Amendments 15-19
What is important about Henry Ford? How did he change America?
What is important about Charles Lindbergh? How did he symbolize the times?
What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
How were stocks inflated? How did this cause the crash?
What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
What was Hoover's view of Government relief programs?
What was the "Bonus Army"? What did it do? What happened to it?
What happened during the "Hundred Days"?
What was the WPA and what did it do?
What were some programs set up during the Depression that are still with us today?
What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?
Discuss the philosophical reasons World War I began.
What was the initial spark that began World War I?
Who were the allies? Who were the central powers?
List five advancements in technology that lead to high causalities.
Describe tench warfare.
What was the Lusitania?
Why did America eventually enter the war (list two reasons)?
When was the Russian Revolution?
Discuss the importance of the Battle of the Marne.
How did World War I change the United States?
Discuss the Treaty of Versailles. What did it do? Why did the U.S. reject it?
Who was Marcus Garvey? What were his ideas?
How was Harding's Presidency corrupt?
How did the 20s change America? (think consumer society, entertainment, sports, fashion, politics)
What was the Harlem Renaissance? List three members.
How did prohibition lead to the raise of organized crime? Who was Al Calpone?
What was the Dust Bowl?
Discuss entertainment during the 1930s?
Who was Huey Long? What did he promise people?
How did Roosevelt try and stack the Supreme Court?
Monday, 16 April 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Thursday 3/29
Today we are going to look at a few different websites, but first let's look at some literary and primary sources:
"Dulce et Decorum Est "
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under I green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, --
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
War Diaries
Victor Silvester
We went up into the front-line near Arras, through sodden and devastated countryside. As we were moving up to the our sector along the communication trenches, a shell burst ahead of me and one of my platoon dropped. He was the first man I ever saw killed. Both his legs were blown off and the whole of his face and body was peppered with shrapnel. The sight turned my stomach. I was sick and terrified, but even more frightened of showing it.
That night I had been asleep in a dugout about three hours when I woke up feeling something biting my hip. I put my hand down and my fingers closed on a big rat. It had nibbled through my haversack, my tunic and pleated kilt to get at my flesh. With a cry of horror I threw it from me.
Captain Bellenden
I have never seen a drearier sight than the salient in front of Ypres -- churned up mud with mucky shell holes and never a tree as far as the eye could reach. It was necessary to march single file on duck walk because of the mud for a distance of five or six miles when going in for a tour. We were machine-gunned and bombed from the air and subjected to a terrific shelling on the way in and nothing like a real trench system was possible, the line being held by a series of posts in shell holes.
To look at a copy of the Zimmerman Telegram go HERE
To see a listing of World War I recordings including the great hit of the war "OVER THERE" go HERE
To take a World War I test (you're learn something through the exercise and the winner gets 5 points) go HERE
"Dulce et Decorum Est "
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under I green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, --
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
War Diaries
Victor Silvester
We went up into the front-line near Arras, through sodden and devastated countryside. As we were moving up to the our sector along the communication trenches, a shell burst ahead of me and one of my platoon dropped. He was the first man I ever saw killed. Both his legs were blown off and the whole of his face and body was peppered with shrapnel. The sight turned my stomach. I was sick and terrified, but even more frightened of showing it.
That night I had been asleep in a dugout about three hours when I woke up feeling something biting my hip. I put my hand down and my fingers closed on a big rat. It had nibbled through my haversack, my tunic and pleated kilt to get at my flesh. With a cry of horror I threw it from me.
Captain Bellenden
I have never seen a drearier sight than the salient in front of Ypres -- churned up mud with mucky shell holes and never a tree as far as the eye could reach. It was necessary to march single file on duck walk because of the mud for a distance of five or six miles when going in for a tour. We were machine-gunned and bombed from the air and subjected to a terrific shelling on the way in and nothing like a real trench system was possible, the line being held by a series of posts in shell holes.
To look at a copy of the Zimmerman Telegram go HERE
To see a listing of World War I recordings including the great hit of the war "OVER THERE" go HERE
To take a World War I test (you're learn something through the exercise and the winner gets 5 points) go HERE
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
World War I Questions
1) What ideas or ideologies lead to World War I?
2) Outline the specific events in 1914 that led to a World War.
3) What advancements in technology help create massive causalities?
4) How did the forming of alliances increase the likelihood of war?
5) List the Allies and the Central Powers during the war.
6) Explain how war in Europe brought an economic boom for the United States.
7) Briefly discuss the importance of the following battles: Marne, Verdun, Somme, Gallipoli, Argonne Forest.
8) Who was the U.S. General in Command during the war?
9) Write three questions of your own based on information that you found interesting in these sections.
ALSO PAGE 692 questions 5-17.
DUE: Thursday.
2) Outline the specific events in 1914 that led to a World War.
3) What advancements in technology help create massive causalities?
4) How did the forming of alliances increase the likelihood of war?
5) List the Allies and the Central Powers during the war.
6) Explain how war in Europe brought an economic boom for the United States.
7) Briefly discuss the importance of the following battles: Marne, Verdun, Somme, Gallipoli, Argonne Forest.
8) Who was the U.S. General in Command during the war?
9) Write three questions of your own based on information that you found interesting in these sections.
ALSO PAGE 692 questions 5-17.
DUE: Thursday.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Classwork: Thursday and Friday 3/8 and 3/9
Read chapter 19 in your textbook, The American Journey and answer questions 5-22 on page 576-577.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Projects
Guidelines for PROJECTS:
1) Presentable - you have to present your projects.
2) It must use information from the packet: Don't Know Much About History. Must be able to be used as a review guide.
3) Length: 15 minutes
4) Spelling, Grammar, Neatness
5) Creativity
Remember this is a project grade and its worth 50 points. Do well and good luck at Regionals.
1) Presentable - you have to present your projects.
2) It must use information from the packet: Don't Know Much About History. Must be able to be used as a review guide.
3) Length: 15 minutes
4) Spelling, Grammar, Neatness
5) Creativity
Remember this is a project grade and its worth 50 points. Do well and good luck at Regionals.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Don't Know Much About History
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?
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?
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Tuesday Feb 21st
Today: Test on the Civil War
Wednesday - Friday: Don't Know Much About History: Monopolies in the 19th Century; The Wild West; The American Empire.
Next Week: ?
Wednesday - Friday: Don't Know Much About History: Monopolies in the 19th Century; The Wild West; The American Empire.
Next Week: ?
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