APUSH Gang,
This Thursday, you will take an exam on Ch. 27 & 28 of "American Pageant". Many questions will be like your previous two tests, but some may be from another source. If you have a memory stick, I would like to allow you the opportunity to watch a short film (30 minutes or so) titled "America in the 20th Century: The Progressive Era". You may download this film to your memory stick sometime today or tomorrow, watch it, and complete the following activities found in the Adobe file on my webpage titled "The Progressive Era":
-Video Quiz - 10 T/F questions
-Post-test - 10 Multiple Choice, plus the 8 short-response items
-Discussion Questions - choose any three
-Then, answer the following on this blog:
"What three reforms during the Progressive Era do you think have had the biggest impact on today's world?? Explain why..."
Yeah, all of this is required.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Ch. 26 - "Empire & Expansionism" & Ch. 27 - "Progressivism & The Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912"
This week and next, APUSH students will be studying the Age of American Expansionism between the years 1890-1899, and the years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. To strengthen your knowledge base of this important era in American History, the following assignments will bne completed by the due dates given:
1.)Ch. 27 & Ch. 28 Guidebook assignment - complete Sections II for each Guidebook assignment; KNOW Section III as well. (Due Mon., 2/22)
2.) Read Ch. 12 of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" - questions for this reading assignment are below. Please type your responses, or print them in blue or black ink. (Due Tues., 2/23)
3.) Practice quizzes on http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace27.html & http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace28.html. Choose "ACE the Test" for both chapters, and email your results to me at scottfields@mckeelacademy.com. You will need to send me verification that you scored at least 90% on both.
4.) All other classwork assignments for this week & next.
-You will have an exam on Ch. 27 & 28 on Fri., 2/26.
Zinn Questions for Ch. 12 ("The Empire & The People"):
1.) Why might Theodore Roosevelt have thought that the U.S. needed a war in 1897?
2.) What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?
3.) In what sense was overseas expansion "not a new idea"? If it was not new, then why did it not begin until 1898?
4.) How many times did the U.S. gov't intervene in the affairs of other nations between 1798 and 1895?
5.) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge believed that the U.S. needed to control the balance of trade in the Pacific. Which island and countries did he believe were key acquisitions toward attaining such a goal?
6.) Senator Albert Beveridge argued in 1897 that "the trade of the world must and shall be ours." What might his motivations and reasons have been for making such a statement?
7.) The ideology justifying American aggression in 1846-48 was similar to, or different from, the same ideology of 1896? Explain your answer.
8.) U.S. business interests favored an "open door" policy over the conquest of colonies. From this point of view, what were the pros and cons of intervening in the Cuban revolt that began in 1895? Why did intervention ultimately win out?
9.) How did the Cuban rebels react to McKinley's ultimatum to Spain?
1.)Ch. 27 & Ch. 28 Guidebook assignment - complete Sections II for each Guidebook assignment; KNOW Section III as well. (Due Mon., 2/22)
2.) Read Ch. 12 of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" - questions for this reading assignment are below. Please type your responses, or print them in blue or black ink. (Due Tues., 2/23)
3.) Practice quizzes on http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace27.html & http://college.cengage.com/history/us/kennedy/am_pageant/14e/ace/ace28.html. Choose "ACE the Test" for both chapters, and email your results to me at scottfields@mckeelacademy.com. You will need to send me verification that you scored at least 90% on both.
4.) All other classwork assignments for this week & next.
-You will have an exam on Ch. 27 & 28 on Fri., 2/26.
Zinn Questions for Ch. 12 ("The Empire & The People"):
1.) Why might Theodore Roosevelt have thought that the U.S. needed a war in 1897?
2.) What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?
3.) In what sense was overseas expansion "not a new idea"? If it was not new, then why did it not begin until 1898?
4.) How many times did the U.S. gov't intervene in the affairs of other nations between 1798 and 1895?
5.) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge believed that the U.S. needed to control the balance of trade in the Pacific. Which island and countries did he believe were key acquisitions toward attaining such a goal?
6.) Senator Albert Beveridge argued in 1897 that "the trade of the world must and shall be ours." What might his motivations and reasons have been for making such a statement?
7.) The ideology justifying American aggression in 1846-48 was similar to, or different from, the same ideology of 1896? Explain your answer.
8.) U.S. business interests favored an "open door" policy over the conquest of colonies. From this point of view, what were the pros and cons of intervening in the Cuban revolt that began in 1895? Why did intervention ultimately win out?
9.) How did the Cuban rebels react to McKinley's ultimatum to Spain?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
"Interviewing an Immigrant" Assignment
APUSH Gang:
Here are your directions for conducting your "Interviewing an Immigrant" assignment.
You will be interviewing an immigrant in your community, and writing a profile that documents the interviewee's experiences. You will base your profile on salient comments made by the interviewee about such issues as his/her arrival in the U.S., his/her adjustment to American life and culture, discrimination, and language difficulties.
Set up a time for you and your interviewee to talk, using the questions given to you as a framework. It is important to actually TALK to your interviewee, and not just hand them the questionnaire. The interview questions given to you should be used, but allow yourself an opportunity to ask other questions as well, especially if an answer given peaks your curiousity.
Some interviewees may be uncomfortable talking about their immigration experiences, particularly about discrimination or language difficulties. Ask your potential interviewee whether or not they are comfortable talking about these experiences before you interview them. If they are, find another interview subject.
After your interview, write your immigrant profile using the directions given to you in class. Try to include a picture of your interviewee and a map of their home country with your finish typed profile.
These are due on Fri., 2/19.
Here are your directions for conducting your "Interviewing an Immigrant" assignment.
You will be interviewing an immigrant in your community, and writing a profile that documents the interviewee's experiences. You will base your profile on salient comments made by the interviewee about such issues as his/her arrival in the U.S., his/her adjustment to American life and culture, discrimination, and language difficulties.
Set up a time for you and your interviewee to talk, using the questions given to you as a framework. It is important to actually TALK to your interviewee, and not just hand them the questionnaire. The interview questions given to you should be used, but allow yourself an opportunity to ask other questions as well, especially if an answer given peaks your curiousity.
Some interviewees may be uncomfortable talking about their immigration experiences, particularly about discrimination or language difficulties. Ask your potential interviewee whether or not they are comfortable talking about these experiences before you interview them. If they are, find another interview subject.
After your interview, write your immigrant profile using the directions given to you in class. Try to include a picture of your interviewee and a map of their home country with your finish typed profile.
These are due on Fri., 2/19.
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