Monday, June 29, 2009

Day 9 - American involvement in WWI

Word List:
militarism
francis ferdinand
nationalism
alliance system
imperialism
lusistania
zimmermann note
selective service act
conscientious objecotr
espionage act
great migration
schenck v. united states (1919)
john j. pershing
fourteen points
league of nations
henry cabot lodge
great influenze pandemic 1919
inflation
redscare
palmer raids
nicola sacco
bartolomeo vanzetti

reading questions:
answer the questions in your book on pg. 206 #1-9

Day 8 - American Imperialism continued

Finish the Americna Imperialism crossword that I gave you in class.

Day 7- American Imperialism

Read ch. 5 section 1 and 2 for HW

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Day 6- The Progressive Era

This is the HW for Tuesday 6/23 and is due tomorrow Wednesday 6/24.

Word List:
Progressivism
Muckraker
Upton Sinclair
"the Jungle"
Jacob Riis
Social Gospel
Hull House
Jane Adams
Settlement House
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
Direct Primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Lincoln Steffens
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Womens Suffrage
Margaret Sanger
Alice Paul
Carrie Chapman Catt
19th Amendment
Womens Christian Temperance Union
NAACP
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Niagra Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Bull Moose Party
Meat Inspection Act
FDA
Pure Food and Drug Act
Hepburn Act
TrustBusting
conservation
National Reclamation Act
Woodrow Wilson
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission

Reading Questions:

Answer Questions #1-10 on pg. 134 in your textbook.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Day 5- The Making of Industrial America

This is the HW for Monday 6/22. this HW is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday 6/23.

Non-Extra Credit HW:

Complete your Ch. 3 Books.

Extra Credit HW (worth one A+, on any test, except the final).

Word List:
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Social Darwinism
"Gospel of Wealth"
monoply
Knights of Labor
AFL
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Tenement
Dawes Act
Sharecropping
Buffalo
George Custer
Battle of Little Bighorn
Assimilate
Transcontinental Railroad
Gilded Age
Graft
Pendleton Act
Populist Party
William J. Bryan
"Cross of Gold" Speech

Reading Questions:
1. What factors led to the industrialization of America, and what impact did industrialization have on society?
2. Why did immigrants come to the United States, and how did they impact society?
3. What impact did the railraod business have on the west in the United States?
4. What impact did the Dawes Act have on the Native American population?
5. What were some of the problems in America during the "Gilded Age"?
6. Why was the Pendleton Act passed?
7. What impact did the Populist have on society?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Day 4 Manifest Destiny, Civil War, and Reconstruction

Homework Questions for Thursday 6/18. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Monday 6/22.

Word List:
Male Suffrage
Tariff
Second Great Awakening
Mormons
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Abolitionists
Missouri Compromise
Fredrick Douglas
Underground Railroad
Manifest Destiny
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Stanford
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party
Election of 1860
John Brown
Harpers Ferry
Southern Secession
Stephen A. Douglas
Fort Sumter
Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Anaconda Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
Habeas Corpus
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
William Sherman
Appomattox Court House
Reconstruction
Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
Freedmens Bureau
Andrew Johnson
Impeachment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
De Jure Segregation

Reading Questions:
1. Why did California's application for statehood cause so many problems?
2. How did the Underground Railroad operate?
3. Explain what popular sovereignty is. And why was it so controversial.
4. How did the Supreme Court use the Dred Scott decision to make slavery legal?
5. Choose 4 events that led America to Civil War, and explain them on a timeline.

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6. What effects did the Civil War have on Women and African Americans?
7. Create a chart titled: Consequences of the Civil War. Fill it in with the Political, Economic, Technological, and Social consequences of the Civil War.


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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Day 3 - Washington to Polk

Homework Questions for Wednesday 6/17. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 6/18.

Vocab Word web:
George Washington
Judiciary Act of 1789
Whiskey Rebellion
cabinet
political parties
Jay's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty
John Adams
Quasi War
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Act
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
"Midnight Judges"
Marbury v. Madison
Election of 1800
12th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
judicial review
James Madison
war hawks
Tecumseh
War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Star Spangled Banner
Battle of New Orleans
General Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
Monroe Doctrine
Adams-Onis Treaty
Missouri Compromise
Oregon territory
John Quincy Adams
Election of 1824
corrupt bargain
Henry Clay
American System
tariffs
Andrew Jackson
spoils system
Revolution of 1828
Second Bank of the United States
Tariff of Abominations
nullification
The Force Bill
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Panic of 1837
Martin VanBuren
William Henry Harrison
pneumonia
John Tyler
Tippecanoe and Tyler too
James K. Polk
manifest destiny
Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mormon migration
Remember the Alamo
Texas War for Independence
California Gold Rush


Reading Questions

Complete the presidential charts given in class.