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Period 7 Part 1 Test Topics
- Civil Rights - WEB Dubois/ Booker T. Washington, NAACP, Great Migration,
- American Empire 1900
- Reasons for Imperial expansion and reasons for anti-imperialism
- Albert Beveridge, Afred T. Mahan and imperialist
- Progressives - Goals, Issues & Muckrakers
- WWI 1914-1917 (Wilson's policy and the debate over the war)
- War on the Homefront (CPI, anti-German feelings, Schenk v US, etc.)
- Wilson’s War Message (reasons for it, reaction to it, goals of it)
- Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
- American Empire 1900
- Reasons for Imperial expansion and reasons for anti-imperialism
- Albert Beveridge, Afred T. Mahan and imperialist
- Progressives - Goals, Issues & Muckrakers
- WWI 1914-1917 (Wilson's policy and the debate over the war)
- War on the Homefront (CPI, anti-German feelings, Schenk v US, etc.)
- Wilson’s War Message (reasons for it, reaction to it, goals of it)
- Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
Period 7 Part 2 Test Topics
- The New Deal (ways it continued reforms and ways it broke with the previous practices)
- Laissez-Faire economic policy and how it helped cause the Great Depression
- Isolationism in the late 1930’s and America as a world leader
- Hoovervilles (homelessness) – Causes and effects
- Huey Long and Share our Wealth
- Shifting from Isolationism to internationalism
- War mobilization and its effects on the economy
- Effects of WWII on women and African Americans
- The Bomb – reason to drop it, impact and effects of it
- Japanese Internment
- America's role after the war
- Laissez-Faire economic policy and how it helped cause the Great Depression
- Isolationism in the late 1930’s and America as a world leader
- Hoovervilles (homelessness) – Causes and effects
- Huey Long and Share our Wealth
- Shifting from Isolationism to internationalism
- War mobilization and its effects on the economy
- Effects of WWII on women and African Americans
- The Bomb – reason to drop it, impact and effects of it
- Japanese Internment
- America's role after the war
Crash Course #28 Focus Questions - Part 1
- In what ways has America always been an Imperial Nation?
- What is a primary cause of American Imperialism?
- What factors caused America to pursue Imperialism in the late 1800’s?
- Who is Alfred Mahan and what did he purpose?
- What fueled ships in the late 19th Century and how did this impact Imperialism?
- What is a primary cause of American Imperialism?
- What factors caused America to pursue Imperialism in the late 1800’s?
- Who is Alfred Mahan and what did he purpose?
- What fueled ships in the late 19th Century and how did this impact Imperialism?
Crash Course #28 Focus Questions - Part 2
1. What conditions created tension between the United States and Spain?
2. What was the "official" reason that we went to War with Spain?
3. What happened to the USS Maine and how did it impact US / Spanish relations?
4. In what ways was the Spanish-American War one of the most successful wars in US history?
5. How would you explain the epithet “Splendid Little War”?
6. What new territories did the US get and gain control over as a result of the Spanish American War?
7. Why did the Filipinos resist America’s rule.
8. What was the Foraker Act and how did it handle Porto Rico?
9. According to John Green, what was the chief motivating factor for American Imperialism?
2. What was the "official" reason that we went to War with Spain?
3. What happened to the USS Maine and how did it impact US / Spanish relations?
4. In what ways was the Spanish-American War one of the most successful wars in US history?
5. How would you explain the epithet “Splendid Little War”?
6. What new territories did the US get and gain control over as a result of the Spanish American War?
7. Why did the Filipinos resist America’s rule.
8. What was the Foraker Act and how did it handle Porto Rico?
9. According to John Green, what was the chief motivating factor for American Imperialism?
Crash Course #27 Focus Questions
1. What types of problems were progressives most concerned with.
2. What was an early attempt by the Federal Government to address large corporations? How effect was it?
3. What was The Jungle, who wrote it, what legislation was passed as a result of it?
4. Who was Lewis Hine and how did he work to effect change? How successful was he?
5. Who was Fredrick Taylor and how did his scientific workplace management effect industrial workers and schools?
6. At what levels of government were the most social reforms achieved?
7. What reforms expanding suffrage were achieved during the period? What was one of the major constrictions of Progressive Era Government reform?
2. What was an early attempt by the Federal Government to address large corporations? How effect was it?
3. What was The Jungle, who wrote it, what legislation was passed as a result of it?
4. Who was Lewis Hine and how did he work to effect change? How successful was he?
5. Who was Fredrick Taylor and how did his scientific workplace management effect industrial workers and schools?
6. At what levels of government were the most social reforms achieved?
7. What reforms expanding suffrage were achieved during the period? What was one of the major constrictions of Progressive Era Government reform?
Crash Course # 30 Focus Questions
- Why where Progressives worried about World War I
- What government official wanted to prevent Americans from sailing into the war zone? What happened to that official?
- What 4 causes finally pushed the US into World War I?
- In what ways did the war make the Federal Government more powerful?
- How did the US Federal Government shape public opinion?
- What were some of the good things that came out of the War?
- What government official wanted to prevent Americans from sailing into the war zone? What happened to that official?
- What 4 causes finally pushed the US into World War I?
- In what ways did the war make the Federal Government more powerful?
- How did the US Federal Government shape public opinion?
- What were some of the good things that came out of the War?
Heimler 7.2 World War I on the Homefront
1. What is meant by "total war"?
2. what ways did the federal government insure mobilization efficiency at home? (Be specific)
3. How did the government deal with dissent? (Be specific)
2. what ways did the federal government insure mobilization efficiency at home? (Be specific)
3. How did the government deal with dissent? (Be specific)
Crash Course #32 Focus Questions
- What was President Coolidge's quote that captured the spirit of the 1920's?
- Explain the roll the Federal Government play in the economy during the 1920's?
- List several new consumer goods for the 1920's.
- What kinds of activities filled the new leisure time?
- What was the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance?
- Explain the statement "The economic growth of the 1920's was not universal."
- Explain the roll the Federal Government play in the economy during the 1920's?
- List several new consumer goods for the 1920's.
- What kinds of activities filled the new leisure time?
- What was the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance?
- Explain the statement "The economic growth of the 1920's was not universal."
Key Concept 7.1 Overview
Crash Course #33 - The Great Depression Part 1 (First 7 minutes) |
Crash Course #33 - The Great Depression Part 2 (Last 7 minutes) |
1. What role did credit play in the onset of the Great Depression?
2. What role did the farm crisis play in the onset of the Great Depression? 3. What were the other signs of economic weakness in the late 1920’s? 4. According to John Green, what was the “single” case of the Great Depression? Why?
6. What was the goal of the Hawley – Smooth Tariff and what was its actual effect? |
1. What did Hoover do to “cushion the situation” the Great Depression?
2. What was the most radical move that the Hoover Administration made to deal with the crisis? - what did it do and how effect was it? 3. Where did Hoover think people should look for assistance? |
Big Idea Questions - Think about these as you watch the video and be able to discuss them.
- How was the New Deal both good and bad?
- How were the 1st and 2nd New Deal similar and dissimilar?
- How did the New Deal change American's relationship with the Government?
- How did the New Deal change the make up of the Democratic Party?
- How did the New Deal change the meaning of "liberty" for some people?
- How were the 1st and 2nd New Deal similar and dissimilar?
- How did the New Deal change American's relationship with the Government?
- How did the New Deal change the make up of the Democratic Party?
- How did the New Deal change the meaning of "liberty" for some people?
The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.