The Second World War, I

If we have a quiz on this reading, it will be an open-note quiz. Here are the parameters:

• If you copy directly from the text, you must put the text's language in quotes.
• You must use quotation marks on your quizzes if you intend to quote from the text.
• Your notes must be your own. I will check to make sure no one is copying from classmates. 
• Your answers must be specific and provide context. They will be longer than normal.

FYC:

1. What did Hitler gain from the Hitler-Stalin pact? (Also, define the term).
2. What was the point of the "cash and carry" amendment to neutrality legislation in 1939?
3. Create a narrative of German military actions from the invasion of Poland to the fall of France. Use dates.
4. How did the United States respond to the fall of France? (details.)
5. What was the "historic decision" that FDR faced as Britain fought for survival in the summer and fall of 1940? Why was it such a difficult decision? What were the two sides?
6. "In a sense, his opponent was Adolf Hitler, not Willkie." Explain.
7. Define the Lend Lease Bill. Why is it described as "one of the most momentous laws ever to pass Congress?"
8. What was the Atlantic Charter?
9. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
10. How did Pearl Harbor change U.S. public opinion of the war?

The New Deal, II

FYC:

1. What was the Dust Bowl? (The disaster, the region, the whole thing; read the whole section.)
2. What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
3. What is the TVA?
4. Define the FHA and Social Security.
5. Define the Wagner Act.
6. What powerful coalition had Roosevelt forged in his first term that helped him win in 1936?
7. What was FDR's court-packing plan?
8. Carefully read pages 773-775 and make an assessment of the successes and failures of the New Deal. Pay attention to what it did (long term and short), and what it did not do. What are the most important legacies? Etc.

The New Deal, I

FYC:

1. What were the Hundred Days?
2. What were FDR's three R's, and can you give an example of legislation for each? (Hint: use the charts in the book!)
3. What did the Glass-Stegall Banking Reform Act do?
4. What was the CCC?
5. Who was Huey Long?
6. What was the National Recovery Administration?
7. What did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration do?
8. Would say that the New Deal was a well-planned, well-thought out policy program, or more of a "let's see what works" approach?

Questions: 738-747

H-Squared

FYC:

1. Describe Herbert Hoover's strengths and Al Smith's weaknesses as candidates in the 1928 presidential election.
2. How did Hoover deal with the ongoing depression in America's farmland? 
3. Define: Hawley-Smoot Tariff
4. Define: Black Tuesday
5. What caused the Great Depression?
6. How might Hoover's political philosophy have hindered his efforts at combating the Great Depression?
7. Define: Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Questions: "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess"

For this reading, please print out the text and take notes in the margins so that we can have a discussion. If you want to go green, take computer reading notes.

Questions: Pivotal Decades

Hello, ladies. Please read the entire excerpt from Pivotal Decades (link under Assignments), and be prepared to write about what made 1919 such a significant year in American History.

Review Sheet

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Begin Test Review

Girls,

I've decided to take out the last assignment. So we finish content with the reading on the Progressive Era. Please begin reviewing, and also consider the meaning of this phrase:

"Hamiltonian means for Jeffersonian Ends."

Questions: 638-650

FYC:

1. What is Progressivism? Where did it come from? What are the major ideas behind the Progressive movement?
2. Who were the muckrakers? Give some examples.
3. From the section "Political Progressivism," what were some of the things that reformers pushed for in politics?
4. What was Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal?
5. What were the Elkins and Hepburn Acts?
6. What were the Meat Inspection and Food and Drug Acts?

Reading: 494-497, 554-555

Your reading over the weekend is very short, so I will not post specific reading questions. That does not, however, imply that I won't quiz you. Do your reading, plain and simple.

Questions: 545-551

FYC:

1. What did the federal government do to help assimilate the new immigrants into American society?
2. How did city politicians benefit from the new wave of immigrants?
3. What is the "social gospel"?
4. Who was Jane Addams, and what were settlement houses?
5. What did the nativists blame the new immigrants for, and what other ways did they discriminate against the immigrants?

Questions: 539-545

The Brooklyn Bridge, 1903 (Shorpy)

FYC:

1. What American cities in 1890 had populations of more than a million?
2. What technologies allowed cities to grow "up and out" in the Industrial Era?
3. What drew people to the big city? Details, please.
4. Describe a typical dumbbell tenement.
5. Describe the New Immigrants of the Gilded Age.
6. What were the contributing factors behind the New Immigration? What "pushed" and what "pulled" the stream of immigration? ("Southern Europe Uprooted" to "Reactions...")

Questions: 528-537

FYC:

1. From pages 528-530: How was America changed, politically and socially, by rising industrialization?
2. What is a labor union? Why did they increase after the Civil War?
3. How did corporations combat and resist labor unions?
4. Name two labor unions and their similarities and differences?
5. What was the Haymarket Square episode?

Questions: 520-528

FYC:

1. In addition to the rise of railroads, what other factors fueled postwar economic growth in the US?
2. What is vertical integration? What is horizontal integration?
3. What is the Bessemer process?
4. Who was Andrew Carnegie?
5. Who was J.P. Morgan?
6. Who was John D. Rockefeller?
7. What is Social Darwinism?
8. What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

Richard White on the Railroads

Have a listen:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137497772/how-trains-railroaded-the-american-economy

The Rise of Railroads

Girls, make sure to keep your Frederick Jackson Turner handouts, and bring them with you to class. We will cover it first thing. Now, on to your reading questions:

1. Approximately how many miles of railway had been laid in the United States by 1900? (Round up.)
2. Describe the relationship between the railroads and the US Government. Was it mutually beneficial? How?
3. How did US Congress use wartime arguments to lay the foundation for a transcontinental railroad?
4. When did the Central and Union Pacific railways meet in Ogden, Utah, marking the completion of the Transcontinental railroad?
5. ID: Cornelius Vanderbilt
6. What does it mean to say that the railroads were the first "big-business" in the US? Provide details.
7. What affect did the railroads have on time zones?
8. Describe the negative aspects of the railroad

STOP AT "MIRACLES OF MECHANIZATION"

The West, II

Pay attention to mining, the cattle industry, and farming in the West. And now, some questions, FYC:

1. Describe important features of the mining industry in the West.
2. What was the "Long Drive," and what factors determined if it was successful or not?
3. Define: The Homestead Act
4. What role did railroads play in the development of the "agricultural West"?
5. What is "dry farming"?
6. Why was 1890 a "watershed" date in the history of the American West?
7. Who was Frederick Jackson Turner, and what did he famously argue in his paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

The West, I

Western Iconography

Here are some questions from pages 575-584, on the American West:

1. About how many Native Americans lived in the Great West (which your book describes as the area between the Pacific settlements and, in the east, a jagged North-South axis stretching from Texas to Canada) in 1860?
2. What affect did the horse have on tribes like the Cheyenne and the Sioux?
3. Describe the "fateful cycle" of contact between Indians and whites in the section "The Clash of Cultures on the Plains."
4. Define the reservation system.
5. Describe some of the patterns of the Indian Wars.
6. Define: the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
7. Why were the Apaches so difficult to Subdue?
8. List the factors involved in the "taming" of the Indians.
9. Define: Battle of Wounded Knee
10. Define: the Dawes Severalty Act 

"An Introduction to the WPA Narratives"

Use this article for background on the Slave Narratives in your introduction, if you'd like.

Slave Narratives Assignment

You can access an electronic copy of the assignment (with embedded links), here.

Reconstruction, III

1. On what grounds were impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begun?
2. What was the result of the impeachment trial in the House and Senate?
3. From the section "The Heritage of Reconstruction," what is the legacy of Reconstruction? Sum it up. Success? Failure? Both?

Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012

The second longest-serving Senator in U.S. History and decorated WWII veteran Daniel Inouye has passed away.

Reconstruction, II

For your consideration:

1. What "shocked" and "disgusted" Republicans in Congress in December, 1865?
2. The abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment put an end to the 3/5 Compromise. Why, then, would many Republicans be concerned about the political consequences of this new reality after the war?
3. What made a clash between Congress and the President inevitable?
4. What does the 14th Amendment do? Why did Republicans push for it even though they had passed a Civil Rights Bill?
5. What happened in the fall of 1866 that really began Congressional Reconstruction? (Politics!)
6. Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
7. What did The Reconstruction Act do?
8. What were the new conditions for readmittance to the Union laid down by Congress?
9. What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?
10. Who were the Redeemers?
11. Define: The Union League
12. Define carpetbaggers and scalawags

STOP AT "THE KU KLUX KLAN"

Reconstruction, I (465-472)

1. What were the four large questions that faced the nation after the Civil War?
2. What were some other questions? (Apart from the big four.)
3. Summarize the range of reactions to Emancipation across the South, on the part of former slaves and masters, from pages 466-469
4. Define The Freedmen's Bureau. What were its successes and failures?
5. "[Andrew Johnson] was the wrong man in the wrong place and the wrong time." Explain.
6. Define: 10 percent plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Black Codes

The Civil War, III

Some questions:

1. What does Kennedy mean with the lines "...his death could not have been better timed if he had hired the assassin."
2. Why, over time, did many Southerners come to believe that Lincoln's death was a disaster for the South?
3. Reading the section "The Aftermath of the Nightmare," what to you are the most important legacies/consequences of the war? Be specific.
4. When watching films in class, which do you prefer: taking notes on your own, or completing questions that I have prepared in advance (Movie Sheets)? Why? Which is more enjoyable, and, more importantly, which helps you learn best?