Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Getting Started on Chapter 5

Tell Me What they were and Why they were Important.
Bonus: All of these are associated with one other Term. What is the missing Term.

Transcontinental RR
Civil War
Refrigerator Car
Native Americans
Immigration
Longhorn

5-1

Progressivism
Muckrakers
Commission Plan
Direct Primary
Initiative
Reforendum
Recall
17th Amendment
Suffrage
19th Amendment
Social Problems
Temperance And Prohibition
Socialism
Eugene V. Debs

5-2

define the following and explain why it's important.
1) TR
2) Square Deal
3) Trusts
4) Northern Securities
5) How do you think TR's victory over Northern Securities would affect the attempts of other businesses to create trusts.
6)United mine workers
7) Coal strike of 1902
8) The Gentlemen's agreement
9) Hepburn Act
10) Consumer's issues
11) Patent medicine
12) Upton Sinclair
13) Conservation
14) Timber REsources
15) Roosevelt's legacy

Monday, November 15, 2010

Chapter 4-2

1. Main Idea question: Cause of Spanish American War
2. Why do Americans support Cuba
3. Value of Cuba to spain?
4. When was slavery abolished?
5. Jose Marti
6. Link between US and Cuba
7. Tariff of 1894
8. William Hearst
9. Joseph Pulitzer
10. Yellow Journalism
11. Valeriano Butcher Weyler
12. Concentration Camp
13. McKinley and War
14. Maine Dispatched
15. DeLome letter
16. The Maine
17. Jingoism
18. Teddy Roosevelt
19. The Phillipines
20. Dewey
21. Emilio Aguinaldo
22. Causes of Death of US Troops in Cuba
23. Rough Riders
24. African American Soldiers
25. Annexation, pro, con.
26. Mark Twain
27. Samuel Gompers
28. Why did we Annex the Phillipines
29. Phillipino Revolution.
30. Good US acts in Phillipines? Bad?
31. Teller Amendment (look on internet)
32. Platt Amendment

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

library assignment

discuss the election results.
what do they mean.

cite your sources.