Wed/Mon. 5/18-23: Read 770-778
Tuesday. 5/24: Read 778-791
Wed/Thrs, 5/25-26: Read 791-799
Friday, 5/27: Test
Big Questions
1. What factors and events caused the Great Depression?
2. Why was FDR such a successful politician? Why was Hoover a failure?
3. Describe the differences between the First, Second, and Third New Deals.
4. Describe the new Democratic coalition created by FDR?
5. How did the war New Deal affect the labor movement?
6. How did the New Deal change government?
7. Why did the FDR’s “court-packing” scheme fail?
8. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?
9. What is Keynesian economics?
Know the significance of the following:
New Deal Programs: Emergency Banking Relief Act; Glass-Steagall Act.; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rural Electrification Administration; Truth in Securities Act; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Resettlement Administration
Economics: Roosevelt Recession; John Maynard Keynes
Labor: Wagner Act; National Labor Relations Board; AFL; CIO; John L. Lewis; Trade union; Industrial Union; UAW; Sit-down strike;
Politics: FDR; Al Smith; Herbert Hoover; Fr. Coughlin; Dr. Townsend; Huey Long; Court-packing scheme
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
The Politics of Boom and Bust
Fri/Mon 5/13-16: Conservativism Returns: Read 746-760
1. Why were conservative Republicans more successful in the 1920s than the previous decade?
2. How did they change the direction of domestic and foreign policy?
3. What were thepolitical scandals of the period?
4. What happened to the money that American banks loaned to Europe?
Tuesday 5/17: Hoover and The Great Depression: Read 760-768
1. Why did the economy crash in 1929?
2. How did Hoover react?
3. How successful was he in solving the crisis?
Monday, May 2, 2016
Cultural Change & Conflict 1920s
Tues/Wed, 5/3-4: Read 720-731 Cultural Conflict in the 1920s 1. How did World War I affect the political climate of the 1920s, especially for socialists?
2. In what ways did the 1920s see a rise in nationalism and what were the results of this rise?
3. Why was prohibition finally enacted? What were the results?
4. In what ways was this a era a period of cultural conflict between traditionalists and modernists?
Thrs, 5/5 Read 732-745. The Birth of Mass Culture
1. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
2. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
3. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
4. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
5. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?
Monday 5/10 Term Paper Outline Due.
Know the significance of the ; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger
2. In what ways did the 1920s see a rise in nationalism and what were the results of this rise?
3. Why was prohibition finally enacted? What were the results?
4. In what ways was this a era a period of cultural conflict between traditionalists and modernists?
Thrs, 5/5 Read 732-745. The Birth of Mass Culture
1. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
2. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
3. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
4. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
5. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?
Monday 5/10 Term Paper Outline Due.
Know the significance of the ; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
World War I
Major Questions:• Why did the United States finally get involved in a European war when we had resisted them for so long?
• How did our involvement in World War I change the United States at that time?
• Did it in any way change us permanently?
Mon, 4/25; The Road to War: Read pages 688-697.
1. What factors caused the war?
2. How did the U.S. government and public respond to the war?
3. What challenges were there to the U.S. remaining neutral? Were we ever really neutral?
4. Why did the U.S. enter the war? Why did we enter on the side of Britain and France?
Tues-Wed, 4/26-27; The War and American Society: Read 697-710.
1. How did the U.S. raise an army?
2. What did the federal government do to supply the troops with the proper material and food? What long-term effect might this have had?
3. How did the war affect the economy?
4. What effect did U.S. troops have on the war? What effect did the war have on American soldiers?
5. What did the government do to get Americans to support the war?
6. Who opposed the war? What happened to those who opposed the war? Why? Was the government responsible?
Thurs/Fri 4/28-29; The Search for a New World Order: Read 710-719
1. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points generally aiming at doing? Was this a new idea? Was it a good idea?
2. Why did Wilson fail to get his Fourteen Points into the Treaty of Versailles?
3. Was the League of Nations a good idea? Why did the Senate reject it? Was it the Senate’s fault, or Wilson’s?
Monday, 5/2; TEST - Progressivism, Imperialism and World War I
Explain the significance of the following:
Lusitannia; Sussex; George Creel; General John Pershing; Eugene V. Debs; Bernard Baruch; Herbert Hoover; Zimmermann note; Selective Service Act; Committee on Public Information; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Industrial Workers of the World ; “Wobblies”; War Information Board; War Industries Board; National War Labor Board; Sixteenth Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; Nineteenth Amendment; Food Administration; Russian Revolution; Bolshevism; Big Four; Henry Cabot Lodge; collective security; Irreconcilables; Reservationists; Fourteen Points; self-determination; Treaty of Versailles; Article 10; League of Nations.
• How did our involvement in World War I change the United States at that time?
• Did it in any way change us permanently?
Mon, 4/25; The Road to War: Read pages 688-697.
1. What factors caused the war?
2. How did the U.S. government and public respond to the war?
3. What challenges were there to the U.S. remaining neutral? Were we ever really neutral?
4. Why did the U.S. enter the war? Why did we enter on the side of Britain and France?
Tues-Wed, 4/26-27; The War and American Society: Read 697-710.
1. How did the U.S. raise an army?
2. What did the federal government do to supply the troops with the proper material and food? What long-term effect might this have had?
3. How did the war affect the economy?
4. What effect did U.S. troops have on the war? What effect did the war have on American soldiers?
5. What did the government do to get Americans to support the war?
6. Who opposed the war? What happened to those who opposed the war? Why? Was the government responsible?
Thurs/Fri 4/28-29; The Search for a New World Order: Read 710-719
1. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points generally aiming at doing? Was this a new idea? Was it a good idea?
2. Why did Wilson fail to get his Fourteen Points into the Treaty of Versailles?
3. Was the League of Nations a good idea? Why did the Senate reject it? Was it the Senate’s fault, or Wilson’s?
Monday, 5/2; TEST - Progressivism, Imperialism and World War I
Explain the significance of the following:
Lusitannia; Sussex; George Creel; General John Pershing; Eugene V. Debs; Bernard Baruch; Herbert Hoover; Zimmermann note; Selective Service Act; Committee on Public Information; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Industrial Workers of the World ; “Wobblies”; War Information Board; War Industries Board; National War Labor Board; Sixteenth Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; Nineteenth Amendment; Food Administration; Russian Revolution; Bolshevism; Big Four; Henry Cabot Lodge; collective security; Irreconcilables; Reservationists; Fourteen Points; self-determination; Treaty of Versailles; Article 10; League of Nations.
Friday, April 8, 2016
American "Imperialism"
Wednesday 4/13: Stirrings of Imperialism: Read 626-640
1. Why did the United States begin to expand overseas?
2. Was this a change from earlier American foreign policy?
3. How and why did the United States acquire Hawaii? Why did Cleveland oppose the annexation?
4. Why did the United States declare war on Spain? Was it for selfish or selfless reasons?
5. Why did we invade the Philippines?
Thursday-Friday 4/14-15: The Republic as Empire: Read 640-653
1. What effect did the Platt Amendment have on Cuba and its relationship to the United States?
2. Why did the United States hold onto the Philippines? Was this the right thing to do? What were the results of the Philippine War for the Philippinos and America?
3. Did the United States become an imperialist power as a result of the Spanish-American War?Explain the arguments of the Anti-Imperialist League.
4. What was the Open Door in China? Why did the United States call for it? Was it successful?
5. Explain the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it relate to the Monroe Doctrine? Was it good for the United States? Was it good for Latin America?
6. How did the United States gain the Panama Canal? Was this just? Why was it so important to the United States?
Weds. 4/20: Taft's and Wilson's Latin American Policies: Read 675-676; 685-688. Hand in revised Roosevelt "Essay" Outline.
1. How was Dollar Diplomacy different from Roosevelt’s policies? How was it the same?
2. How was Wilson’s policy towards Latin America different? How was it the same?
3. What was the overall affect of these three presidents’ policies towards Latin America? Does it have any affect on today? Were these policies wise? Were they moral?
Know the significance of the following: The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan; Frederck Jackson Turner and his “Frontier Thesis”; Hawaii; Spanish-American War; William McKinley; William Randolph Hearst & yellow journalism; U.S.S. Maine ; Teller Amendment; Admiral Dewey; Battle of San Juan Hill; Platt Amendment; Philippines; Anti-Imperialist League; Open Door; Panama Canal; Roosevelt Corollary; Gunboat Diplomacy; “Speak Softly, but Carry a Big Stick”; Dollar Diplomacy; Woodrow Wilson; Pancho Villa
1. Why did the United States begin to expand overseas?
2. Was this a change from earlier American foreign policy?
3. How and why did the United States acquire Hawaii? Why did Cleveland oppose the annexation?
4. Why did the United States declare war on Spain? Was it for selfish or selfless reasons?
5. Why did we invade the Philippines?
Thursday-Friday 4/14-15: The Republic as Empire: Read 640-653
1. What effect did the Platt Amendment have on Cuba and its relationship to the United States?
2. Why did the United States hold onto the Philippines? Was this the right thing to do? What were the results of the Philippine War for the Philippinos and America?
3. Did the United States become an imperialist power as a result of the Spanish-American War?Explain the arguments of the Anti-Imperialist League.
4. What was the Open Door in China? Why did the United States call for it? Was it successful?
5. Explain the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it relate to the Monroe Doctrine? Was it good for the United States? Was it good for Latin America?
6. How did the United States gain the Panama Canal? Was this just? Why was it so important to the United States?
Weds. 4/20: Taft's and Wilson's Latin American Policies: Read 675-676; 685-688. Hand in revised Roosevelt "Essay" Outline.
1. How was Dollar Diplomacy different from Roosevelt’s policies? How was it the same?
2. How was Wilson’s policy towards Latin America different? How was it the same?
3. What was the overall affect of these three presidents’ policies towards Latin America? Does it have any affect on today? Were these policies wise? Were they moral?
Know the significance of the following: The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan; Frederck Jackson Turner and his “Frontier Thesis”; Hawaii; Spanish-American War; William McKinley; William Randolph Hearst & yellow journalism; U.S.S. Maine ; Teller Amendment; Admiral Dewey; Battle of San Juan Hill; Platt Amendment; Philippines; Anti-Imperialist League; Open Door; Panama Canal; Roosevelt Corollary; Gunboat Diplomacy; “Speak Softly, but Carry a Big Stick”; Dollar Diplomacy; Woodrow Wilson; Pancho Villa
Monday, April 4, 2016
The Progressives
Tuesday-Wednesday, April 5-6: The Muckrakers and the Beginnings of Progressivism; Read pages 654-664.
1. In the views of the progressives, what was wrong with America, and what did they propose to fix it?
2. Were their views revolutionary?
3. Progressivism is generally viewed by most historians as a positive movement in American politics. Were their any negative sides to progressivism?
Thursday, April 7: Roosevelt and Progressivism in the Presidency; Read pages 665-678.
Write an outline for an essay that would answer the question, "Does Teddy Roosevelt belong on Mount Rushmore?" Your answer should be an outline of an essay and may be in "bulleted" form. It should start with an introductory paragraph that includes your thesis and main ideas. You must present specific evidence to support your evidence.
Friday-Monday, April 8-11: Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Domestic Program; Read pages 579-585 in preparation for tomorrow's Wilson vs. Roosevelt debate. The debate will center on the areas of:
1. Regulation of Big Business
2. Finance, Tax and Tariffs
3. Race
4. The Environment
5. Labor
Know the significance of the following:
Muckrakers; McClure’s; Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities; Ida Tarbell; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle; Triangle Waistshirt Factory fire; Social Gospel; Jane Adams; Hull House; Eugene V. Debs; Socialist Party; commission plan; city manager; initiative; referendum; recall; direct primary; Robert LaFollette; Margaret Sanger; 16th Amendment; 17th Amendment; 18th Amendment; Theodore Roosevelt; Square Deal; Northern Securities Act; Hepburn Act; Meat Inspection Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; New Nationalism; Bull Moose Party; Conservation; John Muir; Forest Reserve Act; William Howard Taft; Mann-Elkins Act; Woodrow Wilson; New Freedom; Louis Brandeis; Underwood-Simmons Tariff; Federal Reserve Act; Federal Trade Commission; Clayton Antitrust Act; Workman’s Compensation
1. In the views of the progressives, what was wrong with America, and what did they propose to fix it?
2. Were their views revolutionary?
3. Progressivism is generally viewed by most historians as a positive movement in American politics. Were their any negative sides to progressivism?
Thursday, April 7: Roosevelt and Progressivism in the Presidency; Read pages 665-678.
Write an outline for an essay that would answer the question, "Does Teddy Roosevelt belong on Mount Rushmore?" Your answer should be an outline of an essay and may be in "bulleted" form. It should start with an introductory paragraph that includes your thesis and main ideas. You must present specific evidence to support your evidence.
Friday-Monday, April 8-11: Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Domestic Program; Read pages 579-585 in preparation for tomorrow's Wilson vs. Roosevelt debate. The debate will center on the areas of:
1. Regulation of Big Business
2. Finance, Tax and Tariffs
3. Race
4. The Environment
5. Labor
Know the significance of the following:
Muckrakers; McClure’s; Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities; Ida Tarbell; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle; Triangle Waistshirt Factory fire; Social Gospel; Jane Adams; Hull House; Eugene V. Debs; Socialist Party; commission plan; city manager; initiative; referendum; recall; direct primary; Robert LaFollette; Margaret Sanger; 16th Amendment; 17th Amendment; 18th Amendment; Theodore Roosevelt; Square Deal; Northern Securities Act; Hepburn Act; Meat Inspection Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; New Nationalism; Bull Moose Party; Conservation; John Muir; Forest Reserve Act; William Howard Taft; Mann-Elkins Act; Woodrow Wilson; New Freedom; Louis Brandeis; Underwood-Simmons Tariff; Federal Reserve Act; Federal Trade Commission; Clayton Antitrust Act; Workman’s Compensation
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Gilded Age Politics
Friday/Monday, 3/18-21: Race, Ethnicity and the Bloody Shirt in Urban and National Politics: Read 502-514
1. What was machine politics? Why did it develop and why was it politically successful? Was it a successful response to the challenges of governing a city?
2. How did blacks fare politically in the 1880s and 1890s?
3. How was the Civil War used by politicians throughout this period?
Tuesday, 3/22: National Politics in the Gilded Age: Read 515-529. Review pages 618-624.
1. Why did the authors choose this title for this chapter? Is it appropriate? Why?
2. What was different about politics during the Gilded Age?
3. What were the political strengths, strategies, and platforms of each party?
4. Who were the populists? To whom did they appeal? What was their platform? Why did they fail to win a presidential election?
5. Explain the conflict over monetization of silver and gold.
6 . What is your personal opinion of politics and political leaders in the Gilded Age?
AND complete your March Madness Gilded Age Presidential Bracket
Know the significance of the following: Grantism; Schuyler Colfax; Credit Mobilier; Liberal Republicans; Horace Greeley; Panic of 1873; Rutherford B. Hayes; Election of 1876; “the bloody shirt”; Grand Army of the Republic; Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890; Roscoe Conkling; James A Garfield; Pendleton Civil Service Act, 1883; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; Jim Crow Laws; lynchings; Plessy v Feguson(1896); Depression of 1893; Greenback-Labor Party; Populists; James Weaver; William McKinley; William Jennings Bryan; Cross of Gold Speech
1. What was machine politics? Why did it develop and why was it politically successful? Was it a successful response to the challenges of governing a city?
2. How did blacks fare politically in the 1880s and 1890s?
3. How was the Civil War used by politicians throughout this period?
Tuesday, 3/22: National Politics in the Gilded Age: Read 515-529. Review pages 618-624.
1. Why did the authors choose this title for this chapter? Is it appropriate? Why?
2. What was different about politics during the Gilded Age?
3. What were the political strengths, strategies, and platforms of each party?
4. Who were the populists? To whom did they appeal? What was their platform? Why did they fail to win a presidential election?
5. Explain the conflict over monetization of silver and gold.
6 . What is your personal opinion of politics and political leaders in the Gilded Age?
AND complete your March Madness Gilded Age Presidential Bracket
Know the significance of the following: Grantism; Schuyler Colfax; Credit Mobilier; Liberal Republicans; Horace Greeley; Panic of 1873; Rutherford B. Hayes; Election of 1876; “the bloody shirt”; Grand Army of the Republic; Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890; Roscoe Conkling; James A Garfield; Pendleton Civil Service Act, 1883; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; Jim Crow Laws; lynchings; Plessy v Feguson(1896); Depression of 1893; Greenback-Labor Party; Populists; James Weaver; William McKinley; William Jennings Bryan; Cross of Gold Speech
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