Unit three
calendarjournal entries19. Consider the following headlines:
“Search for Missing Bride Continues” “Bride Missing? Groom’s Family Blame History of Mental Illness” (a) How do these headlines differ? (b) If these were articles, which would you have wanted to read first? Why? 20. What is Imperialism? 21. What is Yellow Journalism? |
lecturesProgressivism
Imperialism
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Unit Two
CalendarJournal Entries10. Explain how the following are considered causes of the Industrial Revolution: (a) the railroad (b) innovation (c) cheap labor (d) growing population (e) natural resources
11. Should the President and founder of a corporation earn more than the workers? Explain. 12. Do you think public employees in the transportation sector should be allowed to strike? Explain. 13. What do you imagine was the most difficult thing immigrants faced when coming to the United States in the early 20th century? 14. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? 15. When there is an accident in a workplace, who should be held responsible? (Explain) 16. What do political leaders do in order to appeal to the people? 17. What is the purpose of a political cartoon? 18. (a) The first wave of immigrants (mid to late 1800s) largely came from what region(s) of the world? (b) The second wave of immigrants (late 1800s to early 1900s) largely came from what region(s) of the world? |
LecturesIndustrialization
Immigration
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unit one
CalendarJournal Entries1. What topic or time period in U.S. History most interests you and why? OR What topic or time period in U.S. History are you most looking forward to studying this year and why?
2. Make a list of everything you dislike about your parents/guardians rules. (Things they require you to do, prohibit you from doing, etc.) 3. Should the federal government have more power than the states? Explain. 4. If you could add one more amendment to the Bill of Rights, what would it be and why? (Be sure to explain the right or freedom your amendment would protect and why you believe it is important for Americans to have that right or freedom.) 5. Analyze, interpret and describe the intent of the following quote: “In your hands and not mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” (March 4, 1861 Lincoln’s Inauguration Day - 7 southernmost states seceded on February 4, 1861) 6. What is the meaning of the following quote? "Before the war, the people said ‘the United States are,’ after the war they said ‘the United States is.'" 7. Interpret the following quote: “...free from the individual master but a slave of society. He had neither money, property nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet. He was free from the old quarter that once gave him shelter, but a slave to the rains of summer and the frosts of winter. He was turned loose, naked, hungry and destitute to the open sky.” (Frederick Douglass on the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War) 8. Analyze the present day political cartoon linked here and answer the following:
9. Answer the following questions:
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LecturesThe Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Reconstruction
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