US History A Assignments

An economic, political and cultural survey of the United States from the nation's beginnings in 1607 to the Market Crash of 1929. US History A – Parts 1 & 2. Unit 1 - American Beginnings to 1877 Chapter 1. Beginnings to 1763 / Read pp 21 to 43 Talking Points: section 3. Early British Colonies Famous Faces: Benjamin Franklin, John Smith, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Penn, William Pitt, George II, Jonathan Edwards. Word Wall: joint-stock company; House of Burgesses; Mayflower Compact; Bacon’s Rebellion; Puritans; Pilgrims; colonial assembly; mercantilism; Parliament; triangular trade; middle passage; Enlightenment; Great Awakening; social contract; French/ Indian War. Chapter 2. Revolution & the Early Republic / Read pp 44 to79 Talking Points: section 3. Confederation and the Constitution Famous Faces: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson; Daniel Shay; James Madison; Alexander Hamilton Word Wall: First Continental Congress; Second Continental Congress; Articles of Confederation; Land Ordinance of 1785; Northwest Ordinance of 1787; Great Compromise; Three-Fifths Compromise; checks and balances; federalism; ratification; protective tariff; nullification. Chapter 2. The Living Constitution / Read pp 82 to 105 Chapter 3. Growth of a Young Nation / Read pp 110 to 153 Talking Points: section 4. Manifest Destiny Famous Faces: John Marshall; Eli Whitney; Andrew Jackson Word Wall: judicial review; Marbury v. Madison; Monroe Doctrine; cotton gin; Manifest Destiny; Forty-Niners; Transportation Revolution; Erie Canal; Market Revolution; Sam Slater; Lowell Textile mills; Seneca Falls convention. Chapter 4. The Union In Peril / Read pp 154 to 197 Talking Points: section 4. Reconstruction and Its Effects Famous Faces: Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Word Wall: secession; popular sovereignty; Republican Party; Civil War; Confederacy; Gettysburg Address: Civil War Amendments; Reconstruction; sharecropping. Chapter 5. Changes on the Western Frontier / Read pp 219 to 225 Talking Points: section 3. Farmers and the Populist Movement Famous Faces: William Jennings Bryan; William McKinley. Word Wall: greenbacks; gold standard; bi-metallism; Populism; “Cross of Gold” speech. Extra Credit: read one of the following novels. Then write a short essay connecting the book’s themes with those of your textbook. Proofread and spell check your draft. 1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain; 2. The Unvanquished – William Faulkner 3. O Pioneers – Willa Cather ; 4. The Trees – Conrad Richter Unit 2 - Bridge to the Twentieth Century Chapter 6. Industrialism In America / Read pp 228 to 249 Talking Points: section 3. Big Business and Labor Famous Faces: Thomas Edison; Andrew Carnegie; Charles Darwin; John D Rockefeller; Eugene Debs; Word Wall: Bessemer process; horizontal integration; Granger laws; Interstate Commerce Act; Social Darwinism; robber barons; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; American Federation of Labor; Homestead Strike; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Chapter 7 Urbanization and Politics / Read pp 252 to 271 Talking Points: section 3. Politics in the Gilded Age. Famous Faces: Jane Addams; William “Boss” Tweed. Word Wall: Ellis Island; melting pot; nativism; Chinese Exclusion Act; urbanization; Americanization movement; tenements; Social Gospel movement; settlement houses; Gilded Age; political machines; graft; political boss; Tweed Ring; Pendleton Act of 1883. Chapter 8 Culture / Read pp 274 to 299 Talking Points: section 4. The Dawn of Mass Culture Famous Faces: Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted; Orville & Wilbur Wright; Booker T. Washington; W.E. B. DuBois; Joseph Pulitzer; William Randolph Hearst. Word Wall: Ellis Island; poll tax, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v Ferguson; department store. - - DEPARTMENTAL MIDTERM EXAM 25 POINTS - - Chapter 9 Progressivism / Read pp 304 to 337 Talking Points: section 3. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal Famous Faces: Robert M. LaFollette; Susan B. Anthony; Upton Sinclair; Teddy Roosevelt; William Taft; Gifford Pinchot; Woodrow Wilson; Frank Lloyd Wright. Word Wall: Progressivism; muckrakers; scientific management; initiative (on the ballot), referendum (a vote on an initiative), recall (of a public official); direct primary (voters choose candidates for public office); suffrage; The Jungle; modern presidency; trust (a company created solely to control the stock of other companies); the Square Deal; Hepburn Act of 1906; Pure Food and Drug Act; conservation (limited use); preservation (non-use); NAACP (1909); Payne-Aldrich Tariff; Bull Moose Party; New Freedom; Clayton Anti- Trust Act of 1914; federal income tax; Federal Reserve; 19th Amendment. Extra Credit: read one of the following novels. Then write a short essay connecting the book’s themes with those of your textbook. Proofread and spell check your draft. 1. The Octopus – Frank Norris; 2. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser; 3. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith; 3. Ragtime – E. L. Doctorow Unit 3 - Modern America Emerges Chapter 10. America Claims an Empire / Read pp 340 to 370 Talking Points: section 2. The Spanish American War Famous Faces: Alfred T. Mahan; George Dewey; John Hay Word Wall: Imperialism (Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Columbia, Panama, Mexico); yellow journalism; De Lome letter; U.S.S. Maine; San Juan Hill; Rough Riders; Platt Amendment; protectorate; colonial entanglements (p 355); Philippine -American War; Open Door policy; Boxer Rebellion; Panama Canal (1904-1914); Roosevelt Corollary; Dollar Diplomacy (use of financial power as a diplomatic weapon); Chapter 11. The First World War / Read pp 370 to 407 Talking Points: section 4. Wilson Fights For Peace Famous Faces: Archduke Franz Ferdinand; John J. Pershing; William Trotter (p 393); Georges Clemenceau; David Lloyd George; Henry Cabot Lodge Word Wall: Triple Entente; Triple Alliance; Central Powers, Allies; Ottoman Empire; “powder keg of Europe;” Sarajevo; Balkans; Yugoslavia; no-man’s land; trench warfare; U-boat; Lusitania; Selective Service Act; convoy system; armistice; War Industries Board; victory gardens; propaganda; Great Migration; Fourteen Points; League of Nations; “Big Four;” Treaty of Versailles; reparations; war-guilt clause. Unit 4 – The Great Depression Chapter 12. The Roaring Twenties / Read pp 410 to 431 Talking Points: section 3. The Business of America Famous Faces: A. Mitchell Palmer; John L. Lewis; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Word Wall: Communism; isolationism, anarchists; quota system; coal miners’ strike; labor movement; urban sprawl; installment plan; superficial prosperity. Chapter 13. The Jazz Age / Read pp 432 to 461 Talking Points: section 4. The Harlem Renaissance Famous Faces: Al Capone; Aimee Semple MacPherson; Clarence Darrow; John Scopes; Babe Ruth; Charles Lindbergh; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway, George Gershwin; Zora Neale Hurston; Marcus Garvey; Langston Hughes; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington. Word Wall: Prohibition; speakeasies; bootleggers; Scopes Trial; fundamentalism; flappers; the Charleston; “Rhapsody in Blue;” Harlem Renaissance; Jazz Age - - DEPARTMENTAL FINAL EXAM 50 POINTS - - Extra Credit: read one of the following novels. Then write a short essay connecting the book’s themes with those of your textbook. Proofread and spell check your draft. 1.) Tom Sawyer – Samuel Clemens 2.) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They – Horace McCoy 3.) The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West 4.) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 5.) The Last Hurrah – Edwin O’Connor 6.) Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis