Week of
March 26th
Tuesday,
March 27th
Notes Due
Online Quiz
Chapter 25
Due today
Chapter 26
due Mon.,
April 2
Topics, Tests, Dates
Great Depression & New Deal
Causes?
Hoover’s Responses
FDR – wins 1932
New Deal – Relief, Recovery, Reform
First 100 Days/Critics/Fireside talks
John Maynard Keynes
The New Deal - Does it end the Great Depression?
Complete Pretest Online for Chapter 24
Essay Test on Chapter 22 -23 – Thursday 2-29 in class STUDY!!!
 No notes
22 Topics :
 Foreign Policy TR, Taft, Wilson
 Is USA Neutral In WWI?
 Why does the USA go to war in 1917?
 How does the USA work for war on the homefront – business of war, economy,
Baruch, Hoover, Creel (Committee for Public Info)
 Labor and the war
 IWW
 What happens to free speech and adds fear during the war? Eugene Debs,
Espionage Act , Sedition Act, social tension, opposition to war
 Women’s Suffrage & the war
 Great Migration & Racial tension
 African Americans in war – racism in Military
 Prohibition
 Wilson in Paris – 14 pts. – USA in Russia – Treaty fight.
 Red Scare
23 Topics 1920s
Second Industrial Revolution
 Power from electricity
 Consumer goods
 Housing boom
 Modern Corporation
 Welfare Capitalism
Auto age – Henry Ford – GM
 Suburbs
 Life changes in USA
 Industries supply autos boom
Industries/Ag – not booming
 Movies, Radio, Newspapers, Advertising, Recordings, Sports, Celebrities, New
morality
Republicans cater to businesses –
 Harding, Coolidge, Hoover as Sec of Commerce
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Thurs 3-29
Pretest
For Ch. 24
Due Today
 Taxes
 Wealth? For whom?
 Peace
 Commerce & foreign policy
Groups against change
 Fundamentalists
 Prohibition
 Immigration Restriction – 1921 Immigration Act
 KKK vs. Blacks, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants – spreads north
 Evolution – Scopes Trial
New Negro
 Previous to this Marcus Garvey
 Universal Negro Improvement Association
 Harlem Renaissance
 Well-known artists
The Lost Generation – Hemingway Fitzgerald, Mencken Sinclair Lewis, Ashcan School
of Art, Eugene O’Neill etc.
1928: Al Smith – Catholic loses but gets city vote/Hoover the rest and wins presidency
FDR –2nd New Deal – Effects of the New Deal on power of federal government - Social,
political, economic changes
Roosevelt Recession
Cultural changes
Read 26
Sat 3-31
Week of
April 2nd
April 2
Monday
April 4
Wednesday
April 6
Friday
Room 1115
Noon –
2PM
Ch. 26 Due
Today
Read Ch. 27
Due
Tuesday
Apr 10
No class for
us
Test today
Essay test in class today – 2 essays – pick from a variety – One each from Chapters
22-23 above topics
Start reviewing for AP test!
Noon-2PM – Hoover – Mrs. Murphy’s Room
OK to bring something to drink or eat
Take a AP type multiple choice test – get answers
Colonial Period – Spain, France, England
Early English colonies – Puritans/Jamestown
American colonies – New England, Middle, South
Revolutionary War
SPRITE Ideas
Handouts
April Fool’s Day is Sunday April 1 – Have a sunny one!
World War II
US Isolationism – connection to WWI
Trace changes in government policy from isolationism to aiding Europe and Asia and
the opponents of change.
War strategies and Allies
Multiple Choice Test Chapters 24-25 on Thursday
Iowa Assessments Grades 9-11 / Green 3 and 4 will meet
World War II – Pacific – Decision to drop the Bomb
Yalta Conference….welcome to the beginning of the Cold War
Compare US Involvement in and effects of WWI and WW2 – foreign and domestic
2
Saturday
April 7
Week of
April 9th
Apr 10
Tuesday
10-Noon
Chap 27
Due today
Read 28
Due 4-16
Apr 12
Thursday
Read Ch. 28
Online
Pretest Ch.
26 due
today
April 14
Saturday
Week of
April 16th
April 16
Monday
Need to
reschedule
April 18
Wednesday
Chapter 28
Notes Due
Today
Read
Ch. 29
Due
4-25
Online
Pretest
Due Today
April 20th
Friday
Week of
April 23
April 24
April 25
Wednesday
Green Day
April 27h
Friday
affairs
Multiple Choice Test Chapter 24-25
APUSH Review 10-Noon Hoover Mrs. Murphy’s Room
Continue 1st semester
Handouts
Essay tips and samples
THE COLD WAR
Trace the development of the American policy of containment as applied to Europe
and Asia.
Summarize foreign and domestic policies of the Truman administration.
Analyze the major causes, personalities, and events of the Red Scare.
Explain the meaning of the Age of American Anxiety and its reflection in American
society and culture.
Korean War – effects on USA, Truman, Democratic Party
Compare Red Scare after WWI and Red Scare after WWII.
APUSH Review – Hoover – Mrs. Murphy’s room
1952-1963 : Eisenhower and Kennedy
Cold War Continues
DBQ Essay Test – Great Depression/World War II
Explain the status of American society at mid-century and its major themes.
Teens come to life after WW2 – What types of ideas and values drove the youth
culture and what caused the appearance of this group?
Outline the basic elements of mass culture as well as the substance of attacks by critics
of mass culture.
Events of the cold war under Eisenhower
Cold War – Kennedy Administration
Analyze and evaluate American policies toward Latin America –
Chapter 20, 22, 23
Multiple choice test on Chapter 26-27
Civil Rights Movement
No Class
Chapter 29
Notes Due
Today
Class
Sophomore Plan Test/Juniors ACT Test GRAY DAY
What was the effect of the Montgomery Boycott on the African American community’s
challenge to segregation across the country?
Discuss the origins of the civil rights movement from postwar to the crisis in Little
Rock.
Explain why and how some black leaders pursued means other than the legal strategy
followed by the NAACP.
Complete Civil Rights
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Saturday
April -28
Week of
April 30th
Tuesday
May 1st
10-Noon
LBJ , Nixon, and Vietnam War
GREEN DAY
Chapter 30
Due
Read
Chapter
31
May 3
Thursday
Online
pretest due
today
Read 31
May 5
Saturday
Week of
May 7th
May 7
Monday
10-Noon
May 9
Wednesday
Online
pretest due
May 11
Friday
Tuesday
May 15th
APUSH Review
Notes on 31
Due…whew
Chapter 29 – War Abroad and at Home LBJ and Vietnam War
Explain how Vietnam became Johnson’s and Nixon’s war in spite of previous American
involvement.
Trace the shift in the Civil Rights Movement from King’s leadership to the black power
of Stokely Carmichael and others.
Discuss why certain events of 1968 were pivotal in American domestic and foreign
policy.
Summarize the impact of civil rights on other groups and outline beliefs and agendas of
these groups.
Summarize the domestic and foreign policies of the Nixon administration and explain
how the Watergate issue brought it to the end.
Multiple choice Test 26-28
APUSH Review Hoover 10- Noon – Mrs. Murphy’s Room
End of the book review Multiple choice 29-31 & discussion
FORD – CARTER= Reagan – Bush (41 George Herbert Walker)
Explain stagflation, the problems that perpetuated it and the federal government’s
response under Ford and Carter.
Discuss the basis of new poverty in the 1970s.
Outline the various foreign policy problems of the Ford and carter administrations and
how they responded to them
DBQ –COLD WAR
Explain the success and the limitations of the Reagan Revolution through the Reagan
and Bush administrations.
Trace the policy of President Reagan and the evil empire as well as the changes and
continues issues under Reagan and Bush (George Herbert Walker Bush).
Summarize the dramatic social economic changes in America including a shift to a
service-based high tech information economy, a more electronic culture and a more
metropolitan society.
APUSH TEST – Good luck
The rest of us will have fun with Clinton and Newt Gingrich!
Museum Project – Your Favorite Era
People, Places, Art, Events, Inventions
More later
Senior Exam , Monday, May 21st
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