with the League of Nations?

•What was Henry Cabot Lodge's role in it's defeat?

•Who were the Irreconcilables and Reservationists?

•Why did Wilson fear Bolshevism?

Read 10:3  World War One on the home front

Study questions:

•In what ways did people cooperate with mobilization?

•In what ways did they oppose it?

•How did business, labor, react?

•Describe the Espionage & Sedition Acts.

•Explain George Creel's role in the war effort.

 

 

Read 10:1 and 10:2 about Panama, the Philippines Insurgency, as well as the Big Stick, Dollar, and Moral Diplomacies.

Make-up for the exam on the National Market, New Immigrants, & Progressives is Friday morning at 7AM in room 128.  Excused absences are the only people admitted.  Do not be late.

Read 7:4; Open Door Policy & the Spanish-American War

Study questions:

•Analyze the Open Door Policy

•Explain how the US won the Spanish-American War.

•Name five supporting events that document US expansionism in the nineteenth century.

•Define armistice.

•Explain how the Monroe Doctrine worked and who used it.

NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE

Exam on the National Market, New Immigrants, Progressives.

 

Study Questions:

•How did the National Market create the "New Money"?

•Who were the New Immigrants and how did they bring about the social Progressives?

•Why were the Populists and massive early labor unions a failure?

•What impact did the social Progressives have?

•What impact did the political Progressives have?

 

Essential Questions:

•Why do Americans admire the rich?  How do the rich feel about the poor?

•Why do Americans fear immigrants?  Should minority immigration be banned?

•What is an American?

•How do you change the world?

•What's more important: Jobs or the environment?

Read 9-3 on Early African-American Progressives, Americanism, and the IWW. 

Read 9-2 on Wilson as a Progressive

Elevator Pitch due.

Read 9-1 TR & Taft as Progressives

Read 8-3 on the Political Progressives as a Grass Roots Movement

Read 8-2 on the Social Progressives

Read 8-1 on the New Immigrants, Political Machines, Trusts & Monopolies

Read 7-3 on the Populists and Early Labor Movements

Read 7-2 on the National Market & Social Darwinism

Excused absences may take a make-up on this date at 7 AM; don't be late.

Read 7-1, First Transcontinental Railway West

Essay Exam on Washington thru Reconstruction (1789-1877)

Study Questions:

  Can the government control the free speech of it's foreign enemies?

  Can States ignore a Federal order or law?

  Can the President ignore a Court order?

  Is racism a social norm?

  Was Reconstruction a success or failure?

Read 6:3 (Reconstruction)

Read 6:2 (Civil War)

Read 6:1 (Anti-Bellum America)

Read 5:3 (Jackson, the Second Great Awakening)

Read 5:2 (Early Industry) 

Note:  The make-up for excused absence during the Test on the Founding Years will be at 7AM in rm 128 9/21/2018.  Do not be late.

Read 5:1 (Lewis & Clark, Early West, Cherokee Expulsion)

Read chapter 4, section 3.  Be ready to take a homework evaluation.

Short Answer test on the Founding Years (Ch. 1-4 of your textbook).

Bill of Rights.  Read Ch. 4, sec. 2

BRING YOUR TEXT TO CLASS!

Constitution:  Read ch. 4, sec. 1

Note:  Make up for excused absence during the US Placenames Superquiz takes place 7 AM in rm. 128 on Friday 9/7/2018.  Do NOT be late.

American Enlightenment:  Read ch. 3, sec. 3.

American Revolution:  Read ch. 3, sec. 2  Homework evaluation will be for THIS section only.

Super Quiz on the 50 states, capitals, major cities, physical features.

Read Ch. 3, sec. 1

Great Awakening, French/Indian Wars:  Read ch. 2, sec. 4

Geography of the Colonies:  Read ch. 2 section 3 (not 1).

Read chapter 1, sections 1 and 2.  Be able to take a quiz on the reading when you come back.