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.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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
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