HONORS U.S. HISTORY – CHAPTERS 27-29
TUES 11/15 – Compare and contrast one of these areas of life from 1900 to 1919: sports, entertainment, technology, media, education, literature, religion, culture, fashion, gender, youth. – 5-7 minute video/powerpoint presentation – cite both primary and secondary sources for your research – you will need a bibliography – DUE 12/2
WED 11/16 - Chapter 28 & pp.595-598 – Examine the Populist Party. Why did it develop? Who supported it? Why did it fail? – Describe the issues involved in the elections of 1888, 1892, & 1896. - Describe what the Progressive movement (not the political party of T.R.) wanted and who supported them. Why did they succeed while the Populists did not?
THURS 11/17 - pp. 638-654 How much should the government control the lives of Americans? Should the government be an agency for the betterment of human welfare? If so, how much and why? – Describe in what ways the muckrakers represent both the best and the worst of the free press in the U.S. - TR’s 3 C’s (conservation, consumer protection, control corporations) What were Wilson’s programs? pp.663-666 - Compare and contrast the principles and policies of the New Freedom(Wilson) and New Nationalism(TR) programs(p659). Which program do you believe represented the most effective way to promote economic growth and restrain the economic excesses and adverse consequences of free market capitalism? - DUE FRI 11/18
FRI 11/18 – Both T.R. and Wilson are considered top ten presidents. Which do you feel was the best “progressive” president? - What were T.R.’s and Wilson’s failures as progressives?
MON 11/28 – What effect did imperialism have on the rest of the world? - Analyze the following causes of the Spanish-American War: public opinion, yellow journalism, strategic interests, and business interests. Which do you feel was the key cause? Why? – Identify the immediate causes and events of the war. What were the consequences for the U.S. and the world?
TUES 11/29 - Explain in what ways the Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Platt Amendment, Boxer rebellion, Open Door policy, Portsmouth Conference, and Algeciras Conference signaled a new departure in U.S. foreign policy.
WED 11/30 - Examine how and why World War I began. - Describe WWI and the Treaty of Versailles.
THURS 12/1 - Examine the home front during WWI. - Summarize the impact that WWI had on the U.S. home front (economy, civil liberties, public attitudes)
FRI 12/2 - Presentations
MON 12/5 – Test – ESSAY – DBQ 14 p.A94
STUDY GUIDE
Populist Party, Progressivism, Depression of 1893, William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, muckrakers (Ida Tarbell, Thorstein Veblen, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair), Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, dollar diplomacy, Woodrow Wilson, initiative, referendum, recall, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Muller v. OR, Lochner v. N.Y., Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Sierra Club, conservation, Ballinger-Pinchot Affair, Louis Brandeis, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, Workingmen's Compensation Act, Adamson Act, Alfred Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, Rev. Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis, Emilio Aguinaldo, Pan-American Conference, U.S.S. Maine, Teller Amendment, Platt Amendment, Foraker Act, John Hay, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Russo-Japanese War, Portsmouth Conference, Root-Takahira agreement, Eugene V. Debs, Pancho Villa, John J. Pershing, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Central Powers, Allied Powers, War Industries Board, Food Administration, Committee on Public Information, AEF, Great Migration, Lusitania, Arabic, Sussex, Zimmerman Note, 14 Points, League of Nations, Espionage and Sedition Acts, Schenck v. U.S., IWW, Treaty of Versailles, conscription,