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?
Monday, 25 March 2013
Friday, 15 March 2013
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?
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?
Monday, 11 March 2013
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?
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?
Sunday, 3 March 2013
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?
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?
Thursday, 21 February 2013
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.
Post a brief summary of the chapter and two comments and/or questions about the major themes presented in the text.
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
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?
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
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?
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?
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