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Unit 7: 1890-1945 Assignments and Due Dates
Brinkley Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26
Chapter 20 Note: Students need to understand what motivated social change at the turn of the 20th century. They must also be able to tie the reforms of the Progressive Era to those of the Populist Movement and to the antebellum reforms of the 1830s and 1840s. Also know that both Republicans and Democrats adjusted and adapted to the demands for social change by writing these demands into their platforms.
2/11/16: Lecture The Progressive Impulse. Read Chapter 20 Debating the Past, “Progressivism”
Homework: Read Brinkley 573-583. Using the textbook and Internet, research the debate that occurred in the United States over the following 4 topics: Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching crusade, women’s suffrage, prohibition, and immigration restriction. Write a one paragraph background on each topic and find 6 primary source documents for each topic including (one political cartoon, one photograph/chart/map, 4 documents with text)
2/12/16: NO SCHOOL. Continue Research. SOAPSTone of Woman’s Suffrage Document.
Homework: Read Brinkley 583-588.
2/15/16: NO SCHOOL. Continue Research. Complete Immigration Interpreting Sources and Progressive Reform Interpreting Sources.
Homework: Complete all work assigned over long weekend.
2/16/16: Review Research. Lecture Challenging the Capitalist Order
Homework: Prepare a storyboard for a documentary showing how Theodore Roosevelt exemplified and transformed the modern presidency. Organize main points and then choose images and brief quotes from Roosevelt and others that support or illustrate those points. Use your textbook as a source, pages 588-593. Read Brinkley 594-598. Review Progressive Legislation.
Homework: Continue storyboard (due 2/19). Read Brinkley 602-610.
2/17/16: Lecture The Troubled Secession-Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
Homework: Complete Chapter 20 Essential Terms and Chapter 20 Connect Assignments. Complete Chapter 20 Discussion Questions. Read Digital History Three Theories Explaining Imperialism
2/18/16: Review Digital History. Lecture The Big Stick-The Road to War
Homework: Read Digital history Alliances in Europe and War in Europe: Who was Responsible? Read Brinkley 610-616
2/19/16: Review Digital History. Read Digital History America Goes to War
Homework: Read Brinkley 616-623. Answer the following 2 questions: What new technologies of warfare were introduced during WWI? How did America prepare for the war? Use pages 612-616 in the book to answer these questions. Read WWI-Interpreting Sources
2/22/16: Review answer to questions. Lecture The Futile Search
Homework: Read Digital History The Fourteen Points and Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations.
Read Brinkley 623-629.
2/23/16: Review Digital History. Read the Red Scare.
Homework: Complete Chapter 21 Essential Terms and Chapter 21 Connect Assignments. Complete Chapter 21 Discussion Questions. Read Brinkley 633-640.
2/24/16: Lecture The New Culture. Read A Conflict of Cultures
Homework: Read The Digital History Conservative Policies and Presidents. Read Controversies of the 1920s. Read Brinkley 640-653.
2/25/16: Review Digital History. Lecture Republican Government
Homework: Read Digital History The Roaring Twenties, Read America in the World and Patterns of Popular Culture. Read Brinkley 654-657.
2/26/16: Read Digital History Prosperity: Fact or Myth.
Homework: Read Chapter 5 of Frederick Allan Lewis and answer the question: Compare changes in morality in the 1920s with changes in morality in the early 21st century.
2/29/16: Review Chapter 5. Split the following topics: Republicans in the Northeast, Democrats in the Old South, writer in Harlem Renaissance movement, Japanese immigrant in California, Mexican immigrant from southern California, African-American sharecropper, flapper, American farmer in Oklahoma, worker at a Ford automobile factory. Write a brief description that describes who they are, what their daily life is like, some specifics about their job, political attitudes, and what they see in their future (decade away).
Homework: Finish research
3/1/16: Go over research. Compare/contrast groups and answer question: Why do the 1920s continue to be called the Roaring Twenties? Is there a better phrase to describe this “New Era?” Begin Chapter 22 Discussion Questions.
Homework: Finish Chapter 22 Discussion Question. Complete Chapter 22 Essential Terms and Chapter 22 Connect Assignments. Read Digital History Rise and Crash. Read Brinkley 659-669.
3/2/16: Read Digital History The Depression and What Caused the Great Depression
Homework: Select 3 political cartoons from the Great Depression Era. Analyze each cartoon by answering the following: Subject, people in the cartoon, audience, and message. Read Brinkley 669-675.
3/3/16: Lecture The American People in Hard Times
Homework: Identify cultural developments in the 1930s that set the decade apart culturally from the 1920s. Use pages 669-675. What type of culture are we seeing emerge during this decade? What type of medium is being used and why? Read Brinkley 675-681.
3/4/16: ACT 80 DAY! Create a list of financial crises or panics in US History, beginning with the Panic of 1819. Identify ways in which these crises had continuity or change in causes, government response, duration, and lasting impact.
Homework: Finish research. Digital History Herbert Hoover and the Presidency. Complete Chapter 23 Essential Terms and Chapter 23 Connect Assignments.
3/7/16: Review Digital History. Lecture The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover. Read America in the World.
Homework: Create a list and compare and contrast the response of Herbert Hoover and FDR to the Great Depression. Complete Chapter 23 Discussion Questions. Read Brinkley 683-690.
3/8/16: Lecture Relief, Recovery, Reform. Read Digital History FDR and the Depression.
Homework: Research the programs of FDR’s first 100 and second 100 days in office (New Deal/Second New Deal) CCC, FDIC, WPA, Social Security, AAA, TVA, etc. Read Brinkley 690-697. Read FDR’s First Inaugural Address Excerpt.
3/9/16: Review Research. Lecture Social Security, etc. Read Social Security Act
Homework: Research the 3 main critics of FDR’s New Deal. Use pages 690-691 to assist. Read Brinkley 697-705.
3/10/16: Review Research. Read Digital History The Supreme Court and the New Deal.
Homework: Read Debating the Past. Answer the following question: What were the limits and legacies of the New Deal? Be sure to discuss African Americans, Native Americans, Women, West and South United States, and the National Economy.
3/11/16: Review Research. Chapter 24 Discussion Questions
Homework: Complete Chapter 24 Essential Terms and Chapter 24 Connect. Read the Great Depression and the New Deal. Read Brinkley 709-718.
3/14/16: Lecture The Diplomacy of the New Era. Read Digital History The Rise of the Dictators
Homework: Research American foreign policy from 1933 (recognition to Soviet Union) through December 8, 1941 focusing on events that led America to change its isolationist policy to the forefront of world affairs. Not only should you identify events, but be able to give a brief description of each event. Include all of the neutrality acts and the laws that allowed America to aid the allied nations of Western Europe in 1940-41. Then, compare those events that led to America’s involvement in WWI. Read and use Brinkley 712-725.
3/15/16: Review Research. Read Digital History Isolationists.
Homework: Read Digital History Munich. Read WWII Interpreting Sources
3/16/16: Lecture The Road to Pearl Harbor. Complete Chapter 25 Discussion Questions
Homework: Complete Chapter 25 Essential Terms and Chapter 25 Connect. Read Brinkley 728-732.
3/17/16: Lecture War on Two Fronts
Homework: Read Digital History War in Europe. Construct a chart and compare and contrast the impact of WWII on ethnic, gender, and racial groups in America. Read and use Brinkley. 732-746.
3/18/16: Review Research. Lecture Labor and the War-Wartime Science and Technology
Homework: Research 5 WWII propaganda posters online and answer the following questions: Who created these images? Who is the intended audience? What were the artist’s goals? What do these images tell you as a whole about the social, political, and cultural movements of the era? Read Brinkley 746-755.
3/21/16: Review propaganda. Read Digital History WWII and Japanese.
Homework: Read Digital History the Yalta Conference. Complete Chapter 26 Discussion Questions.
3/22/16: Review Digital History. Read Digital History Decision to Drop the Bomb.
Homework: Read Digital History the Aftermath of the Decision. Read The Atomic Bomb Interpreting Sources. Complete Chapter 26 Essential Terms and Chapter 26 Connect Assignments
3/23/16: ½ Day. Unit 7 Videos/DBQ
Homework: Finish DBQ. Unit 7 Exam. Read Brinkley Pages 757-765. Begin Chapter 27 Essential Terms.
EASTER BREAK! ENJOY! FINISH ALL ASSIGNED HOMEWORK FOR3/29/16!
Recommended Further Reading: Review Edsitement Resources for time period. Zimmerman Telegram, 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles, Huey Long Share the Wealth Speech, Jouett Shouse American Liberty League Pamphlet, FDR’s First Inaugural Address, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Mein Kampf, Korematsu v. United States.
Review Digital History sources and the Gilder Lehrman Institute
http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/7
Digital History:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=11&smtid=11
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=12&smtid=11
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=13&smtid=11
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=14&smtid=11
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=15&smtid=11
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