Depression questions

1. THE ECONOMY IN THE LATE 20’S:
2. The Economy Appears Healthy
3. Wonderful Prosperity
4. Welfare Capitalism
5. Economic Danger Signs were out there…
6. Uneven Prosperity
7. Buying on Credit
8. Playing the Stock Market
9. Speculation
10. buying on margin
11. Too Many Goods, Too Little Demand…

Read Section 1
12. The Stock Market Crash
13. Dow Jones Industrial Average, …
14. The Market Crashes…
15. Black Thursday,
16. On Black Tuesday,
17. Business Cycle
18. Efffects
19. Impact on workers and farmers
20. Impact on the World
21. Causes of the Depression
22. Overspeculation
23. Government Policies
24. An Unstable Economy
9-2
25. Social Effects of the Depression
26. Soup Kitchen
27. Hooverville’s
28. Food destruction
29. The Dust Bowl
30. Okies
31. Grapes of Wrath.
32. Poverty Strains Society
33. Impact on Health
34. Stresses on Families
35. Discrimination
36. Lynchings
37. Scottsboro Boys

9-3
Hoover's response
Public works
Midterm elections
RFC
Relief
Hunger Marches
Foreclosures
Bonus Army
Hawley Smoot Tarriff

US HISTORY ASSIGNMENT

Question 1 is due monday, nov 10

1) What Clue or Clues Suggest to you that the Major Powers expected the Crisis Between Austria-Hungary and Serbia would Lead to war? The Alliance System in Europe in 1914 was designed to maintain Peace, yet it seemed to make the conflict worse once the fighting began. Explain the inconsistency. What other Factors lead to the war in Europe? How could the Nations have avoided the Conflict? How was there no stopping the Conflict once it Began?



2) Analyze why the United States was at first so removed from the conflict in Europe. What forces drew the nation toward war? What goals did the United States Have regarding the War in Europe? Explain How Relations Between the United States and Germany Deteriorated. Why did the United States Finally Declare War? Identify Alternative Solutions to the Problem of the U-Boat Attacks. How Would you address Congress to Convince Them not to Go to War? Would you keep the US out of War? Why or Why Not?(1)



3) Discuss the Strategy of Conflict developed during WW1 by the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. How was the strategy not effective? What were the results of the Strategy, and the outcome for the war, the men, etc.? What happened when America joined the war? How did this change the outcome? What might have happened on the European front if Gen. Pershing had decided to mix the American troops with the Allied Troops instead of Keeping them independent? Would there have been a different result if Russia had stayed in the War? (support your conclusions).


4) WW1 Brought many Changes at Home, including Unprecedented Governmental Control of the Economy and of News and Information. Discuss the extent of the Sacrifices that were required of Americans at Home. Discuss the changes in American Life caused by the war. Explain the steps the government took to finance the war, manage the economy, and boost Americanism. (Talk about propaganda and raising money and recruiting troops). Be sure to include how the lives at Home changed during the war. How did the Government try to keep Americans happy – or did they? Did some people feel during this time that civil liberties were suppressed?


5) Explain Pres. Wilson’s vision of Postwar peace, summarized in his 14 points. Why was the vision not shared by the allies and the US Congress? What Political mistakes did he make that cost him support for his peace plan? Would you have handled this differently and How? It is often said that Wilson won the war but then “Lost the Peace.” Explain that statement. Many countries turned to the Treaty of Versailles forcing the Central Powers to Sign. What was the Treaty of Versailles, and how did it come to change the course of History.

US History.

1) Lecture Discussion on 5-2
2) Finish Tesla. Write a 5 paragraph Essay:
"Who was Nikola Tesla, and Why is he important" Due next Class.

Old West Magazine Due October 1

Western Settlement
US History.
Smith

Assignment: Create a news magazine covering two of the following aspects of Western Settlement. The magazine should be a minimum of 3 pages of information. The magazine will be due Wednesday, Oct 1th and is worth 50 points.

Topics to select from
1. Indian Reservation System
2. Government Corruption
3. Gold Silver and Ore Rushes
4. Transcontinental Railroad
5. Destruction of the Buffalo
6. Homestead Act
7. Dawes Act
8. Indian Treaties
9. Indian Massacres and Battles
10. Cattle Ranching and Cattle Drives

Magazine Components (Requirements)
1. Factual news reports
2. Analysis of how the events affected large groups of people
3. A human interest story
4. An editorial
5. A political Cartoon
6. A government propaganda advertisement
7. Cover page theme title and free hand sketch.

Grading
1. Historically accurate information
2. Present various view points
3. Style and creativity
4. All requirements met
5. Effort
6. Mechanics

2-5

2-5

1. What is reconstruction
2. What is amnesty?
3. What are RAdical republicans?
4. What is the Wade-Davis veto?
5. Why didn't Lincoln like it?
6. What's the Freedmen's bureau?
7. Who is Andrew Johnson?
8. 13th amendment?
9. 14th amendment?
10. 15th amendment?
11. What are black codes?
12. What is the Military reconstruction act?
13. Why was Johnson Impeached?
14. Who is US Grant
15. Chat are Carpetbaggers?
16. What happened for education for blacks
17. What is the KKK?
18. What were 2 scandals of the Grant administration?
19. What election helped the Deocrats regaoin power?
20. What happened to blacks after the end of Radical Reconstruction?
21. What are tenant farmers?
22. What are sharecroppers?

Chapter 2-4 questions.

2-4 Questions

1. What is Ft. Sumter.
2. What is Martial Law? Where was it imposed/
3. Who is Robert E. Lee?
4. What advantages did the North Have?
5. What is Conscription?
6. What is habeas corpus? What did Lincoln do about it?
7. What did Europe want to do?
8. How was it the first modern war?
9. What is attrition?
10. What was the southern Plan? What did they do?
11. Who won Bull run?
12. What are blockade runners?
13. Where did US Grant first rise to prominence? Why did Lincoln Like him?
14. Why did the South invade the North?
15. What is Antietam? Why was it important?
16. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
17. What is the Anaconda Plan
18. What is life like in the south?
19. What is life like in the north?
20. How did innovations in agriculture change things?
21. Women in the war?
22. What happened at Vicksburg?
23. What was Gettysburg?
24. Pickett’s charge?
25. How was Gettysburg the turning point?
26. Gettysburg address?
27. What was Sherman’s march to the sea?
28. What is the 13th amendment?
29. What is Appomatox Courthouse

Chapter 2-3 questions

Chapter 2, Section 3 pp. 192 – 201
Manifest Destiny and Crisis

1. How many people moved west from 1830-1860? Why?
2. What is manifest destiny?
3. Name 3 wagon trails across the country?
4. What was the treaty of ft. Laramie? Was it honored?
5. How did Texas become a state?
6. How did the US force a war with Mexico?
7. Who is John C. Fremont?
8. What is the result of the war with Mexico?
9. How does discovery of Gold in CA help lead to the Civil war?
10. What is the Compromise of 1850?
11. What is the Fugitive slave act?
12. Who is Henry David Thoreau?
13. What is the Underground Railroad? Who is Harriet Tubman?
14. What is the Transcontinental RR?
15. What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
16. What is the Republican party?
17. What is the Dred Scott case?
18. Who is John Brown? What was his plan? What happened?
19. What happened in the election of 1860? What did this lead to in the south?
20. What is the Confederacy?
21. Who is Jefferson Davis

Chapter 2
Section 1

For each of the following, make two bullet points.
* define the term
* explain why it's important

1 what is the main idea of the section.
2 is the missouri compromise
3 what happened to voting rights, and how did this change politics
4 what is the spoils system
5 what's a caucus
6 what was the nullification crisis
7 who is john c calhoun
8 what is nullification
9 what did Jackson want to do about Indians
10 what is the trail of tears
11 What are the Whigs
12 What is ther reform movement
13 What is the second great awakening
14 what is temperance
15 What happened at Seneca falls?
16 define abolition
17 what is emancipation
18 who is frederick douglass

US history Sept 11 Assignment

Chapter 1 Review. (20 points)
1-38
43
47.

Current Event: IN class (number 6, I think)
Map: Due Friday.

US HISTORY BLOG

Welcome to the US History Blog For Summit HIgh School, taught By Luke Smith.

A little something about me:

My name is Luke Smith. I'm a Social Studies History Teacher at Summit High, with a wide range of interests including, but not limited to US History, Latin American, Comparative Religions, Government, and the Middle East.

In a previous life, I was Construction Project Manager in Seattle, and I like to think that my understanding of the 'real world' helps me to convey the value of a public education for whatever path a student chooses to follow: Whether it be the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake, or merely as a stepping stone to a job, public education can serve every student.

With that in mind, I'll try to cover everything from the 'facts of life' (i.e., showing up, prepared every day is the first step to success) to plumbing the depths of history (hey, someone may actually like this stuff as much as I do!).

This blog will be updated periodically with assignments, articles worth reading, etc. Grade distribution will occur through a different means. As a general rule, If you miss class, and don't know what to do, read the next section of material, take notes, and read two articles from the front section of the paper of merit, and summarize them. These are activities we will engage in daily, and you do just this, you'll seldom fall far behind.