Period 7

PERIOD 7 REMEDIATION due Thursday Feb 9 at midnight!

1890-1945

An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.

AMSCO Textbook:

Chapter 20: Becoming a World Power 1898-1917
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era 1901-1917
Chapter 22: World War I and its Aftermath 1914-1920
Chapter 23: The Modern Era of the 1920s
Chapter 24: The Great Depression and New Deal 1929-1939
Chapter 25: Diplomacy and World War II 1929-1945

American Pageant:

Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909 READING QUIZ
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 READING QUIZ
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920 READING QUIZ
Chapter 30: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929 READING QUIZ
Chapter 31: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1923 READING QUIZ
Chapter 32: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939 READING QUIZ
Chapter 33: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941 READING QUIZ
Chapter 34: America in World War II, 1941-1945 READING QUIZ

Stormy Weather: Depression Documentary

Progressive Era Weblinks

Social Security Act Links:

Timeline

SSA History

For the activity:

President's Message to Congress, January 17, 1935, New Deal Network excerpts available on pages 1-2 of the PDF.

If they go to the website for this reading, students should read paragraphs 3 through 7, and paragraph 9.

George B. Chandler, representing the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, in Senate Hearings on Roosevelt's "Economic Security Bill," 1935 excerpts available on page 3 of the PDF.
Alfred M. Landon, "I Will Not Promise the Moon," September 26, 1936 excerpts available on pages 4-5 of the PDF .

"Jackson's Voice Clear on Social Security Issues" by biographer John Q. Barrett contains excerpts of Jackson's defense of Social Security before the Supreme Court in Helvering v. Davis, 1937 available on page 6 of the PDF. The Robert H. Jackson Center is a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Center for History and New Media. This excerpt is available in a PDF. (Text submitted in a separate document.)

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