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AP United States History
Honors United States History
Mr. Brown
AP United States History
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Honors United States History Weekly Assignments Page
Quarter 2
2020-21
Quarter 2
2020-21
Q2 Week 9
1/19-1/22
Final Exam Wednesday 11/20
C19-21
Practice Quizzes
C19 Americal Empire
C 20 Progressivism
C21 World War and its Aftermath
Q2 Week 8
1/11-1/15
Articles
The Associated Press ranked World War I as the 8th most important event of the 20th century. In fact, almost everything that subsequently happened occurred because of World War I: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the collapse of empires. No event better underscores the utter unpredictability of the future. Europe hadn't fought a major war for 100 years. A product of miscalculation, misunderstanding, and miscommunication, the conflict might have been averted at many points during the five weeks preceding the fighting. World War I destroyed four empires - German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Romanov - and touched off colonial revolts in the Middle East and Vietnam. WWI shattered Americans' faith in reform and moral crusades. WWI carried far-reaching consequences for the home front, including prohibition, women's suffrage, and a bitter debate over civil liberties. World War I killed more people (9 million combatants and 5 million civilians) and cost more money ($186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs) than any previous war in history.
Triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War I began in August 1914 when Germany invaded Belgium and France. Several events led to U.S. intervention: the sinking of the Lusitania, a British passenger liner; unrestricted German submarine warfare; and the Zimmerman note, which revealed a German plot to provoke Mexico to war against the United States. Millions of American men were drafted, and Congress created a War Industries Board to coordinate production and a National War Labor Board to unify labor policy. The Treaty of Versailles deprived Germany of territory and forced it to pay reparations. President Wilson agreed to the treaty because it provided for the establishment of a League of Nations, but he was unable to persuade the Senate to ratify the treaty.
Nearly 10 million soldiers died and about 21 million were wounded. U.S. deaths totaled 116,516.
Four empires collapsed: the Russian Empire in 1917, the German and the Austro-Hungarian in 1918, and the Ottoman in 1922.
Independent republics were formed in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey.
Most Arab lands that had been part of the Ottoman Empire came under the control of Britain and France.
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia in 1917, and fascists triumphed in Italy in 1922.
Other consequences of the war included the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey and an influenza epidemic that killed over 25 million people worldwide.
Under the peace settlement, Germany was required to pay reparations eventually set at $33 billion; accept responsibility for the war; cede territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, and Poland; give up its overseas colonies; and accept an allied military force on the west bank of the Rhine River for 15 years.
2. C21 HTS due Sunday 1/17 (google classroom)
1. Discuss the social, economic, and political effects World War I had on the home front.
a. Social effects
b. Economic effects
c. Political effects
2. Why did the battle over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles come to an impasse? Why did the Senate ultimately reject the treaty? What was the significance of that rejection?
C21 World War I Key Terms
1. Allies
2. Central Powers
3. Triple Entente
4. Triple Alliance
5. General John J. Pershing
6. “Great Migration”
7. Lusitania
8. Zimmermann Telegram
9. Trench Warfare
10. Western Front
11. Bolshevik Revolution
12. Palmer Raids
13. Red Scare
14. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
15. The Fourteen Points
16. Treaty of Versailles
17. Espionage and Sedition ActsQ2 Week 7
1/4-1/8
Articles
1. SAQ (Chapter19 assignment due tonight posted on Google Classroom)
American Imperialism due 1/4
Progressivism is an umbrella label for a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; insure pure and wholesome water and milk; Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether; and bust or regulate trusts. Drawing support from the urban, college-educated middle class, Progressive reformers sought to eliminate corruption in government, regulate business practices, address health hazards, improve working conditions, and give the public more direct control over government through direct primaries to nominate candidates for public office, direct election of Senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall, and women's suffrage. By the beginning of the twentieth century, muckraking journalists were calling attention to the exploitation of child labor, corruption in city governments, the horror of lynching, and the ruthless business practices employed by businessmen like John D. Rockefeller. At the local level, many Progressives sought to suppress red-light districts, expand high schools, construct playgrounds, and replace corrupt urban political machines with more efficient system of municipal government. At the state level, Progressives enacted minimum wage laws for women workers, instituted industrial accident insurance, restricted child labor, and improved factory regulation. At the national level, Congress passed laws establishing federal regulation of the meat-packing, drug, and railroad industries, and strengthened anti-trust laws. It also lowered the tariff, established federal control over the banking system, and enacted legislation to improve working condition. Four constitutional amendments were adopted during the Progressive era, which authorized an income tax, provided for the direct election of senators, extended the vote to women, and prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
2. Read and Take Notes (Week 7)
C20 The Progressive Era
V. Progressive Environmentalism
VI. Jim Crow and African American Life
1. Roosevelt's "Square Deal"
2. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
3. Election of 1912
4. Muckrakers
5. Bull Moose Party 1912
6. Walter Rauschenbusch
7. 16th Amendment
8. Social Gospel
9. 17th Amendment
10. National Women's Suffrage Association
11. 18th Amendment
12. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
13. 19th Amendment
14. Jane Addams and Hull House
15. Ida B. Wells
16. Upton Sinclair
17. John Muir
18. Ida Tarbell
19. Woodrow Wilson
20. Booker T. Washington
21. The “Atlanta Compromise” Speech
22. W.E.B.DuBois
23. NAACP
1). How did W. E. B. Du Bois's philosophy on race relations differ from that of Booker T. Washington?
2). Discuss the presidential election of 1912. What happened and why?
3). Outline the domestic policies of the Progressive Era. Organize your research around the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Roosevelt and Wilson. Identify key terms and events focusing on domestic affairs between 1900-1920.
Q2 Week 6
12/14-12/18
Articles
Complexity Point (conclusion)
Why do historians label the 21st Century the New Gilded Age?
C16/18 Assessment Monday 12/14
Read and Take Notes
C19 American Empire
3. Long Essay Question #2 due Friday 12/18
Two major problems of the Gilded Age were urbanization and immigration. Assess the economic, social, and political impact of these two major issues from 1875-1920.
Monday-Outline (Industrialization/Immigration/ Urbanization)
Tuesday-Intro and Thesis (Contextualization and Claim)
Wednesday- Topic sentences and Main Body Paragraphs (Support for Argument and Outside Information)
Thursday-Conclusion (Analysis and Complexity)
C19 American Empire Key Terms
1. "new Manifest Destiny"
2. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
3. American Intervention in China
4. American interventions in Mexico
5. The De Lome Letter
6. General Wyler's reconcentration policy
7. The U.S.S. Maine
8. Treaty of Paris 1898
9. Yellow Journalism
10. The Spanish-American War
11. The Philippine–American War
12. Emillio Aguinaldo
13. Anti-Imperialist League
14. Open Door Policy
15. Annexation of Hawaii
16. Queen Liioukalani
17. Alfred Thayher Mahan
18. Theodore Roosevelt
19. Rough Riders
20. Panama Canal
Q2 Week 5
12/7-12/11
C16/18 Assessment Monday 12/14
PowerPoint
C18 Life in Industrial America
Practice Quizzes
The Rise of Big Business and Labor 1
The Rise of Big Business and Labor 2
The Rise of Big Business and Labor 3
The Rise of Big Business and Labor 4
The Rise of Big Business and Labor 5
Immigration and Urbanization 1
Immigration and Urbanization 2
Articles
1. Read and Take Notes
C18 Life in Industrial America
- I. Introduction
- II. Industrialization & Technological Innovation
- III. Immigration and Urbanization
- IV. The New South and the Problem of Race
- V. Gender, Religion, and Culture
- VI. Conclusion
Around the turn of the twentieth century, mass immigration from eastern and southern Europe dramatically altered the population's ethnic and religious composition. Unlike earlier immigrants, who had come from Britain, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, the “new immigrants” came increasingly from Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Russia. The newcomers were often Catholic or Jewish and two-thirds of them settled in cities. In this chapter you will learn about the new immigrants and the anti-immigrant reaction. Also in this chapter traces the changing nature of the American city in the late 19th century, the expansion of cities horizontally and vertically, the problems caused by urban growth, the depiction of cities in art and literature, and the emergence of new forms of urban entertainment.
2. HST due Sunday 12/13 (google classroom)
1. What were some of the problems that resulted from rapid urbanization, and how did urban governments respond to these problems?
2. What was the relationship between immigration and urbanization in the late nineteenth century?
3. Examine and evaluate the urban political machines and political bosses of the late nineteenth century.
4. How did the rise of mass consumption affect leisure and entertainment?
a. sports,
b. entertainment
c. consumerism
d. popular journalism.
C18 Key Terms
1. William Randolph Hearst
2. Joseph Pulitzer
3. Urbanization
4. Immigration
5. Machine Politics
6. Tammany Hall
7. Boss Tweed
8. Jim Crow
9. Ida B. Wells
10. Booker T. Washington
11. W.E.B. DuBuios
12. The “Gospel of Wealth”
13. Fredrick Law Olmstead
14. Popular Entertainment
15. Jacob Riis
16. How the Other Half Lives
17. Tenements
18. Jane Adam & the Settlement House movement
19. Mass Circulation Newspapers
3. LEQ Revision due Friday 12/11
Q2 Week 4
11/30-12/6
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Lives On-Michael Genovese
Howard Zinn People's History of the United States
Robber Barons and Rebels (paragraph 1-28)
Articles
The Rise of Industrial America
Between the Civil War and World War I, the modern American economy emerged. A national transportation and communication network was created, the corporation became the dominant form of business organization, and a managerial revolution transformed business operations. By the beginning of the 20th century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States exceeded that of any other country except Britain. Unlike the pre-Civil War economy, this new one was dependent on raw materials from around the world and it sold goods in global markets. Business organization expanded in size and scale. There was an unparalleled increase in factory production, mechanization, and business consolidation. By the beginning of the 20th century, the major sectors of the nation's economy--banking, manufacturing, meat packing, oil refining, railroads, and steel--were dominated by a small number of giant corporations. Around the turn of the 20th century, mass immigration from eastern and southern Europe dramatically altered the population's ethnic and religious composition. Unlike earlier immigrants, who had come from Britain, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, the new immigrants came increasingly from Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Russia. The newcomers were often Catholic or Jewish and two-thirds of them settled in cities. In this chapter you will learn about the new immigrants and the anti-immigrant reaction.
1. Read and Take Notes
C16 Capital and Labor
2. HTS due Sunday 12/06 (google classroom)
1. What factors drove America's industrial expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
2. Who were some of the businessmen and industrial titans of the late nineteenth century, and what did they contribute to America's industrial growth?
3.What changes took place in corporate organization in the late nineteenth century, and how did these changes affect the nation's economy?
4. How did Social Darwinism attempt to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism?
Key Terms
1. Bessemer Process
2. Henry Ford
3. Thomas Edison
4. Taylorism
5. Andrew Carnegie
6. Fordism
7. Social Darwinism
8. Laissez-Faire
9. Anarchists
10. JD Rockefeller
11. Gospel of Wealth
12. Sherman Anti Trust Act 1890
13. Monopoly ,Trusts, Pools, Cartels
14. Vertical Integration
15. Haymarket Square Riot
16. Horizontal Integration
17. Socialist Party of American
18. Eugene V. Debs
19. Railroad Strike of 1877
20. Wright Brothers
21. Pullman Strike
22. Homestead Strike
23. Samuel Gompers
24. American Federation of Labor
25. Henry George
Q2 Week 3
11/16-11/20
Long Essay Reconstruction Notes
1. C14-15 Assessment Tuesday 11/17
C14 Civil War practice questions
C15 Reconstruction practice questions
2. Long Essay Question Friday 11/20
Evaluate the extent to which Reconstruction fostered social change in the United States from1865 to 1900.
Q2 Week 2
11/9-11/13
Civil War and Reconstruction 1861-1877
Reconstruction 1865-1877
1. Read and Take Notes
Reconstruction
I. IntroductionVI. Economic Development during the Civil War and Reconstruction
VII. The End of Reconstruction
VIII. Conclusion
2. Short Answer Question due Thursday 11/ 12
Using the post-Civil War image above, answer (A), (B), and (C).
A). Briefly describe ONE perspective about citizenship expressed in the image.
B). Briefly explain ONE specific historical development that led to the change depicted in the image.
C). Briefly explain ONE way in which the historical change depicted in the image was challenged in the period 1866-1900.
3. C14-15 Assessment Tuesday 11/17
C14 Civil War practice questions
C15 Reconstruction practice questions
4. Long Essay Question Thursday 11/19
Evaluate the extent to which Reconstruction fostered social change in the United States from1865 to 1900.
C15 Key Terms
Lincoln’s Reconstruction 13th Amendment 10% plan
Pocket Veto Hiram Revels Thaddeus Stevens
Plessy v. Furguson Scalawags Wade Davis Bill
Charles Sumner Carpetbaggers Ida B. Wells
Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Crop-Lien System Booker T. Washington
Radical Reconstruction Sharecropping Seward’s Follies
Civil Rights Act 1866 Ku Klux Klan Grandfather Clause’s
Black Codes Redeemer Governments Literacy Tests
Freedman’s Bureau Ulysses S. Grant Poll Taxes
Military Reconstruction Act Force Acts Lynching
Tenure of Office Act Grant Scandals Rutherford B. Hayes
Johnson’s Impeachment Panic of 1873 Election of 1876
14th Amendment Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow
15th Amendment Black Republicanism
Q2 Week 1
11/2-11/6
Article's
C14 Civil War 1861-1865
1. Read and Take Notes
I. Introduction
ll. The Election of 1860 and Secession
III. A War for Union 1861-63
IV. War for Emancipation
V. Conclusion
2. HST C14 due 11/6 (google classroom)
C14 HTS Contextualization
1. What was the Republican platform in 1860? To what specific political groups were the Republicans trying to appeal, and how did this platform propose to appeal to them? What was the outcome of this election and its impact on the future of the country?
C14 HTS Continuity and Change
2. Discuss the political, economic, and social costs of the Civil War (1860-1865),
C14 Civil War Key Terms
1. Fort Sumter
2. Anaconda Plan
3. border states
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Writ of Habeas Corpus
6. Robert E. Lee
7. Emancipation Proclamation
8. Battle of Antietam 1862
9. Battle of Gettysburg 1863
10. Battle of Vicksburg 1863
11. NYC draft riots
12. Sherman’s March to the Sea
13. The Election of 1864
14. Copperhead Democrats
15. Appomattox Court House 1865
16. Ulysses Grant
17. Clara Barton
18. 54th Massachusetts
19. Homestead Act 1862
20. Morill Land Grant Act 1862
21. National Railroad Act 1862
22. National Banking Act 1862