World Civilizations

Group Projects!  Remember your presentations are on Tuesday.  Stay focused.

Sample Test

Part I – Discuss the importance of the following people (what they did):

1) JP Morgan





2) Ulysses S. Grant




3) General MacArthur




4) Eugene Debs



5) Thomas Stonewall Jackson



6) Franklin Roosevelt



7) Hideki Teojo



8) Robert E. Lee



9) Tecumseh Sherman




Part II – Discuss the importance and outcome of the following battles:

10) Pearl Harbor




11) Battle of Shiloh



12) Battle of the Bulge



13) Battle of Midway



14) Gettysburg




Part II – General History Questions

15) What was the Truman Doctrine really about?




16) What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?





17) Discuss the importance of the Montgomery Bus Strike.




18) What lands did the U.S. receive from winning the Spanish-American War?






19) Who were the Robber Barons and what did they do?





20) How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?





21) What were the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th   Amendments?






22) What was the outcome of the conflict in Korea?






23) How was Vietnam different than Korea?  Why?






24) What was the Gulf of Tonkin?






25) James Polk made what four promises to the American public during the election of 1844.







26) What was important about Brown vs. Board of Education?






27) What were some of the advantages that the North had at the beginning of the Civil War?








28) What were some of the advantages that the South had at the beginning of the Civil War?







29) What was the Cold War?







30) List the various arguments (at least three) for dropping Atomic weapons on Japan.







31) Who were the Axis Powers?




32) How were stocks inflated?  How did this cause the crash?





33)  What is Zinn’s general view on war?

WORLD WAR II part 1

The London Conference
Know:   London Economic Conference
1. What were the results of Roosevelt's decision not to help stabilize currencies?
2. What was the reason for America's decision to free the Philippines?
3. Was the United States serious about the Good Neighbor policy? Explain.
4. Were reciprocal trade agreements a good idea?  Explain.
5. What were the reasons for American isolationism?
6. How did the Neutrality Acts attempt to keep the U.S. out of war?
7. How did the Spanish Civil War contribute to WWII?
8. What actions were taken by fascist governments that showed that they were a threat?
9. How did the United States respond to the start of WWII in Europe?
10. What further steps did the United States take after the fall of France?
11. Why did America not make more room for European Jews in the 1930's?
12. Describe the conflict between interventionists and isolationists in America in 1940.
13. Interpret the results of the 1940 election.
14. What was so controversial about Lend-Lease?
15. What was the reaction in America to the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union?
16. How did America's implementation of the Lend-Lease policy bring us closer to war?
17. How did American actions contribute to Japan's decision to attack Pearl Harbor?
18. Was United States entry into WWII sudden or gradual?  Explain.

 Manifest Destiny 50 points 1) List four promises James K. Polk made during his election. 2) What was the cost of the Mexican-American war in both lives and dollars? 3) List three battles of the Mexican-American War. 4) The Oregon Territory consisted of what area? Who claimed it? 5) Discuss how Texas became independent. 6) How did the Mexican-American War start? Why did it start? Was it a “Just War”? Explain. 7) What was Manifest Destiny? 8) Why did President Jackson refuse to annex Texas? 9) Why did some Americans think that making California part of the United States would strengthen the security of the nation? 10) Why was the California Gold Rush important? What did it do for the country?

 1) What were the dates of the Civil War? 2) How many people died in the war? 3) Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union? 4) What was the Union’s plan at the beginning of the war? 5) What was the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments? 6) How was the 14th Amendment reinterpreted? How was the 15th Amendment interrupted? For the Following discuss the importance of the battle (include dates, Generals, outcome and importance): 7) Chancellorsville 8) Gettysburg 9) Antietam 10) Bull Run For the following people discuss who they were, what they did, and why they were important. 11) James Longstreet 12) Ulysses S. Grant 13) Robert E Lee 14) Tecumseh Sherman 15) Frederick Douglas 16) Why did Lincoln suspend Habeas Corpus? 17) What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? 18) List Four Border States 19) What disadvantages did the South face?

 7) List three important battles of the revolution and discuss why they were important. 8) List and explain the three compromises to the constitution. 9) What was Jefferson Embargo Act? Why was it unpopular and what was it supposed to do? 10) Discuss the importance of the Battle of New Orleans. 11) Discuss the elections of 1800 and 1824. 12) List the importance of the following people: a) Anne Hutchinson b) John Rolfe c) James Wolfe d) Alexander Hamilton e) John Adams 14) Who were the three biggest losers of the Revolutionary War? 15) According to Zinn why were Africans easier to force into labor than Native Americans? 16) What was the Missouri Compromise?

The Great Depression and the New Deal

1) What was the platform of the Democratic Party in 1932?
2) What does the phrase "100 days" refer to?
3) What was one surprising shift in the 1932 presidential election?
4) What did Hoover do as a lame-duck president?
5) What was the status of Congress as FDR took office?
6)  What was the WPA?
7) Who was FDR's chief administrator?
8) What were the 20th and 21st amendments?
9) What did the Social Security Act provide?
10) What was FDR's court packing plan?
11) Did the New Deal end the Great Depression?

Review Questions

PART I: 1492-1754 1) What was Columbus looking for? 2) Why was a passage to India important for European countries to find? 3) How did the crusades change European and how did it lead to the exploration of the "New World"? 4) How did tobacco change the course of America (particularly the Virginia colony)? 5) Discuss the rise of self-government in America (make sure you note the House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut). 6) How did religion play an essential role in the shaping of the early colonies? 7) Discuss why early colonists came to America (the various reasons - begin to relate these to the American Dream and the American Character). 8) What was the Great Migration? 9) What was the renaissance and how does it fit with the exploration of the Americas? 10) Where the 1st Europeans to the Americas "Explorers" or "Invaders"? Please justify your answer. 11) How did the English distance the relationship between indentured whites and black slaves? Why did they fear a relationship between the two? 12) Please to list the six colonies and why they were formed (and by what settlers). 13) Know the following people: John Rolfe, John Smith, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, William Bradford, John Wheelright, Jacques Marquette, Samuel de Champlain, Francis Drake, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, Ferdinand Magellan, Francisco Pizarro, Hernan Cortes, Squanto, Samoset. 14) What is the difference between the Separatists and Puritians? 15) Discuss King Phillips War and how it changed America? 16) When did the 1st Africans come to the English colonies? Where? What was the purpose of importing them (be specific)? 17) According to Zinn why were Africans easier to force into labor than Native Americans or poor white immigrants? 18) Why were each of the 13 colonies established? 19) How did religious freedom, slavery, and self-government shape the first 13 colonies (be exact - this should be an paragraph for each). 20) How did the Massacre at Mystic change America? 21) What was King Philips War? Why did it start and what was the outcome of it? 22) What was Nat Bacon's rebellion really about? 23) Why did Philadelphia become an important city? PART II: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR * What are the reasons the war starts and spreads to become a world war? *What are the reasons the French lost? *How does the British turn the tide of the War? * What are the results of the war? * How did the war begin? *What was George Washington's role in the war and how did it prepare him for the Revolution? * Why were the following people important: Edward Braddock, Half-King, Marquis de Montcalm, James Wolfe, General Forbes, William Pitt. * Discuss the Native Indians role and importance in the war. What battles did they fight in? How did they change the power structure? What agenda did they have? * The French and Indian war begin over what area of land? * Why did the Native Americans take captives? Was this an effective practice? PART III: The Revolution 1) According to Paul Johnson what was the most deciding factor in the colonists victory over the British. 2) How did the colonists win the media war, the ideological battle and the emotional battle? 3) What important things did Patrick Henry do? 4) How was Thomas Jefferson a “mass of contradictions”. 5) What was Thomas Jefferson’s most important quality (according to Johnson). 6) What did Common Sense do? Who wrote it. 7) What was the 1st constitution? What powers did it give the government? 8) What was the paradox of the war (at least from Britain's point of view)? 9) What was Washington's main strength as a commander? Why did he win the war? 10) What were the four points of the Peace of Paris - as laid out by John Adams? 11) Why did slavery increase during the revolution? 12) Who were the big losers of the war (name three)? List what they lost and explain why they are the biggest losers. 13) What happened to the Loyalists in America after the war. 14) What were the most important battles of the war. Why do you think they are the most important? (Note battles is plural). 15) List at least five reasons why the Americans won. 16) List the importance of the following people in the cause of the Revolution. A) Thomas Paine B) Thomas Jefferson C) John Adams D) Samuel Adams E) John Hancock F) George Washington G) James Otis H) Benjamin Franklin I) Benedict Arnold (think beyond his treason) J) Patrick Henry K) Alexander Hamilton 17) Who was Molly Pitcher? 18) Why did the British strategy for the war make little sense? 19) How did the British fail to win the war in 1776? Who was the General in charge? 20) "America was already developing the notion that all were entitled to the best if they worked hard enough, that aiming high was not only morally acceptable but admirable." Discuss the importance of this statement. 21) Who were the two most important people involved with the push towards a new constitution? 22) Give examples of how the Articles of Confederation failed. 23) In your option why would some people prefer State rights over a strong Central government. What are the arguments for both sides? 24) What is a nomiocracy? How do you feel about this term connected with the U.S. government? 25) What were the three compromises on the Constitution? Which one of these seems the strangest to you? 26) What is the irony about the President vs. a King as example by Johnson? 27) Know the importance of Valley Forge. What happened there? What the troops had to overcome? Compare this with the British winter quarters. 28) What help did France, Spain, and the Netherlands offer the colonies? 29) What is important about Judith Sargeant Murray and Abigail Adams? 30) Discuss the war in the west. 31) Discuss the war in the south. 32) What is the importance of the following people: A) George Rogers Clark. B) John Paul Jones. C) Nathanael Greene. D) Comte de Rochambeau. E) Admiral Francois de Grasse. 33) What is important about Washington's farewell address? 34) Why did the natives give support to the British? 35) Why did the British think their military forces were superior to those of the Americans? 36) Why was fighting on their own land an advantage for the Americans? PART IV: The Constitution, Jefferson, War of 1812, Jackson 1) Discuss the significance of Thomas Jefferson's quote: "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing...God forbid that we should ever be twenty year without such a rebellion...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." 2) Why did Shay's Rebellion happen? 3) The constitution is "a political creation, hammered together in a series of artfully negotiated compromises. Discuss these compromises. 4) What was the Virginia Plan? 5) "No person held in service" was a euphemism for what? 6) List the basic Powers and Checks of the three branches of the government. 7) Who wrote the Federalist Papers and why did they write them? 8) Briefly outline the first ten amendments. 9) Who could wrote in the first election (what parts of the population)? 10) How did Washington D.C. come be located on the banks of the Potomac? 11) What did Jay's Treaty do? 12) What was the "Whiskey Rebellion" and how was it put down? 13) Describe the election of 1800? How was it finally resolved? 14) Who was John Marshall? 15) Why did France sell its North America possessions (the Louisiana territory) to the U.S.? 16) What did Lewis and Clark do? Describe their journey? 17) How did Hamilton incur the wrath of Aaron Burr? Was he right in what he did? How did the ordeal end? 18) What was Jefferson's Embargo Act? Why was it unpopular and what was it suppose to do? 19) What did Tecumseh try and do? 20) Describe the Battle of Tippecanoe? 21) Most historians call the War of 1812 a draw. Why? 22) Describe the Battle of New Orleans. 23) What did the Monroe Doctrine state? 24) What was the Missouri Compromise? 25) How was the election of 1824 decided? Why was it called a "corrupt bargain"? 26) List some of the labels attached to Andrew Jackson. 27) Was Andrew Jackson an Indian hater? What did the natives call him? What "Indian Wars" did he fight in and what was the outcome? What was his native "policy" as President? 28) How did Jackson come to symbolize the common people? 29) Name the 1st seven Presidents of the United States War of 1812 1) Importance of Fort McHenry. 2) Burning of D.C. by the British. 3) Battle of Plattsburg 4) Battle of New Orleans 5) Native Defeats: Tecumseh and the Creeks (Battle of Thames and Horseshoe Bend).

The Roaring Twenties

1) What was the Red Scare of 1919-1920.
2) How did business people use the Red Scare?
3) What did the post-war KKK advocate?
4) What was the Immigration Act of 1924?
5) How long did Americans assume Prohibition would last?
6) How did John Dewey impact American education?
7) Wat was the Scopes-Monkey Trial? Impact?
8) Who was the Sultan of Swat?
9) What was Ford's chief contribution to the auto industry?
10) What was the impact of radio and motion pictures?
11) What did the 1920 census reveal?
12) What did Margaret Sanger advocate?
13) How did the lives of women change during the 1920s?
14) What is jazz music based on?
15) What organization did Marcus Garvey found? What did it call for?
16) How would one describe the works and impact of Ernest Hemingway?  F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Sinclair Lewis?
17) What is buying stock on "the margin"?
18) What was the economic impact of Andrew Mellon's stint as Secretary of Treasury?

The Roaring 20s

PROJECT:

The class needs to create a poster that displays the following:

1) Music - find three musicians who became famous in the 20s and changed music as we know it.  You need a photo and a brief bio.

2) List the 18th and 19th Amendments - with a photo that relates to each.

3) Literary Movements - there were two important movements in the 20s.  Create a list of authors and important books of each.  1 photo for each movement.

4) Three important events that happened in the 20s.  Descriptions of each with photo.

5) Three important inventions.

6) Three U.S. Presidents.  Brief overview of their term(s).

7) 1 paragraph overview of 20s.

8) Timeline of the 1920s.

Wilson's 14 points

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WWI

1) What was the Zimmerman note?
2) What finally pushed the United States into World War I?
3) What were Wilson's Fourteen Points?
4) How did WWI impact civil liberties?
5) What was the Food Administration?  Its leader?
6) How did the US pay for WWI?
7) How did the US raise troops to fight in WWI?
8) How did US fighters impact the war?
9) What was Wilson's major goal during the peace talks?
10) How did Wilson's Fourteen Points fall apart at Versailles?
11) Why did the Versailles Treaty ultimately fail?
12) What was the importance of the election of 1920?

Chapter 29 - 1912 - 1916

1) Explain Wilson's rise in politics.
2) Who were the three candidates in 1912?
3) Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?
4) What was the 16th Amendment?
5) What was "Moral Diplomacy"?
6) Why did the US get involved in Mexico in the 1910s?
7) What was America's stance as World War I began?
8) How did the US become financially involved in the affairs of WWI?
9) What happened to the Lusitania?
10) What was the Arabic Pledge?  Sussex Pledge?
11) Who were the candidates and what were the results of the election of 1916?

These questions are due Monday.

Review chapters 22-24

As a group, look back through chapters 22-24 (remember you should have marked things) and make a list of important people, events, and terms that you believe you should know (things that you believe will prepare you for the future, make you a more well rounded or interesting person, things that you'd just like to know).  You should have at least seven people and events.  Note - you will present these to class on Wednesday.  


Don't Know Much About History - due Friday (Note - you could use this as a guide)
I want you to mark the following:

1) What you find most interesting in the reading - this will be shared.
2) What you find most important. NOTE: These two things aren't always the same.

As a guide you might want to know the following:


Be able to Identify the following people:

George Armstrong Custer
JP Morgan
W.E.B. Du Bois
James Butler Hickok
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene Debs
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
John D. Rockefeller

Be able to discuss the Importance of the following:

The assassination of William McKinley
The Robber Barons and what they did
The Jungle
Why the Spanish American War was fought
Wounded Knee
Custer’s Last Stand
Jim Crow
Separate But Equal
How the 14th Amendment was used to protect corporations
The Panama Canal
Roosevelt and his “big stick”

Other questions:

What lands did America get from winning the Spanish-American War?
How did this war make America an Imperial Country?
How did Theodore Roosevelt rise in politics?

Chapter 24

1) Why did private railroad promoters ask the US government for help?
2) Who were some of the leading railroad tycoons?
3) What impact did railroad development have on the nation?
4) How did railroad tycoons take advantage of the public?
5) What were some important inventions of the post-Civil War era?
6) Why did oil become important in the industrial age?  Who lead the oil industry?
7) How did corporations interpret the 14th Amendment?

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

1) Why did Grant win the election of 1868?
2) What was the "bloody shirt" following the Civil War?
3) Who was Boss Tweed?  What happened to him?
4) What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
5) Describe the events in the election of 1872?
6) What was the major cause of the Panic of 1873?
7) What was the major problem in the election of 1876?
8) What was the Compromise of 1877?
9) What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?
10) By the end of Reconstruction, what means were used to disenfranchise African-Americans?
11) What were the Jim Crow laws?
12) Why was Garfield assassinated?
13) What were the major issues of the Cleveland era?

Homework for the week of Regionals/State (basketball/robotics)

Read chapter 22 in The American Pageant,"The Ordeal of Reconstruction", and answer the following questions:

1) What was the fate of Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2) What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3) What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4) What was the 13th Amendment?
5) What was the Freedman's Bureau?  Accomplishments?
6)Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7)  What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8)  What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9) What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10) What were the black codes?  Purpose?
11) What was the 14th Amendment?
12) What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
13) What was the 15th Amendment?
14) What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
15) Why was Johnson impeached?
16) What was the Ku Klux Klan?  What did they do?
17)  Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
18)  Was Reconstruction effective?

2/28 - 3/1

Read chapter 9 from Zinn, A People's History of the United States.


Post a brief summary of the chapter and two comments and/or questions about the major themes presented in the text.

Civil War

Battles:
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Antietam
Shiloh
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Sherman’s March to the Sea

People:
Albert Sidney Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Johnson
Joe Hooker
Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E Lee
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
A.P. Hill
James Longstreet
Booker T Washington
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas

1) Why does the author suggest that John Brown had a sense of humor?
2) What was John Brown's plan?
3) Why did John Brown become a symbol?
4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.


How did the Civil War shape our lives today?

Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.

What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?

List the four border states.

Why did West Virginia form?

What disadvantages did the South fact?

Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?

What were the three main strategies of the Union?

What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?

What was the outcome of Bull Run?

Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.

What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?

What did the 13th Amendment do?

How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?

Discuss the draft laws in the north.

Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?

Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?

What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Chapter 21

1) What was the impact of the Battle of Bull Run?
2) What was the impact of the Peninsula campaign?  How did it change Union goals?
3) What was the Anaconda Plan?
4) What were the major events of the war at sea?
5) What was the importance of the Battle of Antietam Creek?
6) What were the terms of the Emancipation?  Was it constitutional?
7) What legally abolished slavery in the United States?
8) To what extend did blacks serve in the war?
9) Why did Lee attempt to invade the North?  What was the impact of Gettysburg?
10) What was the importance of Vicksburg?
11) Who were the Copperheads?  What was the Union party of 1864?
12) Who was the Democratic candidate in 1864?  Republican/Union Party?  Who won and why?
13) What was Grant's strategy to end the war?
14) What was Grant's strategy to end the war?

Chapter 20: Girding for War

1) Why did European powers favor war in America?
2) How did Lincoln approach the Ft. Sumter crisis?
3) What action did Lincoln take to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union?
4) What was the original goal in the war as stated by Lincoln?
5) What side did the Indians tend to side with?
6) What advantages did the South possess?  What disadvantages?
7) What advantages did the North posses?  What disadvantages?
8) What supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the war never materialized?
9) Why did the British refuse to break the Union blockade?
10) What event nearly pushed the Union and the British to war?
11) What actions did France play during the Civil War?
12) How did the concept of states' rights impact the Southern war effort?
13) How did the different presidents run their nations during the war?
14) How did the North get their troops?  South?
15) How did the North and South pay for the Civil War?
16) What was the impact of the war on the Northern economy?  Southern Economy?

US History Chapter 19

1) What was described in Uncle Tom's Cabin?  What was its impact?
2) What was bleeding Kansas?  Why did it occur?
3) What did the caning of Sumner exemplify?
4) Who were the candidates in the election of 1856?
5) What was the main platform of the "Know-Nothings"?
6)  Why did the Republicans lose the election of 1856?
7)  Explain the Dred Scott decision?  What was its impact?
8) What were the major points of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
9) What was the goal of Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
10) What was the South's reaction to Harper's Ferry?
11)  What were the political platforms of the candidates for office in 1860?
12)  What were the results of the election of 1860?
13)  What was the Crittenden Compromise?
14)  Why did the Southern States secede from the Union?

Chapter 18

1) What did national parties often do to maintain national unity in regards to the slavery issue?
2) What was the impact of the Mexican War on the slavery issue?
3) What were the beliefs of the Free Soil Party?
4) What does the term "popular sovereignty" mean?
5) What was the key issue in the election of 1848?
6) What event brought turmoil to the presidency of Zachary Taylor?
7) What type of people went to California?
8) Why did the Free Soilers condemn slavery?
9) Who was Harriet Tubman?  What did she do?
10) What was Calhoun's plan to protect the South?
11) What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?  Reaction from North and South?
12) How was slavery impacted by the push for a transcontinental railroad?
13) How did Douglas propose to address slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?

Chapter 16 Study Questions

1) What happened to slavery as a result of the cotton gin?
2) What were the characteristics of the southern aristocracy?
3) What was the impact of plantation agriculture on the land?
4) What were the weaknesses of the slave plantation system?
5) Why did the slave-less whites support the slave system?
6) What was typical northern attitudes towards free blacks?
7) What happened to the South's economy based on the slavery system?
8) Where were the most slaves concentrated in the South?
9) How did slaves fight the slavery system?
10) What are some examples of slave uprisings in the South?
11) Who were the following people: William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas?
12) What was the 1st political party who focused on the issue of abolition?

Monday 1/14/2013

Today - we will look at Nick and Trevor's Mexican-American War project.  Discuss why the Mexican-American War was fought.  We will also go over Study Questions on Chapter 13, and AL will present what she read and learned in Howard Zinn's A People's History.  We will then begin to discuss the roots of the Civil War.