A.P. U.S. History

March 10-23, 2008

1. Read:  Read chapters 25 and 26 and complete the study guide.  Take notes on the chapter —study and learn its contents.  Take the online quiz for chapters 25 and 26.  (Due March 24).

Study Guide: Chapter 25

“Woodrow Wilson and the Great War”

I.  Learning Objectives:  For each of the objectives, write a thorough, well-thought-out response of at least 300 words.  Each response should be structured as an essay, divided into paragraphs—each paragraph should contain AT LEAST six factual pieces of information (DATES, NAMES, PLACES, etc.).

                A.  Explain how and why America “closed the gates” to immigration in the 1920s.  Show how that is related to the success of the prohibition campaign for a constitutional amendment, and the popularity of fundamentalism and a renewed Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.

                B.  Summarize the changing social patterns of families and young people in the 1920s, and explain why women’s issues assumed greater importance in the 1920s.

                C.  Explain the popularity of movies, radio, and spectator sports in the 1920s.

                D.  Identify literary trends of the 1920s among the “lost generation” and Paris expatriates, black nationalists, and the Harlem Renaissance.

                E.  Explain how the automobile and airplane revolutionized American life.             

II.  People, Places, and Things: Define or identify each of the following names and terms on a separate sheet of paper.  Please use complete sentences.

1.  Immigration quota system

2.  E Pluribus Unum

3.  Greenwich Village bohemian

4.  Nickelodeon

5.  Fundamentalism

6.  Speakeasy

7.  “Lost generation”

8.  Assembly Line

9.  Cause Celebre

10.  Birth of a Nation

11.  The Jazz Singer

12.  Federal Communications Commission

13.  Scopes Trial

14.  Comstock Act

15.  Lever Act

16.  Ku Klux Klan

17.  Universal Negro Improvement Association

18.  Harlem Renaissance

19.  Margaret Sanger

20.  Jack Dempsey

21.  Babe Ruth

22.  Al Capone

23.  Sacco and Venzetti

24.  F. Scott Fitzgerald

25.  H.L. Mencken

26.  William J. Simmons

 

Study Guide: Chapter 26

“The New Era: 1921-1933”

I.  Learning Objectives:  For each of the objectives, write a thorough, well-thought-out response of at least 300 words.  Each response should be structured as an essay, divided into paragraphs—each paragraph should contain AT LEAST six factual pieces of information (DATES, NAMES, PLACES, etc.).

                A.  Assess the key accomplishments and failures of the Harding and Coolidge administrations.  What features did they have in common?

                B.  Identify the major foreign-policy problems of the United States in the 1920s.  Explain how and if these were solved.

                C.  Summarize the elections of 1924, 1928, and 1932 in reference to parties, nominees, issues, outcomes, and significance.

                D.  Explain what economic problems of the 1920s led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression of 1930.

                E.  Evaluate Hoover’s policies to curb the Great Depression.  What were the effects of the Great Depression on the American people?

II.  People, Places, and Things: Define or identify each of the following names and terms on a separate sheet of paper.  Please use complete sentences.

1.  Totalitarian

2.  Oligopoly

3.  Underconsumption

4.  Teapot Dome

5.  Washington Conference

6.  Stimson Doctrine

7.  Kellogg-Briand Pact

8.  Good Neighbor Policy

9.  Manchukuo

10.  Reconstruction Finance Corporation

11.  Hawley-Smoot Tariff

12.  Bonus Army

13.  “Hoovervilles”

14.  New Deal

15.  Andrew Mellon

16.  Albert Fall

17.  “Ohio Gang”

18.  Harry Daugherty

19.  John W. Davis

20.  Alfred E. Smith

A Schedule for upcoming Weeks:

Week Twenty-three  (3/3)

Unit Six test (20, 21, 22)

Carnes, chapter 24

Week Twenty-four  (3/10)

 

Carnes, chapter 25

Easter Break  (3/17)

Unit Eight: The 20th Century

No Class

Carnes, chapter 26

Week Twenty-five  (3/24)

Unit Seven test(23, 24, 25)

Carnes, chapter 27

Week Twenty-six  (3/31)

 

Carnes, chapter 28

Week Twenty-seven  (4/7)

Unit Eight test (26, 27, 28)

UnitNineContemporaryAmerica

Carnes, chapter 29

Week Twenty-eight  (4/14)

 

Carnes, chapters 30-31

Week Twenty-nine  (4/21)

Unit ten: Synthesis and Review

No Class Thurs.

Carnes, chapters 32-33

 

Week Thirty  (4/28)

Unit Nine test(29-33)

Practice A.P. Tests

Week Thirty-one  (5/5)

A.P. Exam: Friday a.m.

Practice A.P. tests

Week Thirty-two  (5/12)

Portfolios

 

Week Thirty-three (5/19)

Semester Final Exam