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Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
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Click here for the possible essay questions for the exam that ends Unit 2.
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Topic and Chapter #s |
Links to the Reading Quiz for the Topic,
Resources to Help You See the Facts As Part of the Whole, and Optional
References |
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Progressivism:
Roosevelt to Wilson Chapters
20-21 Click here for what we will cover in class. r |
Resources and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz D - printable for back-to-back use with the version
with answers – Form to use
to record your answers or handwritten
if looks exactly like this ·
Study Tool: Chronological
Events of the 1901-1914 Era
(administrations of Republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Taft and of Democrat
Wilson) -
Notice the new trends in American life. -
Notice how the political parties are working and what is leading to
reform. -
Notice the former categories of labor (usually factory workers) and
farmers. -
Notice the new groups that are trying to alter their position in
American politics and life. ·
Sketching the differences in the 3 presidents – the
sketch as a PDF |
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World
War I Chapters
21-23 Click here for what we will cover in class. r |
Resources
and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz E - printable
for back-to-back use with the version with answers ·
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1914-1921 Era (administration of Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat,
during World War I and the peace) -
Notice what is happening in Europe in the years leading to war and how
we get in the war. -
Notice the new agencies in the national government created in response
to World War I. ·
Snapshot from the 1870s
to 1920s (PDF) (a comparison between 1870s-1890s, 1895 to
about 1920, and the Jazz Age (the 1920s) -
Use the PDF find feature to search for a name. -
Look at rows on a specific issue to see change over time. Example: By
looking at the rows on leisure, for example, you can see how things changed
during the periods from the 1870s-1890s, from about 1895 to about 1920, and
in the 1920s (also called the Jazz Age). What are you looking for? -
Notice what is going on in different areas (regions) and eras (time
periods) of American life, including what is disappearing. -
Notice the former categories of labor (usually factory workers),
farmers, and the new number of white collar workers. -
Notice how leisure changed over these three eras and in particular how
it is in the Jazz Age. ·
Study Tool: Chronological
Events of the 1921-1929 Era (administrations of Harding and Coolidge and the election of Hoover,
all Republicans) -
Notice what is changing in this period in foreign policy (including
disarmament in the early years) and notice the reparations-debt cycle. -
Notice big business and government. -
Notice the former category of farmers and the new interest group of
veterans. |
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Great
Depression, Seeds of the New Deal, and The New Deal and New Challenges Chapters
24-25 Click here for what we will cover in class. |
Resources and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz F
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printable for back-to-back use with the version with answers ·
Study
Tool: Chronological Events of the 1929-1933 Era
(Republican administration of Hoover and the Great Crash and the first years
of the depression. These
problems started before Hoover’s administration.) -
Notice the categories of laborers, farmers, and veterans and the new
category of the unemployed. -
Notice government efforts to help business and later to provide
relief. -
Notice foreign policy changes. ·
Tools to help you confirm you read the textbook
fully and understand the crisis of the Great Depression. These tools are
handwritten but they show sets of related facts about: -
What does the textbook show you about the reasons for the failure of
the stock market? -
AND about the crisis of liquidity of the banks and the failure of the banks and how that
interconnects with the stock market - AND about the country’s fundamentals for the rich, farmers, and business--including GNP and market saturation, including the GNP and market saturation? - AND about the workers and about the responses in the first three years of this depression? ·
Tools to help you see the crisis on a single page
and to see the connection between each problem in the crisis and each policy
in the New Deal: -
The table of problems without the New Deal
Solutions – Try to complete
the right side of the chart on your own before you look at the answers. -
The table of problems with the New Deal
Solutions Reference
If You Have a Question ·
About events
and programs from 1933 to 1939, Study Tool: Chronological Events
of the 1933-1939 Era ·
About the basic chronology (handwritten) of 1920s
and 1930s of these nations: -
Allied nations – Great
Britain and France (Both broke) -
Axis nations - Germany
and Italy (Both Fascist) -
Axis nations (Soviet Union later
Allied) – Japan (Fascist and emperor worship) and Soviet Union (Communist) -
China
and 1920s Background on the Middle East |
>>> TEMPORARY link of questions with answers for three quizzes for this Unit (I will remove all but Quiz F’s Monday): 1302_quiz_D_withanswers_Printable.pdf, 1302_Quiz_E_with_answers_Printable.pdf 1302_Quiz_F_Printable_OC_WITH_Answers.pdf – Test yourself with the quiz without answers at the top. Grade yourself with these answers. Read what you do not know.
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